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Daniel Graber Added To Dartmouth Swimming & Diving Coach Staff

Graber spent the 2020-21 season as a volunteer assistant coach at Virginia Tech, and also served as an assistant with Pinnacle Racing.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 62% Pick 4:07 Or Better To Win Olympic Men’s 400 IM

This event has had some wild swings in gold-medal times at the world level, with 4:05s and 4:09s winning world-level golds in varying years.

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Former Ohio St Head Coach Bill Wadley Has “Aggressive Pancreatic Cancer”

Wadley, who served as the CEO of the American Swimming Coaches’ Association until January 2021, has an “aggressive form of pancreatic cancer.”

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Hayden Ghufran Sends Verbal to Arizona for Fall of 2022

Hayden Ghufran has announced that he will be joining the Arizona Wildcats following his graduation in the spring of 2022.

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Interactive Maps/Graphs: 2021 U.S. Olympic Swim Team By Training Hub, Age, More

We’ve put together a set of interactive maps and graphs in a Tableau viz to help visualize the 2021 U.S. Olympic swim team.

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Take A Glimpse Inside The Tokyo Olympic Village

The village, located on the Harumi waterfront district of Tokyo, is expected to host 18,000 athletes and officials inside 21 residential buildings.

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Zach Harting: Olympian

“(Zach) is going to work to be the very best he can, and that alone makes him the great leader and teammate he is. The fun and shenanigans are just a bonus.”

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Midwestern Swimming HOF-er Jack Jackson Dies

Midwestern swim coaching fixture John ‘Jack’ Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson is a member of the Midwestern Swimming Hall of Fame.

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Venezuela’s Alberto Mestre Hits FINA ‘A’ Cut with 21.93 50 FR (Bahamian Champs)

There were also a number of national records broken at the meet.

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Kaitlin Sandeno Gives Behind-the-Veil Look at 2021 Olympic Trials, DC Trident

Anyone who has ever encountered Kaitlin knows that she is an energizing personality who is easy to be around and can get a party started

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Puerto Rico Dominant At 2021 CCCAN Championships In San Juan

Ohio State alumna Kristen Romano closed out the meet on Sunday night with a victory and meet record in the women’s 200 backstroke.

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2021 US Olympic Trials: SwimSwam’s Awards

It was a fun, exhausting, and at-times surprising week in Omaha. Check out our full list of Olympic Trials award winners here.

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Russia Tops Medal Chart At European Junior Diving Championships

The Russians swept all synchro titles and grabbed three out of the four platform golds last week.

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Gabe Castaño Ties FINA ‘A’ Cut With 22.01 50 Meter Free in Mission Viejo

Gabe Castaño broke his 50 free Mexican National Record again with a 22.01, tying the FINA ‘A’ cut and making him eligible to represent Mexico at the Olympics.

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2021 Sette Colli Trophy Day 3 Finals Recap

Dutch maestro Arno Kamminga is on-fire, producing another solid 200m breast performance at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy.

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