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Tom Shields Heads Home from Austin PSS Citing Back and Health Concerns

Shields is recovering from a tonsillectomy and deviated septum surgery.

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2018 Pro Swim Series – Austin: Licon Scratches 100 BR Final on Day 2

4th seed Will Licon will not be swimming in tonight’s 100 breast final. He’ll instead turn his focus to the championship final of the 200 IM later in the session.

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2018 Pro Swim Series – Austin: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

Olympic champion Ryan Murphy is one of several stars competing tonight. Murphy is the top seed in the 200 back.

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2018 Austin Pro Swim Series: SwimSquad Battles Preview/Cheat Sheet

Team Natalie Coughlin has some tough choices to make before Austin, including whether to start #7 overall pick Melanie Margalis as an IMer, breaststroker or in the flex spot.

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Top 20 (…+4) Quotes From Winter Nats (Video)

As the 2017 Winter Nationals wind down, SwimSwam doesn’t want the party to end. So we put together our favorite quotes from the weekend

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2017 U.S. Winter Nationals: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

Swimmers are set to compete in finals of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, and 4×100 free relay. The fastest heat of the women’s and men’s 1650 free will also be contested tonight and will open the session.

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Fink on Breaststroke Depth: “We All Make Each Other Faster” (Video)

It was a tight race between Nic Fink and Cody Miller, with Fink hitting the wall in 50.80, erasing Miller’s Meet Record and Pool Record from this morning

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2017 U.S. Winter Nationals: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

On the men’s side, Zane Grothe (200 free) is back in action after taking down the 500 free American Record last night.

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2017 U.S. Winter Nationals: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Louisville standout Mallory Comerford will show off her range tonight in both the 50 free and 500 free. Comerford’s challengers in the 50 include fellow Louisville-based star Kelsi Worrell and former U.S. National teamer Margo Geer, who both broke 22 this morning.

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U.S. Winter Nationals: Day 3 Prelims Scratch Report

Mark Szaranek won’t swim the 400 IM at Winter Nationals this morning in Columbus.

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SwimSwam’s Mock Draft For the 2018 SwimSquad Battles

On Sunday, four retired Olympians will draft SwimSquads for the 2018 Pro Swim Series. We’re predicting the picks in advance.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: A&M With the Upset

We’re back with swimming’s top 10 tweets of the week, where we bring you the best of the swimming Twitterverse….

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2017 College Challenge Highlight Reel

Missed out on our live recaps of the 2017 College Challenge? Fear not, for we’ve dug through results to put together a rapid-fire ‘highlight reel’ of top swims and swimmers from the meet, along with a quick look at what makes these swims significant.

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2017 College Challenge: Sunday Live Recap

Day 2 of the 2017 College Challenge kicks off at 10:30 a.m. at USC’s Uytengsu Aquatics Center.

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2017 College Challenge: Saturday Night Live Recap

The top stars from the USA National Team and the Pac-12 Conference square off tonight and tomorrow in the 25 yard pool at the 2017 USA College Challenge.

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