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Re-Rank: Top 20 NCAA Swimming Recruits In The Boys High School Class Of 2023

The high school boys’ class of 2023 is one of the deepest in recent memory, with NCAA scoring times not even enough to guarantee top 10 placement.

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How Have Olympic Redshirts and Deferrals Worked Out in the Past?

With Torri Huske and Claire Curzan announcing that they will be taking redshirts next year, let’s see how redshirts and deferrals have worked out in the past.

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2022 U.S. Trials: Finke Is the Oldest Entrant in the 1500 at Just 22

University of Florida teammates Bobby Finke and Trey Freeman, both 22 years old, are the oldest entrants in the 1500m freestyle at U.S. Team Trials.

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“Best of the Rest” Recruit Henry Morrissey Commits to Stanford

Henry Morrissey, one of the top ranked recruits in the high school class of 2022, has announced his verbal commitment to swim at Stanford University.

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2020-2021 NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Power Ranks: Final Edition

Things are very much still up in the air between Cal and Texas, two teams with consistent NCAA track records and plenty of time left to drop this season.

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2021 Men’s Pac-12 Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

Reece Whitley has a chance to sweep the breaststroke events for a second straight year tonight at the Men’s Pac-12 Championships.

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Grant Shoults Drops Fastest 500 Free Since July Surgery – 4:15.74

His 4:15 is better than the 4:20 and 4:18 he did at the two Stanford-Cal meets in November, and it’s only three seconds off his 2020 Pac-12 winning time.

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Jordan Wilimovsky, Zheng Quah and Erica Sullivan Highlight Irvine US Open Meet

Olympian Jordan Wilimovsky is entered in the 200/400/800/1500 free next week at Irvine’s U.S. Open meet site.

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Roadmaps 2.0 – Mapping International Swim Stars: Men’s 1500 Free

Did you know Franko Grgic broke 14:49 in the 1500 free at age 16, one year before Gregorio Paltrinieri did ten years ago? Read for more men’s 1500 free facts.

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Returning Conference Points: Elite Stanford Frosh Chasing Cal in Men’s Pac-12

Cal’s class of rising seniors – led by sprinter Ryan Hoffer – is an elite group. But so are Stanford’s incoming freshmen, including flyer Andrei Minakov.

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SwimSwam Podcast: True Sweetser on The Journey of a Distance Swimmer

True spoke candidly about growing up as the youngest of 6, his age-group days, and eventually moving on to train with Gator Swim Club in high school.

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All-American True Sweetser To Return To Stanford Roster For 2020-2021 Season

Three-year NCAA scorer True Sweetser will compete for Stanford this college season after sitting out last year on an Olympic gap year.

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Men’s Recruiting Class Ranks Revisited: Top 12 Schools For 2016-2019

Looking back at four years, three NCAA meets and one set of NCAA psych sheets, we re-score the 2016 recruiting classes by school.

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Revisiting Recruit Rankings: Men’s High School Class of 2016

There were a lot of top-20 misses in the class of 2015, though the top of the class was set to produce big at 2020 NCAAs.

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Redshirt Rewind: The 2020 NCAA Gap Years & Where They Go From Here

In Olympic anticipation, the 2020 NCAA season was loaded with top talent taking gap years. But Olympic postponement will throw a wrench into those plans.

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