Presents a study on world-class swimming and contains information on mental and physical training, nutrition, various swimming strokes, competitions and championships, and the Olympics.
Having quit his school's swim team, Colm tries to swim the lake at his family's summer home, at the same time working on his difficult relationship with his father and pondering the mystery of girls.
Dora invties Boots to go swimming in the ocean with her, but she learns that Boots cannot swim, so Dora's friend, Mariana the Mermaid, volunteers to give Boots a swimming lesson.
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Skye, a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively.
Introduces the basic techniques of swimming and diving in recreation, exercise, and competition. Includes the history of swimming, safety factors, apparel, and introduces swimming sports such as skin diving and scuba diving.
Ten-year-old Carly loves the feeling she gets from diving, but her enjoyment in the sport is curtailed when her friend Montana is seriously injured while diving in the lake at the summer cabin owned by Carly's family.
Guide to swimming that not only explains the "how to" of swimming in clear language but also explains the "why" of swimming for a healthier, happier life.
With remarks about his small stature and poor swimming skills ringing in his ears, the son of Hungarian immigrants begins to train for the 21-mile swim across a nearby lake.
