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AUBURN, Alabama, December 30.
SWIMMING World has just been informed that Auburn head coach Richard Quick has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor today.
Quick, who recently underwent an MRI that found a growth in his brain, had a biopsy today that confirmed the growth was ...
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GAINESVILLE, Florida, January 26. THE Auburn swimming and diving teams combined for five NCAA automatic qualifying times, 27 provisional times and 17 Olympic Trials qualifying times Saturday as the Tigers split in dual meet action with SEC rival Florida.
Auburn's women (5-1), currently ranked No. 1 in the CSCAA Top-25 poll,
posted seven win...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, December 31. OVER the past year, the swimming community has lost a lot of its members as they passed on. We take the time out to mourn each of their passings this final day of 2007. We ask that our readers also reflect on each of these missed people.
We sincerely apologize if we missed anyone on this list as we look back at ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 26. NEWS items and commentary on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com continued to keep our audience in tune with the goings-on throughout the world of swimming this past week.
Steven Selthoffer, a European correspondent for
Swimming World Magazine kept his hand on the pulse of the anti-doping movement, this time writing about ...
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AUBURN, Alabama, May 21. AUBURN University announced today that an endowed scholarship in Ralph Crocker's name has been established. The scholarship, which will only be available for the swimming and diving team, has been named the Ralph Crocker Fund for Excellence.
Crocker, who was Auburn's Associate Director of Intercollegiate Swimmi...
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AUBURN, Alabama, May 8. ACCORDING to an unnamed source close to the situation, recently-appointed Mission Viejo General Manager Dennis Pursley, who began at Mission Viejo on Oct. 1, 2006, will be hired as the Director of Swimming Operations at Auburn University. The hiring will not be official until all of the red tape has been cleared at the ins...
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By Jason Marsteller
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 10. IN a tribute to assistant coach Ralph Crocker, who recently passed away, the Auburn Tigers claimed their fifth women's NCAA Division I championship with the banner of RHOP emblazoned on their shirts.
As head coach David Marsh explained, RHOP stands for Ralph's House of Pain, and th...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, January 22. WITH another weekend in the books, it's time to take a look at the leading developments from the past few days. In Australia, Cate Campbell put on a show in the 50-meter freestyle at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival. Meanwhile, the American college scene continued to sizzle as a number of q...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 20. OVER the past week of swimming news here on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com, we continued to cover various international and domestic events – primarily for junior swimmers. We kept a close eye on the Junior Pan Pacific Championships, Long Beach Grand Prix, Australian Youth Olympic Festival, Burgdorff ERA Invitational and t...
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AUBURN, Alabama, January 19. THE Auburn men's and women's swimming and diving teams celebrated senior day in fine fashion, as both teams rolled to victories over Florida in David Marsh's last home dual meet as Auburn's Director of Competitive Aquatics. The third-ranked men posted a 163-137 victory over the No. 11 Gators, while Aubu...
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AUBURN, Alabama, January 14. AUBURN's Director of Swimming Operations Ralph Crocker passed away this morning after fighting with cancer diagnosed in October of 2005. He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Margaret, and their teenage daughter Cameron. Crocker's family and his extended Auburn family have
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IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 3 KATIE Hoff turned in a U.S. Open and meet record in the grueling 400-meter IM at the 2006 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships with a 4:35.82. That performance erased Janet Evans' 18-year-old meet record of 4:38.58 set in 1988 and Hoff's own U.S. Open standard of 4:37.06 posted in 2005.
"I have ...
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AUBURN, Alabama. October 19. AUBURN Assistant coach, Ralph Crocker was diagnosed with cancer Monday. Tests are still being done to see where exactly the cancer has spread. A C.T. Scan was done this morning and he is still waiting on the pathology.
“I knew something was wrong,” said Crocker. “So I went and had it checked out. I’m fifty-one year...
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Swimming Faster with Auburn University’s Head Men's & Women's Swimming Coach David Marsh. Marsh’s teams have won 7 NCAA Team Championships with Marsh has been voted NCAA “Coach of the Year” 8 times!
In this cutting-edge series, Marsh shares the methods used to win an unprecedented three straight M...
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AUBURN, Ala., July 5 - THREE members of the Auburn swimming and diving staff have received promotions, Auburn's Director of Competitive Aquatics David Marsh announced on Friday. Cathy Sursi, Dave Durden and Ralph Crocker have all been rewarded for their tireless work.
Sursi, a graduate assistant at Auburn the last two seasons, has been name...
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AUBURN, Ala, December 5. AUBURN’S Rachel Korth posted a 426.37 during the platform competition, breaking Kelsey Patterson's school record of 424.30, to highlight action from the second finals session of the Auburn Tiger Invitational at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center on Friday night.
"Seeing my score was really exciting," Kort...
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AUBURN, Ala, December 5. AUBURN sophomore George Bovell clocked a NCAA automatic time in the 200 IM of 1:45.77 as action got underway at the Auburn Tiger Invitational on Thursday night at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center. Bovell's time is currently the fastest in the nation by almost a full second.
"We swam much better as a team t...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ¯ For the second week in a row, the Auburn swimming and diving team has had a member earn Southeastern Conference Athlete of the Week honors as the Tigers sweep the award for Jan. 15 with James Galloway and Heather Kemp claiming the spots.
Galloway, a native of Montgomery, Texas, helped lead the No. 3 Auburn men's team to a ...
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AUBURN, Ala. ¯ The Auburn men's swimming team has signed seven impressive recruits for the 2002-03 season as announced by head coach David Marsh.
Included in the group are Lyle Babcock (Yorktown, Va.), Seth Barry (Chesterton, Ind.), George Bovell (Trinidad and Tobago), Kurt Cady (Las Vegas, Nev.), Eric Shanteau (Lilburn, Ga.), Daniel Slocki (...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Auburn University assistant swimming coach Ralph Crocker has been named the head distance team coach for USA Swimming which entails heading up the two-week National Team Distance Camp held here June 3-16 at the Olympic Training Center.
Also invited to train at the camp are current Auburn swimmers Maggie Bowen, Magda Dy...
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