Long after I hang up my cap, goggles, and suit, I will remember all that swimming has given me! This video represents what swimming means to me!  enjoy!

Butterfly    BreastsrokeBackstokeFreestyle!

 Click on each picutre to get to a how-to instructional page!

My personal favorite is Freestyle because its my best stroke! 

Here is a list of all the Oylmpic events for swimmers

World Champs Medallists & Stats (Before Shanghai ‘06)

This picture is an action shot of me from my freshmen year and  the  other is a picture of me after I won the 1650 at our Eastern Coast Athletlic Conference Championship.  For me, Swimming has taught me discipline, motivation, and life lessons that I could have never gotten from anything else.  I have been swimming since I was 7 years old and it is a huge part of who I am.  As a Sr. this year, my swimming career comes to an end in about 2 months.  I look back on all of it and KNOW that I am a stronger, smarter, and overall better person for having swimming be such a huge part of my life.  I am forever changed by the moments, the friends, and the lessons swimming has given me.  I would strongly reccommend to all parents to get their kids involved in something like swimming at an early age.  The link in my picture shows you how to find local club teams in your area and learn what the sport is all about.  Swimming literally changed my life forever and I hope it can affect the lives of others as it has mine!

Learn more about Michael and Natalie by clicking on their pics!

Michael Phelps is not only one of the world’s greatest swimmers, but he is also considered one of the world’s most prominent athletles.  In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, at the young age of 15, Michael became the youngest athlete ever to break a World Record!  In the 2004 Athens Oylmpics, Phelps won 8 medals including 6 gold, broke 6 American Records and 3 World records!  Michael is a continiual role model for you swimmers and has put a celebrity status name to the sport of swimming!  I cannot wait to see what he does in 2008 in Bejing!

Natalie Coughlin holds 17 American, and six current World Records. She has broken 35 individual American Records and three American Relay Records.  Her 2004 Athens Olympic medals include: gold medals in the 100-meter backstroke and the 4×200-meter relay, silver medals in the 4×100-meter freestyle and medley relays and a bronze in the 100-meter freestyle. She is now currently tied for most medals won by a female athlete in a single Olympics!  Natalie has always been a source of inspiration for me.  I actually got to race her at an invitational freshmen year and got to meet her afterwards.  She was so sweet and humble.  I would have no one else be the poster child for women’s swimming!

Originally starting in England as a recreational sport, swimming became an officially recognized Olympic Sport in 1896. At the very beginning, the only events offered were the 100 freestyle and 1500 meter freestyle and were held in open water. Initially, women were not allowed to compete. But as popularity grew, and the sports expanded its realms to include new events, subsequent new strokes and competition emerged for women! 

 Learn more interesting swimming history here!

Learn some new fun tid bits about the sport!

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