Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my mother and mentor Jenifer Tomlinson, for working with me every step of the way, and keeping me on track when I wanted to procrastinate, or skip steps. I would also like to thank Herr Martin, for being so flexible when it came to changing my hands-on project. And of course I would like to thank Genevieve Pedley for helping me rewrite my thesis to make it suond and look more appealing. Also, I would like to add a final thank you to the entire girls swim team, for making my hands-on possible by sitting through interviews on a Saturday morning. And also to the SAC girls that I borrowed during their meet, their help and cooperation is greatly appreciated.