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Best overall commitment to aquatics: City of Las Vegas Department of Leisures Services.
Maybe they should call it Swim City. With seven facilities and a diverse list of programming, Las Vegas has brought swimming to the forefront of recreation for its residents. Even Vegas' famous strip has found its way to the ever-popular aquatics community, with shows such as Cirque du Soleil's "O," the Calgary Aquabelles, the Silverton Hotel Underwater Dancers and Dragone using the local pools as training sites. The aquatics program's connection to the synchronized swimming community has made way for future water ballerinas through the city's six synchronized swimming programs.
At the request of its residents, the city completely rebuilt or constructed new state-of-the-art facilities beginning in 1999. With the venues came numerous athletic or aerobic classes, water-wellness classes and a strict lifeguard training process.
For those with more game than grace, the city offers water polo, competitive swimming and kayaking classes. And in a city where drowning is no gamble, the aquatics professionals promote water safety awareness heavily year 'round. One-hundred-two elementary and private schools surrounding the aquatics facilities receive notices about swim classes and drowning ...
- AFLAC Springboards Synchronized Swimming TV Spot Into Team Sponsorship.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 30, 2004 700+ words
...becomes a sponsor of the U.S. Synchronized Swimming National Team. The sponsorship...to be involved with the U.S. Synchronized Swimming National Team as a sponsor...exposure this week as the U.S. Synchronized Swimming National Team appeared on CBS...
- SASSY swimmers make a splash; Sarasota YMCA synchronized swimming team captures...
- Newspaper article from: Sarasota Herald Tribune May 18, 2004 700+ words
...existence, the Sarasota Family YMCA synchronized swimming team's intermediate squad is...competitions in the Region Four Synchronized Swimming Meet held in Tampa. "Synchronized swimming gives girls a sense of their own...
- Synchronized swimming: It's not a girl thing anymore.(Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Schmitz, Tom April 25, 1996 700+ words
...CLARA, Calif. _ Poolside at the synchronized swimming exhibition, the crowd is buzzing...he's heard the jokes. This is synchronized swimming after all, the most ridiculed...a member of the U.S. Olympic synchronized swimming team and a former Aquamaid...
- Survey says: Cover synchronized swimming.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Purdy, Mark August 26, 2004 700+ words
...faced down my worst Olympic fear: Synchronized swimming. Other people flinch and recoil...times. And I was hoping to avoid synchronized swimming here at the 2004 Games. But then...They made you do it." The synchronized swimming nation really knows how to go for...
- Survey says: Cover synchronized swimming.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) August 25, 2004 700+ words
...faced down my worst Olympic fear: Synchronized swimming. Other people flinch and recoil...times. And I was hoping to avoid synchronized swimming here at the 2004 Games. But then...They made you do it." The synchronized swimming nation really knows how to go for...
- Synchronized swimming makes big splash in Federal Way.(championships in...
- Magazine article from: Puget Sound Business Journal Ernst, Steve August 10, 2001 700+ words
When you think about synchronized swimming, chances are "economic...Ensynchro VII Junior World Synchronized Swimming Championships, Aug...volunteers as well as a host of synchronized swimming fans from around the region...
- Schneyder is 28, considered old for synchronized swimming, but has more...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service McManis, Sam June 5, 1996 700+ words
...1996 U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM, Synchronized Swimming.'' You don't know whether...a license-plate holder saying synchronized swimming,'' said Paula Oudet, Schneyder...Creek native has made the U.S. synchronized swimming team at age 28. A self-proclaimed...
- U.S. synchronized swimming changing homes.
- News wire article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) May 5, 2005 700+ words
...Clara, the capital of American synchronized swimming, is losing its status as home...Springs, where since 2002 USA Synchronized Swimming has sent its national teams for...club. The area's position as a synchronized swimming power was underscored at the national...
- Olympic spotlight: Synchronized swimming.(The Gazette)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Parrish, Paula April 8, 2000 700+ words
...There are two Olympic events in synchronized swimming: team and duet. The U.S. team...competitions, respectively. History: Synchronized swimming made its Olympic debut with solo...In 1916, Kay Curtis instituted synchronized swimming as an integral part of the University...
- Synchronized swimming.
- Magazine article from: U.S. Kids Corriel, Michele December 1, 2002 700+ words
Synchronized swimming is like being a duck--calm...especially since she's discovered synchronized swimming. "I love this sport...That's why it's called synchronized swimming!) The synchro swimmers practice...
Source: HighBeam Research, Best overall commitment to aquatics: City of Las Vegas Department of...