Articles by Varun Shivakumar

Arizona Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Teams Pick Up Verbal Commitments

Margo Geer is one of the few standouts left on the Arizona women’s swimming and diving team; The men still have plenty of firepower left after a phenomenal 2013-14 season.

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Northwestern Men and Women Each Receive Verbal Commitment

The Northwestern Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Teams each snared a recruit from the Class of 2014 on Monday.

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Northwestern Men Rout Eastern Michigan, Women Top EMU and University of Illinois

Northwestern sophomore Jordan Wilimovsky continues to impress in college with his two individual wins in the 1,000 and 500 yard freestyle, which were key to the Wildcats’ win over the Eastern Michigan University Eagles.

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Northwestern Receives Verbal from Westport YMCA Distance Freestyler Jonathan Blansfield

Jonathan Blansfield out of Westport, Connecticut has verbally committed to the Northwestern Wildcats, thus boosting the team’s distance freestyle prowess in the process.

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Academy Bullets’ Rising Star Mary Schneider Gives Verbal to Texas

The Texas Longhorns women’s swimming and diving team got a big recruit out of the Class of 2014 with Mary Schneider out of Oak Park, Illinois.

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Stanford Gets Huge Diving Commitment with Gracia Leydon-Mahoney

Gracia Leydon-Mahoney, the 2012 Junior World Champion and US National Champion on 3-meter, will be joining The Cardinal next year as a part of Stanford’s monstrous class.

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Longhorn Aquatics Standout Laine Reed Gives Verbal to Virginia

The Virginia Cavaliers picked up a verbal commitment from freestyle specialist Laine Reed out of Longhorn Aquatics/Austin High School.

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Minnesota Gophers Add to Sprint Freestyle Depth with Verbal Commitment from McKenna Lynch

The Golden Gophers have received a verbal commitment from sprint freestyle specialist McKenna Lynch from Central Iowa Aquatics.

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Northwestern Women’s Swimming and Diving Race For the Cure

The Northwestern Women’s Swimming and Diving team will host its second-annual Breaststroke 4 Breast Cancer event from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at the Norris Aquatics Center in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion in Evanston, Ill. (Photo Credit:

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2013-2014 College Swimming Previews: #4 Texas A&M Women Return Monster Team, Add Developing Talent as Well

Breeja Larson will try to lead the Texas A&M Aggies to a Top-3 finish at next year’s NCAA Championships for the first time in program history (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, the swim pictures)

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Today in Swimming History, September 21st: Nesty Stuns Biondi and World in Memorable 100 Fly Race

The Surprise from Suriname, Anthony Nesty, shocked the world when he captured the gold medal in the 100 meter butterfly at the 1988 Seoul Olympics

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Crimson’s Alex Meyer Honored with 2013 Fran Crippen Memorial Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year Award

Crimson’s Alex Meyer has been honored with the Fran Crippen Memorial Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year Award for the third consecutve year. Meyer represented the United States in the 10K and 25K races at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo Credit: Mike Lewis)

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Tokyo Selected to host 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Istanbul and Madrid Eliminated

Tokyo has been selected as the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, thus making Japan the first Asian country to ever host the Summer Olympic Games twice.

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Auburn Tigers Add Ozzie Quevedo as new Assistant Coach

Ozzie Quevedo will join the Auburn Tigers on their 2013-14 campaign as the newest member of Brett Hawke’s coaching staff.

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Illinois Institute of Technology names Eric Bugby as new Head Men’s and Women’s coach

Eric Bugby has been named the new head coach for the Illinois Institute of Technology’s men’s and women’s swimming teams. (Photo Credit: illinoistechathletics.com)

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