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USA Women Edge Canada 12-11 In Shootout To Finish Group Play 3-0

Rivals Canada and the United States met in the final match of day three at the FINA Intercontinental Tournament with…

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Cal Girls Dominate On Day One of Mel Zajac International

The 50m backstroke was dominated by Cal’s golden girls as Rachel Bootsma, Missy Franklin, and Elizabeth Pelton took the top three spots.

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Crean Lutheran Coach Craig Brown: From No Pool, No Team to CIF-SS D3 Champions

Crean Lutheran coach Craig Brown explains to SwimSwam’s Anne Lepesant how his school has been able to build a championship team in just four years.

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Lindsey Engel Interview: Building a High School Swim Team from the Ground Up

Lindsey Engel wraps up her high school swimming career with SwimSwam’s Anne Lepesant.

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Team FINIS Launches Athlete Site

FINIS, a world leader in technical swimming products announces the launch of the all new Team FINIS Athletes page. FINIS…

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Interview with Ella Eastin at CIF-SS D3 Finals

Ella Eastin raves about her high school swimming experience in an interview with SwimSwam’s Anne Lepesant at CIF-SS D3 finals in Riverside, CA.

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Photo Vault: CIF-SS D3

Crean Lutheran and JW North repeated as CIF-SS D3 girls and boys champions, respectively, on May 15, 2014 at Riverside…

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Former Olympian, Alabama NCAA Champion Casey Converse named to Mobile Sports Hall of Fame

Former Alabama NCAA Champion and current Air Force head coach Casey Converse, who represented the U.S. in the 1976 Olympics, has become the first swimmer inducted into the prestigious Mobile Sports Hall of Fame.

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Ryan Lochte Reveals to Reporters in NYC that he Re-tore his MCL

Ryan Lochte reveal the true issue troubling his knee while in NYC.

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SwimSwam’s The Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming – 5/14/2014

The end of California high school season put us a little behind schedule but don’t worry, we’ve got our Weekly Wonders for May 9-12, 2014.

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A layman’s guide to drug testing in the sport of swimming

Inspired by some comment-section discussion about the often-confusing world of official drug testing, we at SwimSwam decided to put together a quick, simplified version of the FINA and USA Swimming drug testing processes:

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The scoop on open water swimming: Q&A with Ashley Twichell

With less than a month to go until the 2014 USA Swimming Open Water Nationals, we’re checking in with some…

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Australians Pick Up Six Gold Led by Groenewald and Throssell

On the first two nights of the Oceania Championships in Auckland, New Zealand the home country lead in the collection of gold on both evenings, but the third night saw a very different scenario play out…

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USA Women Defeat Kazakhstan 16-5 On Day Two Of FINA Intercontinental Tournamen

The USA Women picked up their second straight victory at the FINA Intercontinental Tournament with a 16-5 defeat of Kazakhstan. This moves Team USA to 2-0 in Group A play in a tie for first place with Canada.

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CIF-SS D2 Boys: Kyle Coan and Los Osos Repeat as Divisional Champs; Beat Santiago by 1.5 Points

Los Osos celebrated back-to-back CIF-SS Division 2 team championships on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Riverside, when they beat Santiago (Corona) by 1.5 points.

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