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We had outstanding swim from some of our senior girls. Emily Edwards had career-best times in the 50 fly and 100 breaststroke and Kim O'Neill did the same in the 200 IM and 50 free.

We had our teams everywhere. The baseball team went to New Mexico State, men's and women's basketball went to the University of Texas at Tyler, the swim team was at Emory, track and field went to LSU, men's golf to LSU-Shreveport, the women to Nicholls State. And we cancelled the volleyball season.

Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I'm not a natural athlete, I'm still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea.

Brooke Higgs is going to be a really strong contributor. Brooke has done basically anything I've asked her to, and this summer she swam for the Aggie Swim Club as well.

Brooke Higgs is going to be a really strong contributor, ... Brooke has done basically anything I've asked her to, and this summer she swam for the Aggie Swim Club as well.

Bowling Green is about on the same level as us right now and have had some close, tough loses this season. This meet will come down to who has the best swim on that day and we are looking forward to a tough meet.

Even though Milan's pool is only three years old, Monroe broke some very impressive pool records set by some very fast swimmers. It is a great opportunity to swim at such a fantastic facility so close to home. We really appreciate Milan for inviting us to swim at their pool.

Even though he was captain of the swim team in Scranton, he still came back to support his high school team.

Even though I didn't know I was going to be a swim coach, I always acted like it. I was always coaching other swimmers and telling them what to do.

Being the first year, every swim is almost a new record.

Everybody had their best swim tonight (in the relay).

At 300 to 500 feet, you can actually swim to the surface. It is very dangerous to do so, but it has been done by the British Royal Navy.

At the start of this season, we asked the kids if they wanted to swim as Royal Oak, or if they wanted to be known as the Ravens. They preferred to be Royal Oak for one more season.

At the start, I had three or four people swim right over me, and I swam over a couple of people. It was just nuts. You got to love it. I don't know if I'll ever do as well, but I certainly hope to try.

And they have got an ability to coach and an ability to swim. Even in the old days - whatever they were doing - they still had to be able to swim well to be able to do what they did. I think they are going to be a threat to us in the coming years. It's not something we're not thinking about. We're looking at it.

And the sides are soft, so it's very easy for children ages 2 and 3 who can't swim to lean and flip over it and drown.

Emily did not swim her fastest times but qualifying for the finals is a great achievement.

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine

The time standards for this meet are much greater than the sectional meet. Emily continues to step up to achieve greater time standards which allows her more opportunities to swim with other swimmers across the country.

I send out information to 2500 U.S. Swim Clubs every spring, and from these, coaches or kids will respond.

They are all excited to swim again. They are all back and a bit more seasoned.

They all did terrific and everyone pulled their weight. All of the ones we expected to swim well did and all of the others did even better.

It was the time to swim our best and boys did just that. But even with that there are some many little things for us to do before the state meet.

It was very dry and very hot (this summer). Last year, it was rainy and cold, and who wants to swim in the cold weather?

The soul does not die; it does not drown, and it does not swim across.

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

I usually have rough time in the fall and swim a lot better second semester and I've been gradually dropping times to where I want them.

So now I feel like I've actually graduated to the point where it's not because I'm a homegrown kid that I was in the major leagues. I think that's what some people thought sometimes. But now, I don't have the Monforts backing me. There's not any excuses. I'm on my own out here, and I sink or swim by myself.

Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and over again you don't always want to do that in back-to-back duals.

See that parrot fish? He likes to swim up and see people. So if he doesn't see any, he jumps up (from the water) to take a look.

Presley Bard probably has the most potential of anybody in the class. She will help in anywhere from the 50 to the 200 backstroke and will swim sprint freestyle up to 200 freestyle. She also comes from one of the best teams in the Terrapins from Concord.

Princeton always is a big challenge for us. The Nottingham boys we have to take seriously. We're down to crunch time now. There's still some areas we have to swim better in. We're getting a good effort from the kids. That's the most important thing.

Probably our best swim was the medley team re-qualifying. Vanessa has jumped in there in the butterfly for us, and it has gone well.

Our daughter was the victim of assault, and it was a private swim coach. And had he be employed by a school, he would have been charged and he would have been punished totally different.

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The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.

Straight away there was pressure to give away the spot. 'Are you going to swim it'?. "I don't like taking sleeping tablets but it got to the stage where I needed to rest for my 1500m.

Nowhere near as sluggish for a morning swim this morning, so I was comfortable and hopefully it'll be a bit faster tonight.

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The bottom line is we're still going to have people probably swim outside the designated area and do what they want to do in these public-type lakes, ... Short of having somebody there 24/7 with some real policing power, there's only so much we can do.

The bottom line is we need to do what we're capable of and swim out best times. If we don't come to swim, it's not going to be good for us.

The big thing for us was this was the last championship meet before the state tournament. We wanted to swim well and get some best times to keep us on that high going into the state tournament.

As long as the relays swim well, you have to feel we have a chance to swim as high as the top two at state.

A little pressure is good but we don't want it to be too much. Also, when swimmers always swim the same events, it gets a little stale after a while. We decided to mix things up.

This Alcatraz swim is something I've wanted to do since I was a kid. Back in 1979 when (the movie) 'Escape from Alcatraz' came out, I thought, 'Heck, I could do that,' ... A few years ago I never thought it would happen. But things change.

They were fast girls, and there were a lot of them, but with a swim here or a swim there, we probably could have moved up a few spots in the standings.

They were excited the whole week. They were excited to swim fast. They were happy that we had a good meet. We dropped a lot of times. I was really pleased with our youngsters that stepped it up and really dropped a lot time.

They're trying for Sectionals. They can swim a lot faster there. They're using (the state meet) as a springboard for Sectionals.

A lot of boys that had never been on a swim team before that gave it a shot. I was very happy, they all, except for a couple stuck with it all year.

A lot of the divers have also decided to swim with us this season. It depends on which days the meets are, but they'll be able to choose which they want to do every week.

They offered extra swim times and different promotions to encourage the use of the indoor pool, but it's just hard to get people to go indoors.

You don't swim 1:46 consistently unless you're in good shape.

There's a balcony going around it kind of like a horseshoe. It seats a ton of people - more people than you could ever imagine at a swim meet. It's loud and really exciting.

Theres a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didnt say, I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.

This league is about having blood in the water, and making sure your sharks swim around that surface. That's what we expect to do Sunday.

There was a lot of team camaraderie and companionship. I really liked how everyone was on the sidelines and screaming. It was an intense meet. It's great for everyone even if they didn't swim any varsity events. Everyone stepped up to the plate. They did as expected or better.

About 30 people were able to swim across to the river bank but at least 40 to 45 people are feared drowned

According to a (Milwaukee) Brewers doctor, a specialist in shoulders, it is a rotator cuff (injury). He's been cleared to swim and I was real happy with that.

It's been such a special week for me but I wouldn't have got three of those gold medals if it weren't for the girls I get to swim with in the relays.

It seems like I'm the one everyone is after. There is added pressure, but it's beneficial pressure that makes you swim faster.

It's exciting for all the right reasons. I get tired of hearing, 'You guys always win.' We had a shirt a couple of years ago that said, 'If it looks easy, it's because it isn't.' These kids work hard all season and they earn the right to swim fast.

It's exciting though to swim up against a super competitive team that's at the level that we are, so it was a good chance for us to put forth all of our effort. Everyone tried their hardest.

It's a tough year because so many kids (from last year) graduated and went on to swim in college. But we're definitely a young team ... there's a bright future ahead of us.

It was a very big switch for us. By her winning it, Julia and Stephanie Greenfield having a great swim there in the IM, I felt like we could still take 2-3-4 in the 500. A girl like Shannon Kemp, our third swimmer in the 200 and 500, she's really stepped up and she did it again today. She took a fourth in the 5, and a fifth in the 200. That is very helpful to us.

It was a terrific meet. We had our eyes on this meet for about a week and we were very excited and pumped up to swim fast today.

It is said, rather tongue-in-cheek, that when a virgin graduates from IU, one of the dolphins will swim away.

It's a great day for a swim in Spirit Lake! ... If three cups of coffee didn't wake you up, this will.

It's a difficult situation, unfortunately Ian being sick has given me a spot to swim and I am going to take it both hands.

It's a great feeling. I love that my parents and friends are able to watch my swim meets. If I had gone somewhere far away, they might not have been able to come. It's just been really nice to swim in front of them.

It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing.

I tried to split our A and B relays equally so they could swim against each other and the B won in two out of the three relays.

It's more dangerous ... It's their element. They're quicker than you are in the water. You can't really see what's going on very quickly. I swim straight down. I've got to wrap my legs around his tail and grab him by the neck and hope he doesn't spin out of my hands.

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For as small of a swim team (Gunnison) is, they have some great depth. They came off a long bus ride and swam well.

For a freshman to swim that fast in the 500, you know you have a special kid on your hands. He was hoping to be seeded No. 1...He wants to be the freshman that wins the event.

For any Galesburg swim team, this is by far the best they've ever done.

It's good to finally swim against another team instead of each other. Those 6 a.m. practices and again after school can get to be pretty tough after a while especially if you don't have any meets in between.

It's hard to get them back up and swim in the finals. To be within a second or so in the relay, it's a pretty good swim for them.

It's been an easy merger because a lot of the kids swim on the Otters, so they all know each other.

It's sad to see Munster come off the board, but at the same time it's nice to see people get up to swim here.

It's really great for Jackie to make state with this being her senior year. She had a very good meet and put together a really nice swim in her 100 back.

The ocean's going to win each and every time, unless you just really go along with the current until it pushes you out, and then you swim back to shore. If you start to fight this, that's when you're in trouble.

Everyone is really pumped up. The sectional is the fastest meet of the year. Everyone is pretty shaved and tapered. We are expecting to swim our fastest of the year.

Everyone is a little bit shocked, but we are all looking forward now to focusing on some of the other athletes taking an opportunity to swim well at these Games.

Everyone at the meet swam one or more best times. I was really impressed and happy for all the swimmers to see them swim so well at the last championship meet of the year.

Strong biceps and triceps help me slice through the water's resistance and swim more efficiently,

Swim of my life? I have to admit it was up there. It went really well. When we were in school, I was out of it, thinking about my race. Before the race you try to visualize as much as you can. Once you actually get in the water, you've already done it your mind, so it's pretty easy.

It's close enough to the lake that the fish don't have to swim far.

It not only makes us swim faster but it makes us tougher.

It's difficult to compare between eras. There is a huge difference now between goggles, swimsuits, pools, lane ropes, swim caps and the physiology involved in training. But it's fair to say our (women's) team is a very strong team.

It's designed to take a swim in the South.

It was not that long ago that people couldn't swim in Lake Washington. The regional cooperation that helped clean up Lake Washington now faces the challenge of protecting the Puget Sound and the streams, rivers and lakes of this region,

I walked away from 2004 knowing I didn't swim my own race. This time, I didn't look around and panic. I kept my blinders on. . . . Overall, it went really well. The Texas guys started swimming fast and then everyone did.

I've got an area around front that I could swim in for weeks after it rains.

It was probably one of the scariest finals that I ever had to swim in because I've had my toughest competition here. I've really struggled in the past racing Jodie and Alice. That's the one thing I wanted to change in this race.

It was good to swim against teams from other districts just to see what the competition may be like.

They were non-scoring events. We spread some things out. We gave guys the opportunity to swim events they would not normally do. It was a nice change of pace. In that respect, it was a nice meet for the boys. We were able to swim a variety of events and still be successful.

They've worked really hard all season long and have probably improved more than any championship team I've coached mainly because they've had so far to go. A good portion of them couldn't swim at the beginning of November. They're all doing very well and I think they're ready to swim their best.

They will also be posting by the Magenta Drain area so people don't swim in the waste. I'm confident they're committed to getting the pollution to stop.

They were such an inspiration; Katie always did what she wanted. She was the wanderer and swimmer. Bear was the stay close to home dog of the two, always trying to get Katie out of trouble in real life. If Katie was doing something wrong, Bear would go bring her home. When Bear passed away, Katie was never the same. She got depressed, but she would still go for a swim in the lake near our home.