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Katie Ledecky Among Time Magazine’s 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015

Katie Ledecky lands herself on Time Magazine’s list of the 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015.

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Huntsville, AL Natatorium To Add Second Olympic-Size Pool

Huntsville, Alabama will renovate and upgrade its Brahan Spring Park Natatorium, adding a second 50-meter pool.

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Saint Louis Picks Up First Verbal for Next Fall with Emily Kishish

For more commitment articles, be sure to check out SwimSwam’s College Recruiting channel. Saint Louis has landed Blackline Aquatics breaststroker/butterflier Emily Kishish for…

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Texas A&M All-American Ashley McGregor To Sit Out NCAA Season, Train For Olympics in Canada

Texas A&M’s Ashley McGregor will delay her senior season, training instead in Canada to prepare for the Olympic Trials.

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Louisiana Sprinter Amy Miller Commits to Texas A&M

Amy Miller of Crawfish Aquatics and Saint Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge, LA has just committed to swim for Steve Bultman at Texas A&M University.

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Delaware State Champ Jack Portmann Is Latest WVU Commit

Delaware Swim Team’s Jack Portmann has given a verbal commitment to the West Virginia University Mountaineers for 2016-17.

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Georgia Bulldogs Top First Women’s Division I CSCAA Poll for 2015-16

Hali Flickinger’s triple individual winning outing against UNC helped position the Georgia Bulldogs as the CSCAA’s #1 team in its initial 2015-16 poll.

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Florida Southern Freshman Struck By Car, Killed Sunday Morning

A freshman swimmer at Florida Southern College was hit by a car and killed early Sunday morning, local police report.

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How To Train Through That Dreaded Plateau

When training, at any level, a lot of people struggle with progress after training for a while and hit a plateau. This is commonly known as the ‘plateau syndrome’.

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College Swimming Previews: #4 Texas A&M Passing The Torch

The last two seasons have seen a big group of talented names graduate out of Texas A&M’s roster, but the last two batches of incoming Aggies may just be outstanding enough to keep the team among the NCAA’s best.

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CWPA Releases Men’s Varsity Week 8 Polls

The University of California-Los Angeles, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges and Brown University retain the No. 1 positions as the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) releases the 2015 Men’s Varsity Week 8 Polls.

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Lehigh Mountain Hawks Nab Back/Fly Specialist Nicole Shek

Nicole Shek, a back/fly specialist from Jersey Wahoos, has made a verbal commitment to Lehigh University.

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SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Roundup – 10/19/15 to 10/25/15

The countdown has begun; just two and a half weeks until National Letter of Intent Signing Period. Here are the verbal commitments we wrote about this week.

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Michigan HS Champion Saladin Verbally Commits to Mountaineers

2015 Michigan High School Division I champion in the 500 free, Trayton Saladin, has committed to swim for West Virginia University.

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Marshall Upsets Cincinnati in Dramatic Fashion

Marshall University’s win over the University of Cincinnati came down to the very last event of the meet. The team of Lauren Cowher, Maggie Stovall, Gloriya Mavrova, and Chloe Parsemain took the final event of the meet, touching out Cincinnati by just over a second, and giving the Thundering Herd a meet win in dramatic fashion. The final score showed 126-117.

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