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LOS 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...

MISSION VIEJO, June 24. JAPANESE swimmers continued to dominate competition at the Mission Viejo Nadadores 2000 Swim Meet of Champions, winning four of five women's events and two of five men's events today. Maki Mita led a one-two-three Japanese sweep in the 200 free, clocking a meet record...

By Gerry Rodrigues and Phil Whitten LOS ANGELES, July 16. Outstanding performances are anticipated here on the final evening of the Janet Evans Invitational,at the MacDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium on the campus of the University of Southern California. In prelims, several impressive performances...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, March 27. WITH the absence of three of the USA’s biggest Olympic stars and the retirement of half a dozen more, the stage is set for a changing of the guard at the 2001 USA Swimming Spring National Championships, in Austin, Texas, March 27 - April 1. The meet will also ser...

EDMONTON, Canada, Nov. 18. SLOVAKIA'S Martina Moravcova extended her unbeaten streak on the 2000-2001 FINA World Cup swimming circuit to 13, as she notched three more victories on the first night of competition of World Cup 3 in Edmonton, Alberta. Moravcova, who won two silver medals at the 2000...

Event 11: Women's 200 Free Prelims Samantha Arsenault, 18 and swimming for Greenwood, qualified first for the semi-finals in the 200 free with a 2:00.08, just ahead of Lindsay Benko, 23, at 2:00.11. At 27.47, Arsenault had the fastest first 50 of the event. Ellen Stonebraker, 21, qualified third...

BRISBANE, Australia. Aug. 29. THE US women won 10 events and posted nine second- and nine third-place finishes to defeat the European All-Stars, 82-67, in the opening dual meet of the Goodwill Games swimming competition at the Chandler Aquatic Centre in Cleveland, a suburb of Brisbane. The American ...

By Kari Lydersen Kristy Kowal set a new American record to win the 200 breast, solidly breaking Anita Nall's 1992 mark (2:25.35) with a 2:24.75. Amanda Beard was second in 2:26.79. Megan Quann, who set an American record in the 100 breast at this meet, was third in 2:27.60. Quann was first at th...

By Kari Lydersen Event 19: Women's 200 Breast Semi-Final Kristy Kowal qualified first for the finals of the 200 breast with a 2:25.92, just .57 off the American record. Kowal, 21 and representing Athens Bulldogs, was followed by Megan Quann, the American record-setter and champion in the 100 bre...

By Phillip Whitten CLOVIS, Calif. Aug. 18. TEEN sensation Michael Phelps, late bloomer Gabrielle Rose and triple Olympic gold medalist Gary Hall, Jr. all scored impressive victories tonight, the final night of competition of the USA Swimming National Championships in Clovis, Calif. Phelps, who becam...

CLOVIS, Calif., Aug. 18. BELOW are up-to-date running summaries of prelims on Day 5 of the USA Swimming Nationals. These results will be updated as events are completed. Note: There have been electronic timing glitches here. One simmer in heat one of the men's 50 free was timed in 19.83 seconds;...

JOSH DAVIS SETS US OPEN RECORD AT USA SWIMMING NATIONALS By Phillip Whitten CLOVIS, CA., Aug. 16. LINDSAY Benko said it was that "Fighting Trojan Spirit" that propelled her to victory. Josh Davis said it was the time off after Sydney he spent with his family recharging his batteries that enabled him...

BELMONT SHORES, CA., May 11 -- Back in the heyday of the Mission Viejo-Florida Aquatics cross-continent rivalry during the 1970s and '80s, FAST stars David McCagg and David Larson would sport t-shirts showing an oversized gator torching a Spanish-style building with the words "Burn Down the Miss...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, Texas, March 9. THERE are some fast women in Texas. Swimmin' wimmin, that is. On the final night of the American Short Course Championships, held at the University of Texas, the women's events stole the show, with veteran Lindsay Benko and youngsters Christina Swin...

STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 14. THE rich keep getting richer! The Stanford women's swimming and diving program has announced the signing of four student-athletes to national letters of intent to attend Stanford in 2002-2003. Texas signed one of the nation's top high school diver. The four incomin...

By Bill Bell MISSION VIEJO, June 24 -- A stirring back-to-back double by St. Petersburg's Robert Margalis highlighted the final day's competition at the 24th annual TYR Swim Meet of Champions at the Marguerite Recreation Center Pool here today. Margalis is a strapping University of Georgia s...

(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’...

EDMONTON, Canada, Nov. 19. SWIMMERS from seven nations won gold medals on the second and final night of competition at the FINA World Cup 3 Swimming Meet, held in Edmonton. Slovakia’s Martina Moravcova, a double silver medalist at the Sydney Olympics, extended her undefeated streak on the World Cup ...

BRISBANE, Aug. 30. DESPITE a heroic effort by 16 year-old Kristen Caverly, the USA women fell to Australia, 79.5 to 69.5 on the second day of competition at the Goodwill Games, being held at the Chandler Aquatic Centre in suburban Cleveland, Queensland. Caverly was nothing short of spectacular, winn...

By Bill Bell MISSION VIEJO, June 23 -- Canadian Olympian Mark Johnston won his second race of the TYR Swim Meet of Champions here this evening at the Marguerite Recreation Center Pool, the 200 meter freestyle. More importantly, he won an even bigger prize -- an all-expenses paid trip to Fukuoka, Jap...