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By Bonnie Schipper, Swimming World College Intern As a new year has begun, a full calendar of exciting swim events is waiting to take place. The 30th Annual Black History Invitational Swim Meet (BHISM) will take place February 12 – 14 at the Takoma Aquatic Center in northwest DC. Hosting 27 teams an...

By Bonnie Schipper, Swimming World College Intern Committing to play a college sport is one of the most incredible things that a student-athlete can experience. It comes with a huge mixture of feelings, ranging from excitement, to relief, to anxiety. What many high school seniors don’t realize, howe...

By Bonnie Schipper, Swimming World College Intern Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, swimmers around the world are getting back into mid-season form and abiding by diets that will enhance their performance, taking in lots of carbs, water, and oh! Protein! Protein is viewed as a necessity for a...

By Bonnie Schipper, Swimming World College Intern As the first National Letter of Intent signing day has already come and gone, many senior swimmers have already made their college decisions. Schools in the Ivy League, however- Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylv...

By Bonnie Schipper, Swimming World College Intern Seventy percent of African-American and Hispanic children cannot swim. When high school senior Steven Lesha of Grosse Pointe, Michigan heard this statistic from his summer swim coach, he was immediately shocked. “I took for granted that everyone knew...

By Bonnie Schipper, Swimming World College Intern “My name is Bonnie and I’m not going to graduate college. Unless I can learn to swim three laps in a 25-yard pool.” For most Columbia students, this doesn’t pose much of a problem- they hop in the water, take as much time as they need to complete the...

By Bonnie Schipper, Swimming World College Intern His freshman year, Sam Perry was excited to get in the water and begin his swim career at Stanford University. It was only a matter of minutes until he began swimming 50s and collided with one of his teammates swimming on the “wrong” side of the lane...