Read moreCaribbean's Best Age Groupers Light Up Night One of Carifta Games22 April 2014SAVANETA, Aruba, April 22. THE first night of action at the Carifta Games featured a handful of meet marks taking a tumble as the top age groupers of the Caribbean took to the water. 15-17 Aruba's Jordy Groters and Bahamas' Dustin Tynes battled in the boys 200-meter breast with Groters emerging with...
NCAA Div. I Women: Auburn The Surprise Leader After Day One As Three More American Records Fall15 March 2001By Phillip Whitten EAST MEADOW, N.Y., March 15. SIX teams are very much in the hunt for a national title after the first day of competition at the Women's Division I NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, being held at the Nassau Aquatic Center on Long Island, New York. The surprise leader afte...
Auburn Signs George Bovell, Trinidad Phenom17 March 2002AUBURN, Ala., March 17. TIGER coach David Marsh scored a major coup in the early recruiting period by signing Bolles School star George Bovell -- a Trinidad & Tobago Olympian. Bovell wss the surprise of last summer's World Championships in Fukuoka -- surprise, that is, to all but himself and his...
Phelps Breaks World Record, Moses Just Misses30 March 2001By 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...
NCAA Div. I Women: Auburn Holds A Tiny Lead After Day two in the Closest Women's Championships in History16 March 2001By Phillip Whitten EAST MEADOW, N.Y. March 16. COACH DAVD MARSH'S Auburn Tigers held on to a tiny margin of four points at the end of the second day of competition at the Women's NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships, being held at the Nassau Aquatic Center in East Meadow, New Yo...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS PREVIEW for July 2626 July 2001By Phillip Whitten FUKUOKA, Japan, July 25. THIS is our preview of the events to be contested tomorrow, Thursday, July 26, at the World Championships in Fukuoka. Five finals are being contested with three featuring races that leave it difficult to divine the winner. Still, that's the purpose of ...
Stanford Men and Women Sweep British Columbia17 November 1999STANFORD, CA - Stanford won 13 of 14 races on the women's side and 11 of 14 on the men's side to defeat the University of British Columbia in a pair of dual meets at deGuerre Pool Friday afternoon (November 12). The Cardinal women, ranked third nationally, posted a 170.5-78-5 win while the top-ranke...