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Patino Wins 200 Free, 100 Fly as George Washington Tops Richmond

GW women’s swimming and diving closed its fall slate on Friday with a 91-59 win over Richmond in the first collegiate swim meet held at the newly opened pool at The St. James sports complex. Richmond divers Maddy Chao and Sydney Weiskopf qualified for the NCAA Zones at the meet.

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SDSU Bests Pepperdine 141-132 to Move to 6-0 in Duals

The San Diego State swimming and diving team defeated Pepperdine 141-132 in a dual meet the Aztec Aquaplex on Friday afternoon. With the win, the Aztecs improve to 6-0 in dual meet competition on the year.

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Jocelyn Crawford Breaks Own 50-Yard Free School Record for CMS

Junior Jocelyn Crawford broke her own school record in the 50-yard freestyle with a 23.29, and swam the first leg of a 200-yard freestyle relay that broke an Axelrood Pool record, as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s swimming and diving team took a 60-46 lead after the first day of a two-day dual meet with Pomona-Pitzer.

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Grusova Sets Rutgers Aquatic Center Pool Record in 100 Backstroke

Rutgers swimming and diving posted three event victories during Friday’s finals session at the Rutgers Invitatonal, highlighted by freshman Terka Grusova’s pool record in the 100-yard backstroke.

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Missouri State Wins 12 Individual Events in Sweep of Evansville

The Missouri State swimming and diving team sported 12 different individual winners – six men and six women – in landslide victories at Evansville Friday night.

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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Freestyle Relay Sets Pool Record

The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Daniel Hayon, Dave Makhervaks, Marco Conati and Andreas Roeseler capped off the first day of a dual meet with Pomona-Pitzer for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s swimming and diving team by setting a new Axelrood Pool record with a time of 1:24.01

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Ferencvaros (HUN) Wins European Super Cup in Shootout

After 19 straight triumphs, this year’s match saw the Champions League winning side falling in the Super Cup final. Holder of Euro Cup, FTC-Telekom Budapest (Ferencvaros) bettered Greece’s Olympiacos Pireaus in a thrilling game ending in a penalty shootout in Budapest.

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Beata Nelson Breaks Wisconsin Record with Nation-Leading Time in Texas

In a crowded field featuring some of nation’s most-touted competitors, Nelson shattered her own UW school record in the 200-yard individual medley by winning the event in 1 minute, 53.08 seconds on Thursday.

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Horned Frogs Head to College Station to Face Texas A&M, Rice

TCU swimming and diving will travel to College Station for the team’s final road meet of the 2018 calendar year on Saturday when the Horned Frogs take on Texas A&M and Rice in double dual meet action.

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Boudia Among USOC’s Best of November Finalists

The United States Olympic Committee today announced finalists for the Team USA Awards presented by Dow, Best of November, which recognize the outstanding achievements of Team USA athletes from last month.

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Olympiacos Piraeus, FTC-Telekom Budapest Eye European Super Cup

Another outstanding evening of water polo is due in Budapest where Champions League winner Olympiacos Piraeus (GRE) clashes with Euro Cup-holder FTC-Telekom Budapest (HUN) for the European Super Cup.

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IOC Athletes’ Commission to Organize Biggest-Ever Athletes Forum

The IOC Athletes’ Commission is set to invite the largest ever contingent of international athlete representatives to Lausanne, Switzerland, from 13 to 15 April 2019 for the bi-annual IOC International Athletes’ Forum.

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10 Reasons Not to Date Your Teammates

As great as you think your relationship is going, it normally ends up in a breakup (no offense). This is the height of team awkwardness.

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Secrets of Success for Swim Parents

These are five common traits found in happy, successful people that we can work on ourselves and introduce to our kids.

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Six Nations Claimed Gold at Singapore Diving Grand Prix Meet

Six nations – China, DPR Korea, Japan, Mexico, Russia and Singapore – claimed at least one victory this weekend in Singapore (SGP), the last host of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2018, from November 23-25.

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