Articles by Braden Keith

All-American Emily Grund Makes Return to NCAA Diving Competition

UNC All-American diver Emily Grund made her return for the Tar Heels on Friday, placing 2nd on 1-meter and 3rd on 3-meter.

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Minnesota Freshman Ava Yablonski Swims Best Time in 100 Fly in Gopher Win Over SMU

Minnesota entered the season with a big gap in their sprint butterfly group. Freshman Ava Yablonski has impressed early to assuage those concerns, though.

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After SC Worlds Slight, Beata Nelson Is On Her Way to Six-Figure World Cup Payday

Beata Nelson won’t race at this year’s premier short course meters meet, but she’s still going to make a pile of cash for her efforts.

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Numbers, Numbers, Numbers: the Numbers Behind Tomoru Honda’s World Record 200 FLy

Tomoru Honda broke the World Record while swimming against the former World Record holder – which it turns out, is not that rare.

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Singapore Record Holder, Junior National Champion Nick Mahabir Commits to Cal

The defending NCAA Champion men from Cal are reloading in a big way in the class of 2024. The latest commit is one of the top breaststrokers in the group.

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Anthony Grimm, Top Recruit in Class of 2021, Announces Retirement from Swimming

Anthony Grimm, the nation’s #1-ranked recruit in the high school class of 2021, has retired from competitive swimming after one season in the NCAA.

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Matt Sates Breaks African Record in 400 Free for First World Cup Win of 2022

Matt Sates is back on the pro circuit that he won last year, and he looks even faster in 2022. The 19-year old South African won the…

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15-Year Old Nathan Szobota Opens NOVA Senior Classic with 9:05 in 1000y Free

2022 NOVA Senior Classic (SCY) October 28-30, 2022 NOVA Aquatics – Regency Mall, Richmond, Virginia Short Course Yards (25 yards)…

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Hanover YMCA Swim Coach Given Permanent Ban by US Center for SafeSport

Editor’s note: There are multiple individuals named Zack Miller affiliated with the swimming community, even in the state of Pennsylvania….

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Rateb Hussein, the 2022 CCSA Swimmer of the Year, Will Transfer for Final Season

Rateb Hussein of Florida Atlantic will finish this season with the Owls, but plans to use his final season of eligibility at a Power 5 program as a graduate transfer.

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14-Year Old Sam Marsteiner Swims 4:30 in the 500 Free Just Before Aging Up

Sam Marsteiner just-missed his best times in the 500 free and 200 fly last weekend in a dual meet against the Waves of Wilmington.

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Why Has the Swims 3.0 Rollout Been Hard, and What is USA Swimming Doing About It?

Patrick Murphy has led USA Swimming’s effort to modernize its information technology systems. The rollout hasn’t been without its challenges, though.

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HS Junior Diego Balbi Rips 47.6 in 100 Fly at Palm Beach County Championship Meet

Balbi, who represented Peru in the A-final of the 100 fly at last summer’s World Junior Championships, is the fastest high schooler in the country this season

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See The FINA World Cup Series’ All-Time Winningest Swimmers

American Tom Shields, one of the world’s best short course swimmers, moved into the top 50 all-time gold medalists in FINA World Cup Series history last season.

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A Year After Biggest Olympic Swimming Success, IOC Suspends Guatemala

Guatemala will stop receiving IOC funding and athletes will not be able to compete under their country’s flag at international multi-sport events like the Olympics or Pan American Games.

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