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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 30. THE only Paralympic athlete to win the Amateur Athletic Union's Sullivan Award, Jessica Long has been a trailblazer for all athletes with disabilities.
In 2007, Long claimed the 77th AAU James E Sullivan Award, which is given to the top amateur athlete in the United States. The honor has been around since 1930, a...
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BEIJING, China, September 12. ANOTHER day in the books at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and another handful of world records went into the ledgers as t...
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BEIJING, China, September 11. ERIN Popovich of the U.S. and Daniel Dias of Brazil are putting together a pair of impressive meets at the 2008 Beijing P...
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BEIJING, China, September 10. THE 2008 Beijing Paralympics have seen an incredible amount of world records as nearly every event on the docket this eve...
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BEIJING, China, September 9. THE third night of swimming was just as action-packed as the first two at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. On top of Erin P...
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BEIJING, China, September 8. THE 2008 Beijing Olympics might have had the fastest meet ever with Michael Phelps at the helm, but the 2008 Beijing Para...
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BEIJING, China, September 7. THE swimming portion of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics got off to a splendid start with swimmers lighting a torch to the record book. In sum, 13 world records were set on the first day out of 16 events that featured gold medals being awarded in the Water Cube.
Quite possibly the most famous Paralympian in Beijing thi...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, February 19. APPROXIMATELY 150 athletes are expected to compete at the 2008 U.S. Paralympic Team Trials, April 3-5 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.
Preliminaries will begin at 9 a.m. on all three days, with finals starting at 5 p.m. The athletes nominated to the 2008 U.S. Paralympic Team will be announce...
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COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, December 6. DAY one of the U.S. Paralympics Open Swimming Championships concluded Thursday at the University of Maryland's Eppley Recreation Center, highlighted by a world-record performance in the morning and two excellent races during the evening finals.
Cortney Jordan ended the morning on a high note with a world-b...
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ANAHEIM, California, October 2. IN what is hardly a shocking development, Michael Phelps was honored last week as USA Swimming's Athlete of the Year for 2007. Phelps, who also took home the ConocoPhillips Performance Award, was recognized during the United States Aquatic Sports Convention.
Less than a year away from the 2008 Olympics in Beij...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 15. RECENTLY, the Women's Sports Foundation named Paralympic swimmer Jessica Long as a finalist for the 2007 Sportswoman of the Year award. The foundation evaluated nominations from various sports organizations and individuals based on nominees' performances from Aug. 1, 2006 to July 31, 2007.
Past swimming-rel...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, July 17. U.S. Paralympian Jessica Long won the award for Best Female Athlete with a Disability at the 2007 ESPY Awards Wednesday night in Hollywood, Calif.
Additionally, Casey Tibbs, representing Track and Field, won the Best Male Athlete with a Disability award.
"We are very proud of Casey and Jessica for ev...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 26. USA Swimming announced that a trio of swimmers earned nominations in ESPN's annual ESPY Awards. Michael Phelps and Kara Lynn Joyce, along with Paralympian Jessica Long and the feature-length film "Pride" all received nominations.
Phelps, who won seven gold medals and set five world records in M...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 2. THE June issue of
Swimming World Magazine is now in the mail. Premium Members can now download this issue by logging onto
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 9. IN the upcoming June issue of
Swimming World Magazine, the publication is chock full of event recaps from a variety of national events. If you subscribe today, you will receive the June edition.
In the World Swimming section, SwimmingWorldMagazine.com assistant newsmaster Erin Greene makes her print debut with a...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 5. WITH news of Amanda Beard posing in Playboy dominating discussion among the swimming community this past week, plenty of other news items made their way onto SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's news channels.
News came out of the USA Swimming camp that Mike Alexandrov, a Bulgarian native who carries dual-citizenship in the U...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, May 3. JULIE O'Neill, the head coach of the 2006 U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Team, was named the 2006 USOC Paralympic Coach of the Year, while her protege Jessica Long nabbed Paralympian of the Year honors.
At a luncheon held May 3, the USOC presented awards to the 2006 SportsMan, SportsWoman, Paralympian ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 21. WITH the Virginia Tech tragedy weighing down the week for most of the United States, SwimmingWorldMagazine.com wants to take this opportunity to again send its condolences to the Virginia Tech community and family and friends of loved ones who were senselessly killed during the events of Monday morning.
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ROCHESTER, Michigan, April 17. SULLIVAN award winner Jessica Long provided one of the brightest of many inspirational performances at the GTAC Disability Open/National Deaf Games held April 13-15 in Rochester, Mich., on the campus of Oakland University.
Long set a pair of world records in the S8 division with wins in the 200 and 1500 free. Mea...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida, April 12. THIS morning, 15-year-old Paralympian Jessica Long was named the 77th James E. Sullivan Memorial Award Winner by the Amateur Athletic Union.
According to the AAU press release, Long has 18 world record-breaking performances and holds the record in 12 events for paralympic swimming. Long, whose legs were ampu...
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