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Drew Taylor Inducted Into Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame Class Of 2020

Taylor won five of the six ACC Championships in which he competed from 1964-66. Wake Forest no longer has a men’s swimming & diving program.

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TCU Announces 2020-21 Team Captains

Matthew Brewer, Kevin Chao, Sarah Malloy, Chloe Miller and Kiki Rice have been named as the captains for the TCU Swimming & Diving team in 2020-21.

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Liberty’s Hannah Baker Wins 2020 Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award

Hannah Baker, a senior on the Liberty women’s swimming & diving team, has been named the recipient of the 2020 Rock Royer/Mac Rivera Award.

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Pete Hovland Inducted To Summit League 2020 Hall of Fame Class

Oakland University’s swimming and diving head coach Pete Hovland has been named to the 2020 Summit League Hall of Fame class.

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Pac-12 Names 2019-20 Tom Hansen Conference Medal Winners

Abbey Weitzeil, Louise Hansson and Henry Fusaro were the three swimming & diving winners.

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Michigan Names Auböck, MacNeil 2019-20 Athletes of the Year

Auböck is the eighth men’s swimmer to receive the award, while MacNeil is the sixth women’s swimmer to receive the award and first since 1997.

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Washington & Jefferson Names Yana Miletska as Intern Assistant Coach

Head coach Matt Rochna has announced the hiring of Yana Miletska as the new intern for the Washington & Jefferson College swimming & diving program. 

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Louise Hansson, Henry Fusaro Named USC’s 2020 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Medal Winners

Hansson graduated as a three-time NCAA Champion, 19-time All-American, 10-time Pac-12 winner and nine-time school-record holder.

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Chris Grimmett-Norris Named Keiser Assistant Coach

Prior to Keiser, Grimmett-Norris spent two years as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Arkansas. Before that, he spent a year at Wagner College.

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Big Ten Recognizes Spring and At-Large Sports Academic All-Big Ten Honorees

The Big Ten recognized a total of 2,055 students competing in spring and at-large sports who have been named to the Academic All-Conference team.

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Tommy Cope Named Michigan’s Big Ten Medal of Honor Recipient

Cope is the 16th Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient from the men’s swimming and diving program and fifth in the last nine years.

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10 Michigan Water Polo Athletes Named To Spring Academic All-Big Ten Team

U-M had 118 honorees in the fall and 87 in the winter, giving them 405 total in 2019-20. The overall total is 33 more than the 2018-19 academic year (372).

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Ruehle, Duican & Gibson Among Big 12 Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients

Iowa State’s Emma Ruehle, TCU’s Radu Duican and Texas’ Alicia Gibson were the three swimming and diving athletes to receive the postgrad scholarship.

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UMass Men Name 2020-21 Team Captains, Announce Team Awards

Ben Gryski, Chase Kent and Casey Ransford were voted as the team captains for next season.

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