Swimming Community Starts to Move Forward;
Interns Needed for Summer

Learn How Pools Open Safely When COVID-19 Orders Are Lifted

How can pools open safely as lockdown measures starts to ease? The Pool Management Group, which updates COVID-19-related guidance to pool owners and users on a regular basis, has set out its view of how pools could gradually start to open up against after stay-at-home orders are lifted in the United States.

Swimming Parents: Top-10 Ways They Can Get Under a Coach’s Skin

“My idea of coaching heaven is to have a ten lane, world-class swimming facility, with a fully equipped, professional quality gymnasium and a state of the art recovery centre built right alongside the world’s biggest orphanage.”

Why would someone with Olympic Gold medal, world record and world championship level coaching credentials feel so strongly about the challenges of working with swimming parents?

It should be relatively straight forward: coaches coach; swimmers swim, parents parent. Not that all that complicated really. This is not a thesis on thermodynamics – it’s just three groups of people working together to achieve a common goal – to help a swimmer realize their full potential.

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USA Swimming Presents Virtual Meet Guidelines

USA Swimming has put together guidelines for virtual meets to be sanctioned. In light of the massive affects of the coronavirus pandemic, the governing body is looking at options.

These kinds of meets have happened before in times of severe weather and other factors, but with the need for social distancing and limited crowd size, it is something that might become more prevalent.

No USA Swimming meet will be sanctioned until June.

Virtual meets will give clubs the opportunity to swim in their own pool but compete against other clubs, swimming in their own pool. This means intrasquad meets can now be sanctioned if other teams are doing the same thing virtually, set up through USA Swimming.

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Swimming World Seeking Next Class of Summer Interns for Journalism & Social Media

Swimming World Magazine, as part of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, is seeking a gifted group of writers and content creators for the summer who are interested in enhancing their journalism and social media skills, while garnering valuable experience to add to their resumes.

Our successful internship programs have connected interns with jobs in related fields across the country!

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USA Swimming Announces Strategic Recovery Plan with $1 Million in Grants

USA Swimming on Tuesday announced a strategic recovery plan to extend resources, both logistical and financial, to clubs struggling during the COVID-19 crisis.

The initial pledge from USA Swimming is a minimum of $1 million in grants, funded by the USA Swimming Foundation, to support clubs and members in precarious financial positions among the local swimming committees (LSCs). Grant applications, which go directly through USA Swimming’s COVID-19 Relief Program for Teams, will progress in two phases.

The first phase covers “immediate need to clubs in current financial peril,” while the second phase aims to help clubs reopen once the pandemic lifts, aimed at occurring later this year.

Relief grants will be as much as $5,000 with an expected average amount of $3,000. They are designed to replace lost anticipated revenue from cancellations this summer and offset operating expenses that clubs cannot defer even without swimmers/events.

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ISHOF Class of 2014 Revisited – The Year of the Open Water Swimmer

Because of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the postponement of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Induction Class of 2020, ISHOF will be reliving some of their previous induction classes.  This week we revisit the ISHOF Class of 2014.  That year a total of twenty honorees were inducted; seven of which were open water swimmers. 

In addition to the seven open water swimmers, there were three pool swimmers, Grant Hackett (AUS), Agnes Kovacs (HUN), Tom Malchow (USA), one diver, Peng Bo (CHN), two synchronized swimmers, Penny and Vicky Vilagos, (CAN), two water polo players, one male and one female, Carlo Silipo (ITA), and Karen Kuipers (NED), two coaches, one male and one female, Joseph Nagy (HUN, USA, CAN, ESP)(Swimming) and Charlotte Davis (USA) (Synchronized Swimming), and two Honor Contributors, Dale Petranech (USA) and Norman Sarsfield (GBR)

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