Minna Abraham

2024 Women’s Pac-12 Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

With four swimmers in the top nine of the 50 free prelims this morning, Cal appears to be the team to beat in the 200 free relay at the end of the session.

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2024 Women’s Pac-12 Championships: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

Today’s slate will feature prelims of the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free this morning along with 1-meter diving and the 200 free relay later today. 

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2024 Women’s Pac-12 Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

The USC women enter this year’s meet owning 10 of the 18 top-seeded times in the Pac-12 as they seek their first conference title since 2016.

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2024 Women’s Pac-12 Champs Fan Guide: Stanford Battling Losses Amid Their Bid for a 3-Peat

The 9 members of Stanford’s team last year who aren’t on the roster this season accounted for a stunning 570 points at last year’s meet.

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Progress in 500 FR Has Anna Peplowski Looking Like a Three-Event Threat at NCAAs This Year

Despite only swimming the 500 free four times over the past four years, Peplowski has dropped 11 seconds in the event this season down to 4:37.63 in prelims.

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Day 5 Relay Analysis: Li’s 1:54.59 Gives China Gold in 4×200 and Sets Up Nicely For Paris

The defending Olympic Champs, China, looks strong heading into Paris, as Li Bingjie splits faster than she did in Tokyo and in Fukuoka last summer.

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USC Women Defeat UCLA 164-136, Make School History With First Undefeated Regular Season

The USC women traveled to UCLA for a dual meet on Friday, with the Trojans winning (164-136). USC remains undefeated heading into championship season.

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Abraham Rallies USC Women Past Cal For First Win Over Bears in 8 Years

USC’s Minna Abraham rallied past Cal’s Isabelle Stadden on the anchor leg of the 200 free relay to give the Trojans their first win vs. the Bears since 2016.

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Claire Tuggle and Kaitlyn Dobler Take Down Pool Records As USC Beats Washington State

Kaitlyn Dobler clocked a 1:00.14 en route to winning the 100 breast, while Claire Tuggle put down a 16:41.32 to take down the record in the 1650.

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Chmielewski Twins Combine for 5 Individual Wins as USC Dominates UCSD, Utah (Women)

Krzysztof Chmielewski (above) picked up at least two individual event wins for the 6th time in 7 collegiate meets, while his twin brother Michal won three.

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2024 NCAA Women’s Midseason Scoring Update: Virginia Leads, But It’s Close

Gretchen Walsh and the Virginia Cavaliers lead the Swimulator rankings for now, but Texas is coming.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 66% Pick Ilya Kharun As Most Impressive NCAA Freshman This Season

Kharun has been on fire through the first half of the NCAA season, currently ranking #1 in the nation in the 200 fly (1:38.11) and #2 in the 100 fly (44.33).

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NCAA ‘A’ Cut Qualifiers Through Midseason Invites – Individual Events

Gretchen Walsh leads all swimmers with five NCAA ‘A’ cuts through the midseason invite portion of the 2023-24 campaign.

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Minna Abraham, Julia Heimstead Named Pac-12 Women’s Co-Swimmers of the Month

Heimstead went undefeated in November in the 100 and 200 fly, while Abraham did the same in the 200 free. Utah’s Holly Waxman earned Diving honors.

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2023 U.S. Open Championships — Day 3 Finals Live Recap

World record holder Summer McIntosh is top seed in the 400 IM and aims to double up on event wins and meet records after winning the 400 free yesterday.

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