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PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 14. THE 400 individual medley is one of the toughest events on the swimming program, but Bluefish Swim Club athletes approach it with a bit of excitement. In these video interviews with Swimming World intern Justin Sweetwood at last weekend’s CeraVe Invitational, Broo...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 9. SWIMMING World is back on the campus of Rutgers University for the CeraVe Invitational, streaming the event live for the fifth year. One of the highlights of our coverage of the meet was watching Katie Ledecky swim the 800 freestyle just five months after she stun...

By Swimming World Intern Carmen Triola PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 21. IT'S been almost forty years since Jim Wood founded his award-winning Berkeley Aquatics Swim Club, during which time, he says, nothing has changed about the art of teaching athletes. What's more, he still concludes his pep ta...

By Swimming World Intern Brook Jiang PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 13. BEHIND every swimmer is a group of supporters. Parents, coaches, and friends – no swimmer can go without them. But for a parent, swimming is much more than a sport. It involves their child’s happiness and success. As any loving...

By Swimming World Intern Sam Finston PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 11. THE greatest swim teams in and around New Jersey have gathered to participate in this weekend's competition at the CeraVe Invitational, with many returning for a tenth time. What brings some of the coaches back every year? A...

By Swimming World Intern Carmen Triola PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 10. THE first day of the age group timed finals at the 2014 CeraVe Invitational saw North Baltimore Aquatic Club sweep the freestyles and the backstrokes, and their own Easop Lee taking three first-place spots. It was not, howev...

By Swimming World Interns Brook Jiang and Heidi Torregroza PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. TO say the Zeiger family is a swimming family like no other would be a modest statement. With three sisters competing in the CeraVe Invitational and an overwhelming number of victories, they are a crucial ...

By Swimming World intern Heidi Torregroza PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 11. EIGHTH grade is one of the most crucial years of an adolescent's life when it comes to deciding what they want to do in the future, especially if it has anything to do with sports. After working hard from a young age, the...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 11. FRIDAY'S live stream of the 2014 CeraVe Invitational on SwimmingWorld.Tv featured some strong racing from the age group and senior divisions, including appearances by members of the USA Swimming national junior team. Gillian Ryan and Brooke Zeiger each won two in...

PHOENIX, Arizona, January 15. IT was a pleasure to be at the CeraVe Invitational this past weekend in Piscataway, New Jersey, to see some of the nation's top junior swimmers and young up-and-comers racing in the long course meet. If you missed our live stream of the meet, you missed several notewort...

By Swimming World Intern Justin Sweetwood PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. THROUGHOUT the weekend, swimmers have been battling it out in the pool at this year’s CeraVe Invitational. Taking place at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on the Rutgers University campus, swimmers from across the coun...

By Swimming World Intern Sam Finston PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. “There are no failures in competitive swimming, just different levels of achievement.” This is the motto that adorns the ID tags of the staff here at the CeraVe Winter Long Course Invitational. The statement is representative o...

By Swimming World Intern Natasha Mascarenhas PISCATAWAY, New Jersey. January 10. THE first night of the 2014 CeraVe Invitational was filled with laughs, smiles and milestone achievements. The 12 events highlighted swimmers from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and California, among othe...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 8. RYAN Feeley, Gillian Ryan and Connor Green are just three members of USA Swimming's national team that will race this weekend on the campus of Rutgers University at Berkeley Aquatic Club's annual CeraVe Invitational. Swimming World will be on deck during the three...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 14. RACING a member of the USA Swimming national team might be daunting for most teenagers at a run-of-the-mill in-season meet, but not Sierra Schmidt. The 15-year-old swam well at the CeraVe Invitational last weekend, often racing in the lane next to multiple event w...

By Swimming World Intern Natasha Mascarenhas PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 11. FOR most people, 5 a.m. daily practices, cramming in homework between races, and 12-hour swim meets do not seem very appealing. But this is what gets swimmers excited. It is a hard sport, and it takes a lot of heart to...

Full recaps, photo galleries, video interviews and feature articles from the CeraVe Invitational, hosted by Berkeley Aquatic Club, on our By Swimming World Interns Heidi Terregroza and Justin Sweetwood PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. THE final night of competition at the CeraVe Invitational on t...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 11. CONNOR Green and Brooke Zeiger earned the title of Ironman and Ironwoman in the second day of competition at the CeraVe Invitational, with each swimming 1900 meters in prelims and finals. Both also won the 400 individual medley and 100 backstroke events tonight. Z...

By Swimming World Intern Carmen Triola PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 10. AS the 2014 CeraVe Invitational warms up, coaches and athletes are beginning to scout their biggest competition. A few from the senior level have already showed promising results, especially from Bluefish Swim Club, North Ba...

By Swimming World Intern Natasha Mascarenhas PISCATAWAY, New Jersey. January 11. STARTING off the 2014 CeraVe invitational right, the North Baltimore Aquatic Club had many wins on Friday. The team wasted no time in establishing their strength, with impressive times and a drive to win. But the suc...