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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, November 8. SEVERAL teams hoping to contend for NCAA championship team titles in March gave the competition something to think about, posting fast times across the board this weekend. Here are some highlights from the past three days of racing.
Stanford, Michigan and Florida participated in a two-da...
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AUSTIN, Texas, November 6. TEXAS sophomores Lauren Caldwell, Leah Gingrich and Kathleen Hersey collectively swept their eight individual events to lift the Longhorns to a 166-134 victory over Texas A&M Friday evening in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas (2-0, 2-0 Big 12) earns one poi...
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LEEDS, Great Britain, August 7. AT the British Short Course Grand Prix, Annamay Pierse lowered her own world record in the women's 200 breast. Meanwhile, Canada's men's team broke the 800 free relay global standard.
Pierse smoked the course with a 2:16.83 to lower her world record of 2:17.50 set in March.
Here are the comparative...
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LEEDS, Great Britain, August 6. FAST swimming did not end just because the FINA World Championships came to a close. The British Short Course Grand Prix had three near world record performances on the first night of action.
Fran Halsall put a charge into the women's 100 free with a sizzling 51.79. That swim just missed Libby Trickett's...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, July 11. THREE more events featured Canadian records during the fourth day of competition at the Canadian World Championships Trials.
Victoria Poon took down the women's 50 free Canadian record twice throughout the day. First, she hit the wall in 25.12 during prelims to best her 25.35 set in June this year. She th...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, July 9. THREE more Canadian national records took a tumble at the Canadian World Championships Trials held in Montreal this evening.
Thomas Kindler cleared his national record in the men's 50 fly with a time of 23.66. The performance beat his 23.81 set back in 2007. Joe Bartoch placed second in 24.03 with Eric Cant...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, July 8. DURING the first night of action at the Canadian World Championship Trials, Amanda Reason cleared the women's 50 breast world record.
Reason posted a time of 30.23 to erase Jade Edminston's 2006 global mark of 30.31. She becomes the only Canadian currently in the long course meter world record books. An...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 2. THE Texas A&M women's swimming & diving team will span out across the continent and the globe this week with 15 of its current and former athletes competing in three different major meets in three countries starting on Saturday.
"I need to go to our vet school and get them to clone me because there are t...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, June 19. VICTORIA Poon of Montreal surprised herself, Friday as she broke the Canadian record in the women's 50-metre butterfly at the Canada Cup swimming competition.
Poon, one of Canada's top sprint freestylers, clocked 26.71 seconds and eclipsed one of the oldest national marks in the books. The previous reco...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, June 18. PHILIPPE Dubreuil of Sherbrooke, Que., fresh from an open water victory at the U.S., championships this past weekend, showed he can shine in the pool too on Thursday winning the men's 1,500-metre freestyle at the Canada Cup swimming competition.
Dubreuil clocked a personal best 15 minutes and 38.97 seconds f...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, June 12. TEXAS A&M swimmers Ella Doerge (Clive, Iowa), Emily Neal (Plano), and Sarah Woods (Birmingham, Ala.) were all named to varying 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American teams, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced on Thursday.
Both Neal and Woods were voted onto the ESPN The Ma...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 24. THE final night of long course meter swimming at the Texas Senior Circuit meet in College Station featured some strong swims.
While Torres could not replicate her American record performances in the 50 free like she did in the 50 fly the first day, Torres still posted a pair of sterling times in the splash-and-das...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, May 22. THE first night of long course meter swimming at the Mel Zajac Jr. International meet featured a handful of meet records falling by the wayside.
Ryan Cochrane blasted his meet record in the men's 800 free with a time of 7:51.74 to open the evening. That performance cleared his standard of 7:56.31...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 22. THREE members of the Texas A&M women's swimming & diving team were voted onto the ESPN The Magazine Women's At-Large Academic All-District Team for District 6, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced on Thursday afternoon.
Juniors Ella Doerge (Clive, Iowa), Emily Neal (Plano)...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 26. TRAILING by one point heading after the opening day of action, No. 3 Texas seized all four events and took the lead on day two of the 2009 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships Thursday at the Mizzou Aquatics Center.
Texas leads the four-day event with 397 points, and Texas A&M sits in second with 265 points. ...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 25. NO. 3 Texas opened the Big 12 Championships with a bang Wednesday evening, as the Longhorns toppled school and conference records in the 200-yard medley and 800-yard freestyle relays to take an early lead in the four-day event at the Mizzou Aquatics Center.
After two events, the Longhorns hold an 80-68 lead ove...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 22. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) recently announced its academic success rankings for the Division I level.
As they have so often in the past, the two Ivy League schools battled for the number one ranking. This time, Yale, coached by Frank Keefe, took the women's crown with a 3.608 ...
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Feature by Kristen Heiss
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, September 4. WHETHER it is lucky goggles, a certain pre-race meal, or a special towel, swimmers are prone to developing superstitious habits.
Superstitions do not fade with age or experience. Although certain habits may change, there is almost always a comfort routine that a swimmer ...
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Column by Kristen Heiss
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, August 28. WITH thousands of athletes milling around and a 24-hour cafeteria for the hungry competitors, the Olympic Village is truly a small city. The Village is always one of the highli...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 13. IT'S still early, but there's a surprise sitting on top of the women's 100 freestyle. Finland's Hanna-Maria Seppala was the top qualifier after the preliminaries in the event as she took top honors in the sixth of seven heats with a time of 53.60. Seppala won her heat just ahead of Germany&...
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