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Quiz Time: What’s Your On-Deck Swimmer Style?

SwimSwam Quiz Time is back with a fun way to find out your on-deck swimmer style. See if we get it right for what you’ll be wearing at your next meet.

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Swimming with Gators: Gregg Troy’s Favorite Distance Set

The man, the legend, the moustache. Here is a breakdown of Gregg Troy’s favorite distance set that he uses with his swimmers.

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Zhang Yufei Clocks Monster 56.47 100 Fly For Unofficial Lifetime Best

Zhang Yufei put up stellar 56.11 fly split on the mixed medley relay and followed up with another super strong 56.68 individual performance.

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Epic Swims: Van den Hoogenband’s 47.84 100 Freestyle at the 2000 Olympics

Also known as the Flying Dutchman, Pieter van den Hoogenband earned his place among the greatest sprint freestylers of all time at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

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Ed Brennan Retiring From Full-Time Coaching After 40 Years At Tampa

Longtime University of Tampa swim coach Ed Brennan will retire from his full-time role this year, though he’ll remain coaching part-time.

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Colorado HS State Finalist Kira Hobbs Chooses Hawaii for 2021

Hobbs helped Dakota Ridge to a CHSAA 4A title in the 400 free relay with a 52.19 third leg split, while she was third, individually, in the 100 breast.

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Washington State Will Go Fully Online This Fall; Swimming Still on Track

(Above) Washington State’s 2020-2021 captains). The Cougars are expecting to resume their season as normal this fall, though school will be online only.

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Brazil Re-opens Olympic Training Center

As Brazil sends some athletes to train in Portugal, they have announced they will be reopening their own Olympic training center in Rio de Janeiro.

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See 2422 New Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our swimming family! Go here to see 2822 Swim Jobs.

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Blueseventy Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming – 7/31/2020

This week, we feature one of the top rising juniors in the nation, a 7-event PR setter, a 30-second drop, and a swimmer’s first time under 5:00 in the 500.

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U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum Opens To Public

The Museum is a one-of-a-kind tribute to the Olympic and Paralympic movements with Team USA athletes at the center of the guest experience.

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Liberty Announces Andrew Helmich As New Diving Coach

Helmich spent three seasons (2016-19) as a volunteer assistant coach at his alma mater, South Carolina.

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SwimSwam Podcast: Bob Bowman Responds to SwimSwam’s ASU Redshirt Comments

Bowman was open and honest about his reasonings and was happy to answer a lot of the major questions that commenters had.

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Keely Rollinson to Remain In-State with Verbal to University of Houston

USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Keely Rollinson has verbally committed to swim for the University of Houston’s class of 2025.

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Wesson, Siebert, Valasek Round Out Cal Men’s 2020-21 Incoming Class to 13

With the addition of Tavis Siebert, Max Valasek and Tyler Wesson, the Cal men’s swimming & diving program will start the 2020-21 season with 13 newcomers.

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