--- High School News Stories ---
By Brian Savard
SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 2. LOWELL swept both the men's and women's competition at the California Interscholastic Federation San Francisco Section Championships, which is the first of eight California section champ...
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By Brian Savard
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 25. POMPERAUG edged out New Canaan for the team title at the Connecticut Men's High School State Championships.
Pomperaug tied for second in the final event of the meet, ensuring a 313.5-307....
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By Brian Savard
FORT COLLINS, Colorado, April 9. RALSTON Valley emerged victorious in the women's Colorado 4A State Championships, scoring 302 points.
Rock Canyon, the winner of two relay events, placed second with 269.5 points while Tho...
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By Brian Savard
YPSILANTI, Michigan, April 8. MORGAN Priestley of Birmingham Seaholm turned in one for the ages with a 1:35.85 200 freestyle in the preliminary heats at the men's Michigan Division 2 Championships.
Priestley went out hard...
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By Brian Savard
ROCHESTER, Michigan, April 8. TWO Ann Arbor School District schools took first and second at the men's Division 1 Michigan High School State Championships.
Ann Arbor Huron held a 19-point advantage over Ann Arbor Pioneer,...
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By Brian Savard
SEWELL, New Jersey, April 7. HADDONFIELD junior Emily Creran set the lone state record at the women's New Jersey State Championships.
Creran shaved .09 off of Katherine Conroy of Haddonfield's 1998 record of 2:03.83 i...
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By Brian Savard
SEWELL, New Jersey, April 7. CHRIS Dart from Chatham tore up the competition at the men's New Jersey Championships, winning two events in state-record time.
Dart lowered a 19-year-old 200 IM record when he checked in with...
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By Brian Savard
EAST MEADOW, New York, April 3. IRONDEQUOIT senior Ricky Henahan all but ensured a lock to be one of the top eight high school swimmers in the country in the 100 backstroke with a state-record performance at the New York State C...
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By Brian Savard
TOPEKA, Kansas, April 3. SHAWNEE Mission East picked up its fourth straight men's Kansas state title, but Olathe East, the winner of the final event, proved to be a worthy adversary as the runner up.
Shawnee Mission East ...
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By Brian Savard
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, April 2. JUSTIN Vagts of South River flirted with both of his 2007 state records at the 2008 Maryland 4A3A Championships, but in the end, Vagts had to settle for two gold medals, falling just short of his...
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By Brian Savard
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, April 2. ELEANOR Roosevelt's women's team avenged a defeat to Severna Park at last year's Maryland 4A3A Championships, winning the first-ever team title in the program's history.
Eleano...
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By Brian Savard
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, April 2. FALLSTON dominated the men's side of the Maryland 1-3A State Championships, winning by 132.5 points.
Fallston strung together a 341.5-point effort, taking its first-ever Maryland 1-3A cham...
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By Brian Savard
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, April 1. MIDDLETOWN, powered by a 230.5-point showing, successfully captured the team title at the second annual Maryland Women's 1-3A Championships.
Frederick placed second, amassing 181 points wh...
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By Brian Savard
MANDAN, North Dakota, March 31. DESPITE taking just one event win, the Minot men compiled 367.5 points, which was enough to crown the Magicians as the North Dakota state champions for the 10th straight year.
West Fargo took s...
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By Brian Savard
LEWISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 29. TREVOR Scheid of Shady Side Academy has had quite a storied career at the Pennsylvania AA State Championships.
He earned three medals his freshman year, three his sophomore year, four his ju...
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By Brian Savard
LEWISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 29. WHILE Oakland Central Catholic defended its 2007 Pennsylvania Women's AA state championship, the main story of the meet came from two Division I-bound juggernauts.
Leah Gingrich of East ...
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By Brian Savard
LEWISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 29. THE Wilson men took the Pennsylvania Men's AAA State Championship, winning handily by 49 points.
Cathedral Prep and Emmaus battled for second, and Cathedral Prep finished second by a 17...
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By Brian Savard
LEWISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 26. EMMAUS, who trailed Bethel Park by 20 points after the first day of competition, ended up defending its Pennsylvania Women's Class AAA title.
Team Scores
Emmaus eked out a win af...
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By Brian Savard
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 26. ST. Thomas Academy chalked up its fourth consecutive team title at the Minnesota Men's Class A Championships.
The Cadets scored a meet-high 247 points. Fergus Falls finished up in second ...
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By Brian Savard
HOLLAND, Michigan, March 21. EAST Grand Rapids won the inaugural Michigan Men's Division 3 Championships by a landslide.
East Grand Rapids racked up 373 points throughout the meet, earning first place by nearly 150 points...
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By Brian Savard
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 18. FOR the first time since 2001, the La Cueva women claimed the New Mexico State Championship.
Team Scores
La Cueva broke up a three-year state championship run of the women's meet...
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By Brian Savard
FORT COLLINS, Colorado, March 16. CHERRY Creek, the winner of two relays, claimed the Colorado Women's 5A Championship with 349 points.
Fairview finished up in second with 269 points while Regis Jesuit took third overall ...
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By Brian Savard
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 16. PUNAHOU swept both the men's and women's competition by a sizable margin at the Hawaii State Championships.
Team Scores
Punahou's women tallied 93 points en route to taking the ...
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By Brian Savard
EVANSTON, Illinois, March 16. ALL-American sprinter Brian Alden led the Neuqua Valley men to a state title in the perennially competitive Illinois Men's State Championships.
Alden notched wins in each of the sprint freest...
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By Brian Savard
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, March 14. RARELY is the nation's smallest state thought to be a swimming powerhouse. Rhode Island, despite flying under the radar the entire season however, came up big through two Olympic Trial-calib...
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By Brian Savard
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 13. WAYLAND took home the Massachusetts Women's Division 2 Championship title, raking in 272 points.
Marblehead scored 182 points and earned the runner-up honors while Weston came in third wi...
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By Brian Savard
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 12. GARDNER, propelled by two relay wins, captured the Massachusetts Women's Division I High School State Championship with ease.
Gardner scored a meet-high 253 points en route to first pla...
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By Brian Savard
BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 12. WESTON won the team title and set two state relay records at the Massachusetts Men's Division 2 High School Championships.
Weston's 217 points proved to be enough to win the team champ...
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By Brian Savard
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 12. TWO-time Olympian Erik Vendt lost one of his two Massachusetts state records as a junior sensation made history at the Massachusetts Division 1 High School Championships.
Nick D'Innoce...
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By Brian Savard
CANTON, Ohio, March 11. GATES Mill Hawken annihilated the field by more than 200 points in the Ohio Women's Division 2 Championships.
Gates Mill Hawken's 358 points more than doubled the total of the second-place comp...
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By Brian Savard
CANTON, Ohio, March 10. THREE women's records fell at the historically fast Ohio Division I State High School Championship meet.
Team Scores
Columbus Upper Arlington won the women's title by a landslide, tally...
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By Brian Savard
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, March 8. MOUNT Saint Mary dethroned the most storied dynasty in the history of Arkansas women's swimming at the Arkansas State Championships.
Team Scores
Mount Saint Mary ended up in front ...
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By Brian Savard
AUSTIN, Texas, March 7. TEXAS' smaller-school state meet, the Class 4A Championships, failed to disappoint as the recent trend of broken records in the state of Texas continued.
Team Scores
Dallas Highland Park st...
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By Brian Savard
AUSTIN, Texas, March 7. JIMMY Feigen's Winston Churchill team overpowered the competition at the Texas 5A High School Swimming Championships, giving Feigen the honor of competing on a championship team in addition to his nat...
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By Brian Savard
LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 7. SHANNON Guy led the Millard West women to their first-ever state Nebraska State Championship, taking two events and one meet record.
Team Scores
Omaha Marian's women's team won each...
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By Brian Savard
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 6. INDIANA, a state widely regarded for having one of the fastest state meets in the country, exceeded expectations by delivering flat-out ridiculous times across the board at the Indiana Men's H...
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By Brian Savard
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, March 6. BRIDGEPORT and Fairmont walked away from the West Virginia State High School Championship meet as the 2008 men's and women's team champions, respectively.
Team Scores
Brid...
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By Brian Savard
GILLETTE, Wyoming, March 5. GILETTE, powered by three relay wins, capitalized on the home pool advantage and placed first in the Wyoming Men's Class 4A High School Championships.
The Camels scored 290 points throughout t...
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By Brian Savard
GILLETTE, Wyoming, March 5. LANDER ran away with the Wyoming Men's Class 3A High School state title, amassing 318 points.
Sublette, whose head coach took home the Coach of the Year honor, finished up in second with 166 po...
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By Brian Savard
BRUNSWICK, Maine, March 4. FOR the first time in six years, McAuley was crowned state champion at the Maine Women's Class B State Championships.
McAuley edged Greely by a 273-268 final. Falmouth compiled 253 points and to...
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By Brian Savard
BRUNSWICK, Maine, March 4. JUSTIN Gilmartin led the Mount Desert Island men to their fifth consecutive Maine Class B High School Championship, setting two meet records in each of his gold-medal swims.
Mount Desert Island led ...
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By Brian Savard
ORONO, Maine, March 4. JENNIFER Roberts, a Sanford sophomore, turned in two record-breaking performances at the Maine Women's Class A High School Championships.
Roberts fell .03 seconds short of the state standard in the ...
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By Brian Savard
ORONO, Maine, March 3. BANGOR took home the men's state title in a tight fight for the top spot at the Maine Class A Championships.
Bangor sealed its championship with a second-place finish in the 400 freestyle, bringing ...
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By Brian Savard
MARQUETTE, Michigan, March 3. THE Michigan Upper Peninsula State Championship host, Marquette, easily took the men's and women's titles.
Team Scores
The Marquette women tallied a meet-high 385 points. Houghton...
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By Brian Savard
MANASSAS, Virginia, March 2. ST. Catherine's School and the Collegiate School won the respective men's and women's Virginia State Independent School Championship titles by more than 100 points on each side.
Tea...
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By Brian Savard
FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 2. MERCER Island showed no sings of letting up with its dominance at the Washington Men's 3A High School Championships, winning its third straight title by the largest margin in the history of ...
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By Brian Savard
FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 2. SNOHOMISH strung together its third consecutive Washington men's 4A high school title, and the team will enter next season on the brink of creating a dynasty.
Only two seniors grace the P...
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By Brian Savard
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 1. MOST people associate the state of Oklahoma with football, a state fair and tornadoes.
Swimming often does not get placed with Oklahoma on first reference. One high school swimmer, though, c...
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By Brian Savard
MADISON, Wisconsin, March 1. TWO swimmers departed from the Wisconsin Men's Division II Championships with individual event sweeps.
Ian Bakk of McFarland snared two gold medals, cranking out a 1:56.00 performance in the 2...
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By Brian Savard
MADISON, Wisconsin, March 1. ARROWHEAD dethroned the defending champions at the Wisconsin Men's Division I Championships by the smallest of margins, defeating Madison Memorial by one point.
Arrowhead's tight race for ...
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By Brian Savard
GRESHAM, Oregon, February 29. OREGON's small-school division (1-4A) came up big, setting 13 class records and turning in times similar to those at Oregon's 5A Championships.
Team Scores
Marist squeaked by Henl...
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By Brian Savard
GRESHAM, Oregon, February 28. FIFTEEN class records tumbled at the Oregon 5A Championships.
Oregon reclassified the divisions at the 2007 state meet, and the records for each class were reset. State records, however, still re...
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By Brian Savard
GRESHAM, Oregon, February 28. SEVENTEEN class records fell at the star-laden Oregon 6A State Championships.
Team Scores
Westview finished at the top of the women's leader board with 202.5 points. Tualatin picked u...
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By Brian Savard
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, February 27. THE Baylor School men picked up their second championship in two weeks when they dominated the 108th Eastern Independent School Championships, a meet that is touted as one of the oldest a...
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By Brian Savard
DURHAM, New Hampshire, February 27. ST. Thomas Aquinas and Oyster River each snagged titles in the women's and men's competition, respectively, in New Hampshire's inaugural Division II Championships.
Prior to this...
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By Brian Savard
DURHAM, New Hampshire, February 27. THE Granite State, which is the home state of swimming legend Jenny Thompson, split into two divisions for the first time in the state's history.
Team Scores
Nashua North won th...
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By Brian Savard
RALEIGH, North Carolina, February 26. CHAPEL Hill faced nail-biting finishes on both ends of competition, but in the end, both the men and women of Chapel Hill stood atop the leader board at the North Carolina 4A Championships.
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By Brian Savard
RALEIGH, North Carolina, February 25. CHARLOTTE Catholic ran the table on both sides of the North Carolina 3A High School State Championship meet for the third straight year.
Team Scores
The Charlotte Catholic women w...
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By Brian Savard
FAIRFAX, Virginia, February 25. FOUR state records fell in the first four events at the start of the Virginia AAA Championships, setting the tone for a weekend devoted to rewriting the state record books.
Last spring, the cha...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, February 23. AT the IU Natatorium at IUPUI, sophomore Kyle Whitaker gave the crowd something to cheer for at the Indiana State Championships when he broke a 14-year-old National Public High School record in the 200 IM.
W...
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AUSTIN, Texas, February 23. JIMMY Feigen, a Swimming World five-star recruit headed to the University of Texas, lit up what will be his home pool soon as he lowered his national high school record in the 50 free and the 100 free in the Texa...
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By Brian Savard
PROVO, Utah, February 22. TWO new entries were added to the state record book at the Utah 5A High School State Championships.
Josh Tanner from Skyline earned a share of the 5A 200 freestyle record, winning in 1:42.49. Brooks ...
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By Brian Savard
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, February 22. WHEN the scores were posted at the end of the Kentucky High School State Championships, few could be surprised about the two teams that stood at the top.
Team Scores
DuPont Manual re...
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By Brian Savard
OWINGS MILLS, Maryland, February 21. AT the conclusion of the men's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association meet, Loyola found itself on the winning end of yet another state championship.
Loyola, who has won the pas...
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By Brian Savard
MANASSAS, Virginia, February 20. FIVE state records tumbled by the end of the Virginia A/AA High School State Championships, while the women of Lafayette remained the team to beat.
Team Scores
Lafayette's women, w...
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By Brian Savard
HARDIN, Montana, February 20. C.M. Russell and Missoula Hellgate responded to Bozeman's 2007 sweep of both the women's and men's titles by defeating the Hawks at the Montana High School State Championships.
Tea...
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By Brian Savard
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, February 19. BAYLOR School, who made noise earlier this year by swimming a meter dual meet, just got a whole lot louder as its men and women both took home state titles at the Tennessee High School State Ch...
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By Brian Savard
ATLANTA, Georgia, February 19. LASSITER and Brookwood each won the respective women's and men's team title at the Georgia 5A High School State Championships.
Team Scores
Lassiter and Brookwood battled it out o...
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By Brian Savard
ATLANTA, Georgia, February 14. WHEN Kathleen Hersey of Marist posted an unshaved and untapered time in January that bested her former state mark in the 100 butterfly, a signal was thrown to the entire swimming community - Hersey...
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By Brian Savard
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, February 12. WITH the limelight mainly on Center Grove swimmer and Swimming World six-star recruit Michelle McKeehan at the Indiana Women's High School State Championships, many overlook the fac...
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ATLANTA, Georgia, February 9. TODAY has been just plain silly when it comes to national high school records. With Michelle McKeehan (Indiana) and Mary Beck (Texas) taking aim at the 200 IM standard, and Jimmy Feigen (Texas) becoming the fastest ...
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, February 9. JIMMY Feigen, a Swimming World five-star recruit who is heading to the University of Texas next year, put himself in the lead for Swimming World National High School Swimmer of the Year accolades with...
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, February 9. FOR the second year in a row, Swimming World National Swimmer of the Year Mary Beck of Westlake High in Texas and Michelle McKeehan of Center Grove in Indiana traded the national high school record in the 20...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, February 9. AFTER witnessing Jenny Connolly of William Henry Harrison High take down the national public high school record in the 100 back last night in prelims, Swimming World six-star recruit Michelle McKeehan of ...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, February 9. LAST night at the Indiana High School State Championships, Swimming World five-star recruit Jenny Connolly of William Henry Harrison High broke the national public high school record in the 100 back.
C...
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GREENWOOD, Indiana, February 8. MICHELLE McKeehan, a senior at Center Grove high in Indiana and a Swimming World six-star recruit headed to Georgia next year, is featured in today's Indianapolis Star.
According to the article...
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida, February 7. JOE Ziegler, a senior from Leon High in Tallahassee, has become the first swimmer from the Big Bend/Panhandle Areas to earn a Pinch A Penny Swimmer of the Year Award in the program's eight-year history. The ...
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By Brian Savard
RALEIGH, North Carolina, February 6. BASKETBALL isn't the only hot ticket in North Carolina right now, as North Carolina kicked off its high school state meets with the 1A/2A championships.
Team Scores
Cardinal Gi...
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By Brian Savard
PROVO, Utah, February 5. HISTORY was made at the Utah 4A State Championship meet.
The Springville men brought home the school's first-ever state title, adding to 4A's history of parity within the men's competitio...
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By Brian Savard
PROVO, Utah, February 4. THE high school state championship series continued this weekend starting with the Utah 3A State Championships.
Team Scores
The Park City women disrupted a dynasty by taking second in the meet...
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