Articles by Mark Wild

2024 Big 12 Champs: Day 3 Prelims Scratches – Pash Wants to be #1, Scratches 2 #2 seeds

Texas’s Kelly Pash will forgo an opportunity to defend her 4 IM title & instead will concentrate on the 2 free, where she holds the Big 12 record from 2022.

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2024 Big 12 Champs: Day 2 Prelim Scratches – BYU’s Tiffany Trades #2 in 50 for #3 in 2 IM

The individual events of the 2024 Big 12 Championship kick off this morning with the #2 seed in the Men’s 50, Tiffany Jordan, opting to swim the 200 IM.

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2024 SEC Championships: Day 2 Prelims Scratches – #1 Bella Sims Out of 500, In 2 IM as #74

Top seed in the 500 Florida’s Bella Sims will instead swim the 200 IM; an event she has no official time and appears at the very bottom of the psych sheet.

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2024 ACC Championships: Day 2 Prelims Scratches – Pair of Top 8 NC State Swimmers Scratch

NC State’s Abby Arens has scratched out of the 50 free on day 2 of the 2024 ACC Championships and will have no individual swims on the 1st full day.

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Doha 2024, Africa Recap Day 7: Osman adds 3rd Bronze in 50 Fly, 7th Straight Finals Showing

Farida Osman, the African record holder in the 50 fly, claimed her 3rd bronze medal in the event in what was her 7th consecutive appearance.

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Doha 2024, Africa Recap Day 6: Pieter Coetze Scares SA Record, Closes Like a Freight Train

South African Pieter Coetze nabbed his country’s first medal of the meet in the 200 back, where he surged from 8th at the 150 to the bronze medal.

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2024 World Championships: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

Newly minted World Record holder Pan Zhanle will look to win his first individual gold in the 100 but must first get past a strong and hungry field.

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Day 5 Relay Analysis: Li’s 1:54.59 Gives China Gold in 4×200 and Sets Up Nicely For Paris

The defending Olympic Champs, China, looks strong heading into Paris, as Li Bingjie splits faster than she did in Tokyo and in Fukuoka last summer.

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Doha 2024, South America & Carribean Recap Day 3: Schreuders makes Aruba One Happy Island

Aruban native Mikel Schreuders made his and his nation’s first final at the World Championships by virtue of his 8th place finish in the 50 breast.

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2024 World Championships: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

The 2024 World Championships rolls on with Day 3 finals from Doha, where Hunter Armstrong headlines a bunched-up field in the men’s 100 back.

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2024 World Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Kate Douglass will close out tonight’s session with the 200 IM, where she will look to repeat as World Champ and perhaps rattle the American record.

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Doha 2024, Africa Recap Day 2: Erin Gallagher Finals Appearance Bodes Well for SA Women

Erin Gallagher, on the heels of setting a new African Record, finaled for the 1st time and is part of a growing group of fast female South African swimmers.

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2024 Worlds Preview: Mixed Relays a Mixed Bag of Competiton or Scratches

Claire Curzan has a busy schedule of six individual events, but should the USA opt to swim mixed relays, will be a necessary piece for both relays.

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2024 Worlds Preview: Douglass Looks to Repeat in 2 IM; 4 IM Promises All New Medalists.

American Kate Douglass will look it make it two golds in a row in the 200 IM, while the 400 IM will crown all new medalists.

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2024 Worlds Preview: Aussie Women Strong in Free Relays (No Surprise), the Rest is a Mess.

Shayna Jack, who threw down in Fukuoka, looks to be a key member of the Aussie women’s quest to sweep the relays in a field replete with questions.

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