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• Todd DeSorbo FULL 2024 US Trials Mixed Zone Interview (UVA Swimmers, 800 Fr-R, & LCM vs SCY)

  26-06-2024 13:11 via swimswam.com
  
  By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam
  2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALSJune 15-23, 2024
  Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN
  LCM (50 Meters)
  Meet Central
  Live Results
  SwimSwam Preview Index
  Virginia head coach and 2024 US Women’s Olympic head coach Todd DeSorbo spoke with the media during the 2024 US Olympic Trials. DeSorbo covered a myriad of topics, including a number of his swimmers and how they performed in Indianapolis, his thoughts on the women’s 800 Free Relay heading into Paris, and his
  
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• Where are the Swimmers Representing Team USA At the 2024 Olympics From?

  29-06-2024 14:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
  Any time a swimmer from Indiana was announced at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in Lucas Oil Stadium, they were greeted with a huge cheer from their home state crowd.
  The Indiana fans had a lot to cheer about–lots more than just their swimmers stepping up to the blocks. Based on swimmers’ listed hometowns, Indiana put more swimmers than any other state on the U.S. Olympic team. Six swimmers call Indiana home: Drew Kibler, Lilly King, Blake Pieroni, Aa
  
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• Brian Benzing Explains How NCAA Championships Prepared him for Olympic Trials

  29-06-2024 12:55 via swimswam.com
  
  By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam
  2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALSJune 15-23, 2024
  Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN
  LCM (50 Meters)
  Meet Central
  Live Results
  SwimSwam Preview Index
  Towson’s Brian Benzing was a surprise star at the 2024 NCAA Championships, placing 2nd in the 100 breast in 50.59. At the Olympic Trials, Benzing surprised once again, taking the 7th seed out of prelims with a 1:00.16 before ultimately placing 12th in the semi-finals with a 1:00.29. Benzing explains how dealing wi
  
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• Honda Clocks 1:55.72 200 Fly Tune-Up, 17-Yr-Old Murasa Hits 1:46.59 JPN High School Record

  29-06-2024 12:38 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  10th SUMMER CHALLENGE MEET (JPN)Saturday, June 29th & Sunday, June 30th
  Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
  LCM (50m)
  ResultsSeveral Japanese stars took on the 10th Summer Challenge Meet to sharpen and tune-up ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games beginning just about a month from now.
  Tatsuya Murasa was one of the Paris-bound athletes racing today, with the 17-year-old firing off a new Japanese National High School Record in the men’s 200m free.
  Murasa stopped the cl
  
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• Scott Posts 1:57.95 200 IM/48.88 100 Free Double, Evans Hits 1:05.71 100 Breast In Edinburgh

  29-06-2024 10:37 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  2024 SCOTTISH NATIONAL OPEN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPSFriday, June 28th – Sunday, June 30th
  Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh, Scotland
  LCM (50m)
  Live Results
  LivestreamOn the heels of the 2024 European Championships and Sette Colli Trophy, the Scottish National Open Swimming Championships kicked off from Edinburgh.
  With the Paris Olympic Games beginning just a month from now, British Olympians are among those taking to the Royal Commonwealth pool for final tune-ups
  
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• Morgan Stickney Crushes Her Own World Record in 400 Free S7 on Day 2 of U.S. Para Swim Trials

  29-06-2024 06:35 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  2024 U.S. PARA SWIMMING TRIALSJune 27 – 29, 2024
  Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center — Minneapolis, MN
  50 meters (LCM)
  Meet Central
  Psych Sheet (pre-scratch)
  Day 1 Results
  Day 1 RecapTwo-time Paralympic champion Morgan Stickney crushed her own world record in the 400-meter freestyle S7 on Friday night, taking almost three seconds off the standard with a winning time of 4:51.50.
  Stickney previously held the world record at 4:54.28 from the 2023 Para World Champ
  
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• Andrew Shackell (2025) Flips Verbal Commitment from Cal to Texas

  29-06-2024 04:46 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anne Lepesant on SwimSwam
  Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all commitment news. For many, swimming in college is a lifelong dream that is pursued with dedication and determination. Fitter and Faster is proud to honor these athletes and those who supported them on their journey.
  Carmel, Indiana’s Andrew Shackell, who announced his verbal pledge to Cal two days after that of his twin sister, Alex Shackell, has now flipped
  
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• UNLV Hires 8-Year Assistant Pat Ota as New Head Swimming & Diving Coach

  28-06-2024 23:49 via swimswam.com
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Pat Ota has been named head coach of the UNLV men’s and women’s swimming & diving programs after the departure of Ben Loorz for the University of Arizona last month. Ota has spent the last eight seasons with the Rebels and has been serving as the interim head coach since May.
  Ota’s previous roles at UNLV have included being associate head coach as well as head assistant coach. Since coming to Las Vegas in 2016, Ota has he
  
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• SMU Announces Roric Fink as New Associate Head Coach of Men’s Swimming

  28-06-2024 23:27 via swimswam.com
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Roric Fink has been announced as the new associate head coach of the men’s swimming & diving program at SMU, taking him back to the state of Texas after a two year stint at the University of Arizona. That will reunite him with Greg Rhodenbaugh: the pair’s fourth stint together.
  Rhodenbaugh was a former team captain and assistant coach at Arizona; he and Fink overlapped together there when the program was one of the best in the NCAA in the 2000s.
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• SEC ‘B’ Finalist Sam Brown Transferring From Missouri To South Carolina

  28-06-2024 22:11 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  Sam Brown has announced he will transfer to South Carolina for his final two years of eligibility after beginning his collegiate career with Missouri.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Sam Brown (@swammybrown)Brown entered the portal back in March right when it opened. At the time, Brown said, “I just think it’s time for a restart.”
  Brown just finished his sophomore season with Missouri and made huge strides in the backstroke events in his t
  
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• Butterflyer Davina Huang Verbally Commits to Harvard for 2025-26

  28-06-2024 21:46 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anne Lepesant on SwimSwam
  Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all commitment news. For many, swimming in college is a lifelong dream that is pursued with dedication and determination. Fitter and Faster is proud to honor these athletes and those who supported them on their journey.
  Cupertino, California’s Davina Huang has announced her verbal commitment to the application process* at Harvard University for the fall of 2025.
  
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• Seine River Fails Another Water Quality Test With Just One Month Until Paris Olympics

  28-06-2024 21:33 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  With just over one month remaining until the Seine River hosts open water swimming and triathlon events at the Olympics, the scenic Paris waterway tested for unsafe levels of E. coli in four different areas for the third week in a row.
  E. coli levels were 10 times above acceptable limits on June 18 after another month of heavy rainfall sent untreated sewage into the Seine River. With the nearby Yonne River also flooding, the current flow of the Seine is around four t
  
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• Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming: 6/28/2024

  28-06-2024 21:29 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  In our Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming series, we celebrate swimmers of every age and experience level with age group profiles of some recent results.
  Aya Gillis-Pade, 13, Santa Clara Swim Club (PC): Gillis-Pade, who appears to have aged out of the 11-12 age group in recent days, went five-for-five in best times at the OAPB LC Senior Open last weekend, highlighted by her swim in the 1500 free. The Santa Clara Swim Club product put up a time of 17:53.20 t
  
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• FanDuel Releases Olympic Betting Odds for 100 Freestyle; Pan, O’Callaghan Favored to Win

  28-06-2024 20:36 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  FanDuel Sportsbook has released the first betting odds for swimming at the Paris Olympics next month, featuring China’s Pan Zhanle (-180) and Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan (+105) as the favorites in the men’s and women’s 100-meter freestyle, respectively.
  Pan blasted a world record of 46.80 leading off China’s 4×100 free relay at February’s World Championships, where also won the 2024 world title in 47.53. The 19-year-
  
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• Fluidra Race Video Of The Week: Caeleb Dressel Leads Strong 4×100 Free Relay To Paris

  28-06-2024 19:31 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam Partner Content on SwimSwam7-time Olympic gold medalist, Caeleb Dressel, has been on a long road back to sprinting prominence. In the men’s 100 freestyle final at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, he notched his spot on the U.S. Olympic Team, touching the wall in third place. 
  Chris Guiliano hit the wall first in 47.38, slightly slower than his semifinal time of 47.25, but the Notre Dame swimmer had already made the U.S. Olympic Team in the 200 free by finishing second in that
  
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• SwimSwam Pulse: Walsh’s World Record, Men’s 100 Free Final Biggest U.S. Trials Highlights

  28-06-2024 18:50 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring feature tracking and analyzing the results of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can cast your vote in our newest poll on the SwimSwam homepage, about halfway down the page on the right side.
  Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers what the biggest highlights of the U.S. Olympic Trials were:
  Question 1: What was the biggest highlight of the first four days of the U.S. Olympic Trials?
  RESULTSGretchen Walsh WR –&
  
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• Oldest, Youngest, Zodiacs, and Birthday Twins on the 2024 US Olympic Swim Team

  28-06-2024 18:22 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Luke Hobson and Chris Guiliano are not twins, but they do share a birthday! Both swimmers were born in June 25, 2003, marking a momentous day in the history of American middle-distance swimming as the two male representatives on the US Olympic Swim Team for the Paris 2024 Games.
  Hobson and Guiliano are a demonstration of the birthday paradox, where if you gather just 23 people, there is already a greater than 50% chance of at least two sharing a birthday (th
  
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• Adriana Owen Named Head Swim & Dive Coach At Wheaton College

  28-06-2024 18:01 via swimswam.com
  By SwimSwam on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: Wheaton College Athletics
  NORTON, Mass. – Adriana (Grabski) Owen has been named the Head Coach for both the Men’s Swimming & Diving and Women’s Swimming & diving programs at Wheaton College (Mass.), it was announced today by Gavin Viano, Associate Vice President for Athletics & Strategic Programs.,
  “Wheaton is thrilled to appoint Adriana Owen to lead our Men’s & Women’s Swimming & Diving
  
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• arena Swim of the Week: Tunisia’s Ahmed Jaouadi Drops Big For 14:48 1500 Free In France

  28-06-2024 17:01 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  Swim of the Week is brought to you by arena, a SwimSwam partner.
  Disclaimer: Swim of the Week is not meant to be a conclusive selection of the best overall swim of the week, but rather one Featured Swim to be explored in deeper detail. The Swim of the Week is an opportunity to take a closer look at the context of one of the many fast swims this week, perhaps a swim that slipped through the cracks as others grabbed the headlines, or a race we didn’t get
  
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• Australia poke US bear to ramp up swimming rivalry for Olympic Games | Nicole Jeffery

  28-06-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Old comments have been recycled to fire up the American team before the two nations vie for supremacy in the Paris poolCowbells. Australia’s Olympic swimmers could be hearing them in their sleep, and definitely will be hearing them in their waking hours at the Paris Olympic pool, after the US-Australian rivalry ignited this week.Comments that Australia’s former sprint queen Cate Campbell made last year about the sweetness of beating the US team and their “infernal cowbell&rdquo
  
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• NCAA Qualifier Kyra Sommerstad Transferring to Duke For COVID-19 Fifth Year

  28-06-2024 16:35 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2024 NCAA qualifier Kyra Sommerstad has announced she will transfer to Duke to use her COVID-19 fifth year. Sommerstad spent her undergraduate career with Ohio State.View this post on InstagramA post shared by kyra sommerstad (@kyra.sommerstad)Sommerstad was a 2x NCAA qualifier during her four years with the Buckeyes. As a freshman, she finished her season at Big Tens finishing 12th in both the 200 backstroke and 400 IM.
  As a sophomore, she made her first Big Ten &lsq
  
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• Gkolomeev, Siskos, Ntountounaki Head Up Greek Olympic Roster

  28-06-2024 14:54 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  The Greek Swimming Federation has revealed its 17-strong lineup of pool and open water swimmers set to represent the nation next month at the Olympic Games in Paris, France.
  30-year-old Olympic veteran Kristian Gkolomeev leads the men’s sprinters, having qualified for the 50m free along with U23 Championships gold medalist Stergios-Marios Bilas. Bilas is also on the roster for the men’s 4x100m free relay.
  Anna Ntountounaki is among the 3 women
  
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• The Next Miss America Beyond Caitlin Clark: Kate Douglass

  28-06-2024 14:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam Contributors on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: Charles Hartley
  Americans love Caitlin Clark.
  She’s Miss America.
  She’s the most popular athlete in the country – maybe the world. You can’t go a day without hearing her name. She’s fascinating, super-talented, and a person who’s easy to root for.
  Her fame won’t dissipate anytime soon,  but as you know she won’t be playing for the U.S. Olympics basketball team, which has been a controversial decis
  
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• The Hungry Swimmer: Gnocchi Alla Vodka

  28-06-2024 14:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By Ari Meyer on SwimSwam
  One of my favorite pre-meet rituals growing up was eating a huge bowl of pasta the night before a swim meet. This creamy and delicious energy-boosting pasta has it all. Heart-healthy olive oil and muscle-repairing Parmesan cheese, packed with vitamins and antioxidants from tomatoes, onions, and garlic to help keep your immune system in top shape! Step up your “carb load” with this delicious Gnocchi Alla Vodka dish!
   
  Ingredients:1 package gnocchi (1lb)
  2
  
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• Luke Whitlock on Making Olympic Team: “I knew I could execute (the race) when it mattered”

  28-06-2024 12:47 via swimswam.com
  
  By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam
  2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALSJune 15-23, 2024
  Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN
  LCM (50 Meters)
  Meet Central
  Live Results
  SwimSwam Preview Index
  18-Year-Old Luke Whitlock was one of the more surprising athletes to punch his ticket to Paris last week in Indianapolis. After taking the top seed in the 400 free prelims but finishing 5th in the final, the Indiana native executed an excellent race plan in the 800 free. Whitlock swam on Bobby Finke’s feet for mos
  
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• Elizabeth Marks Ties World Record on Opening Night of U.S. Paralympic Swimming Trials

  28-06-2024 06:06 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  2024 U.S. PARA SWIMMING TRIALSJune 27 – 29, 2024
  Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center — Minneapolis, MN
  50 meters (LCM)
  Meet Central
  Psych Sheet (pre-scratch)
  ResultsReigning Paralympic champion Elizabeth Marks tied her own world record from Tokyo in the 100 backstroke S6 with a time of 1:19.57 to kick off the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Trials on Thursday in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  The 33-year-old Marks also captured the 5o butterfly S6 crown in 36.59 after blazi
  
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• Ben Loorz Receives 5-Year, $845,000 Base Contract as Head Swim Coach at Arizona

  28-06-2024 04:08 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  New University of Arizona head coach Ben Loorz will begin his tenure leading the Wildcats with a $165,000 base salary that will climb to $175,000 by the 2028-2029 season as part of a 5-year, $845,000 contract.See the full term sheet hereThat is within range of the most recent employment agreement for outgoing head coach Augie Busch, who had a base salary of $175,000 per year in his most recent two-year contract that ran from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 202
  
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• 2024 Olympic Games: Official SwimSwam Preview Index

  28-06-2024 01:07 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
  2024 Paris Summer Olympic GamesPool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024Open Water Swimming: August 8 – 9, 2024
  La Défense Arena — Paris, France
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Full ScheduleIn one month, the lights in La Défense arena will flick on for swimming’s biggest stage–the Olympics. Pool swimming at the 2024 Games in Paris, France runs from July 27 through August 4, and SwimSwam will bring you coverage every step o
  
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• Bermuda, Kenya, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Cambodia All Announce Olympic Swim Rosters for Paris

  28-06-2024 00:27 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  Bermuda, Kenya, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, and Cambodia have all announced their Olympic rosters for Paris next month.
  Smaller countries with swimmers who haven’t hit Olympic qualifying times can still send one male and one female swimmer to Paris in accordance with World Aquatics’ universality selection criteria.
  Bermuda
  The sibling duo of Emma Harvey and Jack Harvey will both represent Bermuda in the 100 backstroke, according to the Bermuda Olympic Associat
  
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• Winter Juniors Qualifier Andrew Rucker Commits To Boston College For 2024-25

  27-06-2024 23:16 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sidney Zacharias on SwimSwam
  Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all commitment news. For many, swimming in college is a lifelong dream that is pursued with dedication and determination. Fitter and Faster is proud to honor these athletes and those who supported them on their journey.
  Andrew Rucker of Columbus, Ohio, has announced his commitment to further his education and swimming career at Boston College this fall. Rucker trai
  
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