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North Carolina State Champ Teresa Ivan Delivers Verbal To Ohio State for 2021

Only a junior in high school, Ivan has times in the 50 freestyles that are within striking distance of scoring at Big Tens and qualifying for Olympic Trials.

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Florida High School State Medalist McKenna Smith Commits To Duke For 2021

As a junior, Smith won two bronze medals at the Florida High School State Championship meet in the sprint freestyles.

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Dynamo Backstroker Parker Bragg Has Committed To Swim For LSU For 2020

Bragg capped off his senior year at the Georgia 6A High School State Runner Up in the 100-yard backstroke.

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Dave Durden Wins 3rd-Straight Pac-12 Coach of the Year Honors, 9th Career Award

The Cal Bears and Arizona State Sun Devils each took home two of the Pac-12 Swimming & Diving season awards this year.

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IOC Expected To Unveil Dates For Postponed Games In April

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will set the dates for the rescheduled Tokyo Games in about three weeks’ time.

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Projected Men’s 2020 NCAA Points By Class – All Classes

We tally up projected individual scoring for the 2020 NCAA meet, plus look back at the past three NCAA meets for class-by-class scoring by individual.

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USOPC Asked Congress for $200 Million in Relief for NGBs in Stimulus Package

The USOPC estimated the 50 NGBs will lose a combined $800 million through the summer, but the request to Congress was not approved.

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La FINA dice que el Mundial 2021 no se moverá a 2022

“No, no, no, no, no, no”, dijo Cornel Marculescu cuando se le preguntó si el Campeonato Mundial de la FINA 2021 podría posponerse un año.

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Roadmaps – Mapping the Journey of US Swimming Stars: Women’s 100 Fly

Read on Kelsi Dahlia, Katie McLaughlin, Regan Smith, Torri Huske, Amanda Kendall, Kendyl Stewart, Aly Tetzloff, and Claire Curzan’s 100 fly Roadmaps here!

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Kosuke Kitajima and the Dolphin Kicks That Changed Breaststroke Forever

Kosuke Kitajima changed breaststroke forever when he implemented dolphin kicks into his underwater pullouts at the 2004 Olympics and was not disqualified.

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Swimming Canada Announces Cancellation Of Remaining Summer National Events

In the wake of the Olympic postponement, all Canadian national events slated for the summer have been cancelled.

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Competitor Coach of the Month: Bob Bowman, Arizona State

Coach Bob Bowman had his Arizona State Sun Devils competing at an incredible level in the first half of March, before the NCAA season was halted by COVID-19.

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Ultra Swim Swimmer of the Month: Hugo Gonzalez’s Bounce-Back

For Gonzalez, even though the postseason was wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, the 2019-2020 season was a trajectory-changing success.

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Russian Gymnast Khorkina Says Tokyo 2020 Postponement Is Punishment From God

Svetlana Khorkina has spoken out, saying that the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is a punishment from God for offending Russian athletes

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Dolfin Swim of the Week / This Day In History: Austin Staab’s 44.1 Fly

Today is March 27 – that’s a very fast day in history, considering it was the Friday of 2009 Men’s NCAAs. Austin Staab smashed records with a 44.18 100 fly.

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