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Event 19: Women's 200 Breast Kristy Kowal qualified first for the semi-finals of the 200 breast with a 2:26.32. In the 100 breast, Kowal missed making the Olympic team by .01 of a second. Second qualifier was Megan Quann, the 100 breast champion, in 2:28.12. Third was Amanda Beard, the 1996 Olym...

Oklahoma City - Chad Carvin and Tammie Stone were the top money winners in a star-studded field at the 9th Annual Kerr-McGee Corporation/Nike Pro-Am, December 14-17. Carvin, the 2000 Olympian, lead the men's field by taking home $2,900, for winning four events including a $500 bonus for the 1650...

By Kari Lydersen Oklahoma City, OK - The first two days of the Nike Kerr-McGee Pro-Am Swim Meet at the Oklahoma City Community College Natatorium showcased some fast unshaved swimming by top Olympic hopefuls including Josh Davis, Ashley Tappin and Natalie Coughlin. Coughlin, 17, won the 1,000 yard f...

BEIJING, Aug. 21. FORTY-SEVEN athletes were chosen to represent the United States in swimming at the World University Games in Beijing, China. In the past, this meet has proved to be a good springboard for future Olympians, as 78 American swimmers who medaled at WUGs went on to the Olympics; 56 of t...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 16. SLOVAKIA'S Martina Moravcova added three more medals to the three she won last night to emerge as the dominant swimmer at the two-day FINA World Cup 2 swim meet in College Park, Maryland. Moravcova, who won two silver medals in Sydney two months ago, collected wins to...

Americans Lenny Krayzelburg, Neil Walker and Jenny Thompson each set a short course world record on the second, and final day of competition of the FINA World Cup meet in College Park, Maryland. Krayzelburg blasted the 200m backstroke in 1:52.47, just squeaking by the old mark of 1:52.51 set by Spai...

by Phillip Whitten San Antonio, TX - There were several upsets, four meet records and some very fast swimming on the final day of the three-day U.S. Open Swimming Championships, held at Palo Alto College in San Antonio. The very first event of the evening saw the meet's biggest upset when Japan's Sa...

By Kari Lydersen Oklahoma City, OK - Ashley Tappin got a nice birthday present at the Kerr-McGee Nike Pro-Am on December 18, just as she has the past two years. Celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday, Tappin won the women's 50 yard freestyle shoot-out at the meet, with a special purse of $1,500. Two ...

(from the August issue of SWIMMING WORLD Magazine) By Phillip Whitten Arguably the most anxiety- and tension-ridden meet in all of swimming, the U.S. Olympic Trials is the one and only opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. Do it here, at this quadrennial test of body and spirit, and you’...

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...

NEW COMMIT: Colorado State University has officially begun their class of 2025 recruiting after receiving a pair of verbal commitments from Tallahassee, Fla. native Emily Chorpening and Katie McClelland of Monument, Colo. Both talented swimmers will suit up for the Rams at the start of the 2021-22 s...

BEIJING, Aug. 28. US men won three of the four finals contested tonight at the Yingdong Natatorium in Beijing at the World University Games, and added a silver and bronze. The American women swam well too, picking up two silvers and bronze medal in the three women's finals. The US notched its fo...

Event 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...

AUSTIN, TX. MULTI-talented Neil Walker put on a virtuoso display at the Texas Senior Circuit Championships in Austin, July 13-16, winning three events with world class performances. The University of Texas grad first won the 100 meter backstroke in 55.77, followed with a 22.47 for the 50m free, and ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Chinese swimmers have been invited to compete at the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships despite a push by the U.S. to have them banned because of their horrendous record of drugs in sport. The Americans wanted to ban China but had been outvoted after a meeting of the Pan Pac Charter ...