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THORNTON AND FORT COLLINS, Colorado, May 21. Colorado's high school season finished with the boys competitions May 18-19. Swimmers in Division 4A gathered in Thornton, while the 5A state meet was contested in Fort Collins. Five state and six ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 21. MACCABI USA is looking for Jewish swimmers for the 19th World Maccabiah Games Swim Team. Applications to be part of the Games, held in Israel in July 2013, are now available at ...

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, May 21. WHILE he stated explicitly to Swimming World that nothing is official, Jonty Skinner has confirmed with us that he is likely headed to the University of Alabama to join longtime friend Dennis Pursley's new...

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GILLETTE, New Jersey, May 21. AS we creep closer to the Olympic Games in London this summer, Swimming World will produce event-by-event previews of the action set to unfold. As part of this series, we'll not only look at the l...

CONCORD, California, May 21. THE San Ramon High School girls team and the Campolindo boys squad emerged as champions of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) North Coast Sectional Championships May 17-19 in Concord.

The San Ramon girl...

DEBRECEN, Hungary, May 21. THE first evening of finals competition at the European Long Course Championships is underway.

FINALS
Men's 400 free
Germany's Paul Biedermann upended Hungary's Gergo Kis, 3:47.84 to 3...

BEIJING, China, May 21. ZHANG Lin, the 800 free world champion in 2009, missed on his first attempt at the Chinese Youth Championships to make the Chinese Olympic team with a FINA A cut.

Zhang, who already dropped trying for the men's 15...

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 21. SWIMMING World superfan Bill Bell has returned with his long course meters top 50 lists. Today, we provide the men's list heading into the European Long Course Championships.

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SOMERS, Wisconsin, May 21. STEF Kerska and Matt Ense have been named Assistant Coach of the Year by CollegeSwimming.com. Ense, of Denison University was named the top Rising Assistant Coach of the Year while Kerska, from the University of Michiga...

Guest editorial by Jim Miller, MD FAAFP/Sports Medicine

RICHMOND, Virginia, May 21. TRAINING is more than the hours in the pool. Sophisticated training cycles are designed to optimize an athlete's potential, taking into account th...

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 20. AGELESS wonder Dara Torres highlighted the final night of swimming at the Texas Senior Circuit event held in College Station, Texas this weekend.

Torres, 45, who will be looking to make her sixth Olympic Games a...

MARACAIBO, Venezuela, May 20. THE Venezuelan Open Championships came to a close with another slate of championship swims in Maracaibo.

Wendy Rodriguez touched out Erika Torrellas, 26.83 to 26.94, for the women's 50 free title. Ximena Vila...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California. May 20. THE 24-hour Club is a group of open water swimmers who have completed a non-stop swim in an open body of water (e.g., ocean, lake, river, bay) for a minimum of 24 hours.

These individuals have demonstrate...

ORLANDO, Florida. May 20. THE boat is rocking to and fro. It is misty or raining. It is dark at night with boxes and bags all over the place.

Many crew members and escort kayakers have experienced these conditions on open water swims in all ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 19. AFTER UT-based swimmers stole the headlines on night one, the Aggies fought back with several event wins of their own during the second night of the Texas Senior Circuit event in College Station.

Cammile Adams o...

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 19. THE 2012 Capital One Academic All-District? Men's and Women's At-Large Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athlet...

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina. EARLIER today at the USA Swimming-sanctioned UNC Meet on the Hill, Erika Braun earned a spot in the women's 50 freestyle at the Olympic Trials, making her the second woman aged 40 and over to swim the sprint event...

MARICAIBO, Venezuela, May 19. THE Venezuelan Open Championships kept on churning with a third-day of long course meter competition taking place in Maricaibo.

Albert Subirats clipped Octavio Alesi in the men's 100 fly finale, 53.04 to 53.1...

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, May 19. BILL Tramel, the former associate head coach of the University of Minnesota men's and women's teams, has accepted the head coaching position at Marshall, Swimming World has learned. Tramel fills ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 18. THE first night of swimming kicked off at the Texas Senior Circuit stop in College Station, Texas. The meet is serving as a tune-up for some Texas-based swimmers, as well as a stop for Dara Torres prior to the U.S...

PERTH, Australia, May 18. AUSTRALIAN Olympian Travis Nederpeldt announced his retirement from swimming today, according to Swimming Australia.

Nederpeldt, 26, failed in his quest to qualify for the 2012 Olympic team when he finished ...

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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 18. DURING the past week, the following meet managers took full advantage of uploading their results to the Swimming World meet results ...

MARICAIBO, Venezuela, May 18. THE second day of competition at the Venezuela Open featured many of close races in long course competition.

Wendy Rodriguez kicked the session off with a narrow victory in the women's 50 butterfly. Her time o...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 18. SWIMMING New Zealand is preparing for the public release of an independent, government-funded review of its organization that states a complete overhaul is needed to bring the country back to financial prosperity.
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By John Lohn

GILLETTE, New Jersey, May 17. AS we creep closer to the Olympic Games in London this summer, Swimming World will produce event-by-event previews of the action set to unfold. As part of this series, we'll not only look at the l...

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GLEN ALLEN, Virginia, May 18. MARIE Kelleher has achieved a milestone that very few have accomplished in the 40-plus years of Masters swimming.

Last weekend at the Virginia Senior Games, Kelleher became the first American woman to compete in th...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, May 17. ADAM Krikorian, Head Coach for the U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo Team, today announced the 13 athletes that will compete at the 2012 Olympic Games this summer in London, England at a press conference at...

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KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, May 17. THE University of Tennessee Lady Vol swimming & diving team inked a pair of divers from "The Lone Star State," as Samantha Lera and Brianna Music? both signed National Letter of Intents to continue their athletic care...

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, May 17. NAU Swimming & Diving head coach Andy Johns announced that seven swimmers and two divers will join the Lumberjack program for the 2012-13 season. The team now has 11 newcomers slated to join the squad after a pair of sw...

LODI, California, May 17. JUST 11 points separated first from third in the boys competition at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Sectional Championships May 10-12 in Lodi. Granite Bay scored 245 points, two points better than Jesuit (243), and Davis took third ...

WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania, May 17. BAYARD Rustin High School head coach Kenneth Fuller was arrested yesterday and charged with sexual assault and corruption of a minor according to ...