Melissa Jeanette “Missy” Franklin is a Canadian-American competitive swimmer and is a five-time Olympic gold medalist. Missy Franklin should be remembered because she swims for the USA Olympic team showing great pride representing her country in the sport that she has a tremendous love. Also she is very encouraging to young adults and kids everywhere to follow their dreams, and she also puts a stand on her thought about bullying and what you could do to stop it. Even at age 22 she is still active with her swimming career and is training for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan at the “ New National Stadium”.
“Wade in the water. Wade in the water, children. Wade in the water. God’s going to trouble the water,” the slaves sang as they did their daily work. Link
They both grew up in the inner city were school wasn’t very important. It was very eye opening to see how much sports can change the mind set of young individuals. If you want to be play at the next level you do need to succeed in school as well as in basketball.
Beth began competing at age eight and joined the Hanalei surf team (“Bethany Hamilton biography” par. 1 & 2). Her dad taught her and her brothers to be good losers and to move on after a loss (Hamilton 39). Hamilton competed with older girls and loved the challenge of big surf. When the other girls though it was scary, she thought “bring it on” (Hamilton 41).
Ederle left her school to start training to be a competitive swimmer, she first started to compete when she was nine years old. She made her first win when Ederle was sixteen years old, also held 29 records. “How did she make swimming famous?” “What made Ederle want to swim across the channel?” Ederle wanted to be the first woman to swim across the channel, and also beat the men’s record.
“You two, get the ball down the pool and take a shot, just make sure it’s inbounds, don’t worry if you miss the goal, Kenzie will get the rebound.” My coach has barked these orders on numerous occasions throughout the year and it has never failed to give me a little thrill inside. As an athlete that tends to go unnoticed, getting acknowledgement in such an offhand way is pretty exciting. It shows me I have a place on the team, a job that my team depends on me to do. Water polo is a very difficult sport.
Katie just kept improving. Starting at the age of six, she was a little bit older to start. Yuri Suguiyama was her trainer, at the Curl Burke Swim Club. But, Yuri left when Katie was still training. He left when there was an offer to be a coach at the University of California, and he took it.
Ryan Lochte started swimming at the age of five, however, he did not take swimming seriously until he was in high school. Lochte’s career as a professional swimmer started after he qualified for the 2004 olympics since then he has has competed in three additional olympic summer games. Over the span of four olympics Ryan has managed to win
This cycle happened at every meet. Then, one day, I heard some news from Christina. She said, “In the middle of every season, there is always a huge meet called Junior Olympics, where all swimmers on all teams and ages come together to race. Many will compete, but few will qualify for Finals. I think you are ready to compete and make
I quickly bonded with the kids in the class and enjoyed going there to talk to them and teach them how to swim; their ultimate goal being to
“The Swimmer” is a short story which follows a man named Ned Merrill as he swims home across the “River Lucinda”, a series of swimming pools that form a path to his home. It was adapted into a film titled The Swimmer, which remains quite faithful to the original work, but expands upon several aspects of the original short story. After being unable to swim through the Welchers’ pool due to their property being abandoned, Ned Merrill is forced to cross Route 424, a busy highway. “The Swimmer” follows an epic narrative structure, with Ned encountering several obstacles on his path home. The story is told in a third-person perspective and deconstructs many traditional epics by breaking down the genre into its base components and rebuilding
I began playing water polo my freshman year at Archbishop Mitty, and I never thought it would make such a remarkable impact on my life. I was thinking in the beginning, maybe I’ll just do one year, or most two, but that has dramatically changed over the past three years. I can genuinely say that I have fallen in love with the sport. I don’t want to play just throughout my high school years, I want more, I want to play in college, I want to try out for the Olympic team, and after that I want to coach others and see their passion for the sport as well. Water Polo has done a lot for me in my life, it has introduced me to my two best friends, given me an outlet, and most importantly taught me how to be a leader, My best friends play important
In past years, my high school swim team has never designated two individuals to be team captains. However, this year my coach decided that our team needed a girl and boy who could step up and lead the team when necessary. As team captain, I believe that it is important that we give back to our community as a team. Not only are we taking time to volunteer, but we also grow closer to the people on our team.
Ethical issues in the field of biology continually cause the people of the world to draw battle lines. While I so often sit on the sidelines, ignoring so many of the issues that divide us as a nation and a people, Abortion is not one of those issues. Abortion is something that not only hits close to home, but holds personal significance in my life. My mother, being pregnant with her fourth child at the age of 41, was told by doctors that there was a high likelihood of her infant son being born with down syndrome. Given the higher than normal chances of her child suffering from a disability, she was informed that abortion was an option that she should begin to consider as the due date drew nearer.
One time I felt scared of a situation or someone was when I was 8 years old and I was in the lake. I thought I could swim and I went to the deep. I got scared, because I could not touch the ground. And I started drowning and trying to get up. Water started getting in my nose and then, my dad swam towards me, because he was in the water few distance away from me.
