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Feature By Jacob Kittilstad
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 7. When an athletic department's budget needs to be balanced, collegiate swimming programs are often placed on the chopping block. If teams, however, become proactive in securing economic stability outside of what is offered to them by their athletic department, there is a muc...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 27. NORT Thornton, the renowned coach for many years at the University of California-Berkeley, was the guest of honor at a gathering commemorating his years in coaching. Today's edition of
The Morning Swim Show features testimonials from swimmers and coaches who have crossed paths with Thornton.
Among the peo...
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BERKELEY, California, October 3. RESPONSE for the Nort Thornton fund-raiser at California has been tremendous thus far. California is anticipating upwards of 200 former swimmers and friends of Nort to gather for what many are calling The Grand Reunion.
If you haven't done so already, mail in or telephone your RSVP as soon as possible. Yo...
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BERKELEY, California, September 19. ON October 17, alums of California swimming will assemble to celebrate the career of Nort Thornton.
The intent of the celebratory event is not only to honor the Thornton's tremendous career, but also to raise funds to create the Nort Thornton UC Berkeley Swimming Scholarship fund.
Anyone interested in ...
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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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LONG BEACH, California, March 5. ARIZONA set a conference record in the 800-yard freestyle relay in the first night of the Pacific-10 Conference men's swimming championships Wednesday night at Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool.
The Wildcats' team of Nicolas Nilo, Jean Basson, Darian Townsend and Joel Greenshields qualified for the NCAA champio...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 4. THE Swimming Technique section of the November issue of
Swimming World Magazine leads off with a Q&A interview with Dave Durden, the new head men's coach at California. Durden talks about his plans for this season, working with the legendary Nort Thornton, his coaching philosophy and goals for his first sea...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 29. FIVE years ago, the Big Green swimming team of Dartmouth University stood on the edge of the abyss, one small shove away from extinction. After fielding a swim team for nearly a century, the administration of the Ivy League school had decided to axe the team. But an unlikely coalition of swimmers, alumni, student gove...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, August 3. SwimmingWorldMagazine.com is bringing its readers wall-to-wall coverage of USA Swimming's National Championships held at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis this week. As part of the already deep, rich and up-to-the-minute coverage of the actual racing, our team of reporters are also available via this new interac...
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BERKELEY, California, August 3. IT looks like the confusion recently surrounding the University of California men's swimming program regarding the status of Nort Thornton as the head coach of the team has come to an end.
Today, Thornton and Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour sent a joint-statement to members of the California swimming comm...
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By John Lohn
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 31. ONE of the distinguishing characteristics of the IU Natatorium at IUPUI, a 4,700-seat facility, is the famed Wall of Names. Located at the diving-board end of the facility, the wall features the names of all athletes who have qualified for an Olympic Games through the years in swimming, diving and syn...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 31.
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com is bringing its readers wall-to-wall coverage of USA Swimming's National Championships held at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis this week. As part of the already deep, rich and up-to-the-minute coverage of the actual racing, our team of reporters are also available via this new...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 31. ACCORDING to confirmed sources on the deck at the USA Swimming National Championships, Nort Thornton has been reinstated as the head coach of the University of California.
Apparently, the chancellor intervened in Berkeley to give Thornton back the reins. We will have more in-depth coverage of this breaking news....
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BERKELEY, California, July 27. IN an interview with
Swimming World Magazine, former head men's swimming coach at the University of California Nort Thornton explained some more of the details behind his recent
dismissal from the team.
"The total truth will even...
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BERKELEY, California, July 26. SHORTLY before the University of California sent out the press release re-printed in its entirety at the end of this report,
Swimming World Magazine received an e-mail from what we reported as an unnamed source close to the situation stating that Nort Thornton had been released by Athletics Director Sandy Barb...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 14. IN the May issue of
Swimming World Magazine Finis took out a full-page ad to celebrate its long-standing history. In the ad, president John Mix wrote a letter to our readers thanking them for their support during the company's existence.
Here is Mix's letter:
Finis was founded by Olympic Gold Medal...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 17. THE University of Denver pulled off a rare feat when both its men's and women's teams topped the Division I team Academic All-American lists for the Fall 2006 semester, according to rankings released today by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).
A total of 352 teams – 142 male and 21...
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By
Jason Marsteller
PHOENIX, Arizona, February 8. IN the final SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Meet of the Week, we will feature the Stanford/California men's dual meet held on Feb. 10 to close out the inaugural run of the Meet of the Week program.
We plan on changing up how we run the Meet of...
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By
Jason Marsteller
PHOENIX, Arizona, January 21. TODAY, SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Rewind checks out this month in
Swimming World Magazine's history 30 years ago in its latest Splashback feature. January 1977 proved to be the 17th consecutive issue penned and published by the
Swi...
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By
Jason Marsteller
PHOENIX, Arizona, November 2. OVER the weekend, SwimmingWorldMagazine.com will put the magnifying glass on a pair of meets in the Meet of the Week program. First up is a two-day meeting between a trio of top-three men's teams. No. 3 Texas plays host to No. 4 Californi...
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