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By Phillip Whitten ON October 11 – exactly one month after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that left between 5,000 and 7,000 people dead – the Curl-Burke Swim Club held a relief effort for those touched by the tragedy. It was one of many such efforts by swim clubs around the country...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, Texas, March 30. FIFTEEN year-old Michael Phelps became the youngest American man ever to set a world swimming record, when he blasted the global standard in the 200 meter butterfly, defeating former world record-holder and 2000 Olympic champion, Tom Malchow, in the proces...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, March 31. FOR the second time in two days, the world record in the men's 50 meter breaststroke was broken at the US National Swimming Championships in Austin, Texas. On Thursday, Stanford's Anthony Robinson broke a five year-old mark with a time of 27.49 seconds. T...

By Betsy Durrant April 24. FORTY YEAR-OLD Beth (O'Connor) Baker has been ripping up the record book in the women's 40-44 age group of late, smashing records considered some of the toughest in the record book. In a six-week period she set no fewer than nine USMS records and four world marks. ...

OCT. 16. RICK Curl, head coach of the Curl-Burke Swim Club, announced today that Curl-Burke had raised "over $32,000" in its "United We Swim" campaign to aid the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Some 216 swimmers participated in the fund-raiser, swimming a total of 324 miles. Olympic g...

Nation’s Capital Swim Club has long been one of America’s best swim clubs. It might soon have a facility that matches its national profile. The Bethesda, Md., based club this week submitted a proposal to construct a multimillion-dollar training facility near New Baltimore in Fauquier County, Virgini...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, Texas. March 28. ED MOSES finally entered the Promised Land--a world record--tonight at the U.S. National Swimming Championships. Moses' time of 1:00.29 broke the old global mark of 1:00.36 set last year by Russia's Roman Sloudnov. It also broke the American record...

By Phillip Whitten May 16. HE is the most dominant swimmer in his event in history, winning gold at the 1994 World Championships, the 1996 Olympics, the 1998 World Championships and the 2000 Olympics. He has held the world record in his event for 81 months, longer than anyone else in history except ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 21. COSTA Rican national hero Claudia Poll led from start to finish to take the women's 200m freestyle tonight at the USA Swimming National Championhips, being held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Poll, 29, split 58.62 on her way to a time of 1:59.52, the...

NOTRE DAME, Ind. -- (11-28-01) University of Notre Dame men's head swimming coach Tim Welsh has announced the signing of three incoming freshman for the 2002-03 school year. Patrick Heffernan (Norcross, Ga.), Jamie Lutkus (Granger, Ind.)and Stephen Shomberger (Spotsylvania, Vir.) have signed nat...

Thirty-six year-old Wally Dicks led the way as three USMS records were broken by Ancient Mariners swimmers at a USS meet in Maryland last month. Dicks broke the men's 35-39 100 yard breaststroke mark with a time of 56.68, then lowered that mark to 56.64 in a time trial. (The USS senior cut is 56.59....

By Phillip Whitten PARIS, Jan. 18. JUST one week ago, Ed Moses predicted to swiminfo that he'd do something spectacular at the World Cup meets in Europe. A few days later, at a dual meet at the University of Virginia, he added substance to his prophesy by swimming the second fastest 100 and 200 ...

In day 1 of the Charlotte UltraSwim Challenge, 800m Freestyle favorite, Brooke Bennett, took first place with a time of 8:36.34, followed by Christina Teuscher in 8:42.46, and Magda Dyszkiewicz in 8:48.20. In the 1500m Free Tyler Painter, from the US Resident team, narrowly won in 15:34.37 over Rica...

COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, Nov. 15. MARTINA Moravcova, Slovakia's first-ever Olympic medalist, was a triple winner on the first night of competition at the FINA World Cup 2 swim meet held at College Park, Maryland. American Olympian Ed Moses won two events. Moravcova, who won two silver medals in S...

ATLANTA, June. 22. SWIMINFO will be covering the 16th World Maccabiah Games with daily stories and results. The games will be held in Israel, July 16-25. The following is a list of the US swim team and coaches for the 16th World Maccabiah Games: Seth Baron: Head Coach/USA - Atlanta, GA - Head Coach ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 12. THE University of Virginia men's and women's swimming teams participated in a relay swim Thursday (October 11) to raise funds for the families of the victims of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. The Cavaliers collectively swam a di...

Commentary by Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16. WHEN the nominees for the ESPY Awards, ESPN’s way of honoring the best sports athletes and moments of the past 17 months, I was shocked that swimming and other aquatic sports were not listed in the nominations. Judging by the reactions from the ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 10. BETH O'Connor Baker resumed her onslaught on the Masters swimming world record book in a USA Swimming meet last weekend hosted by the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. Coached by John Flanagan and swimming for Curl-Burke Swim Club (CUBU), she smashed three long course world ...