Multisport star from Valley set for WPIAL Class AA singles tournament -...
Multisport star from Valley set for WPIAL Class AA singles tournamentTarentum Valley News DispatchSchrecongost has qualified for the PIAA swimming championships and has practice for that meet, which is...
View ArticleEnergized Bears ready for playoffs
The Calder Cup playoffs are nigh and what's the state of the Hershey Bears these daysWell, they finished the regular season on an eight-game losing streak.Their top two goalies during the regular...
View ArticleWarwick earns comeback victory
Playing softball Wednesday afternoon was, as Solanco head coach Brett Miller observed, a challenge.A challenge Warwick was up to.With an increasingly steady and dreary drizzle making a mockery of the...
View ArticleMarcus Titus Pushing Back on Olympic Trials Rules
The social-sphere is abuzz late on this Wednesday night with Marcus Titus' quest to get USA Swimming to overturn a ruling regarding the Olympic Trials. Titus, who is deaf, says that he has been working...
View ArticleMounts outduel Falcons
SlumpWhat slumpBelying his .111 batting average, Shane Cochran stepped to the plate amid the gloaming Wednesday and stroked a two-out, two-run single in the top of the 10th inning, leading Ephrata to a...
View ArticlePeter the Great, Part II (the rise of Dom and Jean)
The first time I met Peter Williams was in 2003 at the Summer National Championships in Switzerland. He was there to support his young, but very talented 200 freestyle swimmer, named Dominik Meichtry...
View ArticleJersey Shore's 'Old Dudes' Rule!
The Jersey Shore Men took top honors in the Division II of the Allegheny Mountain YMCA/YWCA Masters Swimming Association Championships. Below are the swimmers and their placings. Full results can be...
View ArticleStreamlined News: April 19, 2012
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 19. DAY three of the Russian Olympic Trials produced some fast times that will put some Russians in medal contention at the Olympics. Anastasia Zueva posted the fastest 200 b...
View ArticleThe Morning Swim Show, April 19, 2012: Matt Kredich Talks About Coaching Men...
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 19. ON today's edition of The Morning Swim Show Matt Kredich talks about his strategy about combining the men's and women's teams at Tennessee one week after being named he...
View ArticleBritish Gas GBR Swimming Team – 100 Days to Go
A video from yesterday, now on YouTube with 99 days to go ! :-)
View ArticleWorld Masters Swimmers of the Year Featured
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 19. EARLIER this month, we announced the World Masters Swimmers of the Year that appeared in the April issue of Swimming World Magazine. Today, we feature all of the top 12 wi...
View ArticleCC photo #111: Oussama Mellouli after the Dubai 2010 men’s 1500 freestyle
A memorable moment on TV in our hotel room in Dubai, from when Tunesia's Oussama Mellouli had swum his 1500 freestyle at the Dubai 2010 World Short Course Championships morning session, ending up...
View ArticleSwimming World Proud to be Honored by College Swimming Coaches Association of...
EVANSTON, Illinois, April 19. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of America has announced this year's award recipients to be honored at the CSCAA Convention May 17-19 in San Antonio, Texas. Sw...
View ArticleDean Preston Wikoff - Lake Placid News
Dean Preston WikoffLake Placid NewsBorn on April 28, 1926, Dean was native of Lake Placid and a graduate of the Lake Placid High School, class of 1944, where he participated in sports, school plays and...
View ArticleRussian National Championships: Anastasia Zueva Posts World Leader
MOSCOW, Russia, April 19. THE Russian National Championships continued through day three with a variety of world-class times going up on the scoreboard. FINALS Anastasia Zueva smoked the women's 2...
View ArticleZueva Brings Russian Women Back with World-Leading Time
On day 3 of the 2012 Russian Olympic Trials, it was time for the Russian women to take some of the headlines on what was the most exciting session yet of this meet, where a FINA A-standard gets you to...
View ArticleQuestioning Charlie After a Late Night Loss - NBC 10 Philadelphia (blog)
Questioning Charlie After a Late Night LossNBC 10 Philadelphia (blog)Hindsight is 20/20, and had Thome dropped one in between the outfielders, Charlie would be hailed as a genius for swimming against...
View ArticleUSA Swimming to Require Hand Signals for Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing Swimmers at...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 19. LESS than 24 hours after deaf Olympic Trials qualifier Marcus Titus took to Facebook in protest of the potential lack of hand signals at the U.S. Olympic Trials,...
View ArticleUSA Swimming to Allow Hand Signals at Trials
In a sudden change-of-heart, USA Swimming has decided to allow hand signals to be used at the Olympic Trials to accommodate hearing-imparied swimmers.After the issue surrounding a letter from USA...
View ArticleGarrett catches up with Matt Kredich
Last week, Matt Kredich was named the head coach of the newly combined men's and women's program at the University of Tennessee. Garrett talks to him about the challenges of his new gig.
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