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Schooling, Quah Earn $31K From Singapore For Southeast Asia Games Success

Singaporean swimmers Joseph Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen each earned $31,250 from the Singapore National Olympic Council based on their performances at the Southeast Asia Games earlier this summer.

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Remembering Nebraska Swimmer Jon Nelson

Jon came from Storm Lake, Iowa as a :54 second hundred freestyler and ended his career as the team captain of one of the best men’s teams in the country.

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Master the The Pullup for Your Swim Strength Program

You are about to master the Pullup. If you have followed the progression to this point, you are in a good place to perform pullups without any help.

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5 Unfortunate Swim Meet Moments

Swim meets are always fodder for some sort of folly or story. With many swimmers making a career of swimming for life, most of these moments are sure to have happened once to them or to someone they know.

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Learn the Assisted Chinup for Your Swim Strength Program

The Assisted Chinup progresses the body weight pull from a horizontal pull to a vertical pull. This naturally increases the difficulty of the movement.

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Chasing the Olympic Dream with Kristy Kowal

Kristy Kowal: “Two weeks before the 1996 Olympic Trials, I had broken the national high school record, unshaved and unrested, so I felt that I was on a great path to swimming fast. However, Trials was the absolute scariest meet I have ever been to.”

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Learn the Inverted Row for Your Swim Strength Program

The Supine Row, or Inverted Row as it is often referred to, adds a body weight pulling movement to the progression.

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Learn the Supine Row Hold for Your Swim Strength Program

The Supine Row Hold is an isometric exercise that is a great follow-up to the Band Bent-Over Neck Pull.

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Five Fresh Starts to a New Season of Swim Parenting

We’re coming up on a new swim season. Our kids have had a couple weeks off and we’ve enjoyed a short summer vacation. School is starting up and it’s time for our kids to jump back into the pool.

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Former Michigan Club Coach Sentenced to Up To 20 Years in Prison For Sexual Assault

Former Grand Rapids, Michigan diving coach Donald Richard Glass III has been sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting one of his underage athletes, MLive.com reports.

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UVA Hazing Lawsuit Set for September 2016 Trial Date

The hazing lawsuit between former University of Virginia swimming teammates is set to go to trial next fall, per Charlottesville, Virginia’s newspaper The Daily Progress.

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IOC Releases Anti-Doping Rules for 2016 Rio Olympic Games

The International Olympic Committee has released a rulebook of its anti-doping policies for next summer’s Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, complete with testing policies and potential punishments.

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5 Chemistry Lessons Every Swimmer Should Know

For student swimmers, back-to-school also means heading back to the pool. Here’s five swimming-related chemistry lessons to kick off the back-to-school season.

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Shouts From The Stands: An Ode to Katie Ledecky’s 800 Freestyle

Some people watch Katie Ledecky race and think: “Yeah, I could swim 200 meters like that.” Those swimmers are all either world-class males, or liars.

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