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Anna Peplowski Discusses Long Course Freestyle Progression, Indiana Training

Anna Peplowski is on a roll in this long course season, going from a PB of 1:59 to 1:58.4 (then 1:58.0 that night) in April to 1:57.0 in May

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Louisville Freshman Sprint Duo Discuss Albiero Secret Sauce & Dynamic Team Culture

Dennis and Welch traded Louisville freshman records in the 50 and 100 freestyles all year, finishing as the 2 fastest freshman in school history

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Racer X Aquatics Power Set with Chutes, Chords, Buckets, + More | Practice + Pancakes

On this Thursday afternoon, head coach Jim Skirboll was leading his top group through a lot of shorter resistance paired with lots of underwater work.

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David Marsh Breaks Down Cal Training Heading into World Trials

At the Mission Viejo Pro Swim, SwimSwam spoke with Cal assistant coach David Marsh about the past, present, and future.

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Isabelle Stadden Describes Cal Best Average Progression

Stadden says that her strength already lies in her “on top of the water” swimming, so she’s put an added focus on details like her start and underwaters.

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Marwan el Kamash Training with Italians for a Few Weeks After Mission Viejo PSS

Dealing with injury, Marwan el Kamash of Egypt had a strong showing in Mission Viejo, winning the 400 free as the only man in the field to dip below 3:50

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Trenton Julian Striving to Find Consistency with Tempo in 200 Fly

Julian told SwimSwam after his race that he has actually been focusing on maintaining or even slowing his tempo down in practice

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What Does Ryan Murphy Get Out of Racing the 100 Freestyle in Season?

While waiting for his signature 100 and 200 backstrokes, Olympic champion Ryan Murphy raced the 100 free on Day 1 of the Mission Viejo pro swim.

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Ryan Held on Whittling Down His In-Season 100 Free

Held was 48.7, a season-best and promising sign just 6 weeks out from the world champ trials at the end of June in Indianapolis. 

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Bella Sims on Best Time in 400 Free: “I was not expecting that at all”

Sims credits Sandpipers head coach Ron Aitken for having a detailed training plan that only requires Sims to show up and do the work

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Justin Ress Shares Thoughts on ‘Ress Rule’: “I’m gonna take advantage”

Ress spoke to the media about, among other things, the new backstroke finish rule, affectionately referred to as the “Ress Rule”

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Nic Fink on “Trying to push past that 59 barrier… and even that 58 barrier”

World champ Nic Fink took a decisive win on the second night in Mission Viejo, powering himself to a sub-minute swim in the 100 breast.

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