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By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern Championship season is the most physically demanding part of the season. Full weekends of back-to-back races and working on maintaining a taper can tak...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. Swimmers spend hours upon hours training and competing every year. Most of the time, the only purpose behind our training is to become faster. Sometim...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern Maintaining the lead from Day 1 to Day 4, Miami University of Ohio finished the Mid-American Men’s Conference Championships with the win. It was not an...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern After Missouri State caught up to Miami (Ohio) on Day 2, lead by their freshmen talent, Miami (Ohio) managed to pull away a bit on Day 3. However, the ...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern After Miami University (Ohio) ran away with Day 1, sweeping the first two events of the Mid-American Championships, the playing field leveled out more ...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern On Day 1 of the Men’s Mid-American Conference Championships, Miami University (Ohio) took a quick lead, winning the first two events of the championshi...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. You are sitting in your bathroom with shaving cream and a razor - maybe multiple razors, depending on how much hair you have on your body. You have yo...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. There has recently been a change in the tide when it comes to people’s eating habits. In the past couple of years, the world has become much more obse...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern While it may seem a bit early to be thinking about conference championships and the end of the season, it really is right around the corner. At this ti...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern In recent years, we have consistently watched the sport of swimming develop and grow as we discover ways to become faster. One of the biggest discoveri...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World Intern. With the FINA Short Course Swimming World Championships occurring right now, there has been a lot of buzz about the growing rivalry between FINA and the newly...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. With the holiday and championship season coming up, it seems like it’s the time when people are in the market for brand new tech suits. For those who ...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. In life, you might feel stuck in the daily grind and are searching for a way out. In swimming, you can also feel stuck in your training with little in...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. It’s beginning to look a lot like… Grind Season. Everybody has a different name for it. As the swim season progresses, we are approaching that time of...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern. Your coach walks out onto the pool deck, looks the team up and down, and then makes the announcement: "It is sprint/distance day!" Half of the team is...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World Intern This year at the Burr Gymnasium, 40 swimmers are hopping into the pool and starting their college swimming season just as any other team does. After a month or...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World Intern. On September twenty-eighth, the swim season will begin for most of the Washington D.C. college teams with the Potomac Relays, hosted by American University at...