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SAN JOSE, California, March 19 SAN JOSE attorney B. Robert Allard alleges widespread abuse within USA Swimming in an amended lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
According to an ...
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By Candice Peak
LEXINGTON, Kentucky. March 19. THE Lakeside Seahawks dominated the Kentucky Short Course Yard Senior Championships by winning multiple events and sweeping the relays at the University of Kentucky's Lancaster Aquatic C...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, March 18. THE first night of long course meter swimming concluded at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Mexico's Patricia Castaneda claimed the women's 1500 free title in 16:43.42, while ...
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By Candice Peak
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana. March 17. CARMEL Swim Club walked away with the championship title for the 2010 Indiana Short Course Yard Senior Championships at the IU Natatorium.
Trish Regan from Carmel Swim Club (CSC) won f...
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ORLANDO, Florida. SOME of the best and brightest young stars of swimming in the United States will converge on Orlando, Fla., this week for the National Club Swimming Association (NCSA) Junior Nationals, and SwimmingWorld.TV will be there.
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ORLANDO, Florida, March 16. THE first ...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 14. THE last night of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Federal Way featured plenty of sectional records and a few more doubles.
Colorado Stars' Missy Franklin cruised to a sectio...
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BUFFALO, New York, March 14. WESTERVILLE's Austin Staab put together two more strong swims at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Buffalo as he finished rewriting the records books with two more outstanding efforts. The meet took place in sho...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 13. TONIGHT's finale session at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Federal Way featured several sectional records falling by the wayside in short course yard action.
Cascade's Annemarie Thayer touched out...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 13. THE final day of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Minneapolis witnessed ASK's Dagny Knutson doubling up.
Knutson dominated the women's 200 back with a time of 1:55.56. Min...
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BUFFALO, New York, March 13. WESTERVILLE's Austin Staab kept on rolling at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Buffalo with a trio of pool, meet records on the third day of competition. The meet is being held in short course yard format.
S...
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By Candice Peak
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 13. ELIZABETH Pelton of North Baltimore Aquatic Club (NBAC) set new 15-16 National Age Group Records during the 2010 Maryland Swimming Championships at the United States Naval Academy.
Pelto...
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By Candice Peak
GRESHAM, Oregon. March 13. THE Columbia River Swim Team came out on top at the Oregon Senior short-course-yard Championships this past weekend.
Female high point winner Alex Kronberger from Maverick Aquatic Club helped...
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By Candice Peak
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. March 13. BLUEFISH Swim Club took the title of Age Group Champion during the Short course yard championships at the MIT pool this past weekend.
2008 Olympian and future Florida Gator Elizabet...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 12. THE third night of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Federal Way featured quite a few sectional records falling by the wayside.
After an astonishing time of 1:51.07 in the women&#...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 12. DAGNY Knutson kept performing well at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Minneapolis. The meet is taking place in short course yards format.
Despite what the results seem to display, ASK's Dagny Knutson l...
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BUFFALO, New York, March 12. THE second evening of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Buffalo welcomed a surprising guest as Westerville's Austin Staab, currently on leave from Stanford, posted a sterling time in ...
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida, March 12. NEXT month, the Bolles School Sharks will be hosting an exciting sprint-based meet called the JAX 50. The meet, which will feature only the 50-yard freestyle, already has commitments from superstars like Matt Gre...
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By Candice Peak
MIAMI, Ohio. March 12. MANY meet records were taken down during the Ohio Senior short course yard Swimming Championships at the Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center at Miami University.
Kate McNeilis from Westerville Aquati...
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By Candice Peak
IOWA CITY, Iowa, March 12. CENTRAL Iowa Aquatics (CIA) outscored all competition during the Iowa short-course yard Senior Swimming Championships at the University of Iowa Field house.
Female high point winner Maddie B...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 11. SHE's already been on the cover of Swimming World Magazine for her junior team efforts, but now Colorado Stars' Missy Franklin moved into a completely new stratosphere. This evening, at the USA Sw...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 11. DAGNY Knutson certainly gave fans something to cheer for during the second night of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Minneapolis.
Knutson walked away with three wins. First, she ...
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BUFFALO, New York, March 11. THE first night of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Buffalo featured a pair of distance freestyle events.
SoNoCo's Alicia Mathieu grabbed the women's 1650 freestyle crown going...
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By Candice Peak
CHICAGO, Illinois, March 11. THE Redbird Swim Club won the 2010 Illinois Senior short-course yard Swimming Championships at Flames Natatorium at the University of Illinois-Chicago, narrowly beating Patriot Aquatic Club an...
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By Candice Peak
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia. March 11. NUMEROUS meet records were taken down during the Virginia Senior Swimming short-course-yard Championship at the University of Virginia Aquatic Center.
Rachel Naurath from Nova Aquat...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 10. THE first evening of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Federal Way featured distance freestyle swimming along with the sprint free relays.
Cascade's Amber McDermott won the wo...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 10. THE first night of short course yard action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Minneapolis, Minn., featured distance freestyle swimming.
Black Hawk's Bailey Pons won the women's 1000 free in 10:15....
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PHOENIX, Arizona, March 10. THIS past weekend, SwimmingWorld.TV and the Phoenix Swim Club partnered to provide finals coverage of the 2010 Arizona State Age Group Championships held in Phoenix, Ariz.
On-demand videos of all finals races capture...
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By Candice Peak
MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, March 10. THE Wilton Y Wahoos took control early on of the 2010 Connecticut Senior short-course-yard Open Championships at Wesleyan University's Freeman Athletic Center pool.
University of...
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By Candice Peak
BROWN DEER, Wisconsin, March 10. BADGER Aquatics Club and the Waukesha Express dominated the 2010 Wisconsin State short-course yard Championships at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center this past weekend.
Aja Van Hout ...
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 7. THE final night of short course yard competition took place at the USA Swimming Sectionals in Nashville on Sunday.
Star's Faith Johnson snatched the women's 100 free title in 50.23, while Wildcat's Kri...
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 7. SUPERSTAR Michael Phelps was on point at the Maryland State Championships held in Annapolis, as he clipped his American record in the men's 200-yard fly. Phelps clocked a scorching time of 1:39.65 to lower his pre...
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 7. THE long course meter competition at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Oklahoma City came to a close with the final night of action.
Hawg's Jenny Holtzen cruised to victory in the women's 1500 free wi...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 7. PALO Alto Stanford's Jasmine Tosky put on quite a show this weekend, and concluded the meet in style at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in College Station, Texas. The meet took place in short course yards.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 6. ON Saturday night, Andrejs Duda doubled up at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Nashville. The meet took place in short course yards.
GCAT's Patricia Forrester won the women's 200 fly in 2:00.64, while ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 6. THREE swimmers posted double wins during the third night of long course meter action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Kansas City Blazer Shannon Vreeland won the women's 200 IM in...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 6. THE third night of short course yard competition at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in College Station was all about Palo Alto Stanford's Jasmine Tosky. The 15-year-old had a breakthrough evening with a meet-...
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 6. AFTER what he called a disappointing swim in the men's 400-yard IM last night at the Maryland State Championships, Michael Phelps scared the American record in the men's 200-yard IM with a personal-best effort...
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 6. THE last night of long course meter swimming at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Austin featured a double by Cal's Dana Vollmer. Additionally, Trojan's Rebecca Soni turned in a world-class time in the 200 breast...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 5. THE Woodlands' Gray Umbach picked up a pair of titles, while several swimmers also lowered meet records at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in short course yards in College Station.
Texas A&M's Hannah Ki...
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 5. THE second night of long course meter action at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Oklahoma City featured a pair of doubles.
Kansas City Blazer Shannon Vreeland cruised in the women's 200 free with a winni...
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 5. THE Superfish was back in action at the Maryland State Championships, held in short course yard format.
Michael Phelps, backed by a heavy North Baltimore contingent at the meet, put on a show in the men's 400 I...
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By David Rieder
AUSTIN, Texas, March 5. SWIMMERS from the U.S. National team paced the world in their respective events on the second day of long course meter action at the Austin Grand Prix. Tucson Ford's Matt Grevers and FAST'...
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By Candice Peak
ELLENSBURG, Washington, March 5. THE Tri-City Channel Cats (TCCC) took the Inland Empire SCY Championship title during a three-day meet at Central Washington University.
Individual female high point winner Emri Moore ...
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 4. THE USA Swimming sectionals held in Oklahoma City, Okla., put long course meter action on display during the first night.
The Kansas City Blazers swept the podium in the women's 800 free with strong swims f...
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 4. THE first night of short course yard swimming at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Nashville put distance events in the spotlight.
Marlins of Raleigh's Victoria Mitchell, 17, captured the women's 100 fre...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 4. THE USA Swimming sectional meets started back up with three meets tonight, each featuring distance events. The College Station stop had swimmers competing at Texas A&M for sectional titles in short course yard com...
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 4. THE first night of long course meter swimming, after short course yard qualifying in the morning, at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Austin featured another strong outing by Mission Viejo's Chloe Sutton. Meanwhile,...
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SANTA ANA, California, March 3. IN a stunning development from what was expected to a summary dismissal, portions of the lawsuit brought by swimsuit manufacturer TYR continue their march toward a trial date in May against USA Swimming, Speedo and ...
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Guest editorial by Coach Ash Milad, King Aquatic Club
SEATTLE, Washington, March 3. As soon as the KING entries are posted on the website for any given meet, I am usually inundated with emails from parents of swimmers (some that swim for...
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By Candice Peak
ORLANDO, Florida, March 2. OLYMPIAN Ryan Lochte from Daytona Beach Swim Team and National Team Member Erica Erndl from Swim Florida had multiple event wins during the Florida Senior Swimming SCY Championships at the Swim ...
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SANTA ANA, California, March 1. WHILE the court case brought by TYR against Speedo, USA Swimming and Mark Schubert was to have been heard beginning next month, Judge James V. Selna tentatively decided to make his ruling a month early.
In a ten...
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By Candice Peak
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 1. TERA Bradham and Manny Mendoza from Nitro Swimming out swam the competition during the South Texas Senior Short Course Championships at the NISD Natatorium.
Bradham won three individual ev...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, March 1. THIS past weekend was filled with additional conference championships at the collegiate level and several state-championship meets at the scholastic level. Given the performances we saw,...
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By Candice Peak
SOUTHLAKE, Texas. February 28. KRISTALYN McAfee from Fort Worth Area Swim Team (FAST) was the standout swimmer during the North Texas Short Course Championships at the CISD Aquatic Center.
McAfee impressively won five...
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By Candice Peak
LAUREL, Mississippi, February 27. GABBY Aranda of Biloxi Elite Swim Team (BEST) and Ty Stewart of YMCA Hub Fins piled up the wins during the 2010 Mississippi Short Course Championship.
Aranda had a total of five indiv...
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By Candice Peak
ST. GEORGE, Utah, February 26. HILLTOP Aquatic Swim Team (HAST) won by only 28.5 points, beating Cottonwood Heights Aquatics Team (CHAT) during the Utah State short-course yard swimming Championships.
The standouts fo...
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TEMPE, Arizona, February 25. IN what is starting to become a trend, another set of Olympic gold medals has been stolen, according to the Arizona Republic.
Melissa Belote Ripley had her three gold medals from the 1972 Olympics stolen from...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 25. U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), announced that Dave Denniston has been named Coaching Fellow for the Paralympic Swimming Resident Program at the Olympic Training Center in...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, February 25. THE National Club Swimming Association (NCSA) has announced that they will select a NCSA All-Star Team that will travel to compete in the Irish Long Course Nationals, April 29-May 2, 2010. The NCSA All-S...
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By Candice Peak
BRONX, New York. February 25. LONG Island Aquatic Club (LIAC) men and Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics (AGUA) women took charge of the 2010 Senior Metropolitan Short Course Championships at Lehman College this past weekend....
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By Candice Peak
THE WOODLANDS, Texas. February 24. SKYLAR Smith of Katy Aquatics dominated the Gulf Swimming Spring Championships winning seven individual events during the short course yard meet hosted by The Woodlands Swim Team.
Sm...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 23, 2010. WITH the 2010 Winter Olympics nearing its end and the 2012 Summer Games drawing closer -- 844 days! -- now is a great time to show your support for your favorite USA Olympians.
By registering at ...
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MIAMI, Florida, February 22. GULLIVER Schools' unveiled its new Aquatic Center during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, January 8, 2010, at 4:30 p.m. at the Preparatory Campus. The new facility features a state-of-the-art 50 meter x 25 yard...
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OSHKOSH, Wisconsin, February 21. ACCORDING to local reports including the Post Crescent and the Northwestern, Natalie Bolin, 16, passed away last night due to a two-vehicle crash just outside of Oshkosh.
Bolin was a swimmer for Os...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 20. IN one of the closest championship finishes in the 9-year history of the Club Excellence program, the North Baltimore Aquatic Club is the 2010 team champion. Scoring 56,155 points, Coach Bob Bowman's Ma...
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GREENSBORO, North Carolina, February 18. A state-of-the-art $18.8 million aquatics center will be coming to Greensboro as part of an overall strategy to turn Greensboro into a place to hold championship events.
The Greensboro Aquatic Center, wh...
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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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By Candice Peak
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. February 17. THE Dolphin Laser Swim Team came out on top after the short course yard championship at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Donaghey Student Center.
On the women's side, Je...
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By Candice Peak
ROCHESTER, Michigan, February 16. MICHIGAN Lower Peninsula Division I High school state champion, Johanna Cowley of Club Wolverine swam to a total of five wins, while Clay Youngquist of Lakeview Aquatic Club swam to four ...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 15. THE final day of long course meter swimming at the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Columbia provided some more distance action.
Mission Viejo's Chloe Sutton pushed her Grand Prix points total to 55 points – almos...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 15. OLYMPIANS Fred Bousquet and Mark Gangloff set three United States Masters Swimming short course yards national records last weekend at the Auburn Masters Invitational.
With USMS allowing athletes to wear high-tech...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 14. CHLOE Sutton's decision to turn pro in December might just be rewarded quicker than initially thought. She kept on path to win the overall Grand Prix prize with another strong outing in the penultimate day of ...
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By David Rieder
COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 13. THE second night of long course meter action at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Columbia featured a tremendous double by Eric Shanteau. Additionally, Chloe Sutton kept marching toward ...
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By David Rieder
COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 12. THE first evening of long course meter action at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Columbia, Mo., produced a meet record in relay swimming by York YMCA. Additionally, the U.S.-based eve...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 12. APPLICATIONS for a Sales Representative in advertising for Sports Publications International are now being accepted. Ad sales placements include magazine print and online digital/video advertising.
Sports Publica...
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BALTIMORE, Maryland, February 11. ACCORDING to an article in the Los Angeles Times, Michael Phelps has been forced out of the Missouri Grand Prix this weekend due to the "record snowstorms on the East Coast."
Phelps was schedul...
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Austin, Texas, February 9. THE United States Olympic Committee (USOC), in conjunction with USA Diving, has selected University of Texas diving coach Matt Scoggin as the 2009 USOC National Diving Coach of the Year.
Now in his 16th season at Te...
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BOCA RATON, Florida, February 4. THIS past weekend, Matthew Lamping, 18, broke a Paralympic American record in the S10 classification of the men's 200-yard fly.
Lamping clocked a 2:19.04 in the event, during the third annual St. Andrew'...
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By Candice Peak
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. February 4. CHARGER Aquatics (CAQ) won the New Mexico Senior Swimming Championship by only 61 points during the two-day short course yard championship at the West Mesa Aquatic Center.
Women...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 3. THIS week's edition of Split Time looks into the troubles professional athletes face in the 21st century, as they attempt to make a living past their collegiate years.
Host Garrett McCaffrey is joined b...
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LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, February 2. JON Brenner, a longtime head coach for the WAVE YMCA team in Wisconsin, has succumbed to brain cancer according to a report by WKBT in Wisconsin.
Brenner, who coached at WAVE for almost 20 years, was diagnosed ...
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By Candice Peak
HUNTERSVILLE, North Carolina, February 1. YMCA of the Triangle Area Swim Team men and Star Aquatics women dominated throughout the entire four-day short course yard championship. YOTA men won all three relays, the 800 fre...
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SAN JOSE, California, January 30. TWO weeks after a scheduled sentencing hearing was delayed, Andrew King, 61, has received a 40-year sentence for child molestation.
King, a former head coach at San Jose Aquatics, had pleaded no contest to 20 c...
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ESTERO, Florida, January 21. YESTERDAY, Gulf Coast Swim Team president Don Henshaw sent word that the GCST Board of Directors has issued a $1,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid in the Haiti Earthquake Relief efforts.
Henshaw also ask...
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By Brent Rutemiller
PHOENIX, Arizona, January 19. WITH the decision to remain with USA Swimming as its executive director after being courted by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), Chuck Wielgus is now in position to overcome new...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 19. RECENTLY, Swimming World had the chance to speak with National Age Group Association (NASA) organizer Doug Fonder as he strives to create a new innovative swim meet.
Fonder is preparing the Showcase Classic, a swim...
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By David Rieder
LONG BEACH, California, January 18. THE final short course yard session of the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Long Beach is in the bag. Some of the most exciting races of the meet were on this final night, as rivalries f...
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by David Rieder
LONG BEACH, California, January 18. THE second full session of finals is complete at the Grand Prix in Southern California. This session featured Olympic champions in their pet events, as well as a rising stars trying to ...
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