Maxime Rooney

2019 M. NCAA Previews: NC State Going for Three Out Of Four in 400 FR

The NC State Wolfpack are on the prowl for their third 400 free relay title in the last four years.

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2019 M. NCAA Previews: Foreigners Keep Top-3 Stranglehold in 200 Fly

Three of the top-5 performers all-time in the men’s 200 yard butterfly are returning to the NCAA Championship this year, not one of them American.

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2019 M. NCAA Previews: It’s Hard to Bet Against Lanza in 100 Fly

Indiana’s Vini Lanza is a safe enough bet to win this race. (Not that you should be gambling on swimming.)

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2019 M. NCAA Previews: Chaos Reigns Without Dressel in 100 Free

A Dressel-less field leaves a wide-open race for the top of the podium in the 100 free.

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2019 M. NCAA Previews: Haas After Unprecedented 200 Free Four-Peat

Texas senior Townley Haas is on a quest to make history this week in Austin by becoming the first man ever to win four NCAA Division I 200 free titles.

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2018-2019 NCAA Men’s Power Rankings: Final Edition

Conference Championships brought some major shakeups to our final edition men’s Power Ranks, though our #1 rank continues to be an uneasy split between Texas and Cal. 

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Maxime Rooney Will Swim 200 Fly/100 Free Double at NCAAs

Rooney won’t swim the 200 free: an event in which he was the 2017 SEC Champion and in which he’s a former National High School and current National Age Group Record holder.

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Mark Theall Likely Qualifies For NCAAs on First Day of ASCCs

The most interesting race of the day was final of the men’s 200 fly, where three swimmers, Andrew Koustik, Sam Pomajevich, and Daniil Antipov, were vying for times fast enough to earn them a ticket to the NCAAs.

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Competitor Coach of the Month: Anthony Nesty, Florida

Coach Anthony Nesty’s Florida Gators still found a way to win their 7th-straight SEC title. That was thanks in large part to a 375.5-point freshman class, more than double what any other freshman class in the SEC scored.

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Reprise: 5 Big Questions from Last Week’s D1 Conference Championships

My favorite storyline from last week’s conference championship meets? Maxime Rooney’s new trajectory as a butterflier.

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2019 SEC Championships Scoring Breakdown

Both the Florida men and the Texas A&M women defended their titles. How it happened. In detail. Lots and lots of detail.

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How Florida Won the Men’s SEC Team Title For a 7th Year in a Row

The answer, simply put, is a freshman class that showed up and showed out for the Gators.

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2019 SEC Championships: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

Tonight sets the stage for the final session of the 2019 SEC Championships in Athens, Georgia, where swimmers will compete in the 1650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, and 400 free relay.

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Carson Foster Breaks National HS Record in 200 Free – 1:32.99

His time would currently rank 9th in the NCAA this year, with the SEC having already swum their conference championships.

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2019 SEC Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

Live Finals of Day 4 of the SEC Championships. The Florida and Mizzou men are only separated by 11 points after last night while the Texas A&M women have a 57-point lead on the Florida women.

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