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Whitley Punches 1:55.8 200 Breast as Cal Dominates Triple Distance

Whitley improved his nation-leading 1:56.60 with a 1:55.87 today. Only Andrew Seliskar has been under 1:57.9 this year, besides Whitley.

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Boise High School Sweeps Idaho 5A State Swimming Championships

Boise High School swept the Idaho 5A State Championships over the weekend.

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Ryan Murphy, Lia Neal, Jacob Pebley Join Energy For Swim Lineup

Ryan Murphy, Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley are the latest three U.S. Olympians to sign on for the Energy for Swim 2018 meet, which is scheduled to take place in Torino, Italy next month, though FINA has made clear the meet is not authorized.

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#12 Harrison Lierz Verbally Commits to Tennessee for 2020

Harrison Lierz of Colorado’s Broomfield High School and Elevation Athletics has verbally committed to swim for the Tennessee Volunteers in 2020-21.

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Mitch Larkin Talks about 200 IM Shift Helping Him Feel “Fresh”

As swimmers arrive in Tokyo, Japan for this weekend’s stop of the 2018 FINA World Cup Series, the penultimate stop…

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Badger Swim Club’s Sabrina Vumbacco Sends Verbal to Bucknell

Vumbacco is coming off of a great summer season in long course, notching LCM bests in the 400 free, 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 IM, and 400 IM.

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Rowdy Gaines Receives USA Swimming Foundation ‘Hero Award’

The USA Swimming Foundation has given Rowdy Gaines the Make a Splash Hero Award to recognize his ‘efforts as a…

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Bucknell Adds Verbal from Versatile Abigail Thrall of West Hartford

Thrall is already fast enough to score at the conference level in the 200 breast and 400 IM.

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Chase Kalisz, Emily Seebohm Join 37 Athletes Signed to Energy for Swim

The list of athletes with signed contracts to compete at the Energy for Swim 2018 event in Italy has grown to 37, even as FINA has informed federations that the meet is not authorized.

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Kolesnikov Wins 100 Back, Shabasov, Kostin Hit SC World Times In Kazan

Andrey Shabasov put up a World Championship qualifying time in the 100 back on day 2 of SC Russian Nationals in Kazan.

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Manuel, Murphy to Serve as USA Swimming Foundation Ambassadors

The USA Swimming Foundation, the philanthropic arm of USA Swimming, today welcomed Olympic gold medalists Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas/Stanford Swimming) and Ryan Murphy (Jacksonville, Fla./California Aquatics) as its newest Ambassadors.

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Pair Of Russian Junior Records Fall On Opening Night In Kazan

Anastasiia Sorokina (middle) set a new Russian Junior Record at their National Championships in Kazan in the 400 IM.

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Michigan Lakeshore Aquatics’ Riley Vanmeter Sends Verbal to Alabama

This summer, Vanmeter competed at the 2018 Speedo Junior Nationals, finishing 30th in the 100 fly (55.64) just outside of scoring range. 

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Morozov & 5 Other Russians Will Use World Cup for SC Worlds Qualifying

Morozov is the current leader of the overall points standings for the 2018 FINA World Cup Series.

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South Africans Ho & Weber Win ‘Swim the Burj’

Over 1,000 swimmers took part in the inaugural Daman DXB SwimFest 2018 in Dubai, UAE earlier this week.

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