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By Swimming World Intern Natasha Mascarenhas PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. DURING swim meets, it is a common sight to see swimmers cramming homework in between races. It’s usually as they get older that they have to truly learn how to multitask and figure out if they can handle swimming, schoo...

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 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...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, March 14. MORRIS County's Vinny Marciano, who recently lowered the 11-12 100-yard backstroke national age group record to a 53.26, was at it again a the New Jersey Swimming Junior Olympics. The 12-year-old blitzed the field in the 11-12 100-yard back with a time of 52.47. Tha...

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...

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...

This weekend, Swimming World is presenting live and on-demand video coverage from the 2019 Speedo Winter Invitational in Piscataway, N.J., and all race videos from the Saturday morning prelims session are now available to view. All races, including the heats of the 400 IM, 400 free, 100 back and 50 ...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, March 15. VINNY Marciano, a 12-year-old prodigy who swims for Morris County in Jersey, took down his second 11-12 U.S. National Age Group record in as many days at the New Jersey Swimming Junior Olympics. Yesterday, Marciano popped a time of 52.47 in the 100-yard back to beco...

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...

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 ...

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 Jen Milner PISCATAWAY, N.J., Jan. 5. THE Princeton men's (5-0) and women's (4-0) swimming and diving teams defeated Rutgers Friday night with each squad winning nine out of 16 events. The women won by a score of 164-136 while the men coasted to a 187-113 victory. Kate Conroy won the 100 b...

By Swimming World Intern Carmen Triola PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. BEWTEEN races, twins Karen and Alicia Iizuka are, in typical sibling fashion, in the middle of an argument. Both 14 years old and swimmers for Scarlet Aquatics, neither can decide who is the better athlete. “I know she’s fast...

By Swimming World Intern Carmen Triola PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. WHEN they arrived at the 2014 CeraVe Invitational, Cape Cod Swim Club Head Coach Ron Zuwallack and his 11 swimmers could tell one thing right away: they were the little fish in a big pool. They were, after all, fighting along...

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...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, March 14. MORRIS County's Vinny Marciano, who recently lowered the 11-12 100-yard backstroke national age group record to a 53.26, was at it again a the New Jersey Swimming Junior Olympics. The 12-year-old blitzed the field in the 11-12 100-yard back with a time of 52.47. Tha...

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...