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COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, July 30. THE last night of action at the YMCA Long Course Nationals featured two more Y records taking a tumble.
Bath Area's James Wells shot down a YMCA record in the men's 50 back with a swift time of 25.90 in ...
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By David Rieder
ATLANTA, Georgia, July 28. SWIMMERS representing the Florida LSC won half of the races on the second night of long course meters racing at the Southern Zone championships, while another Floridian from the Gold Coast LSC ...
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Guest editorial by Tom Herrmann: EdD, PT, ATC, CSCS, University of Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 28. AN explosive start and explosive turns may be the most purely athletic maneuvers a swimming athlete performs during a race.
Whil...
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, July 28. THE inaugural 2009-10 College Swimming Honors have been announced. In all, thirteen swimmers, divers or teams are being recognized for their outstanding performances through the 2009-10 collegiate swimming and diving ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 24. THIS week's edition of Split Time continues our preview of the USA Swimming national championships and Pac Pacific Trials on SwimmingWorld.TV with a discussion on the potential winners of the women's event...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 23. THIS week's Poll of the Week segment ponders the following question: Who was the best male high school swimmer of the 2009-2010 season?
Before you vote, catch the results of last week's poll question on the ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 27. DIANA Nyad, considered by many to be the queen of long-distance swimming, joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show to talk about her preparations for a 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida – at 60 years o...
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Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer
BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, July 26. WE'RE quickly approaching this summer's Nationals, a meet which will serve as the selection competition for the Pan Pacific Championships and, ...
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By Candice Peak
DUNCAN, South Carolina. February 16. THE Y-Spartaquatics Swim Team (YSSC) took charge during the South Carolina State Swimming Championships by winning all the senior age group relays on both the men's and women's...
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NEW YORK, New York, July 23. ACCORDING to the Associated Press, Mike Saltzstein has been added back to the USA Swimming Officials List after an American Arbitration Association hearing came to a conclusion recently.
Saltzstein, who is a ...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 23. THE USA Swimming Sectionals held in Columbia brought forth a pair of performances that cleared listed long course meter regional records.
Chelsea Franklin lowered the listed regional record in the women's 400 fr...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 22. THE USA Swimming Sectional held in Columbia produced a podium double from Kansas City Blazer Shannon Vreeland this evening. The meet is taking place in long course meter format.
Vreeland topped the women's 200 ...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, July 22. THE USA Women's Senior National Team and Head Coach Adam Krikorian have announced the travel roster for the 2010 FINA World Cup scheduled for August 17-22 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Coming off a Gold M...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 21. THE host club enjoyed a victory on the opening night of long course competition at the Columbia sectional championships.
The 800 freestyles kicked off the competition, and the University of Arkansas took the top fou...
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By Carrie Moore
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 20. FROM a distance, Marcus Titus and Kristin Ates may look like any other swimmer at a meet. They've practiced, tapered, and long-prepared for their upcoming race. But Titus and Ates are diff...
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By David Rieder
ATHENS, Georgia, July 17. AUBURN swimmers Tyler McGill and Mark Gangloff, both members of last year's U.S. World Championship team, posted world-ranked times in their signature events during the third night of long c...
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ROBERVAL, Canada, July 20. THE Jury of Appeal, at the meeting held on July 20, 2010, has considered the correspondence received from Swimming Australia relating to the disqualification of the open water swimmer, Ms. Melissa Gorman, in the 10km rac...
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Updated with Fabian/Okimoto disqualification explanation.
ROBERVAL, Canada, July 17. ITALY's Martina Grimaldi won the first world title on offer at the World Open Water Championships held in Roberval, Canada. Grimaldi topped the wome...
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ROBERVAL, Canada, July 18. THE second day of action at the World Open Water Championships proved to be much smoother than the first as the men's 10K event took place.
Italy's Valerio Cleri won the men's 10K race in 2:00:59.30, while...
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HELSINKI, Finland, July 18. THE European Junior Championships finished the way it started with France's Yannick Agnel putting up yet another sterling time. The meet took place in long course meter format.
Agnel nearly downed his second-ran...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 28. OVER the weekend, the San Jose Mercury News disclosed documentation showing that USA Swimming elected to ignore a sexual abuse complaint against Andy King as early as 2003. King is a former coach of San ...
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BRISBANE, Australia, July 17. DAY four of the Australian Short Course Championships certainly produced some swift swimming from a variety of athletes, including a national record, an All-Comers record and two multi-disability world records.
Emi...
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HELSINKI, Finland, July 14. YANNICK Agnel was the star of the opening night of swimming competition at the European junior swimming championships with a world-class time in the 400 freestyle. The meet is taking place over long course meters.
A...
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SAN DIEGO, California, July 13. THIS weekend, Janet Evans was inducted into the National Federation of State High School Association's National High School Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 2010. She joined a class that included track and ...
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By Reed Shimberg
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16. NICK Thoman is a backstroke star in the U.S. While he has only made a few international teams, he still is the current world record holder in the 100 SCM backstroke. He missed out on making the...
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BRISBANE, Australia, July 14. THE first day of finals at the Australian short course championships featured a surprising disqualification in prelims and a few close battles in finals, where swimmers were selected for the Australian short course w...
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Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer
BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, July 12. THEY rose to international acclaim together, many times known by the mention of only their first names. Kate and Katie. Katie and Kate. They were the f...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 12. PHOENIX Swim Club hosted the Arizona Senior Long Course State Championships this weekend.
Amanda Beard continued her return from maternity leave this weekend. Beard, with husband Sacha Brown, son Blaise and even acto...
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ARLINGTON, Virginia, July 12. ACCORDING to sources in the area, two-time Olympic gold medalist Tom Dolan is recovering from a severe concussion suffered July 2 in Virginia.
Dolan slipped and fell outside a friend's house in Gaithersburg, Md...
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LOS ANGELES, California, July 11. THE last night of action of the USA Swimming Grand Prix circuit featured a top-ranked swim by California's Dana Vollmer in the women's 100 fly. The final swims took place at the Los Angeles Grand Prix, pr...
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GRESHAM, Oregon, July 12. WHILE USA Swimming as a whole is still working on developing a policy to protect swimmers from sexual abuse, the Western Zone has jumped ahead to begin instituting some of its own reporting and protection structures for ...
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Feature by Thomas Willdridge, Swimming World European correspondent
LONDON, England, July 12. EUROPE's most talented young swimmers will compete in Helsinki at the European Junior Swimming Championships from July 14-18. For most of t...
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LOS ANGELES, California, July 9. THE second evening of long course meter action at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Los Angeles had some of the fastest times in the world.
Trojan's Katinka Hosszu thrilled the crowd with a splendid time i...
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LOS ANGELES, California, July 10. AN incredible amount of world-class times went up on the scoreboard during the third night of long course meter action at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Los Angeles.
FAST's Ariana Kukors put together a...
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 10. THE third evening of long course meter action at the Texas Senior Circuit in Austin featured a blazing time by Aaron Peirsol in the men's 200 back.
Peirsol scorched the men's 200 back with a superior time of 1:57...
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By David Rieder
LOS ANGELES, California, July 8. THE first evening of long course meter racing at the Los Angeles Grand Prix, previously the Janet Evans Invitational, featured prelims of the women's 800 free and men's 1500 free. ...
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By David Rieder
GAINESVILLE, Florida, July 8. THE first night at the USA Swimming Sectionals meet hosted by Gator Swim Club featured long course racing in the women's 1500 free, men's 800 free, and two relay events for both wome...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 8. MANY of our readers are taking issue with USA Swimming's handling of the recent sexual abuse controversy, and they have asked us for ways they can implement change in the process.
The best way of taking hands-on ...
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PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, July 7. PHIL Spiniello was named as the head women's swimming and diving coach at Rutgers University today, replacing longtime coach Chuck Warner, whose contract with the school ended on June 30.
Spiniello's firs...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3. IN the July issue of Swimming World Magazine, CEO Brent Rutemiller addresses some of the changes in coaching styles in light of the sexual abuse claims against the sport in the U.S. in this month's edition of <...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, July 6. THE USA Men's Senior National Team and Head Coach Terry Schroeder have announced the group of 16 athletes that will make up the 2010 roster for competition at the FINA World League Super Final and FINA Wor...
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By David Rieder, Swimming World high school intern
MONTREAL, Canada, July 4. THE final night of long course racing in Montreal showcased condensed finals of 50-meter events, with just four swimmers, as well as a full program of conventi...
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BERLIN, Germany, July 4. THE last night of swimming at the German Long Course Nationals held in Berlin produced a top-ranked time as Paul Biedermann continued to round back into form.
Biedermann became the first person to clear 1:46 this year w...
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By Graham Senders, Swimming World Australian Masters correspondent
PERTH, Australia, July 5. OVER the weekend at a short course meter interclub carnival hosted by the Swan Hills Masters, Persis Rae lowered the FINA women's 90-94 200 ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 5. RYAN Murphy just broke Aaron Peirsol's 13-14 national age group record in the 100 backstroke, and on today's edition of The Morning Swim Show, the Bolles School sophomore-to-be talks about breaking the rec...
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By David Rieder, Swimming World high school intern
MONTREAL, Canada, July 3. AMERICAN Elizabeth Beisel posted the strongest swim of the third night of long course meter racing at the Canada Cup in Montreal, with a dominant win in the wom...
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By David Rieder, Swimming World high school intern
MONTREAL, Canada, July 2. THE second night of long course meter racing at the Canada Cup featured strong swims by top Canadian and American swimmers. The best performance came from U.S....
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ALYTUS, Lithuania, July 3. WITH two national records in the first two days, swimmers could not continue the streak with another national mark during the third day of swimming at the Lithuanian Long Course Nationals held in Alytus.
Rugile Mileis...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3. PART two of the coaching philosophy topic on Split Time features Coach Coley Stickels of Lake Oswego Swim Club, who believes his low-volume approach is effective for all swimmers, even distance specialists.
The...
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BERLIN, Germany, July 2. DAY three of the German Long Course Nationals produced even more world-ranked efforts, including a solid sprint double by Steffen Deibler.
Deibler claimed the men's 50 free title in 22.17 to move to 12th in the worl...
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BROOKLINE, Massachusetts, July 1. VARIOUS news outlets across the country reported about an attempted robbery involving eight-time Olympic gold medalist Jenny Thompson on Monday night.
Thompson told media members that while riding her scooter o...
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BERLIN, Germany, June 30. ONLY a pair of titles were on the line during the first day of swimming at the German Long Course Nationals held in Berlin.
Yannick Lebherz jumped to 12th in the world in the men's 400 IM this year with a top time ...
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WACO, Texas, June 30. THE Texas Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee, comprised of media members around the state and chaired by Dave Campbell of Texas Football Magazine fame, has set the final ballot of nominees to be voted on for induction in...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 30. THIS week's winner of the Performance of the Week honor should be no surprise to anyone who followed the action last weekend in the pool at the Paris Open.
We are proud to give the Performance of the Week honor t...
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida, June 28. RYAN Murphy, who swims for the Bolles School, demolished the U.S. National Age Group record for 13-14 year olds in the 100-meter backstroke this weekend.
At the TYR Summer Classic, Murphy turned in a blazing fast...
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Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer
MEDIA, Pennsylvania, June 28. SINCE much of the talk this weekend, especially in our web site's Reaction Time section, was about the Paris Open, I decided to make this week's colu...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 23. SWIMMING World Magazine received copies of a document verifying that USA Swimming did give a positive recommendation for former national team director Everett Uchiyama's employment with the Country Club of Colorado a...
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