Friday events at Mt. Lebanon swim pool for water polo and SKWIM with guardians

Lifeguards, triathletes, hockey players, basketball players and coaches as well as adults, parents, teachers, guardians and kids — of course — come to a fun water workout on Friday evenings when there isn’t a home football game at Mt. Lebanon’s indoor, new, high school swim pool from 7:30 to 9 pm. Show up at 7:15 if you can so we can transition into activities and have some time to chat before we begin.

More info at this page:

• https://waterpolo.cloh.org/2018/09/24/mt-lebo-hosting-water-polo-and-skwim-for-kids-and-adults/

Crisis and the churn at the pool

Some people say that there is a crisis in youth sports participation. To be sure, the levels of this crisis — or not — depend upon many factors including location, coaching, other opportunities, support from the society and culture, school district and more.

Overall retention has stayed pretty constant around 70%. USA Swimming had its second best year ever in 2017 with 74.2%. Basically means that 7 out of 10 athletes stay with the sport from one year to the next.

The 12-Under retention levels within USA Swimming hovers around 60%. Again 6-out-of-10 12-Unders athletes stay with the sport. Colleagues in other sports say they’d love to have that retention rate for younger kids.

​And most of you already know that if a 13-Over-Swimmer is with your team, they are more than likely to stay with your team,  since the retention hovers around 90%.

Come Live Over Here

 

Behind the scenes:

Interview about water safety and SKWIM

Also launching the site, SKWIM.us, to share our water safety quiz efforts and teach the basics of the game.

AutoCoach brochure

Two pages:

AutoCoach-final-Monday-brochure for USA-20180827

Media mentions

Tip: Click on the links or images below to go to the various articles. Some news accounts include multiple photos and videos.

NCAA Mens’ Water Polo at Highland Park Pool: TinyURL.com/water-polo-trib

Great article.

Greg Kinzler, the student athlete, is a college senior in terms of academics, but it is just the second year on the team as he went to a different PSU Campus for the first two years of his engineering studies.

Renegades article

Masters Player, formerly from Iona and Texas, our own J. Vincent

Pittsburgh Combined article, for High School and Middle School water polo

Water Safety Interview about SKWIM

Launching the site, SKWIM.us, to share our water safety quiz efforts and teach the basics of the game.

Podcast about water polo and SKWIM

Post-Gazette coverage of Swim & Water Polo Camp with Pittsburgh Public Schools Summer Dreamers and beyond

SKWIM in Peters Township at Valley Brook Country Club

Citiparks’ Ammon Head Lifeguard, Charles, talks about our summer water polo home in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood with NPR Radio’s WESA

We need to get physically fit and then the test scores increase

High School Athletes, guardians, coaches and school guidance workers

Everyone has to know this and be aware, as futures depend upon it.

NCAA Eligibility PDF

 

Source: http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/CBSA19.pdf

Literacy of Computer Programming Languages and LiveCode discussions

Alejandro Tejada posted in a public group

“Programming could be much much easier most of the time. This unnecessary difficulty wastes the effort of professional programmers, but worse, prevents many people from programming at all. The problem is a nasty hairball of culture and technology and money that is not easily untangled”

The problem with programming and how to fix it

Jonathan Edwards, the author of this article, remembers
HyperCard for “enabling millions of novices to build
simple applications.”

Richmond wrote:

Who said LiveCode lost sight of that? Oh, it was me.

Alejandro

Actually, I understand why RunRev (the former company name that publishes LiveCode) do not want to sell LiveCode as a HyperCard replacement.

LiveCode is multi-platform and this single fact set it apart from all previous x-talk languages.

In my humble opinion, the future of programming would be driven by artificial intelligence assistants and multiple ways of working and interfacing with the computer using voice, gaze interaction, gesture, motion, pointer, keyboard, etc…

Mark Waddingham of LiveCode posted

How are all these artifical intelligence assistants, and various drivers  needed for the various forms of input you suggest built?

I don’t think there are any magic beans around you can plant to have them appear.

PanPac Swim Meet broadcast schedule

Event runs from Thursday, August 9, 2018 to Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at the  Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Tokyo, Japan.

Dates and times, all for the Olympic Channel.

• 8/9 2:00 am
• 8/10 3:00 am
• 8/11 3:00 am
• 8/12 2:30 am
• 8/13 3:00 am

One of Team USA Captains is Leah Smith, a swimmer from Pittsburgh by way of the JCC Sailfish, Oakland Catholic, UVA and now swimming as a professional and training in Tuscon, Arizona, when she isn’t at altitude.

Go Leah!