2021 Zone D: Windle & Bacon Each Win Again On Day 2, A&M Men Add Another Diver
Minnesota’s Sarah Bacon and Texas’s Jordan Windle remained undefeated through two days of the Zone D Championships. Bacon won 3-meter and Windle platform.
Guy Puts Up 51.71 Season-Best 100 Fly At British Invite
James Guy hit a season-best, while Kathleen Dawson and Molly Renshaw also made some noise on day 1 of the British Swimming Invite.
Women’s Big Ten Picks Revisited: Nebraska Exceeds Expectations
Nebraska and Iowa were the big outliers, jumping up a full tier from where we expected them to be. Nebraska jumped three, nearly four spots from our picks.
Greenbank Takes Down Longstanding British 200 Back Record
23-year-old Luke Greenbank of Great Britain brought the heat to the British Swimming Inviate, firing off a shiny new national record in the 200m backstroke.
SwimSwam Pulse: 62% Say Olympians Should Get Earlier Vaccine Priority
Almost two-thirds of SwimSwam readers said Olympic athletes should get to move up in line for the coronavirus vaccine ahead of Tokyo.
Swim of the Week: Bylander’s D-III Leading 200 Breaststroke
Junior Michael Bylander crushed a huge 1:57.84 in the 200 breaststroke at his UW-Eau Claire Blugolds’ season-ending dual meet with UW-Stevens Point.
Greenbank Rocks 1:55.69 200 Back Lifetime Best In Manchester
Luke Greenbank already has a World Championships bronze medal in the men’s 200m back and now the Loughborough man has a new PB in his pocket.
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Men’s ACC Picks Revisited: DQs In 2020 & 2021 Threw Wrenches Into Projections
Louisville’s relay DQ in 2020 probably made them a bit underrated by numbers going into 2021. But an NC State DQ this year swung the meet, too.
Jenks Sectionals Day 1: Tennessee Recruit McCarville Drops 7 Seconds in 200 BK
McCarville, who primarily has been a fly/IM specialist, clocked a 2:16.13, completely blowing away her previous best of 2:23.58.
Jordan Agliano Snags Wave II Trials Cut, Punches Ticket to Omaha in Time Trial
Highlander Aquatic Club’s Jordan Agliano swam a new lifetime best in the 200 back, hitting a 2:12.78, her first time under 2:15.
Former Cal Men’s Head Coach Nort Thorton Hospitalized With Heart Issues
Nort Thornton, who was the head coach of the Cal men’s swimming & diving team for 33 years, has been hospitalized in an intensive care unit.
Emma Weber Snaps Zoe Bartel’s State Record, Cherry Creek Wins 27th CO 5A Title
Cherry Creek hadn’t won the 5A title since 2010, and they ended Fairview’s two-year win streak with a victory yesterday.
Women’s ACC Picks Revisited: UNC’s Complications The Major Wrinkle
As the ACC has grown in major star power, it’s also become quite a bit more stratified, and our predictions were pretty much dead-on.
Reed Malone on Realizing Making an Olympic Team Doesn’t Define a Career
Reed said the realization that he came to is he was chasing this Olympic dream because without it, he thought his career would be a failure
