Articles by Mark Wild

2024 W. NCAA Preview: Sims Looks to Lead Gators to 800 FR-R Title, Unless G. Walsh Swims

Gretchen Walsh’s availability in the 800 Free Relay is a big question but if she doesn’t swim, Bella Sims and the Gators will look to pounce and take the title.

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2024 W. NCAA Previews: Can OSU Throw a Wrench in UVA Medley Relay Dominance?

The 200 medley looks to be a mystery right up to the release of relay names. Will the Walsh sister shore up the relay or will the meet start off with a bang?

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2024 Big 12 Championships: Day 5 Prelims Live Recap

Texas’s Anna Elendt will look to defend her Big 12 title in the 200 Breast and use it as a steppingstone for the NCAAs, where she finished runner-up in 2023.

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2024 Big 12 Champs: Day 5 Prelims Scratches – Berlitz Chooses 2 Breast over 2 Back

West Virginia’s Danny Berlitz has traded in a 7th seed in the 200 back for a 7th seed in the 200 breast on the final day of the Big 12 Championship.

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2024 Big 12 Champs: Day 4 Prelims Scratches – Sticklen & Pash Set for Showdown in 2 Fly

Emma Sticklen looks to add to the Texas Women’s dominance in the 200 fly, but has teammates behind hungry for the win and a nation leading time to reclaim.

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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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