DOCUMENT RESUME ED 117 051 SP 009 747 AUTHOR Davis, Patricia, Ed. TITLE Aquatics. September 1975-September 1977. With Official Rules. INSTITUTION American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Washington, D.C. National Association for Girls and Women in. Sport. PUB DATE 75 NOTE 184p. AVAILABLE FROM AAHPER Publications-Sales, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (No price quoted) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.76 Plus Postage. HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Athletic Coaches; *Athletic Programs; *Athletics; Physical Edudation Facilities; Rating Scales; *Swimming; Swimming Pools; *Womens Athletics IDENTIFIERS *Diving ABSTRACT The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) put out this manual on aquatics, the first part of which contains a brief description of the goals, beliefs, and functions of the NAGWS; a list of standards in sports for girls and women; and a list of the members of the NAGWS Aquatics .Committee. The second part contains articles on a variety of swimming-related themes, including, lap-counters, training, water safety, competition judging, pool maintenance, instructor education, and teaching swimming to the mentally retarded. This part also includes book and film bibliOraphies. Part two contains standards for ratings in swimming and diving competitions and techniques for officiating swimming and diving events. Part three contains official rules for synchronized swimming, swimming, and diving for girls and women, as well as lists of swimming and diving records. (CD) *********************************************************************** 6t?cuments acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * * materials not available from other sources. Eric makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * (.%1 *********************************************************************** National Association for Girls &Womenin Sport r U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WWELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN 'REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN- ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE- SENT OFFICIAL. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY Aquatics SEPTEMBER 1975 SEPTEMBER 1977 "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCETHIS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL BYMICRO. FICHE ONLY HAS BEEN GRANTEDBY TO EPIC A D ORGANIZATIONS°PERM. ING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITHTHE NA. TIONAL INSTITUTE OFEDUCATION. FURTHER REPRODUCTIONOUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM REQUIRESPERMIS SION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNER" 2 Sports Library for Girls and Women SPORTS GUIDES FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN IN SPORT SPORTS GUIDES NAGWS Guides are available for 19 sports. Guides contain informationon NAGWS OR NAGWS - approved playing rules Officials' ratings in most sports Articles on teaching and coaching techniques and organization Bibliographies Special features related to specific sports A section in each Guide presents information about the National Association fur Girls and Women in Sport and the services it offers to leachers, coaches, administrators and players. Mast Guides are published biennially. The following Guides are available: AQUATICS featuring swimming and diving as well as synchronized swimming rules AiICHERY-GOLF BASKETBALL BOWLING-FENCING FIELD HOCKEY-LACROSSE GYMNASTICS SOCCER-SPEEDBALL-F LAG FOOTBALL SOFTBALL TENNIS - BADMINTON- SQUASH TRACK AND HELD including Cross Country and Pentathlon Scoring Tables and Rules VOLLEYBALL For a catalog of current editions, prices and order information, please write: AAHPER Publications-Sales 1201 16th St. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 See the inside back cover for alisting of additional NAGWS/AAHPER Publications. Aquatics SEPTEMBER 1977 SEPTEMBER 1975 With Official Rules Sue Pernice,Chairperson NAGWS Sports Guidesand Official RulesCommittee Editor Patricia Davis FOR GIRLS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION & WOMEN INSPORT American Alliancefor Health, Physical Education,and Recreation publication Copyright © 1975 bythe National Association for Girls and Women inSport American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,and Recreation Library of CongressCatalog No. 40-4142 Published by the AMERICAN ALLIANCEFOR HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION,AND RECREATION 1201 Sixteenth St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 CONTENTS NATIONALASSOCIATION 5 FOR GIRLS ANDWOMEN IN SPORT Committee Sports Guides andOfficial Rules 7 Interest Indicator 8 Standards in Sportsfor Girls andWomen 9 NAGWS AquaticsCommittees ARTICLES .Seymour Kleinman 10 Lived Momentsin Aquatics What GoesThrough a Diving Betty K. Perkins 14 Judge's Head? Lap-Counter forFitness 16 An Inexpensive Mildred J. Little 19 Swim Programs Swimming ..Robert L. Bartels The Scienceof Training for Maryl Hurley 24 Relating to Realitywith Water Safety Mary Lee Cathey ca29 Only, Gorman 33 For Assisting Lifesaving Carries .Patricia Jones Evaluation of the Patricia A. Sullivan 39 There Must Be aBetter. Way! Scale for Subjective 42 Objective RatingSwimming Skills h . .Claudia J. Ferguson Evaluation of K. DawnButler 46 Show Production. Theatrical Swim Rating Implementing aTraining and Constance Birkie 48 53 Clinic Clevo Wheeling Guide Committee 59 Pool Maintenance NAGWS Aquatics 62 Aquatics Bibliography Sharon Z.Kitterhagen Film Bibliography 65 NAGWS OFFICIATINGSERVICES Affiliated Statement ofPhilosophy of the Boards of Officials in Standards forOfficials Ratings 68 Swimming and Diving Synchronized Swimming Information Regarding 76 Officials Rating 77 Study Questions 82 Synchronized Swimming Swimming Techniques ofOfficiating Synchronized 94 99 Swimming StudyQuestions and Diving Techniques forOfficiating Swimming 3 t) OFFICIAL RULESAND RECORDS Official SynchronizedSwimming Rules for Girls and Women Mary Jo Ruggieri l'?Dfficial and Jean Lundholm Swimming andDiving Rules 114 for Girls andWomen Springboard DivingTables 126 AAU SwimmingRecords 166 MAW Swimmingand Diving Records 168 NAGWS SwimmingRecords 172 Application forNAGWS Swimming 173 Record 180 CONTENTS NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONFOR GIRLS AND WOMENIN SPORT Association for Girlsand Women in Sportis a The National organization designed to servethe needs and, nonprofit, educational participants in interests of administrators,teachers, leaders, and girls and women. It is oneof seven associations sports programs for Physical Education, and of the AmericanAlliance for Health, Recreation. PURPOSE Girls and Women in The purpose of theNational Association for for the Sport is to foster thedevelopment of sports programs enrichment of the life of theparticipant. BELIEFS Women in Sport believes The NationalAssociation for Girls and that: of the culture inwhich we live. Sports are an integral part educational experience of Sports programs are apart of the total conducted in educationalinstitutions. the participant when and participation insports appropri- Opportunities for instruction in the experienceof every ate to her skilllevel should be included girl. valuable social and Sports skills andsports participation are, lives of women in recreational tools which maybe used to enrich the our society. may bedemonstrated in all sports Competition and cooperation of the competitionand programs, althoughthe type and intensitylevel of skill of the cooperation will varywith the degree or participants. between competitionand An understandingof the relationship within the accepted cooperation and theutilization of both outcomes of sports framework of our societyis one of the desirable participation. maintenance of thegeneral Physical activity isimportant in the health of the participant.contributes to thedevelopment of self- Participation in sports interpersonal confidence and to theestablishment of desirable relationships. FUNCTIONS in Sport promotes The National Associationfor Girls and Women desirable sports programsthrough: FOR GIRLS ANDWOMEN IN SPORT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 1. Formulating and publicizingguiding principles and standards for the administrator, leader,official, and player. 2. Publishing and interpreting women. rules governing sports for girlsand 3. Providing the means fortraining, evaluating, andrating officials. 1/4 4. Disseminating informationon women's sports. the conduct ofgirls and 5. Stimulating, evaluating, and disseminating research inthe field of girls and women'ssports. 6. Cooperating with allied sports in order to formulategroups policies interested in girls and women's conduct of women's sports. and rules that affect the 7. Providing opportunitiesfor the development of among girls and women for the leadership programs. conduct of their sports NAGWS AQUATICS GUIDE SPORTS GUIDES AND OFFICIAL.RULES COMMITTEE INTEREST INDICATOR The SGOR Committee isendeavoring to broaden its base of personnel and to strengthenits services to Guide readers.The purpose of this form is tooffer readers an opportunitir tojoin us in meeting this need. Please completethis form and send it to the SGOR Associate Chairman-elect,Ruth Gunden, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana 46526. Name Professional Address City State Zip Co,de 1. Check the SportCommittee(s) whichwould be of interest to you: Field Hockey Softball Aquatics _Flag football Speedball - Archery Squash Badminton