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Triton Kicks Off Sunshine Series With Holiday Open Water Weekend

Triton and Open Water Planet are encouraging you to upgrade your typical holiday festivities and celebrate on the beach!

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7 Parent Tips to Help Your Child Be More Positive

I’m definitely a “glass half full” person. I don’t like negative talk on the pool deck because I understand there isn’t a perfect team, perfect coach or perfect swimmer.

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WTRX – Transitioning From Land To Water

The “WTRX” (Water Xtreme) class, designed in partnership with Speedo USA, a division of PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH), and Healthy Way of Life Company, Life Time®, is changing the perception of the “aqua” class by combining the intensity and camaraderie of the ultimate boot camp with effective, lower impact water movements.

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5x SCHSL 5A Champ Ben Fenwick Sends Verbal to In-state South Carolina

Native son Ben Fenwick of Fort Mill High School and SwimMAC Carolina has elected to make his verbal commitment to the University of South Carolina.

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Air Force Earns Verbal Commitment from California’s Aaron Pang

Aliso Viejo, California-native Aaron Pang has made a verbal commitment to the United States Air Force Academy for the 2018-19 season.

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Butterflyer Olivia French Verbally Commits to Tulane Green Wave

Olivia French from Our Lady of Good Counsel High School and All-Star Aquatics has announced her verbal commitment to swim at Tulane University beginning in the fall of 2018.

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IOC Sanctions 2 Russian Athletes As Part Of Oswald Commission Findings

Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has published the first conclusions from the Oswald Commission hearings, which are being conducted in the context of the Sochi 2014 forensic and analytic doping investigations.

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Anthony Ervin Teams Up With Tuft & Needle To Help The Bay Area

Unique initiative will provide over $27,000 in donated mattresses to benefit Jewish Family & Children’s Services

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With 1,000 Days To Go, Tokyo 2020 Engages Millions In Japan

Marking the start of the “1,000 Days To Go” countdown to the opening of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today announced that five million people throughout Japan have already taken part in more than 14,000 Games-related actions in the Tokyo 2020 Nationwide Participation Programme, which was launched last year.

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Swedish Top Coach Will Be Sigma Swim’s New Head Coach

Jonas Lundström joins Sigma Swim from a position as elite coach at Helsingborg Simsällskap, one of Swedens dominating swim clubs.

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Buckhorn Bucks Swim To Madison County Championship

The Buckhorn Bucks bolted past the field in the 2017 Madison County High School Championship Swim Meet Monday night at the Alabama A&M University Swim Complex.

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Japanese Olympian Daiya Seto Fine-Tuning Breaststroke Craft

Japanese flyer and IM specialist Daiya Seto has been quietly making moves on the breaststroke front.

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How to Maximize The Fifth Stroke

The maximum propulsion occurs at the beginning of the down kick with a flick of the foot toward plantar flexion of the ankle. The more plantar flexion of the ankle, the more foot surface area is available to push backward in the water, creating propulsion.

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SwimSwam Swimmer of the Month: Louise Hansson, USC

Hailed as a bit of a surprising choice to be our near-unanimous pick to win the NCAA 100 fly title, USC’s Louise Hansson is backing up that status early in the season. Her month of October has been stellar, and a key reason why the Trojans are 4-0 and one of the NCAA’s hottest teams heading into winter invites.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Ipsen Goes 8:52

Swimming on the road in the frigid north this weekend, NC State senior Anton Ipsen brought the heat.

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