By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 5. WITH two Olympic champions, an NCAA champion and a newly-crowned national champion on one relay team, you’d expect big things out of that

By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 5. CALIFORNIA Aquatics and Longhorn Aquatics exchanged the lead several times before Cal Aquatics clinched a victory in the women’s 4×200-meter free relay. The

IRVINE, Calif., August 5. Men's 400 I.M. CHECK list: PHELPS, Michael. Absent LOCHTE, Ryan. Absent. MARGALIS, Robert. Present That’s all anyone needed to know. Robert Margalis, an NCAA champion in

By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 5. ONLY 7-hundredths of a second separated top qualifier Ariana Kukors of King Aquatics in Washington and #2 qualifier, Julia Smit, of Three Village

By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 5. MICHAEL PHELPS is the world champion in the 200-meter freestyle, so you’d expect him to win the event at US Nationals. Especially because

By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 5. THE women’s 200 free came down to an exciting clash between 17 year-old Canadian distance ace Brittany Reimer, swimming “down” to a 200,

By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 4. UNLIKE Tuesday night at the Duel in the Pool, when the 200 fly was Michael Phelps’ third event of the evening, tonight it

By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 4. THE women’s 200 fly figured to be a tight, four woman race. And that’s the way it turned out, though on the final

By Phillip Whitten IRVINE, Calif., August 4. IN the prelims of the men’s 200-meter backstroke this morning, only Club Wolverine’s Christian DeJong could manage a sub-two minute performance. And that