Santa Ana urges Latinos to get in the swim – The city’s high schools are encouraging competitive swimming and water polo among a group that doesn’t traditionally participate in aquatics. From: latimes.com
Tagged: California, children, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, soccerPosted on: May 27th, 2008
To promote health and safety, Santa Ana high schools are encouraging competitive swimming and water polo among Latinos, who don’t traditionally participate in those sports.
New facilities, including Olympic-size pools at two high schools, will offer places for the sports to take hold.
“Kids are playing soccer every day after school,” said Fred Lammers, head aquatics coach at Valley High School. “We’d like to do that with aquatics.”
The push is part of a larger effort to promote physical fitness and prevent drowning. Studies show that most Latino children nationwide cannot swim.”*
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