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PHOENIX, April 26. LETTERS of support have been rolling in since we posted Phil Whitten's editorial: "S.O.S.: save Our Sport. A Call to Action." Here is a sample: SAVING MEN'S SWIMMING count me in! my swimming background includes: a.. swimming in high school and a.a.u. b.. swimming for both ...

March 28. OUR fears, articulated several weeks ago that the Iowa State University men's swim team may be vulnerable to being cut, sadly have been realized. In the last 24 hours we have received several e-mails from ISU students and alums asking for support and help. Jim Zenk, a 1995 ISU grad and...

By Fred Hashimoto (This is one in a continuing series of stories about the impact on men's collegiate swimming programs of the misinterpretation of Title IX by university administrators.) This is the story of what happened with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the University of New Mexico. A...

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23. THE NCAA Committee on Infraction's findings concerning the University of Nebraska's report on alleged violations in its swimming and wrestling programs will be announced today at a news conference conducted today at 10:00 a.m. Former Nebraska swim coach Cal Bentz, who ...

YOUNG HARRIS, Georgia, June 5. EIGHT swimmers represent their schools on the recently released list of student-athletes on the 2014 Capital One Academic All-America College Division men's and women's at-large teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Four of the swimmer...

The Greatest... August 2018 Issue Milton Gray Campbell may not have been the greatest high school swimmer of all time, but he was a swimmer who was among the greatest high school athletes of all time. In 1953, as an 18-year-old graduating senior, Campbell was named by Sport Magazine as the best high...

(The following Call to Action is adapted from Editor Phillip Whitten's "Editor's Note" in both the May/June issue of SWIM and the May issue of SWIMMING WORLD.) By Phillip Whitten At last year’s Olympic Games in Sydney, the U.S. swim team performed magnificently. Even while competing in Austr...

By Phillip Whitten (We are publishing Phillip Whitten's editorial from the April 2001 issue of SWIMMING WORLD on our web site. This decision comes after we have received scores of requests asking us to make this important article available to as large an audience as possible.) THE announcement o...

By Phillip Whitten LAWRENCE, Kansas. March 8. THE decision by the University of Kansas to ax men's swimming and tennis has met with fierce resistance from students and student-athletes at the university as well as from outraged alumni. The reaction was immediate, as students ripped gaping holes ...

LA ROMANA, March 25. IN a low scoring match this afternoon, teenage sensation Tony Azevedo Stanford '04/Long Beach, CA) scored three goals to lead the USA to a tough come from behind, 5-2 win over Canada in the opening round of FINA World Championship Qualification tournament being staged in the...

MILWAUKEE, Wisc., Jan. 17. THE National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), along with the defunct wrestling club team at Marquette University, filed a lawsuit today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington D.C. against the Department of Education, according to a story in ...

March 5. A RECOMMENDATION released Thursday, Feb. 22 by the James Madison University administration would enable the university to continue offering all 28 intercollegiate sports that are now available at JMU. The recommendation would reverse the previously announced decision that would have cut swi...

(The following Call to Action is adapted from Editor Phillip Whitten's "Editor's Note" in both the May/June issue of SWIM and the May issue of SWIMMING WORLD.) By Phillip Whitten At last year’s Olympic Games in Sydney, the U.S. swim team performed magnificently. Even while competing in Austr...