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Legally, operationally, strategically, Patty Miller has always quietly left her unselfish hand prints over the U.S. Masters Swimming's structure and swimming community. The long-time masters swimmer from Virginia occasionally attends professional open water swims with her husband Dr. Jim Miller who also received the Ransom Arthur Award. The prestigious award was given to Miller as the individual who has done the most to further the objectives of Masters swimming. It is a recognition of her decades of efforts on behalf of adult swimmers that is well-deserved. Together with the 2003 U.S. Masters Swimming Dorothy Donnelly Service Award, the attorney from the Virginia Masters Swim Team is as comfortable making legal cases in high heels as she is navigating currents in the ocean. Besides her volunteer work locally in Virginia, she is a board member and Legal Counsel to U.S. Masters Swimming and the U.S. Masters Swimming Liaison to USA Swimming. The award is given in honor of Captain Ransom J. Arthur, M.D., the founder and father of masters swimming in the United States. Dr. Arthur often asked, "Why when this is so healthy for mind and body, should we ride around in golf carts instead of swimming from 25 till 100?" Miller knows that answer well. With a lifetime of passionate voluntarism, she has set out to make swimming accessible to tens of thousands of adults as did the namesake of the award she richly deserves. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water SwimmingFrom Open Water Source's Daily News of Open Water Swimming

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, May 23. RICK Curl was sentenced to seven years of jail time after pleading guilty to charges that he sexually abused a former underage swimmer over the course of many years in the...

Japan has a long history of open water swimming - and it shows in their education system. The School of Health and Physical Education of the University of Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture is considered to be one of the very best, if not the best, in Japan. Its graduates become great coaches, influential members in sporting organizations and at the Ministry of Education, physical trainers, physiologists, and thought leaders in exercise. Within an intellectual atmosphere, its students are put through a rigorous curriculum outlining dozens of various sports and taught various theories of health and sport sciences. In their sophomore year, they join one of the three professional specializations: Health and Sport Education, Health and Sport Management, and Sport Coaching. In their junior and senior years, the students then major in one of the three academic courses of health and sport sciences: Physical Education and Sport Studies, Health and Human Performance Studies, or Coaching Studies. The final requirement for graduation is the completion of an undergraduate thesis...and a variety of sporting tests on the track, in the gym, and with a variety of exercise equipment. But the most difficult part of their graduation requirement is reporting the swimming tests that include swimming underwater (25m), swimming 500m non-stop in a pool, eggbeating with hands out of the water for 3 minutes, and a cold-water 4 km ocean swim that requires all students to complete within 2 hours. And the students start young. The students at the Junior High School at Otsuka, a junior high school affiliated with the University of Tsukuba, also practice open water swimming (shown above). Copyright © 2013 by Open Water SwimmingFrom Open Water Source's Daily News of Open Water Swimming

Lane 1 - The Morning Call posts " Olympic swimmer Cullen Jones to help open Wildwater Kingdom season.  Cullen Jones, who says he's giving back to swimming, will be at Dorney Park Saturday." Lane 2 - Arena posts "Ranomi Kromowidjojo & Jacco Verhaeren go Head to Head.  We asked Ranomi Kromowidjojo & Jacco Verhaeren to complete a series of sentences for us. Listen as they share with us their inner most thoughts and feelings on the wonderful sport of swimming…." Lane 3 - The Vancouver Sun posts "Swim star Ryan Lochte headlines Zajac meet; so what will he do?  Olympic, TV reality 'dude' hoping to make a big splash at UBC this weekend.  The Mel Zajac Jr swim meet at UBC has had its share of headliners over its 50-year history but it has never had an 11-time Olympic medallist with his own reality TV show.  Ryan Lochte is the dude, his show is entitled What Would Ryan Lochte Do? and the question for him Wednesday was: Hey, Ryan, what are you going to do at the Zajac meet?" Lane 4 - La Gazzetta dell Sport posts "Pellegrini and Magnini split  "Our love story is over".  In a joint statement given to ANSA, the two swimmers announced their decision: "Our feelings have faded, and the things that have been written over the last few weeks aren’t true" Lane 5 - Community Impact posts "Waterloo Swim School.  Longtime swimmer dives into teaching lessons.  A California native, Mike Varozza grew up swimming, a passion that would lead him to qualify for the 1988 Olympic trials, compete in U.S. Masters Swimming and later motivate him to open a swim school.  “I found my way back in swimming,” he said. “I’ve always enjoyed the sport and teaching specifically.” Lane 6 - BBC posts "David Carry takes on Swimming Scotland role.  Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist David Carry has been appointed to the board of directors at Swimming Scotland." Lane 7 - Speedo UK posts "Swim Drills - Head Up Drill with Stuart Hayes and Michelle Dillon." Lane 8 - WeHoVille posts (w/photos) "8 Shots of Speedo Speaker Michael Crosby Addressing WeHo’s City Council; Nearly Naked, Obviously.  Talk about a fish out of water.  File this one away in the “only in WeHo” category: In only a Speedo, local water polo player Michael Crosby took to the public comment podium at Monday night’s City Council meeting to express his approval of the city’s plans to build a whole new recreation center, including two pools on the rooftop."

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. THE nominations for the annual Teen Choice Awards in the United States features Olympic champions Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin in the running for the favorite male and f...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, May 23. WITH former Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team and Golden West Swim Club employee Bill Jewell now under investigation by USA Swimming according to the OC Register, G...

Captain Tim Johnson attempted to solve one of the most vexing problems in open water swimming. It has to do with swimming around curves in river swims. The question is which is faster: cutting the corner or swimming out with the faster current on the outside edge? For swims like the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim or certain swims that go around peninsulas or islands, it is an answer worth investigating. "It turns out the radius of the curve, the speed of the river going into the curve, and the width of the river are factors in that decision. The author of History of Open-Water Marathon Swimming continues, "This has a tangential application in a proposed swim, say in the Florida Straits, because the Gulf Stream is going around a big, big curve, a 90-mile-wide river that takes a 90º left turn, and then narrows. When a river turns either to the right or the left, the inside shore usually will have a shallower depth due to the slower water dropping particles that were being carried along in the faster moving water. The water as it enter the bend will want to keep going straight and as the inner bank turns away, an eddy develops. Depending on the extent of the bend, some eddies can occupy from ¼ to ½ the width of the river. This forces even more water into a narrower part along the outside shore creating a fast channel. The course through the bend depends on (1) the speed of the current entering, (2) the severity of the turn, (3) the depth of the river, and (4) the width of the river. The idea is to avoid the eddy along the inside shore. Of the four variables, three are constant so a good answer on one current may be the wrong answer on a faster current. My suggestion is to stay with the faster current for as long as possible but avoid going to the outside shore. On slow currents, turn when 1/3 past the start of the bend but wait no more than 2/3 on fast currents. In the graphic, red is shallow water, yellow is the nominal depth, with green to blue increasing graduated depth showing the channel cut by the fast water." Copyright © 2013 by Open Water SwimmingFrom Open Water Source's Daily News of Open Water Swimming

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. MOST of the members of Japan's world championship swim team will race this weekend at the Japan Open in Kanagawa, one of the few meets the team will race in together before...

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. MIKE Hoppe, the coach behind Winn Aung's recent national age group national record joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show. Hoppe joined the coaching staff at Re...

TULARE, California, May 22. The girls title at the CIF Central Section Division 2 Swimming and Diving Championships, held May 17-18, was decided by just seven points. The Kingsburg Lady Vikings edged ...