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USA Water Polo Announces Roster Of 15 Athletes For 2023 Worlds In Japan

The USA women announced their roster of 15 athletes for Worlds in Japan this month. The US is the defending World Champions.

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Westfield State University Hires Matthew Nodell As Next Head Coach

Matthew Nodell has spent the last three years as the head varsity swim coach at Belchertown High School in Massachusetts.

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Australia’s U20 Junior Water Polo Team Takes On US Stanford University

Stanford water polo is in Australia on a two week tour. The team took on Australia’s U20 Junior team, defeating them 16-15.

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Logan Friesen Returns To Alma-Mater Simpson University As Next Head Coach

Logan Friesen was a member of Simpson’s first-ever swim team back in 2019. As an athlete, he earned NAIA All-American honors.

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Olivia Chambers Breaks Two Of Her Own S13 Para American Records

Olivia Chambers, who competes collegiately for Northern Iowa broke her own records in the 400 IM and 200 butterfly.

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Ithaca College Promotes Associate Head Mike Blakely-Armitage To Be Next Head Coach

The Ithaca women won the 2023 Liberty League Championship while the men finished as runner-ups. Blakely-Armitage has been with the team since 2019.

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East Carolina Brings In Eight Swimmers And Three Divers For 2023-2024 Season

Included in the arrivals are two transfers, one coming from NC State and one coming from Pittsburgh. 11 new athletes will arrive this fall.

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SMU Men Add Two Divers To Roster For 2023-2024 Season

SMU adds John Dymond who is trasnferring from Miami (OH) and high school graduate Ethan Hunter to the roster for this fall. Both are divers.

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Colorado State Promotes Lisa Ginder From Assistant to Associate Head Coach

Colorado State promoted assistant Lisa Ginder to associate head coach. Ginder has spent the past four years with the program as the distance coach.

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ASCA And Fitter & Faster Announce 2023 Top 10 Age Group Coaches

After previously announcing the top 100 age group coaches, ASCA and Fitter & Faster have now released the top 10 age group coaches for 2023.

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Alex Lee Returning to Alma College (Michigan) As Next Head Coach

Alex Lee was with Alma as an assistant from 2019-2020. Most recently, he spent the 2022-2023 season at Vassar College.

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Brown Promotes Distance Coach Niko Fantakis From Assistant to Associate Head

Fantakis has been with Brown since the 2018-2019 season primarily working with the distance group. Prior to Brown, Fantakis was a coach at Duke.

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Team England To Send 14 Swimmers To Commonwealth Youth Games In Trinidad And Tobago

Swimming competition at the Commonwealth Young Games in Trinidad and Tobago will take place from August 6th through the 9th.

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Malaysia, Spain, and Germany Will Host Three Diving Events In The Next Six Months

Malaysia will host in November, Spain will host in December, and Germany will host in January 2024, as World Aquatics announced its three recognized events.

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Trinity Swim Coach John Ryan and Diving Coach Stan Randall to Retire

Division III Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas will search for a new head swimming as well as a head diving coach as John Ryan and Stan Randall retire

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