Swimming

By: Kathryn Egolf-Jensen

Photojournalist

Now, I am pretty sure that most of you have heard of competitive swimming. You know, like Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, Ryan Lochte, Amy Van Dyken, Rachel Bootsma, Matt Grevers, and Nathan Adrian? Sorry, maybe not all of them. I am a swimmer, so I know a lot of Olympians. Swimming has been around for years and years, but didn’t officially become a sport until the 1830’s in England. There are four competitive strokes; freestyle, backstroke, breastroke, and butterfly. Freestyle, or front crawl, is the fastest stroke. Backstroke, whose name gives it away, is swam on the back. Breastroke, a stroke that requires a large amount of coordination and strength, is the slowest stroke. Last but not least, butterfly, considered the hardest stroke, it was initially a variation of breastroke, until it became its own; kind of how the U.S.A was a part of England, but broke away and became it’s own country!

Here are some pictures I took!