Articles by Braden Keith

Louisiana High School Swim Coach Placed on Leave After Profanity-Laced Tirade

A Louisiana high school swim coach and math teacher was placed on leave after a video emerged on social media of a profanity-laced tirade in a classroom.

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LEN’s New U23 Swimming Championship Will Include ISL-Like Elements

LEN’s new Sport Director Apostolos Tsagarakis is bringing some International Swimming League flavor to the upcoming U23 European Swimming Championships.

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Svetlana Romashina, the Most-Decorated Artistic Swimmer Ever, Retires at 33

Svetlana Romashina’s 21 World Aquatics Championships gold medals are second all-time to only American swimmer Michael Phelps.

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Northwestern’s Jasmine Nocentini Is Out of Big Tens, “Probably” Done for the Season

Northwestern’s breakout star Jasmine Nocentini says that her junior season is likely over as she works on the long-term health of her shoulder.

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A Pair of Viral Officiating Moments Show the Worst of Sports, Not the Best

A pair of unfortunate officiating decisions last month took moments of sporting euphoria and crushed them under the weight of moralizing beauracracy.

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Missy Franklin Johnson & Husband Hayes Johnson Appear at Grammy Awards

Missy Franklin and her husband Hayes Johnson were invited to the 65th annual Grammy Awards last weekend as part of a charity program for adaptive sports.

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Russian Officials Say 2025 World Champs Move a “Postponement,” Not Cancellation

One Russian sporting official says that the 2029 World Aquatics Championships will be hosted in Kazan, Russia, but World Aquatics says that no final decision has been made yet.

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Summer McIntosh Drops 5 Seconds, Narrowly-Misses Canadian Record in the 800 Free

Summer McIntosh kicked off her 2023 swimming season with a ban in Orlando, Florida, winning the women’s 800 free at the Orlando Sectionals.

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Pool Records Fall at BYU’s Regular-Season Ending Intrasquad Meet

Diego Camacho Salgado broke the BYU Pool Record in the 200 back last weekend and was over a second better than his time from last year’s MPSF Championship meet.

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2025 World Aquatics Championships Moved from Russia to Singapore

The 12,000 seat Singapore Indoor Stadium will host the swimming portion of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, the third-straight edition that will be held in Asia.

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US Center for SafeSport Closes the Case on World Champion Swimmer Trenton Julian

The Mission Viejo Nadadores have revealed that the US Center for Safesport case against Trenton Julian has been “administratively closed”

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World Aquatics Suspension of Evengy Rylov Ends; “No Update” on Russia and Belarus

Evgeny Rylov’s suspension from World Aquatics competition ended in January, though the organization says they have no updates on the status of Russian and Belarusian athletes at large.

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World Champion Summer McIntosh Is Scheduled to Swim at Orlando Sectionals This Week

16-year-old Summer McIntosh, the defending World Champion in the 200 fly and 400 IM, is scheduled to open her 2023 season this weekend in Orlando.

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Europe, USOPC React to IOC’s Russia Plan; Belarus Anti-War Athletes Want Reinstatement

Nordic and Baltic countries have rejected the IOC’s plan for re-entry of Russian athletes into global sports; so too has the mayor of Paris, the 2024 Olympic host city.

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Switzerland Swim-Off Decided by Thousandths of a Second

What if I told you that your automatic timing system was lying to you when it showed you results only to the hundredths of a second?

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