World University Games Begin; US Men's 800 Free Relay Second to Italy23 August 2001BEIJING, CHINA, Aug. 23. IN Sydney at the 2000 Olympics, the USA's men's team started out with a disappointing silver medal in the 400m free relay. Thursday night, the Americans saw the same thing happen as they took second in the 800m free relay to an Italian team that hadn't won a rela...
Read moreUS Olympic Trials - Day 2 Prelim Highlights09 August 2000Event 5: Women's 100 Back Prelims Courtney Shealy, 22, of Athens Bulldogs qualified first for the semi-finals with a 1:02.13. In second is veteran B.J. Bedford, 27, with a 1:02.19. Bedford, swimming for the National Resident Team, was third in this event at the 1996 Trials and has won seven nati...
Lim Lowers His Own National High School Mark23 November 1999Swimming in his final meet for the Bolles School, Alex Lim lowered his own national high school record last Thursday, November 18. Lim, who will represent Malaysia in the 2000 Olympic Games, stroked the 100 yard backstroke in a phenomenal 46.82 seconds, slashing 15-hundredths of a second off the rec...
Kristy, Angel Sparkle at Southern Regional Champs24 July 2000Kristy Kowal, the American record-holder in the short course 100 and 200 breaststroke, turned in some impressive times at the Southern Regional (Region III) Senior Long Course Championships in Athens, Georgia, July 13-16. Kowal turned in a lifetime best--swimming unrested--in the 200 IM, clocking 2:...
US Men Take Two More Gold on Final Day of WUG29 August 2001BEIJING, Aug 29. THE US men won two gold while Japan won all three women's events on the final day of competition at the World University Games in Beijing. The US men took the medley relay in a Games record 3:39.49. Peter Marshall led off the relay with a 54.84, followed by breaststroker David D...
Read moreNISCA All-American Showcase: Sippy Woodhead, Joe Hudepohl Were Ahead of Their Time in 200 Free09 July 2014PHOENIX, Arizona, July 9. AS part of our 11-day series highlighting the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association’s release of the 2013-14 All-America lists, Swimming World will also be looking at the history of each event that is part of the high school schedule. Today, we take a look back ...
Swindle Steals Sharks' Thunder at Florida High School Champs, Lowers Own National Record16 November 2001By Josh Jeffrey FT. LAUDERDALE, Nov. 16. CHRISTINA Swindle, Swimming World's reigning 'Female High School Swimmer of the Year' set the ISHOF swimming complex on fire last night at Florida's District 1A State High School Swimming and Diving Championships. Swindle, a junior at Miami...
NCAA Div. I: After Day 4 at SECs, Georgia Leads the Women, Auburn Tops the Men23 February 2002FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 23. WHEN he was UCLA's men's hoops coach a few moons ago, current Georgia head man Jim Herrick characterized a particularly important upcoming game as follows: "It's gonna be another ball burner." That same phrase could well be applied to the women's team rac...
Prep Roundup: Kaitlin Takes Aim07 May 2001LOS ANGELES, May 7. EL TORO High senior Kaitlin Sandeno has done it all in her rather abbreviated but highly productive swimming career. She's been an Olympian, finaled in the "Big Show" and won Olympic bronze, set innumerable records and won innumerable races. But the future Trojan has yet to s...
NCAA Div. I Men: #3 Auburn Upsets #2 Texas11 January 2002AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 11. LED by James Galloway and Ryan Wochomurka, the No. 3-ranked Auburn Tiger men's swimming and diving team defeated the No. 2 Texas Longhorns here Friday afternoon bringing Auburn's record to 4-0 on the season. Texas drops to 2-1. Not only are both teams consistently ran...
NO. 3 Auburn Men's Swimming and Diving Defeat No. 19 Texas A&M 164-12412 January 2002COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The Auburn men's swimming and diving team continued its impressive weekend defeating the No. 19 Texas A&M Aggies 164-124 here Saturday afternoon bringing the Tigers' season record to 5-0. The meet format was not the typical style as the teams swam 50, 150 and 300 yar...