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Potential Breakout Men's Swimmers for 2025; Distance Duo Leads Way

Distance Duo Leads Potential Breakout Men's Swimmers for 2025 A new generation of men’s distance freestylers has pushed out the likes of Florian Wellbrock and Mykhailo Romanchuk, stalwarts who collected international medals in the 800 and 1500-meter events for years. Bobby Finke remains a force, hav...

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Six Female Swimmers Who Could Emerge Internationally in 2025

Six Female Swimmers Who Could Emerge Internationally in 2025 The year after the Olympic Games marks a perfect opportunity for young swimmers to make a major impact on the international stage. This year, numerous veterans are step away from the sport temporarily and permanently while others are slow-...

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Roster Caps Incoming: Swimming Set For Tough Transition to New Era

Roster Caps Incoming: Swimming Set For Tough Transition to New Era When the ongoing college swimming season ends, so will hundreds of athletic careers as the sport enters a phase of massive upheaval. The introduction of NIL earning potential to collegians, the creation of the transfer portal and con...

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Nebraska Women Earn Convincing Victories Over Iowa and Rutgers

Nebraska Women Earn Convincing Victories Over Iowa and Rutgers The Nebraska Cornhuskers and Iowa Hawkeyes were in East Piscataway, N.J., this weekend to take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Nebraska was the dominant team over the two-day meet, winning 223-130 against Iowa and 210-143 against Rutgets...

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Minnesota Takes Down Northwestern and Purdue in Two-Day Meet

Minnesota Takes Down Northwestern and Purdue in Two-Day Meet Three Big Ten schools met in Minneapolis for their final regular season competitions, and the hosting Golden Gophers came out on top. The Minnesota women beat Northwestern and Purdue by identical scores of 241-112, and Northwestern's women...

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Tennessee Sweeps Duke in Dual Meet With Unusual Multi-Day Format

Tennessee Sweeps Duke in Dual Meet With Unusual Multi-Day Format The Tennessee Volunteers wrapped up their dual-meet schedule with a two-day trip to Durham, N.C., to face the Duke Blue Devils in a two-day meet following the usual event lineup Friday before a sprint-focused meet Saturday. The Tenness...

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Texas Defeats Texas A&M Behind Big Days From Hubert Kos, Emma Sticklen

Texas Defeats Texas A&M Behind Big Days From Hubert Kos, Emma Sticklen The Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies spent 12 seasons competing in different conferences, but the rivalry never ceased in swimming. Now, with both teams in the Southeastern Conference, Texas continued its recent domination of...

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Caspar Corbeau Gives Indiana Boost in National Title Bid

Caspar Corbeau Gives Indiana Boost in National Title Bid The Indiana men’s swim and dive team might lack the consistent track record of top-two finishes at the NCAA Championships. That would be Cal, the winner or runnerup at the meet every year since 2010, and Texas, with 11 such results in the last...

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Harvard Takes Down Penn Plus Boston College Men

Harvard Takes Down Penn Plus Boston College Men The Harvard men celebrated senior day Saturday morning at Blodgett Pool and earned a pair of dominant victories. The Crimson beat Penn 207-90 and earned a 230-68 win over Boston College, with Penn taking down BC 195-104. Later in the day, the Harvard w...

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Ohio State Women Dominant at Tim Welsh Classic

Ohio State Women Dominant at Tim Welsh Classic Notre Dame's women welcomed several strong teams from across the Midwest to South Bend, Ind., and the Ohio State Buckeyes dominated the proceedings, scoring nearly double the points of any other team. Ohio State scored 1623 points, ahead of the Fighting...

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South Carolina Women, Georgia Tech Men Victorious in Dual Meet

South Carolina Women, Georgia Tech Men Victorious in Dual Meet The South Carolina women have put together a string of impressive performances this month, and they continued that trend by dominating Georgia Tech in their final dual meet, 211.5-86.5. A more competitive contest on the men's side went t...