UANA Discusses, Defines And Designs Initiatives And Goals
The Union Americana de Natacion (UANA or Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas) hosted an impressive get-together of swimming, diving, water polo and synchronized swimming administrators, coaches and aquatic visionaries in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in an effort to spearhead and drive the organization to help promote and give a more defined purpose throughout the Americas. The assembled luminaries discussed, deliberated, defined and designed initiatives and goals for the governing body to help all levels of aquatic sports from Chile in the south to Canada in the north.
The UANA meetings dovetailed with the annual International Swimming Hall of Fame and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies where numerous open water swimmers, including Paul Asmuth (USA), Kevin Murphy (Great Britain), Aleksey Akatyev (Russia), Reg Brikell Jr and Ray Brikell (Great Britain), Christopher Guesdon (Australia), Yuri Kudinov (Russia), Angela Maurer (Germany), Penny Palfrey (Australia), James Pittar (Australia), Bill Sadlo Jr. (USA) and Ann Hardin (USA) were honored.
Photo by Jarret Streiner of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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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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