Haley Anderson Is Going Home
This weekend, Olympic silver medalist Haley Anderson is going home to Granite Bay in northern California this weekend.But she will be back and continue training with Dave Salo and Catherine Vogt at the Trojan Swim Club in Los Angeles.
Anderson is simply going home as part of USA Swimming Athlete Partnership Program that will take her back to her early days with the Sierra Marlins Swim Team at Lake Natoma in Folsom, California.
“I’m so excited to go back home and promote open water swimming,” Anderson said. “This sport has given me so much, and I can’t wait to share it with the community and team that I grew up with.”
The 2013 gold medalist in the 5 km open water swim at the FINA World Championships will given a 3-hour open water swimming clinic on August 31st that focuses on race techniques, navigation, drafting, and water safety for the expected 300 participants. The Athlete Partnership Program enables and empowers national team swimmers to encourage both younger children and older adults to take up swimming as a healthy and positive activity.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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