There are enough dangers when swimming that you can see and hopefully avoid. However, there's one danger that's rare but real and it happened to a Missouri swimmer who was infected with a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a lake in Iowa.
Since making headlines around the world for winning two gold medals, and her now infamous finger wag in Rio, Evansville's own Lilly King has been celebrated with her own day, received a key to the city, and served as Grand Marshal for the annual West Side Nut Club Fall Festival Parade. Now she has the chance to win a few "Golden Goggle Awards" from USA Swimming, and you can help her get
The accolades continue to roll in for Evansville native, and Olympic gold medalist, Lilly King, as she has been named the Grand Marshal of this year's West Side Nut Club Fall Festival Parade.
"Lilly Fever" has swept the city of Evansville in the wake of the Reitz High School graduate's gold medal win Monday night in the 100 meter breaststroke at the Rio Olympics. On Wednesday, Mayor Lloyd Winnecke provided a small update on what the city plans to do once she gets back home in a series of tweets.