Articles by Braden Keith

1 Year Until Paris 2024 Paralympics; USOPC Announces Trials Dates, Location

29-time Paralympic medalist Jessica Long leads Team USA toward the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which begin one year from Monday.

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NISCA Updates High School Power Points Tables for First Time in a Decade

Torri Huske from Yorktown High School holds the National High School Record in both the girls’ 100 free and girls’ 100 fly.

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#11 Daniel Li, Top 100 Breaststroker in Class of 2024, Commits to Stanford

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Sophie Etheridge Sets Record For the Longest English Channel Crossing

Pending ratification, 31-year-old Sophie Etheridge swam the English Channel slower than any known person in history – swimming for 29 hours – to raise money for swimmers with disabilities.

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World Juniors, Pan American Games Will Be NCAA Championship Qualifying Events

The NCAA Swimming & Diving Committee has now approved five national and international championships as qualifying events for the 2024 NCAA Championships. (Above: JoJo Ramey)

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Ohio State’s 2 New Swim Coaching Positions Each Pay $35k Per Year

The two new hires brings Ohio State swimming & diving staff’s total base salary to over $800,000 for the 2023-2024 season.

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Wisconsin Hires Cauli Bedran from Michigan as New Assistant Coach

The University of Wisconsin lost a coach to Louisville this week, but replaced him with Cauli Bedran, a former assistant at Michigan.

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A Clever Compromise to Salvage the Crowd at the 2024 US Olympic Swimming Trials

How can USA Swimming solve its Olympic Trials ticket sales problem without making early-buyers feel robbed, all while scoring a huge political win?

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Only 485 All-Session Tickets Available for 2024 US Olympic Trials – But Don’t Panic Yet

While there are less than 500 all-session passes listed, there are still tens-of-millions of dollars of tickets up for grabs for Trials.

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Alabama Hires Miami (OH) Distance Coach Jake Larson for Swimming Staff

Jake Larson previously served as the distance coach for the Miami (OH) men, who won four MAC team titles in his five seasons with the program.

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Minnesota Adds Zach Mertens to Swimming & Diving Coaching Staff

After spending the past six seasons at top NCAA Division II program Drury, Zach Mertens has jumped to the Big Ten and the Minnesota Gophers.

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US Record Holder Luca Urlando Will Redshirt 2023-2024 NCAA Season

5-time World Junior Champion Luca Urlando is currently working his way back from a shoulder injury and will sit out the 2023-2024 NCAA season.

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Sun Belt Finalizes Plan for Women’s Swimming & Diving Sponsorship in 2023-2024

Four schools, Old Dominion, Marshall, James Madison, and Georgia Southern will compete in the 2023-2024 Sun Belt Conference Swimming & Diving Championships.

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Ukraine’s Euro Juniors Team Was In Dnipro Sports Complex When It Was Hit by Missile

European Junior Champion Oleksandr Zheltyakov and his European Juniors teammates were staying at a hotel 20 meters from where a missile hit in Dnipro.

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42-Year Old British Olympian Helen (Don-Duncan) Smart Dies Unexpectedly

Smart won four consecutive British Championships from 1997 through 2000 and represented the UK at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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