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All the U18 National Champions from 2018 U.S. Nationals

Robert Finke of St. Petersburg was the 2018 18U National Champion in the 800 free and 1500 free.

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2018 Phillips 66 Performance Award Goes to Kathleen Baker for WR in 100 Back

Kathleen Baker earned the Phillips 66 Performance Award for her World Record swim in the 100 back at 2018 U.S. National Championships.

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USA Swimming Finalizes 2018 Pan Pacs Coaching Roster

USA Swimming has finalized the list of coaches that will accompany Ray Looze, Arthur Albiero, and Team USA to Toyko in August.

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Alongside His Successors, Anthony Ervin to Swim Through the Olympic Quad

Olympic champion Anthony Ervin has his sights set on finals at the 2020 Olympic Trials.

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All the Race Videos from Day 5 at 2018 U.S. Nationals

Here are all the championship finals from the final night of competition in Irvine.

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2018 U.S. Nationals: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

After winning 2 of the stroke 50s so far to qualify for Worlds and qualifying for Pan Pacs as he won the 100 breast, Michael Andrew will battle World champ Caeleb Dressel in the 50 free.

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She’s In: Ella Eastin Qualifies to Pan Pacs Team

Note that this roster is not official, but is SwimSwam’s projected roster based on the qualifying criteria and procedures from USA Swimming.

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U.S. Nationals Pick’em Final Results

Favorites Katie Ledecky and Leah Smith threw a hand grenade into everyone’s 1500 picks by scratching. Ashely Twitchell the actual winner was picked by only 2 people to win

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Final 2018 Projected U.S. Pan Pacs Roster

The final night of U.S. Nationals has wrapped, and we’ve done the math to put together what we project as the American roster for the Pan Pacific Championships.

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Simone Manuel Breaks Decade-Old U.S. Open Record in 50 Free

Manuel swam both the fastest 50 and 100 meter freestyles ever done on American soil at this week’s US National Championship meet.

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Zane Grothe Downs U.S. Open Record in 800 Free at Nationals

Zane Grothe broke the U.S. Open and Championship Records in the 800 Free on the final night of competition in Irvine.

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Carson Foster Goes Out Hard, Gets 200 IM NAG Record Again in Finals

2018 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Wednesday, July 25 – Sunday, July 29, 2018 William Woollett Aquatics Center, Irvine, CA Prelims 9 AM /…

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Ashley Twichell Becomes 4th Fastest American All-Time in 1500

2nd and 3rd place finishers Ally McHugh and Erica Sullivan also cracked the top 10 all-time American performers with their times of 16:02.56 and 16:02.88, which come in at 7th and 8th respectively.

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Trey Freeman Will Decline His Spot on the 2018 Jr. Pan Pacs Team

According to his mother, Trey Freeman will decline his spot on the Jr. Pan Pacs team because that comes after the start of his fall semester at Florida.

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Kathleen Baker Breaks U.S. Open Record in 200 IM

Baker’s best time coming into 2018 was a 2:12, and she’s now the second-fastest American in history.

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