Articles by Andrew Mering

Wisconsin High School Girls Sectional Psych Sheets Analysis: Division 2

The Wisconsin high school girls sectional meets will be taking place this weekend. These meets will serve as the qualifying…

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The Weekend’s Best D1 Dual Meets: Davidson/Asheville Drama and a Tie

Swimming is most exciting during a close race with something on the line. It’s is a sport about racing. Beating…

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NCAA October Times: Meaningless or Prophetic?

‘Don’t get too excited about a fast time in October. Don’t get too down about a slow time in October.’…

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The Weekend’s Best D1 Dual Meets: A Pair of William and Mary Thrillers

Swimming is most exciting during a close race with something on the line. It’s is a sport about racing. Beating…

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College Dual Meet Excitement: The Weekend’s Best D1 Meets

Swimming is most exciting during a close race with something on the line. Swimming is a sport about racing. Beating…

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WATCH: Documentary on Stanford Women’s Championship Season

Stanford released a 29:00 minute video about their 2017 and 2018 NCAA championship teams. It features interviews with key members…

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How Tough are the 2020 Olympic Trials Cuts?

The 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials cuts were released on Thursday (view them here). They are faster than the 2016 cuts…

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What Happened When Beijing Had Morning Prelims in 2008?

On Friday, SwimSwam editor-in-chief Braden Keith published an editorial arguing that there are some pro-athlete facets to the decision to…

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Half of NCAA D3 Individual Qualifying Standards Faster than D2

All of the 2018-2019 NCAA qualifying marks have been released and 26 of 52 individual A and B cuts are…

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2018 Pan Pacs Pick’em Final Results

godawgs17 was the overall winner with 371.5 points. They book ended the meet with days over 100 points to give them a 20.5 margin of victory over Bear drinks beer.

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European Championships 2018 Performance Breakdown

European Championships wrapped up this last week. There were many impressive swims. We’ve covered the team trophy, and the medal table, but there is more performance information that we can look at.

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2018 Pan Pacs Pick’em Day 3 Update: Top 2 Pulling Away

Day 3 ended with a tie atop the overall standings between godawgs17 and yesterday’s leader Rafael with 269.5 points.

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2018 Pan Pacs Pick’em Day 2 Update – Upsets, Upsets, Upsets

After day 2 Rafael has taken the overall lead with 176.5. They are closely followed by MattDB with 176, godawgs17 with 175.5 and TheJudga with 171.

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2018 Euros Pick’em Final Scores

The leader from the last 4 days ced4003 held on for the win with 417 points

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2018 Pan Pac Pick’em Day 1 Update

2018 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS Thursday, August 9 – Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Tokyo, Japan Meet…

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