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Many Top Swimmers from Midwest Clubs to Converge at Carmel Invite

Kelly Pash of hosts Carmel Swim Club is the top seed in five of her seven scheduled events this weekend.

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Navy Picks Up RMSC Distance Specialist Nathan Watts for 2019

Rockville Montgomery Swim Club’s Nathan Watts has committed to the Naval Academy for this coming fall. “The opportunities the Academy provides both academically…

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European Broadcasting Union To Televise Euro Meet In Luxembourg

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will join the European swimming federation (LEN) in providing “enhanced TV coverage” of the 2019 Euro Meet in Luxembourg later this month.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 34% Say Records/Times Are Most Important to Great Race

A little more than a third of voters said a record or a fast time was the most important element in creating a great race, with the rest of the votes mostly split between a major meet and a close finish.

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Dolfin Swim of the Week: Hindley Notches Likely NCAA Invite With 22.17

Yale senior Bella Hindley put up the fastest 50 freestyle in the nation for the year 2019, going 22.17.

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Watson, Depolo Double As Nevada Flattens UNLV In Desert Dual

The University of Nevada, Reno vs UNLV January 15th, 2019 Reno, NV Results Team Scores (women only) Nevada 192 –…

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British Counties Kick-off 2019 Swim Year

The City of Sunderland ASA New Year Meet is taking place this weekend, along with several county championships including Essex, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk.

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Indiana Welcomes Michigan to Bloomington on Thursday

The Indiana University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will host Big Ten rival and Michigan on Thursday at the Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center in Bloomington, Ind.

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Chalmers, Wilson, Elmslie Take On JPN Visitors At South Aussie C’ships

2016 Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers is once again the main attraction of the 2019 South Australian State Long Course Championships, but he’ll have Japanese company.

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UMass Sets 2 Pool Relay Records in 185-110 Win over Rhode Island

The University of Massachusetts women set Rogers Pool records in the 400 Medley Relay and 800 Freestyle Relay in a 185-110 win over Rhode Island on Tuesday.

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Teenager Malgil Makes Turkish History In 400 IM

At the Anadolu Yıldızlar Ligi Seçmesi ve Performans Tespit Yarışları meet in Mersin, Turkey at the end of last month, 13-year-old Atakan Malgil made waves with a new National Age Group Record in the men’s 400m IM.

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Recordings of Tamás Gyárfás Conversations Found in Graveyard

The recordings, which are cut from original conversations and were allegedly being used for blackmail, support prosecutors’ claims that the FINA Bureau Member and LEN Executive ordered the murder of a media rival in the 1990s. Gyárfás says that the edited recordings are misleading.

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Russia, Italy Take Lead of Respective Groups in World League Play

The FINA Women’s Water Polo World League 2019 resumed in Europe with the preliminary phase with Italy defeating the Netherlands and Russia besting Greece to move atop their respecitve groups.

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ASCA COO Paris Jacobs Talks What’s New, Athlete Safety

As athletes, teams and coaches get back to intense workouts and winter competition, Swim Swam met up with Paris Jacobs, Chief Operations Officer for ASCA, the Association of Swimming Coaches of America, to hear what’s new in the coaching world and why ASCA just endorsed a new solution to keep athletes safer in the water.

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Middlebury Travels Down to Pompano Beach (Trip Video)

The Middlebury men and women recently came back from their bout of winter break training in Pompano Beach, Florida. The…

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