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You Know You're a Swimmer When...12 Quirks That Come With the Sport By Rachel Helm To most people, swimming is seen as just a sport or having a little splash in the pool. However, to a competitive swimmer, it becomes a lifestyle. Here are 12 quirks of competitive swimming that we all can relate to. ...

By Rachel Helm, Swimming World College Intern.  Known for her contagious smile and her charismatic attitude towards life, Georgia Wright is certainly a force to be reckoned with in the realm of NCAA Division II swimming. Wright originally hails from Doncaster, a town in the United Kingdom, but decid...

By Rachel Helm, Swimming World College Intern.  Every team has a unique identity and with that comes a variety of different traditions. From your high school to your college team to even your club team, traditions facilitate team unity and create shared memories across several swimming generations. ...

By Rachel Helm, Swimming World College Intern.  As the Youth Commonwealth Games champion 2015, multiple national champion, British age group record holder and English Short Course senior champion, Edward Baxter has a high success rate so far in his swimming career. He currently trains at the British...

By Rachel Helm, College Swimming Intern.  As an international swimmer from the United Kingdom, only movies could portray what being an athlete would be like in America. So when the option arises to swim in the U.S., many athlete happily jump at the opportunity. While you may not think that swimming ...

By Rachel Helm, Swimming World College Intern.  Transitioning from high school swimming to college swimming is a massive step for incoming freshmen, but for others, the transition is nearly seamless. Moving away from home and into college independence can hard enough, but to add college practice on ...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern. It was a quick, yet eventful evening at the first finals session of the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championship swim meet. Tonight's event lineup included the 200 IM, 50 free and 200 medley relay, with both the consolat...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World Intern. Day three of the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (GLIAC) Championship brought the excitement with a third individual title for both Grand Valley State Junior Melina Goebel and Northern Michigan University Junior Rachel Helm.  Wayne State U...

Not a lot of Division II teams will be in action over Veterans Day weekend as a lot of teams are taking the weekend off to get prepared for their November invitationals before Thanksgiving. A few teams that are in action are quality teams in Nova Southeastern, Northern Michigan and Delta State. Nova...

By Rachel Helm, Swimming World College Intern.  How many times do you hear your teammates grumble about training, lack of sleep, disagreements with coach, etc.? Sometimes during the grind, it can be hard to keep focused on gratitude and the positives that swimming has brought to our lives. However, ...

It was an exciting conclusion to the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championships. Grand Valley State University Junior Melina Goebel and Northern Michigan Junior Rachel Helm brought home their fourth individual titles this evening. Helm set the new meet record in the w...

The second round of fall invites finished this past weekend for Division II schools. There was plenty of fast swimming across the nation with teams like Northern Michigan, Wingate and Grand Valley, among others competing across the country in various post-Thanksgiving invitationals. But the biggest ...

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC Championships) kicks off this week and is the NCAA Division II Meet of the Week. There are several teams that will be in contention for the meet, led by rivals Grand Valley State and Wayne State. The meet runs Feb. 19-22 at Saginaw Valley St...

The first weekend of November is complete in the 2017-2018 season as teams across Division II swimming are starting to gear up for the fall invitationals. This last weekend was the last weekend a lot of teams will have a chance to swim without fast suits until January as they make their final prepar...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern.  It was another eventful evening at the second finals session of the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championships. The Wayne State University men claimed another relay record in the 400 medley, adding to the team's five eve...

The busiest weekend in swimming saw plenty of fast swimming across Division II. Reigning national champions Queens hosted its Bluegrass Mountain Conference and came away victorious over in-state rival Wingate. Queens, UC San Diego and California Baptist all swept their conference meets and Wayne Sta...

There are three major Division II conference meets set to begin this weekend as the second major wave of conference meets in Division II hits us. The Bluegrass Mountain, the Rocky Mountain and the Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference will all be hosting their championship meets this weekend. There are...