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Kim Watson, One-Time Wagner Star, Finds New Water Polo Adventures in Scotland

29 May 2019

ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND. Kimberly Watson has been an incredible contributor to the University of St Andrews Women’s Water Polo team this season. Watson, originally from Pointe-Claire, Quebec, made a lasting

FINA Marathon Swim World Series 10Ks Won by Arianna Bridi, Marc-Antoine Olivier

12 May 2019

By Tracie May-Wagner, Swimming World Contributor On Sunday, May 12, at Beau Vallon Beach, on the beautiful north western coast of Mahe, Seychelles, was the second stop of the FINA

Bill Powell Continues Birthday Swim — One Length For Each of His 82 Years

23 April 2019

By Griffin Fletcher, WKU Herald. Timers set. Goggles on. “Ready?” Blink and you might’ve missed the start of a tradition almost 40 years in the making. As he’s done since

A Love-Hate Relationship — Confessions of an Eighth-Grade Swimmer

19 April 2019

By Maggie Belbot, eighth-grader at Bryn Mawr School. I hate swimming. Well, hate is a pretty strong word. But strongly dislike would be a pretty accurate description of my relationship

Ned Skinner Reflects on the Late Sam Freas: So Much More Than a Winning and Innovative Coach

12 April 2019

Sam Freas Commentary by Ned Skinner For the past 30 years I have proudly considered myself a disciple of Sam Freas. It seems like in modern times coaches are only

Book Review: Undoing Jane Doe: How I Put the Middle School Coach and Teacher Who Sexually Abused Me Behind Bars

01 April 2019

Undoing Jane Doe Book Review by Sanford G. Thatcher When Kristen Lewis became an assistant swimming coach at Cal-Berkeley in 2007, after spending the previous three years as first a

Why I Shouldn’t Have Quit Swimming

04 February 2019

By Swimming World Guest Contributor, Nicholas Zhu First let me start off with why I did quit. As a kid, I hated swimming. I would cry when my parents dragged

Are You a Copy-Cat or Critical Coach?

21 January 2019

Commentary by Dr. Chris Zehntner, Swimming World Contributor. Have you ever caught yourself saying something in your coaching practice that was straight out of the mouth of a former coach,

Dylan Rhee Secures His Ticket to Olympic Trials

20 January 2019

By Hannah Grynberg, Swimming World Intern. This weekend at the Speedo Winter Invitational, after years of training, Dylan Rhee finally got his chance to qualify for the Olympic Trials, the

What I Learned in the Open Water

20 January 2019

Commentary by Kat Hall, Swimming World Contributor. A few years ago at the Santa Cruz Wharf the August sun was hot, the noise of hundreds swarming around me unbearable. The

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