Articles by Braden Keith

FINA Announces Dates for 2017 World Championships; Masters Worlds to Follow

The Scotiabank Aquatics Centre, built for the 2011 Pan Am Games, will host the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

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Shannon Vreeland Takes Big Prize, Wins SEC’s McWhorter Scholarship

Geogia’s Shannon Creeland has been named the 2014 McWhorter Scholarship winner in the SEC.

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Michigan Women Sign Singapore Record Holder Samantha Yeo Late in Recruiting Period

Mike Bottom has really done a number on his recruiting class for the fall of 2014, punctuated with a late signing announced on Tuesday.

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Xavier Announces 2014-2015 Schedule; Big East Hosts Still To Be Determined

The Xavier Musketeers have unveiled their schedule for the 2014-2015 season, which will feature a pretty typical slate of local,…

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FINA Quietly Cuts Eindhoven From 2014 World Cup Series Schedule

The 2014 FINA World Cup Series will be just 7 meets long.

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Swimming South Africa: “No Athlete Will Bear the Cost” for Commonwealth Games Participation

In response to media reports last week that the South African Olympic Committee (SASCOC) would not be covering the full…

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2014 FINA World Cup Lands Russian Bank MASTBANK as Title Sponsor

FINA has announced a new title sponsor for the FINA World Cup Series in 2014, with Russian bank MASTBANK replacing…

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Henique Breaks Military World Record in 50 Fly, Enters World’s Top 10

As has been the story all week, several more CISM (Military athletics) World Records went down on the final day…

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Ottesen Takes Top Seed in 50 Fly, Will Try to Hold Off Halsall in Final

The last preliminary session of the 2014 Mare Nostrum series, which closes Sunday in Barcelona, Still saw most competitors going…

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Zetao Breaks Military World Record, Almost Gets National Record in 100 Free

China’s Ning Zetao broke a Meet Record and almost broke a Chinese National Record in the men’s 100 free to start day 2 of the 2014 World Military Swimming Championships.

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Meilutyte Breaks Meet Record on Day 2 of Sette Colli; Hungarians Win 4 Events Early

Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte hasn’t competed a lot in 2014, but she made her swim on Saturday count at the Sette Colli Trophy in Italy.

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Lee Kok Choy Elected as New President of Singapore Swimming Association

Having won 11 of the 32 available gold medals at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games, with 30 out of 96…

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Manaudou 48.8 Takes Top Seed in Men’s 100 Free at Mare Nostrum – Barcelona

France’s Florent Manaudou wasn’t risking another prelims stumble like he had in Canet earlier in the week.

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Phelps Entered in 4 Events at 2014 Santa Clara Grand Prix

According to the psych sheets, Michael Phelps will dally his way into a 200 IM and 100 free swim in Santa Clara.

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Gemmell Takes Second Career 10k National Championship at Lake Castaic

Andrew Gemmell has won the 2014 USA Swimming men’s 10km open water national championship, and along with three other men has booked his ticket to the Pan Pac Championships.

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