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Junior Sydney Lofquist Transferring from USC to Wisconsin

Junior-to-be Sydney Lofquist will transfer from USC to Wisconsin this fall, according to Wisconsin’s student-run DailyCardinal news organization. Lofquist is primarily…

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Revisiting NCAA Recruiting Class Rankings: Women’s Class of 2014-2017

Olivia Smoliga’s Georgia recruiting class was ranked 3rd way back in 2013. How did our top 12 recruiting classes pan out four years later?

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Revisiting NCAA Recruit Rankings: Women’s High School Class of 2013

In her two seasons, Missy Franklin lived up to her billing as the top recruit in the class of 2013 with seven NCAA titles and 113 individual points. How many of her classmates did the same?

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2017 Women’s NCAA Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

The 2017 Women’s NCAA Championships will come to close tonight with finals of the 1650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, 400 free relay, and platform diving.

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2017 W. NCAAs Day 4 Prelims Scratches: Zeiger & Runge Out of 1650 Free

Number three seed Brooke Zeiger of Minnesota and sixth seed Cierra Runge of Wisconsin (pictured) have both scratched the 1650 free for tomorrow, bumping Danielle Valley and Ashley Neidigh into the night swim.

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2017 Women’s NCAA Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Tonight’s competition includes the finals of the 200 free relay, 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free, 400 medley relay, and 1-meter diving.

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2017 Women’s NCAA Championships: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

The 2017 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships continue this morning with prelims of the 200 free relay, 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free, 400 medley relay, and 1-meter diving.

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2016-2017 Women’s NCAA Power Rankings – Final Edition

Women’s NCAA conference championships have wrapped up, meaning it’s time for our last Power Rankings of the season. Stanford is still the runaway #1 team in the land, but the rest of the top 20 has shuffled up pretty considerably as more teams start to show their cards in the hunt for NCAA invites.

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2016-2017 Women’s NCAA Power Rankings – January Edition

Texas is surging with a big win over Georgia, but no one can quite unseat Stanford at the top of our first Power Rankings of 2017. The Cardinal are still the team to beat, though midseason rest meets caused some major shakeups behind them.

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2016 Texas Invite: Stanford Men Step Up Big In Day 2 Prelims

The Stanford men were on a roll this morning, putting 4 swimmers into the final of the 500 free and 5 swimmers into the final of the 200 IM.

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Minnesota and Wisconsin Split in Big 10 Battle

The Big 10 match up between Minnesota and Wisconsin proved to be a competitive dual, with the rivals splitting between their men’s and women’s teams.

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Wisconsin Lines Up 3 Top 10 Opponents for 2016-17

The Badger men and women each face 3 top 10 opponents from the 2016 NCAA Championships. Interestingly, while their season is lined with plenty of tough competiton, they’ll only face one Big Ten team before conference.

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Lehane Improves 8th-in-the-World 200 Back at Brown Deer Sectional

Olympic Trials fourth place finisher Sean Lehane dropped his best 200 back time yet again tonight at the Speedo Sectional in Brown Deer, Wisconsin.

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Olympic Trials for the Anonymous 100th Seed

The U.S. Olympic Trials are a massive meet with hundreds of entries in every event. For many of the swimmers at…

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2016 Women’s Big Ten Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Liz Li absolutely owned the 50 freestyle this morning in Ann Arbor, clocking a 21.73 to hold the nation’s 2nd-fastest time behind newly-minted 2016 SEC Champion Olivia Smoliga (21.67). She got the job done tonight, becoming the 2016 Big Ten Champion with a winning time of 21.80.

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