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The Swim Life

Many thanks to Lester Rich of the SwimTeamPic.com for these beautiful swimming photos.

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Goucher Men Suffer Defeat at Catholic

Goucher started the meet strong, with its relay team of Colin Richter, Cody Nelson (Duanesburg, N.Y./Schalmont), Morgan Richter and Sam Davis (Wilmington, Del./Wilmington Friends) pulling out a victory in the 200-yard medley relay. Their time of 1:42.71 was two-hundredths faster than Catholic’s team in second place.

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WKU Swim Concludes Successful Hilltopper Open

Five more pool records and one school record fell in the night’s finals, as WKU tabbed 17 new records for the Bill Powell Natatorium wall along with two school records total for the three-day event.

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Towson Moves To 10-0 with Win Over McDaniel

The Towson University women’s swimming and diving team moved to 10-0 this season with a convincing 201-75 defeat of McDaniel…

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New Paltz Moves to 3-0 with Win over Vassar

New Paltz rises to 3-0 and next competes at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Winter Championships from Friday-Sunday, Dec. 6-8, at Lehman College. Vassar drops to 1-2 and next competes at the Liberty League Championships during the same time frame.

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Youth, junior, Victor Davis awards set stage for Big Splash

Toronto was the setting for the opening act of Swimming Canada’s Big Splash Awards Week. The Youth and Junior Swimmers…

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Synchro Canada Seeks Next Chief Executive Officer

Synchronized swimming is one of Canada’s most successful amateur sports, having medalled in most senior world championships and most Olympic Games since 1984. Overall, Synchro is the third best performing sport in Canada according to Sport Canada.

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WKU Swim Continues Strong Showing At Hilltopper Open

As the Hilltopper Open continues on, the Western Kentucky University swimming team continued to put up record-breaking swims in day…

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WKU Swim Crushes 5 Pool Records to Start Hilltopper Open

Senior Heitor Rodrigues got things started, as his lead leg of the men’s 200 free relay went down as a new Bill Powell Natatorium record. Junior Allie Duff then posted a time of 55.08 for a new top time in the 100 back. Freshman Celia Ouellette took down the 50 free record of Claire Donahue set in 2010 with a time of 23.44.

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Capitani Replaces Bauerle as Women’s Head Coach at the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool

USA Swimming today announced that Carol Capitani (Austin, Texas) will replace Jack Bauerle as the United States women’s head coach…

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Fifty Years Ago: ISHOF Remembers JFK

Kennedy had been a swimmer at Harvard when Kiphuth was coaching Yale. Swimming helped JFK survive WWII and become the war hero that helped launch his political career. He also swam in the White House pool almost every day to relieve his chronic bad back.

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Swimming Is All In Your Head

Your head position may be a major factor keeping you from becoming the best swimmer you can be.

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Gophers Race Past Gators for Second Win of Season

First place finishes in 7 of the 12 contested events, including two for freshman Lizzy Hannifin (Denver, Colo./East), led the Goucher women’s swimming team to a 73-48 victory over Notre Dame (Md.) last night.

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The Water Is My Sky: Filmmaker Brian Tremml Responds to the Positive Praise

November 19th, 2013, SwimSwam reported that a new filmmaker was among the swimming ranks. Brian Tremml teased us with the…

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Tar Heel Swimming & Diving Program Announces Class of 2018

University of North Carolina head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Rich DeSelm capped off a tremendous fall recruiting…

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