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Big Story: Cal, Wisconsin, North Carolina Women Pick Up Additional Entries to NCAA’s in Updated Psych Sheets

Posted on March 2, 2012, in College Recruiting, NCAA Championships, News, with 4 Comments

As often happens after the initial release of NCAA psych sheets, there have been 5 new invites to the 2012 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships sent out. The big winners are Cal, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, who have all.

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Future Stanford Swimmers Thomson, Umbach Break State Records at Illinois, Texas HS State Champ Meets

Posted on February 27, 2012, in Club/USA Swimming News, College, College Recruiting, with 1 Comment

The Stanford Cardinal have to be feeling very good right now about their incoming class of 2012. Maybe not as good as the David Nolan class of 2011, but still very, very good. This weekend, two of their top recruits.

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Stanford Commit Gray Umbach Shreds Prelims at Texas 5A State Championship; Breaks Two State Records

Posted on February 25, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, High School, with 0 Comments

A full recap is to come after final, but in Friday’s prelims at the Texas 5A High School State Championship meet, future Stanford Cardinal Gray Umbach had two amazing individual swims to break two State Records. First, in the 200 IM,.

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Sinead Russell, World Champs Finalist, Officially Makes Verbal to Florida

Posted on February 6, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, News, with 28 Comments

Canadian teenage star Sinead Russell has made her college decision, and has made a verbal commitment to swim for the University of Florida next fall. Russell made the decision after taking trips to both Florida and the University of Texas.

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Georgia Tech Add Verbal from Swedish Jr National Champ Mats Westergren

Posted on February 2, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, News, with 4 Comments

Unlike many sports, in swimming a vast majority of the domestic athletes sign in the “early signing period” in the fall. They like to be settled in and know where they’re going as early as possible, given the heated competition.

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Swim Talk with Minnesota Commit, Canadian NAG Record Holder Kierra Smith [Video Fixed]

Posted on January 22, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, Swim Blog, Swim Talk, with 2 Comments

This interview with Kierra Smith was done a few weeks ago, shortly after Canadian Kierra Smith returned home from the Pan American Games, where she took a silver as part of the Canadian 400 medley relay, and also placed 5th in the.

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D2 Simon Fraser Keeps Canadian Stud Recruit at Home, Changing Canadian Swimming Landscape

Posted on January 21, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, News, with 4 Comments

When Canada’s Simon Fraser University joined the NCAA this season (becoming the first school outside of the United States in the association), there was a lot of curiosity about how it would affect the playing-field in Division II. It seemed.

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All-World Recruit Sinead Russell Visiting Florida; Texas This Weekend

Posted on January 20, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, News, with 45 Comments

Canadian young-star swimmer Sinead Russell will be travelling stateside this weekend, but not to compete as many of her teammates did in the Austin Grand Prix. Instead, she will be making recruiting stops at the University of Florida and the.

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Breaking: Former Texas Longhorn Woody Joye Transfers to Arizona

Posted on January 18, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, News, with 23 Comments

The upcoming dual meet on January 28th between the Texas and Arizona men just got a bit more interesting. Check out the Arizona roster, and you’ll notice a new name – Former Texas Longhorn Miles “Woody” Joye. The sophomore Joye.

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Purdue Women Sign #10 Recruit Lysi Halkides

Posted on January 8, 2012, in College, College Recruiting, News, with 1 Comment

The Purdue women have had an unprecedented level of success this season, having already broken 3 school records this season, and it appears as though the country has taken notice. Late in the 2011 early signing period, their success earned.

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