Articles by Spencer Penland

Ohio State Drop Duals With Alabama & Florida, Adds U.S. Open For 2019-20

Ohio State’s men’s team had an excellent season last year, taking 3rd at the Big Ten Championships, and finishing 9th at NCAAs.

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USA Swimming Boasts Solid Membership Numbers in 2019 State of the Sport Report

USA Swimming saw a 73.3% athlete retention rate this past season, which sets a record for the highest retention rate ever outside of a post-Olympic year.

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Former Auburn Assistant Francisco Rego Joins Georgia Tech Coach Staff

Rego joins Georgia tech after spending 2 years as the head coach of Team Greenville Swim Club in Greenville, SC.

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IU Men & Women Set to Face Off Against Louisville Twice in 2019-20 Season

Defending Men’s and Women’s Big Ten Champions, Indiana University, have unveiled their meet schedule for the 2019-2020 season.

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Cody Miller to Change His Breaststroke Pullout After Relay DQ in Lima

What Miller was disqualified for, doing mulptiple dolphin kicks off a turn, is a relatively common breaststroke DQ. In his latest vlog, he talks about that call.

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Arkansas Releases Tough 2019-20 Schedule Featuring Dual Meet VS Stanford

In addition to the defending NCAA Champions Stanford, they’ll also race Auburn, Texas A&M, NC State, and Kentucky, among others, in the 2019-2020 season.

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Phoebe Bacon Leads Medley Off in 59.02 to Break Coughlin’s 100BK Pan Am Record

That swim marks the first time Bacon has gotten both splits under 30 seconds.

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McKenna DeBever Breaks Own Peruvian Record in Women’s 200 IM

2:15.48 undercuts the Peru National Record, which was held by DeBever at 2:15.53 from April of this year. Here is a split comparison between the two races:

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2019 Speedo Junior National Championships: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

The final session of the meet will feature the 200 IM, 50 free, women’s 1500, men’s 800, and the 4×100 medley relays.

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Brazil Breaks Pan American Games Record in Men’s 4×200 Free Relay

Brazil used the same squad they set the Brazil National Record with at the World Championships a couple weeks ago.

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2019 Pan American Games: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

Tonight’s finals will feature the 100 free, 200 breast, and 100 back, as well as the mixed 4×100 medley relay.

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Grace Rainey Ranks #3 All-Time in 13-14 Girls 100 Breast – 1:09.42

. The 14-year-old also came home very fast, splitting 36.34 on the 2nd 50.

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James Plage Wins Men’s 1500, Ranking #9 All-Time for 15-16 Boys

Plage had a best time of 15:26.64, which he had swum just about 2 weeks ago at the Connecticut Senior Champs

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Liam Bell Ties for #9 All-Time in Boys 17-18 100 Breast – 1:01.19

Bell lowered his time again to 1:01.19, which now ties him for #9 all-time with Andrew Seliskar.

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Justina Kozan, Tess Howley Hit #9 All-Time in Girls 200 Fly for 15-16, 13-14

At just 15, Kozan’s time brought her into the top 10 all-time rankings for 15-16 girls.

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