Freestyle swimming

Wrestling Belongs In the Olympics Wrestling was recently voted out of the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee. Wrestlers throughout the world were shocked by this decision. Wrestling is the sixth most popular sport in the world. It is a truly universal sport with participants in almost every country of the world. It requires little to outfit a wrestler so it is a sport that has broad appeal to all social-economic classes. Finally, because wrestlers are placed in weight classes it

Alabama is a state where hunting and fishing are big. It is also considered one of the most religious states in the U.S but there's nothing bigger in Alabama than football. John Patterson is the star quarterback of Birmingham High School and expectations are set high for him in High School. He is only 15 and going for starting varsity quarterback freshman year. John is 6 foot 2 and is 190 pounds as a freshman with a strong arm an a humble personality. Coaches from each sport in the High School are

‘Dream it. Do it’. This is Jordan Burroughs quote. Wrestled at small tournaments at young age. He has won a lot of gold medals. Has a wife and kids and wants more kids. He won the olympics. He competes in a lot of freestyle wrestling tournaments. Jordan Burroughs lives a goal accomplishing life, and hopes to accomplish more. Jordan had a good childhood and he looked up to people to inspire him. Jordan Ernest Burroughs was born July 8th, 1988, in Sicklerville. His dad was Leroy Burroughs and his

to twelfth grade, and a former summer league coach, I valued swimming as a demanding part of my life. With an aunt as a coach for an Olympic training team and cousins that qualified for Olympic trials I was predestined to become a part of this subculture. My parents threw me into lessons at the age of five, signed me up for our neighborhood summer league team the year after and then introduced me to a year round team. From then on swimming became all I ever thought about. Most decent swimmers

swimmers look to the VAST Gators’ Clinics in order to improve their technique and return to the swimming mindset. Annually, the High School Clinic is offered to help swimmers improve endurance, practice their starts and turns, and work on their strokes. Urie Connis has been attending the clinic for four years and has been swimming competitively for HHS for just as long. Although he doesn’t see his swimming ambitions reaching into college, at this point he is still focused on improving his technique

to have me take swimming lessons at the public pool. I had the idea, as many preteens do, swim lessons were just for babies. I expected I’d be stuck with a group of tiny young toddlers that didn’t know a thing when it came to swimming. I thought they would not even have a clue how to do a simple doggy paddle; plus, in my mind, I was a perfectly fine swimmer. She

You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston I began swimming at the age of 4 and I was fortunate to earn a college swimming scholarship at Purdue University. At Purdue, I was a good swimmer and really worked hard each and every day. However, my at the time girlfriend (and current wife, also a swimmer) always said I looked like a recreational swimmer! She made this comment as I wore "old school" foam goggles and my head moved all around during freestyle. Needless to say, my breathing biomechanics were

James Ronca Final Paper Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the world. No one is sure who invented the sport but it was first implemented as a real sport in the first Olympics in the year 776 B.C. The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France; Babylonian and Egyptian relief's show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. More modern day wrestling has weight classes implemented so participants will wrestle people that weigh

One of the biggest goals I have in life to win a state championship in my favorite sport. That sport is wrestling. I have wrestled since I was young in the third grade. I was considered very overweight for my age. I sat at about ninety pounds as a 9 year old. My parents wanted me to start being physically active and to get in shape. I remember being in a buffalo wild wings and watching a wrestling match on the television and how cool I thought it was. I told my paresnts that wrestling was the sport

What does it take to be a legend? How far would one go to be a legend in something one enjoys? Jordan Burroughs will go the the ends of the earth to considered a legend in the sport of freestyle wrestling. He went from underdog to top dog with years of hard work, unrelentless training, and never giving up on his dream to be a legend in mans oldest sport...wrestling. In ancient Greek mythology, Zeus wrestled Cronos in a battle over the universe in which of course Zeus won. The great event was celebrated