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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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2020 Swammy Awards: CAC Female Athlete of the Year, Alia Atkinson

Atkinson finishes 2020 ranked 2nd in the world in the 100 SCM breaststroke (1:02.66) and 3rd in the world in the 50 SCM breaststroke (28.88).

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14-year-old James Savage Completes 18.6km Around Coronado Open Water Swim

14-year-old James Savage has become the youngest person to complete the 18.6km Around Coronado Open Water swim, finishing in a course record of 4:23.00.

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13-Year-Old Jefimova Sets Senior Estonian Record With 1:05.62 100 Breast

Estonian’s quickest swimmers wasted no time at the 2020 Short Course Swimming Championships, downing a collective total of 7 senior national records.

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Turkish Short Course Championships Day 3 Record Round-Up

The Turkish short course record book is being overwritten with nearly every race in Instanbul this week. Read what happened on night 3 in this post.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: Canadian Swimmers Find Florida Paradise In Quebec

We’re back this week with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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15-Yr-Old Merve Tuncel Beats World Junior Record 1500 Benchmark Time

The 2020 Turkish Short Course Championships saw a monster swim take place on day 3 at the hands of 15-year-old Merve Tuncel.

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