swimming

Memorial Day weekend is almost here!  If you are staying in town and have nothing to do, maybe you could go for a swim.  Amarillo Parks and Recreation gearing up to open the city pools.

Much of the nation is in the grips of a cold spell the likes of which make us long for summer.

For the first time in history, a swimmer has endured the 103-mile route from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida, without the assistance of a shark cage. That swimmer, 64-year-old Diana Nyad, began her quest on Saturday, August 31, and finished around 53 hours later on Labor Day.

Around 150 people use Canyon's public pool on a daily basis during the summer, as Canyon grows it's amenities need to grow along with the city. Over the last several decades the pool has done it's job for the community.

School is about to be back in session, if you haven't had enough time to spend outdoors with your family Blake invites you out for some FREE swimming.
That's right, this Thursday (Aug 8th, 2013) at Thompson Pool inside Thompson Park from 7p-9p...

It seems that just yesterday summer was beginning.  Now, we are in August and summer is slipping away.  That means that the Amarillo swimming pools will be shutting their doors for the season.

Ahh, summer. 'Tis the season of watermelon art, diving fails and-- you guessed it-- belly flops. When we were kids, this pool move was awesome. But nowadays... who are we kidding? It's still (painfully) awesome!

Wow. Just wow.
That's what you'll be saying after watching this ridonkulous multi-person, multi-pass alley-oop. This little stunt involves more precision than a Seiko and surely must have been rehearsed so many times, these guys must have had skin shriveled up like a raisin...

Michael Phelps, eat your heart out.

Well, we were feeling pretty proud of ourselves for finally looking up that Couch to 5k thing, but it’s going to take a little more than that to impress Phillippe Croizon. The quadruple amputee has made history by swimming intercontinental straits linking Oceania, Asia, Europe, Ameri…

Bring the family out for FREE SWIMMING tonight at SW Pool from 7p.m. - 9p.m. with the all-new 101.9 Blake-FM!

They are two types of belly flops — The first comes courtesy of a daredevil with a masochistic streak who deliberately falls into the water gut first. The second happens when somebody just isn’t very good at diving into a pool.