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    What Ever Happened to Sean Hutchison?

    Posted on December 30, 2011 | 3 Comments
    In the first part of our 2011 Year in Review, we pondered what had happened to former FAST coach Sean Hutchison after leaving the post-grad training center earlier this year amid controversy. Thanks to a tip from one of our readers, we have found him. He...

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    SwimMAC Wins USA Swimming Club Excellence Title

    Posted on December 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
    USA Swimming has released the 2012 “Medal Awards” that awards teams based on their all-around performance in the pool, and for the first time ever David Marsh’s SwimMAC Carolina club has come out on top with 59,856 points. What’s even more stunning about that victory...

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    Day 1 of 2011 Duel Sees World Record, European Record, Tons of Exciting Finishes, and American Domination

    Posted on December 16, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Day 1 of the 2011 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool (25 meter style) was a slaughtering. There’s no-more polite way to put it than that. The Americans put a good-old fashioned beatdown on the European All-Stars. At the end of the first day...

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    Breaking: Americans Take Down World Record Hard in Women’s 400 Medley Relay

    Posted on December 16, 2011 | 19 Comments
    The American women have led off the 2011 Duel in the Pool in Atlanta, Georgia, with a monstrous 3:45.56 in the meet’s very first event with a quartet of Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer, and Missy Franklin, which should be very similar to the...

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    USA Swimming Settles 1st Case; Slapped with 6th Civil Suit

    Posted on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments
    According to Aquatics International, USA Swimming has settled the first civil lawsuit filed against them since the sexual abuse by member coaches became the biggest story in the swimming world. At the same time, they’ve been hit with a 6th civil suit, this one involving...

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    The Next Hurdle in Protecting Athletes from Sexual Abuse

    Posted on December 13, 2011 | 5 Comments
    USA Swimming has made some improvements in the past 18 months, since the multitude of sexual abuses by coaches against swimmers have come to light. They’ve instituted a mandatory background check for all coaches. They teamed up with Praesidium t0 institute a very high-quality education...

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    USOC, Cielo’s Flamengo Reach Agreement on Pre-Olympic Training Camp

    Posted on December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Special thanks to Brazilian correspondent D’Artagnan Dias for contributing to this report Just before, and during, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the USOC will send it’s men’s and women’s swim teams (along with basketball, judo, and tennis teams) to train at...

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    Ryan Murphy Breaks Legendary Phelps NAG Record at Jr. Nationals

    Posted on December 8, 2011 | 5 Comments
    The Bolles’ School’s Ryan Murphy kicked off USA Swimming’s Short Course Junior National Championships with a National Age Group Record. In fact, when combined with his Bolles School teammates, he was better than a total of four National Age Group Records (though, with an international swimmer...

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    Kansas Swimmer Michael Andrew Breaks Three More NAG Records

    Posted on December 5, 2011 | 8 Comments
    The Michael Andrew train is on a roll, and good luck slowing it down. After breaking the 11-12 50 yard free National Age Group Record two weeks ago in Columbia, Missouri, he set three more this past weekend in Fishers, Indiana. This brings his total up...

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    Soni Drops 1:05 in 100 Breaststroke to Claim World’s Top-8 Times

    Posted on December 2, 2011 | 3 Comments
    Night 2 is in the books at the USA Swimming Winter Nationals, and though there were strong swims, the 2nd day of competition was without the fireworks that day 1 saw. Most of the more memorable swims came from lower-tier swimmers, rather than the event...

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