Coach Tracey Baumann on How to Make Swimming Easier

I found this definition of swimming on the internet… “Swimming is moving your body through water (a moderately viscous fluid) that’s either still (as in a swimming pool), turbulent (as in the ocean), or somewhere in between. If you’re swimming completely under the surface (for example, scuba diving), you’re moving through relatively still water; other times, you’re going to be moving along at the […]

Scott Cotten’s Swim Story

Evolutionarily I understand that we were drawn to cross bodies of water for resources, but why are we drawn to swim across them? Marathon Swimming in it’s purest form is a reproduction of Captain Webb’s feat to cross the English Channel in 1876. Mind you, Captain Webb is described as a stuntman and later died attempting a dangerous swim in […]