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11/28/23
By: Emerson Kester and Shelby Allgood
Do you enjoy swimming? Do you wish to continue swimming after the school season ends? Agon swimming is a local swim team that takes place in the high school pool after school ends, monday-thursday.
Temujin Gold At Pool
The Edgewood High School Pool
AGON is a year-round competitive swimming team that is a member club of USA Swimming and United States Masters Swimming. They offer training to many different ages and ability levels. Whether young or old, they provide coaching with the objective of positively influencing the lives of their members.
Temujin Gold is Agon's coach, and he is amazing at his job. He started swimming at a young age to the point where he can’t even remember. “My favorite part about being a coach,'' Temujin states, “ is the kids I get to work with". He is an amazing person overall and is super nice and lenient. He also joined the Brown University swimming & diving staff as an assistant coach in 2011.
He was a 2004 graduate of Indiana University, and a three-year letterwinner who excelled mostly in the distance events for the Hoosiers. Following graduation, he coached club teams in Arizona and then returned to IU where he got a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology in 2010.
The High School Pool
Temujin has had well over a decade of successful coaching experience. And Is experienced in coaching with a NCAA Division I top 10 team. And was a qualified swimmer for 2009 World Championship Trials. He also coached swimmers to consolation and bonus final swims at 2008 Short Course Nationals. He also had international experience as National Team Coach of El Salvador Salvador, and finally was in American Swimming Coaches Association Level 4 Coach (top 10% of coaches)
Their logo: The Rock. Their logo is inspired by Camus’ philosophical work, The Myth of Sisyphus. As the story goes, Sisyphus was condemned for eternity to roll a rock to the top of a mountain, only to watch it roll back down
When Camus reimagines the story, he describes a character who finds success through his struggle. The Greek word eudaimonia is often translated to mean happiness or human flourishing. The latter being more accurate and perhaps the happiness, not a state of mind or emotion that changes with recent events. To the Greeks, eudaimonia was measured by how well an individual had lived life to their potential.
Similarly, their program aims to use the struggle inherent in the pursuit of athletic excellence to facilitate human flourishing. They encourage their members to embrace that struggle because it provides all the elements that contribute to well-being (see mission statement). As such, they have chosen to use images from The Myth of Sisyphus in their logo to represent Camus’ message and their mission.
An Agon Swimmer
The “O” in AGON has been filled in to represent Sisyphus’ rock and they placed it on a slope representing his mountain. The black background shows us “skyless space and time without depth,” and they left the rock part way up the mountain, reminding us that Sisyphus continues his struggle. As Camus tells us, he is “still on the go. The rock is still rolling.”
Author Bio:
Emerson Kester is an 11 year old girl at EJHS who loves swimming, sleeping, and dogs.
Shelby Allgood is an 11 year old girl who also goes to EJHS and loves swimming, and dogs and sleeping.
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