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Morgan McCafferty Joins Idaho Swim & Dive Staff As Assistant Coach

McCafferty brings several years of coaching experience, from the club and high school level to the Division I level.

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Two Swimmers Added To ParalympicsGB Team For Tokyo 2020

Zara Mullooly and William Perry have been added to ParalympicGB’s roster of swimmers heading to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games this summer.

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Emily Keebler Presented With Woytowych Endowed Scholarship

The scholarship is presented annually to a junior or senior member of the Redbird swimming and diving program.

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Mary McCuskey Among 2021 Inductees Into UNI Hall of Fame

McCuskey was a multiple-time conference champion in the 1650 freestyle and held eight school records at the end of her career.

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Minnesota’s Sarah Bacon Named Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year

Tuesday’s announcement makes Bacon only the fourth Gopher in any sport to secure the honor since the induction of the award in 1983, and the third since 2013.

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USMS Nationals: Minnesota Masters’ Bill Durell Swims “Kind of Nutty” 1650 Fly

The 70-year-old trains extensively for this race, swimming 1,000 yards of butterfly five days a week.

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Scott Cameron Named Assistant Women’s Swimming Coach With Air Force

The former head coach at Illinois State, Cameron comes to the Academy after spending two seasons with the Des Moines Swim Federation.  

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WSU Assistant Kate Moore Adds Title of Recruiting Coordinator

Moore begins her second season at WSU and recently brought in the seven-member 2021 recruiting class that features swimmers from Italy, Spain and the US.

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Swimming Canada Announces 2020-21 Victor Davis Award Winners

Each year, Canadian swimmers are selected to receive a financial award from the Victor Davis Memorial Fund that recognizes his impact on swimming in Canada.

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ASCA Announces Top 10 Age Group Coaches of the Year

These coaches will be honored at the 2021 ASCA World Clinic Award Banquet on September 16 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando.

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Northeastern Adds Divers Chambers and Murphy to 2021-22 Roster

Chambers is an incoming freshman from Fargo, N.D., while Murphy is a three-time All-America East performer who previously competed for Vermont.

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Michael Phelps To Join NBC Olympics Team In Tokyo

Phelps will serve as a primetime correspondent in Tokyo and will also join Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines in the booth for select swimming competition.

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Garrett McCaffrey Named Assistant Coach At Seattle U

McCaffrey joins the Redhawks after an impressive tenure with the renowned Phoenix Swim Club that spanned 10 years.

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Rhode Island Names Christo Law As New Diving Coach

Rhode Island head coach Lilli Deering announced Thursday that Christo Law has joined the swimming & diving staff as the program’s diving coach.

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SEC Champion Rachel Komisarz Baugh Elected To Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame

Komisarz Baugh, along with Dwane Casey and Keith Madison, will be inducted on September 7 at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville.

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