Articles by Anya Pelshaw

Apeksha Fernandes Swims Indian National Record in Women’s 100 Breast with 1:12.83

Fernandes broke the previous record of 1:14.42 set in 2020 by Chahat Aurora. She came into the meet with a personal best time of a 1:14.54.

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NCAA A Finalists Lucie Nordmann & Morgan Tankersley Stay at Stanford for Grad Year

Morgan Tankersley (above) and Lucie Nordmann combined for 39 individual points for Stanford at the 2022 Women’s NCAA Championships.

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2021 NCAA B Finalist Sarah Watson to Transfer to NC State for 5th Year

Watson’s best times would have scored NC State an additional 69 points at 2022 ACCs where the Wolfpack women finished only 71.5 points behind Virginia.

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15-Year-Old Emily Brown Swims 4:48.83 400 IM on Night 2 Cleveland Sectionals

Brown swam a best time by over five seconds to win the 400 IM. Her time also puts her into the top 100 in the 15-16 age group of all time.

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Ohio State’s Amy Fulmer Shines on Night 1 of Cleveland Sectionals with 50 Free PB

Fulmer won the women’s 50 freestyle in a best time of 25.40. She also anchored Ohio State’s winning women’s 800 freestyle relay.

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Santo Condorelli Among Big Names Racing Across 5 Sectional Meets This Weekend

Condorelli is entered in the 50 freestyle at Mt Hood Sectionals. Also set to compete this weekend are Katharine Berkoff, Coleman Stewart, and Max McHugh.

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Happy National Pool Day: The SwimSwam Staff Picks their Favorite Pools

July 11th is National Pool Today so we asked our staff what their favorite pool is. Check out their answers in this post.

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Nina Kucheran Changes Commitment to Take 5th Year at Florida

Kucheran would have been Florida’s only 100 breaststroker this past season under the 1:00 mark as her best time stands at a 59.02.

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Ksawery Masiuk Completes Backstroke “Hat-trick” on Day 6 of European Juniors

Ksawery Masiuk of Poland won the boys 50, 100, and 200 meter backstrokes at the 2022 European Junior Championships.

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2x SEC Diving Champion Tanesha Lucoe to Transfer to Tennessee

Lucoe won the platform diving event at both the 2020 and 2022 SEC Championships. As a freshman, she earned the SEC Freshman Diver of the Year award.

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Carson Foster Swims Another Best Time with 1:55.86 200 Back (RACE VIDEO)

Foster’s time of 1:55.86 would have finished third at US International Team Tirals in April and fourth at Worlds last month.

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Galossi on Golds 15 Minutes Apart “I felt nothing but pain”: Day 5 Euro Juniors

Lorenzo Galossi won the boys 800 freestyle only 15 minutes before anchoring Italy’s boys 4×200 freestyle relay to gold.

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Where has the LCM Men’s 100 Free Gone 100 Years After the First Sub-1:00 Swim?

100 years ago today, the 1:00 barrier was broken in the men’s 100 freestyle for the first time as Johnny Weissmuller swam a 58.6.

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4 National Records go Down on Night 5 of 2022 European Junior Championships

Romania’s Vlad-Stefan Stancu set a new national record in the 800 freestyle. That was his second national record of the meet.

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2022 Worlds Bronze Medalist Ksawery Masiuk of Poland Commits to NC State

Masiuk’s converted LCM 100 backstroke time would already have qualified for the A final at the 2022 ACC Championships.

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