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Keeping things cool at the pool
It was 1 p.m. on Tuesday. DeThorne, head lifeguard at Schenectady’s football field-sized pool, had nine people on her watch. Gray skies and mild temperatures — the city’s summer oven was only 76 degrees — had persuaded some aquanauts to stay home.
DeThorne, 20, who graduated from Schenectady High School in 2009 and will be a junior this fall at the University at Albany, has been watching people swim at Central Park for the past five summers. Nine people in the water is a small crowd. On some days, when it’s 90 degrees in the Capital Region, there might be a hundred people or more in the 900,000 gallons of cool blue. Posted on August 13, 2011.
Taylor DeThorne, the head lifeguard at the Central Park pool in Schenectady, is a magnet for children, including 5-year-old Arianna Marshall.
DeThorne gives an impromptu lesson to swimmers at the Central Park pool.
DeThorne has been a lifeguard at the Central Park pool for five years.
Taylor DeThorne, head lifeguard at the Central Park pool, watches swimmers closely from a seat in the middle of the pool.
DeThorne jumps in for a dip in the pool.
DeThorne gives 3 year old Lama Eltilib a high five.
Taylor DeThorne, head lifeguard at the Central Park pool.
