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Ryan Bubb Promoted to Associate Head Coach At FAU

Bubb has spent the past three seasons as an assistant with the Owls, taking on a major role in the growth and development of the student-athletes and program.

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LSU Swim & Dive Sending Program Record of Olympic Qualifiers To Paris

Four current team members and seven former Tigers will head to Paris to represent 11 different nations.

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UNCW Rounds Out Coaching Staff With Addition of Assistant Coach Brandon Ress

Ress comes to the program following seven seasons on the staff at Roanoke College, including the last two as the head coach of both the men and women.

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Big Ten Recognizes 110th Medal of Honor Class

OSU’s Amy Fulmer (pictured) and Lyle Yost, along with Indiana’s Anne Fowler, were the three swimming & diving athletes to receive the honor.

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Kelsey Reott Added To Princeton Women’s Staff As Assistant Coach

Reott joins the Tigers after spending the last two seasons on staff at Pittsburgh where coached both the men’s and women’s programs.

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Little Rock Swim & Dive Announces Sizeable Incoming Recruiting Class

The Little Rock swimming and diving team has officially added 10 swimmers and two divers for the 2024-25 season.

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Pacific Swimming Adds 14 Newcomers Ahead of 2024-25 Campaign

“This is the largest and most diverse recruiting class we’ve had in over 5 years, being our most talented recruiting class in that time.”

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Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age

BOOK EXCERPT: “WHEN THE U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM landed in France on June 25, 1924, they were in good spirits and relatively healthy…”

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The Walsh Sisters: Managing Celebrity and Olympic Expectations

They’ve been a well-known duo for a few years, but with the excitement the Olympics in Paris, their popularity is soaring beyond swimming fans.

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Adriana Owen Named Head Swim & Dive Coach At Wheaton College

Owen is already familiar with coaching in the NEWMAC conference after spending the last five years on the coaching staff at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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Daryn Wright Named to U.S. Olympic Diving Team In Women’s 10-Meter

Wright was surprised by friends and family at Purdue University’s aquatic center on Thursday morning after she hadn’t locked in a spot at the Trials.

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Swimmer Shelby Fortin Named To Penn Athletics Hall of Fame Class XIII

Fortin was a two-time NCAA Championships qualifier and a seven-time Ivy League champion individually during her career at Penn.

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Lee & Bent-Ashmeil Put Aquatics GB On Top Of European Champs Diving Medal Table

Robbie Lee soared to victory in the Men’s 10m Platform on Sunday, registering near to 500 points to go one better than his 2023 silver.

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Quincy University Announces 2024 Swimming Recruiting Class

Quincy has brought in 17 in the Class of ’24 (eight women and nine men). From year two to year three the program has now grown from 37 to 54 in total.

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Liz Germonprez Named Head Coach At College of Saint Mary

Most recently, Germonprez was the assistant coach at Westside High School while also working as a national group head coach for iNspire in Omaha.

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