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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, November 14. THE second evening of short course yard finals at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Minneapolis, Minn., featured a pair of meet records for the Trojan Swim Club.
Trojan's Rebecca Soni won the women's 400 IM in 4:14.41, finishing nearly a second back from Kaitlin Sandeno's meet record of 4:13.54....
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, November 13. THE first night of action at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Minneapolis, Minn., featured a pair of meet records.
Mission Viejo's Chloe Sutton set a meet record with a 9:33.72 in the women's 1000-yard free. That time cleared the 9:33.98 previously set by Flavia Rigamonti in 2007. The Fish's Ka...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, October 28. THIRTY-six top American swimmers, including 17 Olympians, will battle against a squad of European swimmers at the 2009 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool in Manchester, England December 18-19. The event, which will be broadcast on NBC on December 27 from 2-4 p.m. ET, will star Olympic gold medalists Michael Phe...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, August 7. TROJAN's Jessica Hardy is definitely completely back after a year away from the sport due to a doping ban. Tonight, at the U.S. Open, Hardy clocked a pair of world records.
First, she hammered the 50 breast in 29.80 on the way to a stunning 1:04.45 in the 100 breast finale. Yesterday, Hardy clocked a swif...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, July 23. THE second night of long course swimming produced a trio of meet records at the USA Swimming Sectionals held in Minneapolis.
Minnesota's Marissa Davies cleared the listed meet record in the women's 200 free with a time of 2:01.93. The readout wiped out the 2:02.37 set by Andrea Hupman in 2006. Minnesota&#...
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EVANSTON, Illinois, June 8. NORTHWESTERN's head men's coach Bob Groseth is stepping down to take over as Interim Executive Director of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).
Groseth just finished his 20th season as the head coach of Northwestern, during which he led the Wildcats to five event titles at the NCAA Cham...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 28. THE final day of prelims came to a close at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships held in College Station, Texas. Auburn put together a strong morning to set the t...
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Swimming World's NCAA Division I Landing Page
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 27. THE second day of preliminary action came to a close at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships. This evening should be interesting, as Secret Service agents were ca...
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LONG BEACH, California, March 6. ANOTHER American record took a fall at the Pacific 10 Championships as Stanford's Austin Staab scorched the men's 100-yard fly event. Meanwhile, California's Damir Dugonjic shot down the NCAA and U.S. Open record in the 100-yard breast. Dugonjic later teamed up with his fellow Golden Bears to break th...
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Updated December 7, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, December 4. WELL, it's time for another
Swimming World Virtual Meet. From time-to-time, when enough strong meets are going on during the same weekend across the world or country, we like to throw them together as it they were the same meet. The top three finishers from each meet are...
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ATLANTA, Georgia, December 6. THE third day of finals came to a close with Mary DeScenza winning a pair of titles at the USA Swimming Short Course Nationals held in Atlanta.
Women's 1650 freestyle
Florida's Laurabeth Guenthner used a strong backhalf of the race to cruise to a winning time of 16:07.80. Indiana's Amanda Smith ...
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ATLANTA, Georgia, December 6. THE third day of prelims came to a close at the USA Swimming Short Course Nationals held in Atlanta.
Women's 200 backstroke
Auburn's Julianne McLane topped qualifying in 1:55.12, while Athens Bulldog Mary DeScenza posted a time of 1:55.88 for second place. Florida State's Stephanie Sarandos (1:5...
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ATLANTA, Georgia, December 5. AFTER a strong first night of swimming, the second day of preliminary action took place at the USA Swimming Short Course National Championships held in Atlanta.
Women's 200 medley relay
KING's foursome of Leona Jennings, Ariana Kukors, Lindsey Marchand and Kim Jasmer led the way with a time of 1:40.2...
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ATLANTA, Georgia, December 5. THE second night of finals witnessed the continued emergence of Dagny Knutson at the USA Swimming Short Course Nationals held in Atlanta.
Knutson, who has had a meteoric rise within the ranks of U.S. women's swimming, claimed the American record previously set by Olympian Katie Hoff in the 400-yard IM.
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EVANSTON, Illinois. November 7. The No. 20 Northwestern women won all but four events -- two swimming and two diving in a combined meet against Purdue at the Norris Aquatics Center, coming away with a 177-118 victory over the Boilermakers to move to 1-1 on the young season.
Northwestern got the meet off to a great start in the 200 medley relay, ...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 9. HE had a breakthrough swim earlier this year when he cracked the minute mark for the first time in his career. Call his opening swim of the Olympics another big step. Clocking an Olympic and European-record time of 59.41, Norway's Alexander Dale Oen led the way in the men's 100 breaststroke qualifyi...
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Updated July 20, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16. FROM time-to-time, when enough strong meets are going on during the same weekend across the world or country,
Swimming World likes to lump them together as if they were in the same meet. Here are the most updated available times from across the country based on USA Swimming Section...
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BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, July 18. THE assembled swimmers at the USA Swimming Sectional held on the campus of Indiana University took dead aim at the meet record book.
Jenny Connolly of Boilermaker broke the women's 100 back title with a time of 1:02.71. She surpassed the 1:03.10 set by Ava Ohlgren last year. Kate McNeilis, 16, of Westerville...
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BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, July 16. THE first night of USA Swimming Sectional action came to a close at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington.
Greater Toledo's Jacy Dyer opened the night with a victory in the women's 800 free. She touched in 8:46.29, while Team Pittsburgh's Katie C...
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MANCHESTER, England, April 11. FOUR world, and countless continental and national records, have now been broken at the FINA World Short Course Championships held in Manchester. All...
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