Swimmer Wins NCAA Sportsmanship Award
from CollegeSwimming.com
 For NCAA Division III Sportsman of the Year Isaac Rothenbaum, it’s not always about yourself. Sometimes, it’s not always even about your own team. Just ask Carthage College men’s swimmer Isaac Rothenbaum (Jr., Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park-River Forest). On Saturday afternoon, Feb. 21, 2009, Rothenbaum showed his teammates and a certain Wheaton College swimmer a generosity of spirit that garnered Rothenbaum the 2008-09 NCAA Division III Sportsmanship Award. More 
Kukors Plans to Change with the (Slower) Times
from ReachForTheWall.com
Given that Ariana Kukors won her first world title and set a pair of world records this past summer, one might think her long-time coach Sean Hutchison would simply marvel at her technique and not touch a thing.
One would be completely wrong. Hutchison, who begins coaching at the newest U.S. Olympic Committee swimming training center in Fullerton, Calif., treated the influx of polyurethane suits over the last 18 months not as a nuisance but as an invitation for painstaking analysis and thoughtful adaptation.
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That Late-night Snack: Worse Than You Think
from Science Daily
Eat less, exercise more. Now there is new evidence to support adding another "must" to the weight-loss mantra: eat at the right time of day. More
Hardy Is Vindicated, but Fight Continues
from ReachForTheWall.com
The eruption of tears after Jessica Hardy absorbed what she saw on the scoreboard at the U.S. Open swim meet last month seemed disproportionate, on the surface, to the achievement. Sure, she had gone under the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke, but that was not new; she had set world marks previously. And the meet itself? It wasn’t significant enough to merit daily press coverage from the local newspapers. Yet soon after she touched the wall Aug. 7 in Federal Way, Wash., Hardy began sobbing. She sobbed coming out of the pool and on the deck. More
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Why Kids Don't Need Sports Drinks
from the Chicago Tribune
In some "healthy" school vending machines across the country, soda is out. But rehydrating, sugar-laden sports drinks are still in. Often promoted by popular athletes as essential thirst quenchers, sports beverages can be beneficial if they're consumed during or after an intense workout that lasts an hour or more, said Russell Pate, professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina. More
Swimming Pool Chlorine Raises Asthma, Allergy Risks: Study
from Reuters India
Swimming in chlorinated pools may increase the risk of a child getting asthma and respiratory allergies like hay fever, according to a Belgian study. Researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, found that teenagers who spent more than 100 hours swimming in chlorinated pools were up to six times more at risk of having asthma than other teens. More
Science Is Forcing Sports to Re-examine Their Core Principles
from The New York Times
Restrictions on testosterone, on prosthetic limbs and on men competing in women’s sports are meant to protect athletes from unfair advantages.
Some may say they protect against unnatural advantage. The idea is that, at its essence, sport is about one human competing against another to see who is naturally the strongest, the fastest, the most skilled.
But athletes left the realm of the natural a long time ago.
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