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Level 2 Fahrtenschwimmer (trail swimmer—badge with two waves and a silver pin) requires 15 minutes of swimming, dive jump or jump from 3-metre (10-foot) height, 10 metres (11 yards) of swimming underwater, pickup of a thick object from deep water (2 m [6.6 ft] water, 2.5 kg [5.5 lb] weight), 50 metres (55 yards) of back crawl, and 10 rules of ...
The club started training in the Loyola High School pool, [2] but as it has grown, its location has changed. It currently operates out of three locations: Goucher College in Towson, [3] the Gilman School, Coppermine's Bel Air location, and Loyola University Maryland in the North Baltimore neighborhood of Homeland. It no longer is affiliated ...
USA Swimming is the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States. It is charged with selecting the United States Olympic Swimming team and any other teams that officially represent the United States, as well as the overall organization and operation of the sport within the country, in accordance with the Olympic and Amateur Sports Act.
Amuro is introduced to the swim team after being invited to join by Orizuka. Amuro meets the rest of the Umisho swim team members; she mistakes Makio for a middle-school student, for example, and makes a note of Shizuoka's chest size (much to Shizuoka's embarrassment). Ikamasa introduces himself in typically embarrassing fashion.
Standard United States high school swim meets have short course events, that is the lengths are typically swum in a 25-yard or meter long pool. One relay event swum in State or Sectional Championships is the 4×50 yard medley relay. Many collegiate programs hold competition in the 4×50 medley relay, and 4×100 medley relay.
In 2014, five members of the swim team at the University of Virginia had been suspended and later faced a lawsuit following allegations of hazing by a previous team member. [28] The following year, a hazing scandal at Western Kentucky University resulted in the university's entire swimming and diving programs being suspended for five years. [29]
[1] [2] The swimming program for 2000 was expanded from 1996, with the inclusion of the semifinal phase in each of the events except for some special cases. Long-distance swimming events (400 m freestyle, 800 m freestyle, 1500 m freestyle, and 400 m individual medley) and all relays still maintained the old format with only two phases: heats ...
During the 1960s and 1970s, ISMGF classification cheating occurred in both swimming and wheelchair basketball. Some of the medical classifications appeared arbitrary, with people of different functional levels being put into the same class. This made the results for many games and swimming races appear to be completely arbitrary.