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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 3. A teacher at an average high school has a student for maybe three hours a week, on average, for either one or two semesters. The coach of a serious, year round swimmer, on the other hand, can be in charge of a youngster for upwards of 10 hours a week, for several years. Therefore...
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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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By Steven Munatones
SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico, October 11. MIKE Bottom of the University of Michigan kicked off the three-day VII World Swimming Clinic at the La Loma high-altitude training camp in San Luis Potosí, Mexico Friday to an overflow crowd of coaches, trainers and administrators.
Hosted by Professor Nelson Vargas for the seve...
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, August 19. A top international prospect from the Class of 2010 recently made his college decision. Waterborn's
Kyle Duckitt informed
Swimming World today where he is headed to college.
Duckitt, a
Swimming World five-star breaststr...
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Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the U.S. National Championships, including on-the-spot interviews!
LIVE Univers...
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KEY LARGO, Florida, January 3. DUKE University and University of Michigan took top honors in the women and men's divisions respectively Saturday at the Orange Bowl Swimming Classic in the Florida Keys.
Duke's lady swimmers amassed 569 points to edge Rutgers University with 554 and George Mason University with 477 at the Jacobs Aquatic C...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, December 16. FINISH your holiday gift list in the Swim Shop, now featuring a new DVD from The Race Club and a great offer on posters!
Filmed in the sunny climate of the Florida Keys,
The Three Styles of Freestyle features demonstrations b...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 4. TWO outstanding swims at the Arizona 4A high school swimming championships and an interview with a new college swimming head coach highlight Tuesday's edition of
The Morning Swim Show.
Host Peter Busch opens the show by bringing us video footage of the championship finals of the boys' 50 freestyle and gir...
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GRANVILLE, Ohio, September 26. DENISON University head men's and women's swimming coach Gregg Parini has announced the hiring of Matthew Ense as an assistant coach with the Big Red swimming and diving program.
Before coming to Denison, Ense served one year as an assistant coach at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. where he helped lead t...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, September 24. TWENTY-six of the country's top swimmers will head to Belgrade, Serbia next summer to compete in the 2009 World University Games. The swimming competition will take place July 5-11, while the entire competition of the Games will run from July 1-12, 2009.
The team features 2007 World University Games ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12. THURSDAY'S edition of
The Morning Swim Show features an interview with Mike Bottom, who will take the reins as head coach of the University of Michigan's men's swim team.
Host Peter Busch talks to Bottom about the process taken to get the job at Michigan, as well as what he will bring to a team rich ...
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 10. LATER today it is expected that the University of Michigan will announce that Mike Bottom has been named Bob Bowman's replacement as the head men's swimming for the Wolverines.
Although the move to a top-flight sprint coach is a bit of a departure from Michigan's usual distance-first mentality, Jon Urba...
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MIAMI, Florida, March 3. THE Race Club, a swimming program founded by three-time Olympian Gary Hall, Jr. in 2003, is pleased to announce its first satellite program in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"It has always been my vision to expand The Race Club beyond the U.S. borders to further expand training and competition opportunities for elite swimmers o...
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ATLANTA, Georgia, December 1.
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com is bringing its readers wall-to-wall coverage of the USA Short Course National Championships held at Georgia Tech University this week. As part of our up-to-the-minute coverage of the actual racing, we offer you the opportunity to interact with our reporter on site, Dana Lawrence Lohn, ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 13. THE
For The Record section in the November issue of
Swimming World Magazine highlights the U.S. Zone Championships. A comprehensive comparison of the winning times from each zone, along with the combined final team standings from each venue is included.
Results from three significant international co...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 12. THE
Junior Swimmer section in the November issue of
Swimming World leads off with a salute to the Longhorn Aquatics 13-14 boys 800 meter free relay National Age Group record. A short question and answer piece with team members; Eric Dirvan, Matthew Ellis, David Cox and Conor Sweeney also is included.
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 11. IN a profession in which job change is a way of life, SwimmingWorld.TV took the opportunity to interview a head coach who has been with the same team for more than four decades!
Murray Stephens founded the North Baltimore Aquatic Club more than 40 years ago. In this exclusive video, Coach Stephens talks about coach...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 10. THE How They Train feature in the November issue of
Swimming World highlights Fred Bousquet - the first swimmer in history to break 19.00 in the 50 yard freestyle. While competing for Auburn University, Bousquet managed to win the 50 free for three straight years at the NCAA Championships.
Within t...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 9. A new perspective on freestyle is presented by Mike Bottom, coach of double gold medalists in the 50 meter freestyle at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Bottom appears in an exclusive SwimmingWorld.TV video interview as part of the November issue of
Swimming World.
Both swimmers and coaches will want ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 8. THE Workout Card in the November issue of
Swimming World Magazine centers on middle distance training. Included are outlines of daily regimens as well as drill sets. Other elements found in this section are; recommendations for dryland activities, warmup, kick as well as main sets. Ann Brewer, head coach of t...
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