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• Two-Time Montenegrin Paralympian Ilija Tadic Receives 2-Year Doping Ban

  18-04-2024 19:20 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Montenegrin para swimmer Ilija Tadic, who lives and trains in South Bend, Indiana, has accepted a two-year sanction from USADA for an anti-doping rules violation.
  Tadic, 25, tested positive for amphetamines during an in-competition test at the US Paralympics Swimming National Championships on December 16, 2023. He declared the use of the banned substance during testing.
  Amphetamine is a Non-Specified Substance in the class of stimulants and is prohibited in-competitio
  
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• Former AAC Board President Mark Black Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

  01-05-2024 15:48 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  Mark Black, the former board president of the Arlington Aquatic Club (AAC), has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually exploiting numerous children.
  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday Black’s sentencing after the 50-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to produce child pornography and one count of coercion and enticement in January.
  Between January 2018 and October 2021, Black was a member of two online groups ded
  
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• Blast To The Past: When Two Swimmers Surfaced In One Lane At The 1982 U.S. Nationals

  01-05-2024 15:00 via swimswam.com
  
  By Yanyan Li on SwimSwam
  On Monday, we published an article about an incident which occurred in the women’s 200 IM final at the 2024 Polish Championships, where Aleksandra Knop started her race in lane 7 but surfaced in lane 6 after her back-to-breast turn, swimming in the same lane as Marianna Rydynska. After the race, Knop was disqualified.
  However, Polish Nationals wasn’t the first time that two swimmers wound up in the same lane during a women’s 200 IM race. This actually h
  
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• IOC-Releases Study on Whether Trans Women Have Athletic Advantages

  30-04-2024 22:44 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  A recent study financed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has brought forward a new data set to the ongoing and often hotly debated discussion about trans women and their place in elite sports.
  The research showed that transgender female athletes had greater handgrip strength—an indicator of overall muscle strength—but lower jumping ability, lung function and relative cardiovascular fitness compared to cisgender women.
  The data contradicts t
  
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• IOC-Funded Study Shows Trans Women At Physical Disadvantage In Certain Athletic Areas

  30-04-2024 22:44 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  A recent study financed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has brought forward a new data set to the ongoing and often hotly debated discussion about trans women and their place in elite sports.
  The research showed that transgender female athletes had greater handgrip strength—an indicator of overall muscle strength—but lower jumping ability, lung function and relative cardiovascular fitness compared to cisgender women.
  The data contradicts t
  
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• St. Peters Western Opening Doors For Olympic Simulation Event

  30-04-2024 22:37 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  The storied Australian swim club that is St. Peters Western will be opening its doors to the public for the first time in 4 years.
  On Saturday, May 11th, head coach Dean Boxall will be coaching a simulated Paris 2024 Olympic competition, complete with a marshaling room, event board and team room for all participants.
  Corridors inside the pool will be set up to give swimmers the feeling, energy and nerves they could experience entering the Paris 2024 Stadium.
  The morning
  
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• 2020 Olympic Medalist Bruno Fratus Drops Paris Bid Due To Injuries

  30-04-2024 22:18 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  The 2024 Brazilian Championships/Olympic Trials begin next week but one Olympic medalist competitor will not be among those vying for a slot on the Paris 2024 roster.
  34-year-old bronze medalist from Tokyo, Bruno Fratus, revealed via social media that he will opt out of the Brazilian Championships and, therefore, not pursue a 2024 Olympic berth.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Bruno Fratus (@brunofratus)“Those who have been following me more closel
  
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• NCAA ‘A’ Finalist Caroline Bentz Transferring to Arizona State As One Of Three Fifth Years

  30-04-2024 21:49 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  NCAA ‘A’ finalist Caroline Bentz, Penn State’s Mary Brinker, and Erin Milligan will all be on the Arizona State roster this fall.
  Bentz spent her undergrad career at Virginia Tech and made NCAAs in all four seasons. She made the NCAA ‘B’ final of the 200 backstroke as a junior finishing 14th in a 1:52.74.
  She had a huge senior season as she made the NCAA ‘A’ final in the 200 back as she swam a 1:51.81 in prelims. She went on t
  
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• NCAA Qualifier Nikki Venema Using Final Year of Eligibility With Northwestern

  30-04-2024 21:27 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  NCAA qualifier Nikki Venema will transfer to Northwestern to use her final year of eligibility during the 2024-2025 season. Venema spent her undergrad career at Princeton and took the last year off of academics spending time with Blue Star Families, a nonprofit that supports military families in their communities.
  Venema swept the sprint freestyle events as a freshman at the 2020 Ivy League Championships. She won the 50 in a 22.41, the 100 in a 48.55, and the 200 in a
  
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• Who Leads the World Rankings With Less Than 90 Days To Paris? (Men’s Edition)

  30-04-2024 21:19 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
  There are less than a 100 days until the start of the 2024 Olympic Games. There are still plenty of big meets between now and then, including Olympic Trials for the U.S, Australia, Canada, and France. From the season opening World Cup circuit, the 2024 World Championships, and meets like the Australian Open and Berlin Open, athletes have been putting up fast times all season.
  And as the spring rolls on and many countries have already held Olympic Trials or closed th
  
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• Who Leads the World Rankings With Less Than 90 Days To Paris? (Women’s Edition)

  30-04-2024 21:10 via swimswam.com
  
  By Giusy Cisale on SwimSwam
  There are less than 90 days until the start of the 2024 Olympic Games. There are still plenty of big meets between now and then, including U.S. and Australian Olympic Trials in mid-June. From the season opening World Cup circuit, the 2024 World Championships, and meets like the Australian Open and Tyr Pro Swim Series, swimmers have been putting up fast times all season.
  And as the spring rolls on and many countries have already held Olympic Trials or closed their qual
  
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• NCAA Leadership Closing In On Multibillion-Dollar Settlement In House v. NCAA Case

  30-04-2024 21:04 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  College sports leaders have made significant progress in talks to reach a legal settlement in the class-action lawsuit spearheaded by former Arizona State swimmer Grant House.
  The House v. NCAA case, which was opened in 2020, argues that the NCAA and its Power Five conferences are breaking federal law by placing restrictions on how student-athletes make money from selling rights to their name, image and likeness (NIL).
  College sports leaders are currently in
  
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• NCAA Relay Swimmer Kaden Smesko Transferring to South Carolina For Fifth Year

  30-04-2024 20:18 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2022 relay swimmer at NCAAs Kaden Smesko will join South Carolina for his COVID-19 fifth year. Smesko spent his undergrad career with Notre Dame.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Gamecock Swimming & Diving (@gamecockswmdive)Smesko swam best times as a freshman at ACCs and scored eight points for the Irish. He finaled in the 100 back (23rd, 47.62) and 20 back (19th, 1:44.30).
  As a sophomore, he broke the 47-second mark for the first time in the 100 back a
  
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• Cal Pulls in 2 More 5th Years: NCAA Qualifiers Geringer (Ohio State) and McDonald (Princeton)

  30-04-2024 19:44 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anne Lepesant on SwimSwam
  University of California, Berkeley head coach Dave Durden has added two more stellar NCAA veterans to his women’s swimming and diving roster for 2024-25: fifth-year transfers Maya Geringer of Ohio State and Margaux McDonald of Princeton.
  Maya Geringer“Thank you @ohiostswimdive . I am beyond grateful to the many teammates and staff whose unconditional support have made the last four years possible. I feel abundantly blessed for the experiences I’ve h
  
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• NCAA Qualifier Chris Nagy Transferring to Kentucky For COVID-19 Fifth Year

  30-04-2024 19:39 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  NCAA qualifier in 2022, 2023, and 2024 Chris Nagy has announced his transfer to Kentucky to use his COVID-19 fifth year. Nagy spent his undergrad career at Minnesota.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Chris Nagy (@chris_nagy378)Nagy’s freshman year highlight included swimming personal best times in all three of his primary events (200, 500, and 1650 freestyles) at the Big Ten Championships. His highest finish was 9th in the 1650 free in a 15:06.97.
  He s
  
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• Should Swimmers be Allowed to Swim in the Same Lane During a Race?

  30-04-2024 19:38 via swimswam.com
  
  By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwamLet me start with this: These are gut-reaction thoughts I had while watching this video and they are not fully formed. That’s why I’m asking for your feedback, swimmers and swammers: I’d love to hear what you think about these ideas.
  We saw a swimmer end up in the wrong lane at the 2024 Polish Nationals in the women’s 200 IM final, so that for the last 100 meters, they swam the race in the same lane. This brought up two questions for me.
  1. is
  
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• Tufts Adds Futures Qualifier Campbell McFall To Class of 2028

  30-04-2024 19:29 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.
  Campbell McFall of Glastonbury, Connecticut has announced his commitment to further his education and swimming career at Tufts University this fall
  
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• Freestyle and Breaststroke Specialist Leināʻala Wong Signs With UC Davis (2024)

  30-04-2024 19:22 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.
  Leināʻala Wong has announced that she has signed with the University of California Davis for the upcoming 2024-2025 season. Wong hails fr
  
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• Santa Margarita Girls Poised For 10th Straight CIF-SS Division I Title, Boys Seek Four-Peat

  30-04-2024 18:59 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  2024 CIF-Southern Section Division 1 ChampionshipsMay 2-4, 2024 (swimming)
  Mt. San Antonio College – Walnut, California
  SCY (25 yards)
  Meet Central
  Psych Sheets
  Results on Meet Mobile: “2024 CIF-SS Division 1”The Santa Margarita High School girls’ swim & dive team has been a dominant force in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section for the past decade, coming into the 2024 edition with a chance at a 10th straigh
  
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• Casmera Wick Named New Head Coach At Arcadia University

  30-04-2024 17:07 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: Arcadia Athletics
  GLENSIDE, Pa. – The Arcadia University department of Athletics and Recreation has announced the hiring of Casmera Wick as the new Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming Coach. Wick will begin her duties at Arcadia on May 1st, 2024.
  “I am grateful for the opportunity to lead the swim program at such an outstanding university as Arcadia,” shared Wick. “I would like to thank AD Brian Granata, Associate AD Michael
  
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• Daily Swim Coach Workout #954

  30-04-2024 15:40 via swimswam.com
  
  By Dan Dingman on SwimSwam
  SwimSwam’s daily swimming workout series is a collection of workouts written by coaches from a variety of backgrounds. All daily swimming workouts have been written using Commit Swimming. The workouts themselves are not indicative of SwimSwam’s or Commit’s views on training. They strictly reflect the opinions of the author swim coach.Workout ContextPurpose:  Capacity (Base) Building
  Target age group:  9-12 years old
  Target level:  Age G
  
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• How Do You See Yourself As An Educator?

  30-04-2024 12:34 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam Partner Content on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: John Holden
  When children attend lessons, the teacher can never be sure that swimming will be a meaningful and rich experience for each child. Therefore, is it the teacher’s role to teach skills or to educate them about what they are doing is important so that the experience becomes so rich it will have a lasting quality for a lifetime? The immediate response could be both. We educate them about what they are doing by teaching swimming skil
  
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• New in Commit: Bank Payments

  30-04-2024 12:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By Dan Dingman on SwimSwam
  Courtesy of Commit Swimming, a SwimSwam partner
  Commit Swimming has Team Management Software
  New Feature: Bank Payments
  What is bank payments in Commit?
  Commit’s new bank payment feature allows swim clubs to accept payments from their members through bank transfers. Previously, swim team members could only pay for their team fees with a card (credit or debit). This feature is live in the US, Canada, and Australia..
  Why did we build this feature?
  Many of our custo
  
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• UK water sports form alliance calling on government to tackle pollution

  30-04-2024 11:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Clean Water Alliance lays out three-part strategy for action‘Further and faster action on pollution’ needed, says groupSeven-water based sports, including British Rowing, British Triathlon and Swim England, have formed an alliance to demand the government go “further and faster” in tackling water pollution.It comes less than a month after the Boat Race was marred by Oxford men’s crew getting sick with E Coli because of high levels of sewage in the Thames, and amid m
  
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• UK water sports alliance calls on government to end ‘death-knell’ pollution

  30-04-2024 11:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Clean Water Alliance lays out three-part strategy for action‘Further and faster action on pollution’ needed, says groupSeven water-based sports, including British Rowing, British Triathlon and Swim England, have formed an alliance to demand the government go “further and faster” in tackling water pollution.It comes less than a month after the Boat Race was marred by Oxford men’s crew getting sick with E Coli amid high levels of sewage in the Thames, and with concern
  
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• European Juniors Finalist Inbar Danziger of Israel Commits to Michigan

  30-04-2024 04:17 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend 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.
  Israeli backstroke specialist Inbar Danziger is headed to the University of Michigan this fall as part of an eight-man recruiting class — half o
  
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• World Champion, NCAA Runner-Up Hubert Kos Announces Transfer To Texas

  30-04-2024 04:16 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  World Champion Hubert Kos has announced he will transfer from Arizona State to Texas in the wake of head coach Bob Bowman moving from the Sun Devils to the Longhorns.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Hubert Kós (@hubi.kos)Kos just finished up his sophomore season with Arizona State and scored 48 individual points at the 2024 NCAA Championships. Kos was 2nd in the 200 back, 3rd in the 200 IM, and 4th in the 100 back. Kos also helped the team to an NCAA
  
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• 14 Schools That Scored at Last Year’s State Meets Face Realignment in Texas HS Swimming

  30-04-2024 02:58 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Texas High School RealignmentsClass 6A realignments
  Class 5A realignments
  Class 4A realignments
  Old Classification ranking
  New Classification rankingThe University Interscholastic League (UIL), which governs most public high school sports in the state of Texas, has announced realignment for the 2024-2025 academic year, and 13 (+1) schools that scored at 2024 State Championship meets will be on the move.
  In Texas, high schools are generally organized into classificatio
  
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• Tokyo Paralympic Gold Medalist Mikaela Jenkins Retires From Para Swimming at Age 21

  29-04-2024 23:05 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  Two-time U.S. Paralympic swimming champion Mikaela Jenkins is stepping away from the international racing scene at 21 years old, making her announcement just a few months before the Paris 2024 Paralympics are set to kick off in August.
  Jenkins said she’ll finish out her competitive swimming career as a senior at Division III Grove City College (Penn.) next season, but she made the decision to skip the Paris 2024 Paralympics because she cannot dedicate herself c
  
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• Daily Swim Coach Workout #961

  29-04-2024 22:38 via swimswam.com
  
  By Dan Dingman on SwimSwam
  SwimSwam’s daily swimming workout series is a collection of workouts written by coaches from a variety of backgrounds. All daily swimming workouts have been written using Commit Swimming. The workouts themselves are not indicative of SwimSwam’s or Commit’s views on training. They strictly reflect the opinions of the author swim coach.Workout ContextPurpose:  In-Season Recovery
  Target age group:  15-18 years old, 13-14 years old
  Target level:
  
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