Water Safety and Your Child

Many parents have asked me about water safety for their child and “survival swimming.”  It shouldn’t be suprising since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years, despite a steady decline in drowning rates…

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Finding the Right Pair of Goggles (Pt. 2 — For the Blind)

If you are blind like me, swimming has always been a little challenging because I couldn’t see the pace clock, other swimmers, the practice on the board.  Since I’ve started to do more stuff in open water with my team in the last 10 years, it’s…well…game over out there.  The…

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