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IRVINE, California, August 18. USA's Allison Schmitt dominated the women's ...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, August 12. SOME of the future starts of the 2016 Olympics in Brazil displayed their creativity and athleticism today during the first day of competition at the 12th FINA / eSYNCHRO World Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships. The five day competition is being held at the Indiana University Natatorium ("The Nat"...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 20. SWIMMINGWORLD.TV and Pacific Swimming have partnered to bring the Far Western Long Course Championships to
Swimming World's international community as part of a SwimmingWorld.TV live broadcast. The meet will take place from July 28 to August 1 in Concord, Calif., and is being hosted by the Terrapins Swim Club.
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SAN DIEGO, California, July 13. THIS weekend, Janet Evans was inducted into the National Federation of State High School Association's National High School Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 2010. She joined a class that included track and field athlete Michael Carter, cross country and track athlete Suzy Favor-Hamilton, football and track a...
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Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer
BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, July 12. THEY rose to international acclaim together, many times known by the mention of only their first names. Kate and Katie. Katie and Kate. They were the future of American female swimming, multiple-time world champions as teenagers. They were also world-rec...
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LOS ANGELES, California, July 11. THE last night of action of the USA Swimming Grand Prix circuit featured a top-ranked swim by California's Dana Vollmer in the women's 100 fly. The final swims took place at the Los Angeles Grand Prix, previously the Janet Evans Invitational, in a long course meter format. Meanwhile, Mission Viejo's C...
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By David Rieder
LOS ANGELES, California, July 8. THE first evening of long course meter racing at the Los Angeles Grand Prix, previously the Janet Evans Invitational, featured prelims of the women's 800 free and men's 1500 free. FAST's Kate Ziegler and Trojan's Ous Mellouli led the way in their respective events.
Ziegl...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 2. WITH the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships coming up next month, Jeff Commings took a superb look back in a story featured in the July issue of
Swimming World Magazine at a remarkable day in which four world records fell at the 1989 Pan Pacific Championships on Aug. 20 of that year.
The foursome of Mike Barrowman, J...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 16. RISING star Jazz Carlin is the guest on today's edition of
The Morning Swim Show.
Carlin talks about her breakthrough swim at the GBR vs. Germany duel and how she tries to not swim in the shadow of Janet Evans, despite being coached by Bud McAllister. She also discusses McAllister's training style and ...
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Guest editorial by Chris DeSantis, reprinted from his blog at The Athlete Village.
ATLANTA, Georgia, May 26. IT'S a situation familiar to anyone -- you have a disagreement with somebody, something unfortunate happens and th...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 14. TODAY on
The Morning Swim Show we bring you an encore presentation of an insightful interview with renowned stroke technician Bill Boomer.
In this 20-minute interview, Boomer talks with Brent Rutemiller about the changes he has seen regarding the way swimmers are trained. Boomer expands on his theory by equatin...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 5. IT's always instructive to browse through the national age group records. The majority of the 10-and-under record holders generally do not go on to be the best swimmers at age 20. (A few do, but most don't.) Generally, the same can be said for the 11-12 record holders. By the ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 22. THERE are often conversations internally at
Swimming World about just when someone has appeared on one of our more than 600 covers in the past 50 years. Now, thanks to one of our interns Candice Peak – a former swimmer at the University of Wisconsin, we can answer all of these questions.
At the end of an exhau...
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By Thomas Willdridge
SWANSEA, Great Britain, February 20. THE Welsh National Pool, filled with fans wearing red and green, made for a fantastic setting for a welcome return to head-to-head racing in Europe as the Duel in the Pool series featured Great Britain versus Germany. The meet took place in a long course meter pool.
Women'...
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, February 19. VIRGINIA freshman Lauren Perdue, Duke freshman Nick McCrory and sophomore Abby Johnston, and North Carolina sophomore Laura Moriarty each broke three records on the third day of the 2010 Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Swimming & Diving and Men's Diving Championship at Koury Natatorium on the Univ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 29. THE unveiling of the World Swimmers of the Year is just two days away. Today,
Swimming World names the 2009 American Swimmers of the Year, as seen in our December issue.
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With Ous Mellouli and...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, October 26. TWO weeks ago, this column slot provided a look at one man's vote for the top 10 swimmers of the decade. It was a tough task, but not nearly as challenging as this week's chore: Selecting the top 10 women for the 2000s. Putting this list together created some serious angst, but...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 30. TODAY, we are offering our online readers a free preview of some of the content that is available to
Swimming World Magazine subscribers. In a never-before-published article, Wayne Goldsmith and Helen Morris present questions that every swimming parents has probably asked.
The Top Ten Questions Every Swimm...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 28. TODAY, we are offering our online readers a free preview of some of the content that is available to
Swimming World Magazine subscribers. In a never-before-published article, Michael J. Stott takes an in-depth look at team building.
Winning the Dry Deck
By Michael J. Stott
Lives there a successful...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 15. Swimming World TV continues its weekend of honoring legendary coach and swimmer Ron Johnson with a re-airing of his three interviews on
The Morning Swim Show.
In this second segment, we bring you a special interview from May 2009, in which Johnson analyzed the straight-arm freestyle technique that has been pop...
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