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10 Things the Non-Swimmer Will Never Understand By Suzie Ryan, Swimming World Intern As swimmers, we spend hours upon hours in the water. When our friends are hanging out after school or on the weekend, we are swimming up and down the black line at practice or at a meet. As swimmers, we have our own...

6 Life Lessons Swimming Teaches Us By Suzie Ryan, Swimming World Intern Swimming is not the easiest of sports. It takes courage, dedication and a lot of hard work to become a swimmer. Countless hours spent swimming up and down the black line, dryland practices, and early mornings. But swimming isn’t...

How To Move On From A Bad Swim: 5 Helpful Tips We will all have a bad race or two, or sometimes even more throughout our swimming careers, but it’s how we handle ourselves during these times that makes us stand out as athletes. After a bad race, we have two options. We can cry, be angry, blame other...

10 Tips To Balance Swimming, School and Social Life By Suzie Ryan, Swimming World Intern Swimming is a tough sport. Our time is filled with early morning practices, late night practices, strength and conditioning sessions, competitions on weekends and travel to away meets. On top of that, we have al...

5 Mental Benefits of Swimming By Suzie Ryan, Swimming World Intern For many of us, the pool is a place for us to escape the chaos of the world. It’s just you, the water and your teammates. When we dive into the water and take that first stroke, our problems instantly fade away as the water washes ov...

Miami Masters ‘Swimmen Wimmen’ Relay Team Smashes Three World Records By Suzie Ryan, Swimming World Intern The Miami Masters ‘Swimmen Wimmen’ relay team, with a combined age of 320 years, has broken three FINA Masters World Records in the 320-359 years category this year. Made up of four Gold Coast ...

Fuel Foods Every Swimmer Needs in Their Life By Suzie Ryan Training hard, giving 100% in every session, day in and day out, both in the pool and the gym, are all essential for smashing your goals, making that podium, and earning qualifying times. While dedicated to these aspects of the sport, swimme...

The Traits Of 7 Types of Swimmers You’ll Find During Your Swimming Journey By Suzie Ryan  There are many types of swimmers in the swimming and we all know what our training buddies are and of course what we are. There are the sprinters and the distance swimmers. Then we have the I.Mers, backstrokers...

5 Things to Know Before an Open Water Race By Suzie Ryan, Swimming World Intern Open water racing is tough. You will be bumped around, swam over, and your googles will be ripped off. You will be faced with less than ideal conditions and unexpected variables throughout the race. Success in an open wa...