Swimming’s TopTenTweets of the Week: Don’t Sleep on Cullen Jones

We’re back for the weekly installment of SwimSwam’s TopTenTweets, where we round up the best swimming-related tweets we can get our eyes on. With the start of the NCAA season, there were some top-notch collegiate tweets out there; scroll down to see what made the cut!

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#10

We’ll never not be #inspired by Eric the Eel.

#9

https://twitter.com/IndianaSwimDive/status/910892885343719424

This world needs more swim team hype videos.

#8

Greg Meehan is quickly becoming one of the GOAT coaches, this Vine included. #RIPvine, indeed.

#7

Marsh is putting his new environment to work; his swimmers are surely “thrilled.”

#6

Regardless of who does or doesn’t show up to watch them swim, you can bet that swimmers will be out there supporting other teams, usually in notable fashion.

#5

We’ll say it again: there’s a reason Dana has 7 gold medals and we don’t.

#4

Jason Dufner made headlines after splitting his pants on-air this week, but Ricky Berens had every swimmer’s worst suit nightmare come true. Click here if you need a refresher. 

#3

Ah, the life of a sprinter.

#2

You do you, USC.

#1

https://twitter.com/heldilox/status/910860547985432578

Cullen Jones has still got it. We repeat: CULLEN. JONES. HAS. STILL. GOT. IT.


Check back next Sunday for round three!

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marklewis
7 years ago

David Marsh’s swimmers better hope he doesn’t go NAVY SEAL on them with these beach workouts.

G.I.N.A
7 years ago

So far , no kneeling .

Steve Nolan
7 years ago

Eric the Eel apparently got down to a 56 in his 100 free, which is pretty baller.

Caeleb Dressel WILL get 7 golds in Tokyo
Reply to  Steve Nolan
7 years ago

About 13 years ago or so?

Steve Nolan

I think so! Which when you lay it all out is crazy – he was already 19 or 20 in 2000 when he went that 1:50, basically cut that in half.

swimming
7 years ago

It goes without saying that Cullen Jones’s 1:01.9 100 kick was LCM…. right??

Yaboi
Reply to  swimming
7 years ago

Lol I hope

Swimmer A
Reply to  swimming
7 years ago

1:01.9 SCY would still be insane for anyone I’ve ever met. But the pros are just on another level kicking, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that was LCM.

swimming
Reply to  Swimmer A
7 years ago

I don’t know about insane, I swam on mid-level club team of about 13-15 high schoolers and we had about four guys who could all go 1:02 or faster SCY.

gator fan
Reply to  swimming
7 years ago

Schooling went 1:01.8

Tea rex
7 years ago

Re: #7

How many swimmers are on the west coast Team Elite??? I see like 30-50 people there!

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