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Courtesy of Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography, California. After the Waikiki Roughwater Swim was called due to unsafe conditions, Dr. Harry Huffaker took the cancellation in stride. With large swells relentlessly crashing upon the outer coral reef in Waikiki Bay due to a perfect storm of hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean, the 75-year-old Hall of Fame
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On May 8th, Mike Lewis is having a photography show title The Art Of Swimming with acclaimed sports photographer Donald Miralle at their Leucadia Photoworks studio in Encinitas, California. "The show is going to be a super fun night with a DJ, food, wine, beer and soft drinks. Donald and I will each give
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Other than the world-famous Aquatic Park in California, there is arguably no more hallowed venue in the open water swimming community on the West Coast of America than La Jolla Cove. The 439 miles (706 km) of California shoreline between La Jolla Cove near San Diego and Aquatic Park in San Francisco
From what we can observe around the social media, buzz along the shoreline, and communications we receive, the heroes and heroines of the open water swimming community are a special and unique breed of athletes. These heroes and heroines are not necessarily, like most other sports, the fastest and most skilled. In fact, the heroes and heroines of the open
3-time Olympic medalist Ous Mellouli of Tunisia won the 2012 Swammy Award for Open Water Swimmer of the Year. SwimSwam's award categories include: Person of the Year, USA Club Team of the Year, Open Water Swimmer of the Year, Performance of the Year, Viral Video of the Year, Record Breaking Performance of the Year, Age Group Swimmers of the Year, Clutch
"The reality is, since 2010, no professional league or amateur association has made more of a change to help player safety than the NFL," says concussion expert Robert Cantu about the National Football League’s recent emphasis on safety on the football field. "I pledge that the NFL will do everything in its power to minimize the risks and maximize the
Andrew Gemmell's victory at the 2012 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships is shown below in its entirety. "I started the final sprint probably about 400 meters out after the last turn," explained the Delaware native studying at the University of Georgia who is setting himself up for a good run at the USA Olympic Trials in the pool.
The selection of the top two American women to compete in the final Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim in Portugal this June is shown in its entirety below. Ashley Twichell of the Mission Viejo Nadadores played her cards right and comfortably won the USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Championships in Fort Myers, Florida this bright sunny morning after staying with
The classic 58-minute head-to-head, leave-it-all-in-the-water duel between Ashley Twichell and Emily Brunemann at the 2012 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championship 5 km race is shown in its entirety below. "I got touched out by 3 tenths of a second at the world championships so that played on my mind," said Twichell who won this battle
