Arena Swim of the Week

Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Sam Tierney Heating Up At Right Time

Sam Tierney hit a new lifetime-best of 1:00.82 in Minneapolis, taking three tenths off his time from last summer’s U.S. Nationals.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Sorenson Plays Closer For Ames Girls

Last weekend, Ames, Iowa sophomore Sophie Sorenson tried her hand at high school swimming’s best approximation of a closing pitcher.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Larkin Tears Toward World Record

The story of the FINA World Cup series as of late has been Australian backstroker Mitchell Larkin, who is following up his 2015 World titles with one of the most dominant season runs we’ve seen in years.

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David Plummer’s 4 key leadership traits in swimming

#2 – -Be encouraging to younger or newer athletes.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: McTaggart Opens College Career With Lifetime-Best

Recent college commits, take note: There isn’t really a better way to open your college swimming career than how UCLA’s Caroline McTaggart did it last weekend.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Moffitt, Cameron Come Up Clutch In Thrilling Dual

Juniors Hellen Moffit and Emily Cameron traded heroics back and forth as UNC and Georgia engaged in arguably the most exciting dual meet of NCAA season so far.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Emily Seebohm – 58-Second Machine

If there’s been one thing you can count on at every World Cup stop, it’s been this: Emily Seebohm will go 58 in the 100 back.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Van der Burgh’s $15000 50 Breast

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Werner Hits NCAA’s First B Cut of Season

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Long Caps Decade of Dominance With WR

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Versatile Clyde Lewis Showing Up For Australia

In the post-Michael-Phelps-in-Beijing world, versatility in swimming has never been so highly valued. Meet Clyde Lewis, who is carrying that banner for Australia at the junior level.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Gunes unstoppable at Junior Worlds

No swimmer had a better Junior World Championships meet than Turkey’s Viktoria Zeynep Gunes.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Castiglioni hits her stride in Italy

It’s not often a swimmer gets an immediate shot at redemption. But Italy’s Arianna Castiglioni did just that at the Italian Age Championships.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: A little rest goes a long way for Hosszu in world record swim

Katinka Hosszu did the unthinkable – dropping an event out of her lineup – but came up stronger for it, blasting a new world record in the 200 IM.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Stevens rattles 1:00 in breakout 100 Back

Missouri’s Hannah Stevens put up the second-fastest American 100 back time of the year last weekend, and will shoot to break the minute barrier at U.S. Nationals.

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