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Tulane vs. LSU
October 30, 2009
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, October 30. THE LSU women's swimming and diving team claimed 13 of 16 events against Tulane Friday en route to its first victory of the season, 175-117, in the LSU Natatorium.
The Lady Tigers (1-2, 0-2 SEC) received two wins apiece from four athletes as Rebecca St. Germain, Jane Trepp, Kannon Betzen and Mary Beck all ...
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Auburn vs. LSU
October 23, 2009
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, October 23. LSU's freshman swimmers Amanda Kendall and Craig Hamilton each shined with two victories apiece against SEC rival Auburn, but it was not enough as the Plainsmen emerged victorious 167-133 in the men's meet, while the Auburn women won, 177-122.
"I'm really proud of our teams," LSU head coa...
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MANSFIELD, Texas. October 9. THE TCU men's and women's swimming team opened the season with the North Texas Relays at the Mansfield ISD Natatorium. The men claimed first place honors, while the women earned runner-up honors.
"It was an exciting meet and a good way to start the season," head coach Richard Sybesma said. "Our...
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 3. THE Fleur de Lis Cup will reside on the Lakefront for the next year after the University of New Orleans women's swimming and diving program defeated Tulane 176-126 at the Reily Center on Saturday afternoon.
UNO (1-0) swimmers won 11 of the 14 events the team contested with Tulane (0-1) en route to the squad...
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CHICAGO, Illinois, September 18. FORMER USA Swimming National Team Coordinator and U.S. Paralympics National Team Manager and Coach Jimi Flowers was honored today as the 2009 Disability Swimming Coach of the Year at the Aquatic Sports Convention in Chicago. Flowers is receiving the award following his passing in early July of this year.
The purp...
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By Jacob Kittilstad
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, July 17. ENTHUSIASTIC, positive and energetic have been the words most frequently repeated when describing the late U.S. National Team Coach for Paralympic swimming and all-around outstanding member of the swimming community, Jimi Flowers.
"When I worked with him, people would say when y...
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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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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 19. TULANE University Director of Athletics Rick Dickson has named former Green Wave assistant Lena Guarriello as the new head coach for the TU swimming & diving program, which will return to competition in 2009-10.
Guarriello, 29, becomes the third coach hired by Tulane to restart a suspended program, joining women...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, December 26. THIS past year has been one of the best ever seen in the history of the sport of swimming. Only the most high-profile news, however, is
Flash!-tagged on our site. With that being said, we will be presenting the
Flash!-tagged stories for 2007 over the coming days before ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 27. THIS past week on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com witnessed a roller-coaster ride. While good news came in the form of four collegiate programs (Bakersfield, Milligan, Ramapo and Tulane) being added to the existing pool of teams, both Ohio University and Butler University elected to cut their swimming programs as covered on...
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 25. TODAY has truly been a busy day in college swimming. Within hours of news that Ohio University plans on cutting men's swimming, Tulane University announced that it will begin phasing in eight sports originally cut in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina according to
Associated Press reports out of New ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 18. LAST Sunday, SwimmingWorldMagazine.com sat down with Phil Whitten, the Executive Director of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), to get his thoughts on a variety of hot topics in college swimming. Here are his observations:
On the USOC's letter to the James Madison administration ...
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LSU Inks Five
May 21, 2006
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 21. THE LSU swimming and diving team has received National Letters of Intent from three high school prospects while adding two Tulane transfers to the upcoming 2006-07 squad, head coach Adam Schmitt announced.
Two men's signees come to LSU after recently completing stellar high school careers in Louisiana. Andre...
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IRVING, Texas, April 16. CONFERENCE USA recognized the league's most outstanding freshman student-athletes in swimming and diving on Thursday. SMU’s Petra Klosova was named 2006 C-USA Freshman Swimmer of the Year, while Houston’s Anastasia Pozdniakova earned the Freshman Diver of the Year accolade. The recipients were selected by a vote of the ...
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SHREVEPORT, La. February, 12. THE Green Wave posted six season-best times, including a lifetime best by sophomore Cara Davidoff in the 100-yard breaststroke as the Tulane University women’s swimming and diving team defeated Centenary College, 103-74, Saturday afternoon in Shreveport, La.
Tulane won 10 of the 11 individual events, and posted top...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. February, 8. LSU swimmer Colleen Bertirotti was named SEC Female Swimmer of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday.
Bertirotti, a native of San Antonio, Texas, enjoyed a phenomenal performance in the Lady Tigers' 130-81 victory over Tulane on Friday. The junior won all three events she swam in against the Green W...
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HOUSTON, Texas. February, 1. UNIVERSITY of Houston juniors Szintia Szanto and Rachel Gitelson were honored Tuesday as the Conference USA Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively.
With their performances, Szanto and Gitelson helped lead the Cougars to a convincing 139-115 win over defending C-USA champion Tulane last weekend. The win capped t...
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By Phillip Whitten
January 31. WHILE the USOC sits on a report issued last September by the joint NCAA/USOC Task Force on endangered Olympic sports, these programs keep slip-sliding away.
Last month Tulane University dropped eight athletic teams, most of them Olympic sports. Now Slippery Rock has followed suit, announcing today it, too, is a...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas. December, 14. THE Tulane University swimming and diving program has been through a lot during the fall semester of its 2005-06 season, but the Green Wave have not shown any signs of slowing down as the team holds national Top 100 times in six events.
The Green Wave, which endured the wrath of Hurricane Katrina and subseq...
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By Phillip Whitten
December 11. THERE is no question that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, cuts had to be made in the Tulane University athletic budget. In fact, cuts were made in several academic departments as well. No doubt, making those cuts was a difficult process.
Still, upon examination, the decision to kill the recently resur...
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