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10 Storylines To Watch, All The Links You Need For The 2015 US Winter Nationals

Michael Phelps makes a rare U.S. Winter Nationals appearance and should have some stellar butterfly battles with Tom Shields.

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Albert Lea’s Lindsey Horejsi Blasts New National High School 100 Breast Record

Albert Lea senior Lindsey Horejsi set a new national high school record at Minnesota’s Class A State Prelims Thursday night, going 58.56 to win the 100 breast.

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2015 Arena Pro Swim Minneapolis A-Finals (RACE VIDEOS)

Cammile Adams opened the finals session on Friday with a win in the women’s 200 fly.

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2015 Arena Pro Swim Series Minneapolis: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Missy Franklin will race in the championship final of the women’s 100 meter backstroke tonight.

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Texas A&M All-American Ashley McGregor To Sit Out NCAA Season, Train For Olympics in Canada

Texas A&M’s Ashley McGregor will delay her senior season, training instead in Canada to prepare for the Olympic Trials.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets of the Week: #3 Allison Schmitt-Inspired Meme

#10 With around 1400 swimmers qualified and 245 days to go, the attention on the Olympic Trials is starting to…

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Former NCAA Champ Brooklynn Snodgrass Redshirting For Indiana Hoosiers

2014 NCAA 200 back champion Brooklynn Snodgrass will take an Olympic redshirt season in 2015-2016, sitting out of the NCAA schedule to prepare for Canada’s Olympic Trials.

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Olympic Trials Qualifier Madison Preiss Commits to Minnesota

Minnesota’s own Madison Preiss took to Twitter to announce her verbal commitment to the University of Minnesota’s class of 2020. https://twitter.com/madison_preiss/status/647231044400234496…

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College Swimming Previews: #12 Minnesota Women Will Miss Smith

Breastroke star Kierra Smith will be greatly missed by her Minnesota teammates this season as she plans to redshirt the year in order to prepare for the Olympics

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Lois Daigneault Takes Over as New Head Coach of Kelowna AquaJets

Following the resignation of former Kelowna AquaJets head coach Peter Wilkins, the Canadian swim club announced that Lois Daigneault will take over…

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Canada Falls Short Of Expectations; Will Come Back Stronger In Rio

Canadian Santo Condorelli has emerged as the star of Canadian swimming

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Top 5 Reasons Why These Were The Best Pan Am Games Ever

After an extremely eventful week in Toronto, we at Swimswam compiled a list explaining just why these Pan American Games were the best ever.

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Gophers Earn Gold at Pan Am Games, Speedo Sectionals

Following Samantha Harding’s eighth-place finish in the women’s open water 10k (2:04:37.7), Team Canada and Minnesota teammate Kierra Smith took home gold in the 200-meter breaststroke.

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10th Gophers Record Broken in 2015

Golden Gopher Danielle Nack’s performance in the 200 fly at the2015 Speedo Sectionals at Minneapolis marked the tenth University of Minnesota school record broken in 2015 so far.

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2015 Pan Am Games Day 2 Medal Count: Updated with Relay Appeal

The Canadians continue to stay atop the competition to rack up more gold on day 2.

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