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AUSTIN, Texas, November 19. MORE than 300 elite synchronized swimmers will gather at the University of Texas at Austin, Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, March 25 - 27 for the 2010 Junior National Synchronized Swimming Championships. The meet will feature athletes ages 15-18, who will vie for Junior National Titles in the solo, duet and tea...
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EVANSTON, Illinois, November 17. EDDIE Reese's Texas Longhorns garnered the most votes in the CSCAA's inaugural Division I Coaches poll. The Pac 10's Stanford and California are close behind. SEC's Florida and Auburn are next. The closeness of the poll shows that the coaches aren't quite sure yet who the best team would be if th...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, November 17. TEXAS A&M swimmer Ella Doerge (pronounced DOOR-geeh) has been selected as a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship and will travel to Houston on Nov. 20 to participate in selection interviews, the Texas A&M Honors Programs announced.
If selected as a Rhodes Scholar, Doerge, a senior genetics major from Cli...
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, November 14. THE Texas A&M men's swimming and diving team tallied nine individual victories in a 135-108 dual meet win over Boston University on Saturday at BU's Competition Pool.
The Aggies swept their two-meet road swing through New England with wins over Harvard and Boston, and improved to 2-0 in 2009.
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SOMERS, Wisconsin, November 12. AN NCAA "A" time for Kevin Coates (Lewis University) and multiple NCAA "B" times for Leah Gingrich (University of Texas) earned the pair the Counsilman Hunsaker National Collegiate Swimmer-of-the-Week Honors. Also earning the award were Matt McLean (University of Virginia), Kate Aherne (Truman St...
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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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EVANSTON, Illinois, November 6. The College Swimming Coaches Association of America learned today that the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will investigate a Title IX complaint filed on September 25, 2009 by Ron Neugent, a former swimmer at The University of Kansas.
The gender discrimination complaint alleges that Th...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 5. AS national early signing day keeps coming ever so closer, recruits around the nation are making their commitments public via the
Swimming World College Recruit Rankings.
Five star
Allison Arnold and five star
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 3. THE final
Swimming World six star still available in the Class of 2010 made her collegiate choice over the weekend. Multiple event threat
Sarah Henry decided to head to Texas A&M.
Henry, who swims for the Raleigh Swim Association, owns time...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, November 1. SWIMMERS across the country were treated to a little break from racing this weekend, as a lighter schedule of college duals gave teams a chance to get in a bit of quality training (and trick-or-treating).
Several intriguing match-ups took place Friday evening. Texas and Indiana met in Au...
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AUSTIN, Texas, October 31. AFTER assuming commanding leads on day one of its double-dual meets against Indiana and Michigan, Texas finished what it started and pulled away to victories over the Hoosiers and Wolverines Saturday at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas defeated Indiana by a 222-162 margin and knocked off Michi...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 29. IT's been just two days since the last update, and we've been swamped with news on recent verbal commitments as part of the College Recruit Rankings.
Five star
Dan O'Connor made the choice to head to North Carolina for his collegiate y...
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SOMERS, Wisconsin, October 28. TWO pool records paired with two NCAA "B" times for Kate Fesenko (Indiana University) and multiple NCAA time standards for Guy Kogel (University of Indianapolis) earned them the Counsilman Hunsaker National Collegiate Swimmer of the Week Honors. Also earning the award were Ricky Berens (University of Texas)...
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MANSFIELD, Texas, October 24. TEXAS captured seven of eight events to finish off its victory Saturday at the Southwest Collegiate Plunge, a four-team championship-style meet featuring Texas A&M, Missouri and SMU. The Longhorns claimed the event with 872 points after leading with 459 points after Friday's opening session.
Texas opened day tw...
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MANSFIELD, Texas, October 23. TEXAS tallied victories in seven of nine events Friday evening and assumed the lead in the team standings after day one of the Southwest Collegiate Plunge, a four-team meet featuring UT, Texas A&M, Missouri and SMU.
Texas leads after day one with 459 points, and Texas A&M sits in second with 380 points. Missouri is...
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 23. IN the first home meet of the season, the University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team won both diving events and 12-of-15 swimming events to speed by Toledo, 170-120, and the University of Toronto, 198-81, in a double-dual meet Friday afternoon (Oct. 23) at Canham Natatorium. With the two wins, Michi...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 18. THE only male
Swimming World six star in the Class of 2010,
Will Freeman made his decision to stay close to home.
Freeman, who swims for Swim Atlanta and preps at Great Atlanta Christian, gave Georgia another high profile commitment today. ...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, October 15. THREE-time Olympic diving coach Ken Armstrong has been named interim diving coach at Texas A&M, Director of Athletics Bill Byrne announced on Wednesday.
"We are delighted that Kenny Armstrong has agreed to join us as the interim diving coach for our men and women," Byrne said. "Kenny has an incr...
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WIMBERLEY, Texas, October 14. JAY McDonald, 52, from Wimberley, Texas passed away on Saturday, October 10. He died having a heart attack while playing tennis.
McDonald began coaching swimming in the late 1970s at the Woodway Country Club in Connecticut. He was the dynamic age-group coach for the City of Plano team from 1978 to 1982, then served...
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