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In the first part of our five-part Friday series on what affects high school athletes, two former athletes, Kari Lefebvre and Nico Steriti, explain why they participated.

As summer winds down, we remember all the fun things the season offers us. Days at the beach, barbeques and gut wrenching belly flops!

There's no need to fear when you hear stories about pieces of amusement park rides washing up on New Jersey's beaches post Sandy.

Here's the last thing you'll wanna read about while we're smack-dab in the middle of summer: New Jersey's beaches continue to slip when it comes to the water quality, according to a recent report from the National Resources Defense Council.

It looks like there won't be a shortage of lifeguards on Ocean County beaches this summer.

Despite the fact that many people don't know what to do in the event of a water emergency, nearly two-thirds of families with small children plan to swim in areas without lifeguards this summer.

The crowds are lighter and the weather seems perfect for a swim in the Atlantic. But, this is the most dangerous time of year to enter the ocean. With all of the rescues this weekend by random folks strolling the beach, should their be harsher punishment if one swims at the beach without a lifeguard?

Find out what the Olympic gold medalist admitted to doing after the jump!

While most of the kids in Susan Kleiner’s high school algebra class couldn’t wait for the bell to ring, Susan would have been happy to just keep doing equations. It wasn’t that she was a math whiz, it was that she dreaded what came next: Gym. Susan was 40 pounds overweight and the idea of running laps made her want to run and hide.

When I try to get into the pool, if that water is cold, I'll admit it. I'm a 'one inch at a time' kind of guy. First the feet. After about a half hour, when they warm up, I'll put the lower leg in and so on. The whole process takes about three and a half hours.

Every Memorial Day Weekend, amidst the stories of people spending time at the Jersey Shore with their family and friends, soaking in the sun and kicking off the summer, there are always those tragedies that bring us back to reality. Is it safe at the Shore?