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Swimming Canada Releases Initial List of Athletes Eligible For Trials Invite

Taylor Ruck will be eligible to race up to five events at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Trials.

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Top Italian Swimmers Quarantining As COVID Positives Follow Championships

Elena di Liddo and Benedetta Pilato have tested positive for the coronavirus just days after the Italian Open, causing others to quarantine pending results.

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2020 Swammy Awards: Kaylee McKeown Earns Oceania Female Swimmer Of The Year

Kaylee McKeown produced some of the most impressive swims worldwide over the course of the 2020 calendar year, including a short course World Record.

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Easterns Runner-Up Ashley Kolessar Chooses UCLA (2022)

At the 2020 Easterns, Kolessar was the 100 breast runner-up (1:03.62) and third-place finisher in the 200 IM (2:00.86).

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Olympic Gold Medalists Katie Ledecky Talks Quarantine & Vaccines on TODAY Show

The 23-year old Ledecky spoke on NBC about what she’s been doing in quarantine, whether she will get the COVID-19 vaccine, and finishing her Stanford degree.

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SSPC: Danny Kovac Details Running a Marathon, Doing a Century (100 Mile) Ride

What I didn’t think I’d hear was about one day how last year, after NCAAs, Kovac decided to casually run a marathon. And did so that day.

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Bluefish Swim Club’s Ella Smith Verbals to Minnesota Gophers (2022)

At the 2020 Massachusetts HS D1 Winter Champs in February, Smith won the 100 breast title (1:02.98) and took second in the 200 IM (2:02.57).

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Shippensburg Among PSAC Schools To Opt In For Swimming, Citing Low Risk

Shippensburg opted in to swimming and cross country, but not higher risk sports such as basketball and wrestling, partly due to stricter testing protocols.

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Minnesota Adds Drew Kaelin (2021) – 58.8/2:12 to 56.0/2:03 in Breast in a Year

In total, since November 2019, Kaelin has dropped about 2.7 seconds in the 100 breast and over 8 seconds in the 200 breast.

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Merve Tuncel Trained By Italy’s Gjon Shyti (WJR 1500 Race Video)

Watch 15-year-old Merve Tuncil of Turkey fire off a new World Junior Record in the women’s short course meters 1500 freestyle in Instanbul.

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ITA Launches Long-Term 10-Year Storage Plan for Doping Samples

The ITA announced a plan on Monday to store collected anti-doping samples for 10 years in a single facility to allow for re-analysis.

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Judge Grants Injunction Against Cutting Iowa Women’s Swimming & Diving Team

Four members of the women’s swim team have won a temporary injunction against the University of Iowa’s plan to cut the program at the end of this season.

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Ilya Shymanovich nada los 50 braza en 25.67 en San Petersburgo

En una jornada con sorpresas y muy buenas marcas, el bielorruso aprovechó su gran momento para triunfar de manera contundente en la Copa Vladimir Salnikov.

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BSN Sports Swim Team of the Week: Stamford Sailfish Aquatic Club

This week’s BSN Sports Swim Team of the Week, the Stamford Sailfish Aquatic Club, has already grown by leaps and bounds in just a few years in existence.

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Summer Juniors Qualifier Sydney Kang (2022) Announces Verbal Commitment to Yale

Phillips Exeter junior Sydney Kang has announced her intention to swim for Yale University beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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