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SwimSwam’s 2014 NCAA Women’s Championships Final Top 25 Team Predictions

Allison Schmitt (left) and Megan Romano led Georgia to the NCAA title last year. This season, two different seniors, Melanie Margalis (right) and Shannon Vreeland will try to defend that title.

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2014 W. NCAA Picks: Margalis Looks to Close Dream Season With 200 IM Win

Melanie Margalis has had the best short course season of her career. Can she close our her collegiate years with an NCAA title?

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2014 W. NCAA Picks: Fast freshmen 400 free relay legs could decide meet’s big finale

Three of the top contenders will look to star freshmen to power their programs to the top of the podium at the final event of the NCAA Championships.

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Men’s NCAA DIII Championship Fan Guide: Will Kenyon’s 18 Be Too Much For Denison?

After scoring out the psych sheets, Kenyon is the favorite to win again this year. Denison, Emory, MIT, and Johns Hopkins round out the top 5 positions.

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2014 W. NCAA Picks: Cal Looking to End Georgia’s 200 Freestyle 4-Year Streak With Franklin

The finals of the 200 freestyle this weekend could feature the key legs from the big stage 800 freestyle relay legs from the Olympics and World Championships.

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Atlantic-10 Conference Announces Academic All-Conference Teams

The Atlantic 10 Conference has named 10 men and 10 women to their 2013-2014 Academic All-Conference Teams.

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2014 W. NCAA Picks: Georgia looks to set tone early with 200 free relay

The very first event of the 2014 NCAA Championships will go a long way in telling who showed up to swim and who doesn’t look ready for the bright lights and intense pressure of a national championship final. Look for top-seeded Georgia to set the tone early.

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UNC Women’s Swimmers & Divers Honored With Scholar All-America Award

The North Carolina women’s swimming and diving team has earned honors for as a College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team for the fall semester 2013.

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SMU Sends Eight to 2014 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

The Mustangs posted 18 individual `B’ standard times and four provisional relay times during the 2013-14 season.

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Photo Vault: 2014 ACC Men’s Swimming and Diving Team Champions Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech Head Coach Ned Skinner goes for a swim to celebrate!

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2014 W. NCAA Picks: 100 fly might come down to fingernails

The 100 fly could go any number of ways over the top 16 – Ellese Zalewski and Dani Barbiea come in tied for the top seed after big November performances.

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Women’s NCAA DIII Championship Fan Guide: Can Emory’s Streak Continue?

The defending national champions, the Emory Eagles, are the favorites to win again this year. With the same number of swimmers and divers, however, Kenyon has the potential to climb up to the top of the podium.

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Interactive Infographics: Men’s DI NCAA invites by conference

The men’s invites were much more centralized in the 5 biggest conferences, with the SEC once again leading all conferences in invited swimmers.

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2014 W. NCAA PICKS: 500 Free – Big Names, Big Event; Great Way to Start the Meet

It’s a star-studded event, the top six or seven coming in with practically interchangeable seed times. We give the nod to Cal’s Missy Franklin, on whom the Bears will be counting for big points in this event. Somehow we expect that will make her even better.

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Texas, Purdue, Virginia Tech the Big Winners of Zone Diving (Complete Invite Lists)

The Purdue Boilermakers are one of two teams to have qualified 7 divers for NCAA’s.

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