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SwimSwam’s Conference superlatives roundup

Here’s a listing of award-winners from the conference championships that wrapped up around the country over the past three weeks.

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PROJECTIONS: Top 29 Lines All Qualify for Men’s NCAA’s; Texas’ Ganiel is Last Qualifier In

Based on the math that has been triple-vindicated by Krista Kezbers, Tait Pinnow, and myself (thanks to both for their…

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Interactive Graphs: DI Women’s NCAA invites by conference

This set of interactive graphs breaks down invites to the women’s NCAA Championships by conference. The powerful SEC nabbed over a quarter of all the NCAA swimming invites and 15 more than second-place Pac-12.

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Texas’ Will Licon Secures NCAA Qualification on Final Day of 2014 American Short Course Championships

A lot of the focus on the American Short Course Championships has been surrounding the meet’s function as a last-chance…

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Texas’ Ganiel Improves 100 Breaststroke Chances; Weitzeil Doubles at American SC Champs

The second day of the 2014 American Short Course Champs saw another Texas Longhorn improve his NCAA Championship qualification potential,…

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A&M’s Bolleter Wins 50 Free at American Short Course Championships

Texas A&M’s Cory Bolleter improved his chances at an NCAA individual qualification with a 19.38 in the 50 free.

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Troskot Swims NCAA Automatic Qualifying Time at American Short Course Championships Day 1 Prelims

Texas A&M’s Kyle Troskot swam an NCAA Automatic Qualifying Time in prelims at the American Short Course Championships

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Texas Posts Psych Sheets For American Short Course Championships – Hybrid Last Chance/Club Meet

The 2014 “American Short Course Championships” will run from Thursday to Sunday in Austin Texas. This is a unique event,…

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Official Psych Sheets released for 2014 Division I Women’s NCAA Championship Meet

Check out the official psych sheets and invite lists for the 2014 Division I Women’s national championships here. Defending champs Georgia lead with 17 individual swimming qualifiers.

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NCAA Refresher: How to qualify for the NCAA Division I championships

Later this week, official NCAA invites for the Division I women’s meet will be announced. Here’s refresher on how the selection process works.

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Open Turn: College Conference Championship Chat, Round 3

Morgan and Garrett break down this past weekend’s conference championship meets, preview Men’s Pac 12s, and start to discuss how NCAAs is squaring up.

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Eight Texas divers selected for FINA Grand Prix events

USA Diving has announced the selection of eight current Longhorns and UT diving coach Matt Scoggin to represent the U.S. in May at FINA Grand Prix meets in Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico.

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Pre-NCAA PSA: Photos and video of Minnesota starting blocks and kick plates

With the NCAA not allowing swimmers to remove the kick-plates from the Spectrum blocks at the University of Minnesota, here are some visuals of what the starting platform will look like for relay swimmers at the women’s NCAA Championships later this month.

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Conger Wins 200 Back as Texas Men Win 35th-Straight Conference Championship

Texas’ Jack Conger had a strong 200 backstroke on Saturday night to close the Big 12 Championships, though it’s still hard to get a good gauge of where the Longhorns are going into NCAA’s.

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2014 Big 12 Championships: Texas freshmen impress on day 4 prelims

Longhorn freshmen took the top spots in 4 of the 8 total events this morning, with Tasija Karosas and Jack Conger in the 200 back and Madisyn Cox and Will Licon in the 200 breast.

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