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Race By Race – Break it Down for the NCAA’s (women) In our preview of the women NCAA’s we took a look at the potential rankings and scores for the teams. ...

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1March 11, 2010
Race By Race – Break it Down for the NCAA’s (women)

In our preview of the women NCAA’s we took a look at the potential rankings and scores for the teams. While this sparked a lot of debate between our readers (and me), I want to continue the talk with an in-depth look at each race. 200 Free Relay In what will most likely be the closest relay [...]
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0March 11, 2010
2010 NCAA Men’s Scoring-No Psych Out: Nobody Will Catch Top Seed Texas

Anyone who read our women’s preview knows how this works. Now it’s time to take an in depth look at the men’s psych sheet, and see who the favorites are, and who are the teams to watch. Here is a link to the official psych sheets, for reference. First, the teams with the most entries: Cal 18 Arizona 18 Texas [...]
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0March 10, 2010
My Golden Method for Teaching Butterfly

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on developing a methodology for teaching strokes, because when I first started teaching, especially butterfly and breaststroke, I didn’t have a clue where to start. Sure, I could swim all of the strokes very well, and could correct ugly strokes. But I had no clue with how [...]
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0March 9, 2010
Are You Psyched? – Release of Men’s Division I Unofficial Psych Sheet

As all of us are getting ready to go start the debate on who is going to win the NCAA’s, the unofficial psych sheet for the men’s Division I swimming championships was posted today! So, I have to ask…are you psyched?! In total, 81 teams submitted entries which makes up a field of 729 swimmers on [...]
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3March 9, 2010
Jessica Hardy Doping Appeal to Be Heard Friday, March 12th

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which is effectively the International Olympic Committee’s doping arm, will have its appeal of Jessica Hardy’s suspension reduction heard by the Court of Arbitration of Sport this Friday, March 12th. The Jessica Hardy saga is a long, complicated, and well-publicized one that has both highs and lows. On July 4, 2008, at [...]
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1March 8, 2010
Phelps Sets U.S. Open Record in the 200 Fly

On the final day of the Maryland State Championships, held in the capital Annapolis, Michael Phelps broke the Short-Course-Yards American and U.S. Open records in the 200 fly. In short course yards swimming, the U.S. Open record is effectively the World Record, as the United States is the only country that holds yards competitions. His time [...]
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0March 7, 2010
Michael Phelps Signs Sponsor Deal with Under Armour

Michael Phelps has signed a 3-year endorsement deal with athletics apparel maker Under Armour for an undisclosed amount of money, the USA Today reports. This is his first major sponsorship signing since the well-publicized photos of him with a marijuana pipe that surfaced soon after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he won a record 8 [...]
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0March 7, 2010
Austin Grand Prix 2010 – Day 3 Roundup

Going into a well anticipated day 3 of the Austin Grand Prix, there have been a few surprising swims and a couple of really great performances for some of the athletes. Day 3 was no different in the finals. Take a look at what went on in the final night of the Austin Grand Prix: The [...]
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0March 7, 2010
Stanford Men Fight Adversity to Claim Pac-10 Crown

Full Meet Results The biggest buzz around the Stanford men’s swim team this season has been the loss of Austin Staab, the defending 2009 NCAA Champ in the 100 fly who left the team for undisclosed reasons last month. This weekend, at the 2010 Pac-10 Championships, the rest of the Cardinal team made it clear that [...]
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0March 6, 2010
Austin Grand Prix 2010 – Day 2 Roundup

I, unfortunately, wasn’t able to watch the Grand Prix last night because of coaching and my talk with Garrett McCaffrey on Split Time, but in looking at the results, it was another great evening of swimming! So, let’s take a run-down of what happened as well as a look at my – hopefully improved – [...]
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1March 6, 2010
Coffee Talk on Split Time

Garrett McCaffrey and I sat down to talk about the much-debated subject of caffeine restriction in the NCAA. Feel free to watch the video and post your comments/opinions either here or on SwimmingWorld.tv Coffee Talk on Split Time
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1March 5, 2010
Professional Team Swimming-Why Not?

At its most elite levels, swimming is largely an individual sport. Furthermore, it is an individual sport without any method of scoring. Sure, there are the yearly Duel In the Pool matchups between different countries, most recently the German-Italian-British all-star squad. But these biennial competitions are hardly enough. Most USA-Swimming meets keep team scores, but [...]
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