By Jared Anderson on SwimSwam

Budding multi-event starsMichael Andrew and Regan Smith will lead Team USA’s roster for the 2017 World Junior Championships, which will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana in August. Andrew is set to swim upwards of 6 total events and Smith 5. Those totals don’t include the medley relays, which aren’t yet listed among event entries on the roster. Both swimmers should likely be medley relay contributors, as Smith is the top-qualifier in the 100 back and fly, and Andrew the top qualifier in the 100 breast.

Multi-event swimmers are the theme of these rosters. The meet caps each nation at 26 total athletes, but based on qualifying from the 2017 U.S. National Championships, entries in every event were filled out with well below the max roster size. Only 18 boys and 24 girls appear on the rosters, which, unlike senior Worlds and World University Games, don’t include open water events.

Andrew is set to swim 5 individual events (50 free, 50 back, 50 breast, 100 breast, 200 IM) and the 4×100 free relay, along with a likely spot in the medley. He also was the top qualifier in the 50 fly, but that event doesn’t appear among his entries on the Team USA roster (though the roster only has one swimmer entered in that event, suggesting it might be an accidental omission). Smith is set for five individuals (50 fly, 100 fly, 50 back, 100 back, 200 back) and the likely medley.

Also set up for busy event lineups are Grace Ariola (50 free, 100 free, 50 back, 100 back, 4×100 free relay, potential medley relay), Nicolas Albiero (50 back, 100 back, 50 fly, 100 fly, 200 fly, likely medley relay) and Zoe Bartel (50 breast, 100 breast, 200 breast, 200 IM and a likely medley relay spot).

You can see the full roster here, including hometowns and club affiliations.

The only change from our projected roster after the final day of U.S. Nationals is that Austin Katz is not on the boys roster. Katz was the only swimmer eligible for both Junior World and World University Games, which have conflicting dates. Katz appeared on the World University Games roster that came out yesterday. His 100 back spot has been filled by Drew Kibler and his 200 back spot by Kieran Smith.

Girls (24):

• Grace Ariola – 100 free, 100 back, 50 back, 50 free 4×100 free relay
• Zoe Bartel – 200 breast, 100 breast, 50 breast, 200 IM, 4×100 medley relay
• Leah Braswell – 200 free, 400 free, 4×200 free relay
• Emma Carlton – 50 fly
• Julia Cook – 4×100 free relay
• Kate Douglass – 50 free
• Diana Dunn– 200 free, 4×200 free relay
• Amalie Fackenthal – 4×100 free relay
• Ashlyn Fiorilli – 200 fly
• Miranda Heckman – 400 free
• Madison Homovich – 200 fly, 400 IM
• Gabrielle Kopenski – 1500 free
• Eva Merrell – 100 fly
• Ella Nelson – 200 breast
• Lucie Nordmann – 100 free, 4×100 free relay, 4×100 medley relay
• Kelly Pash – 4×200 free relay
• Ella Ristic – 4×200 free relay
• Christin Rockway – 400 IM
• Regan Smith – 200 back, 100 fly, 50 fly, 100 back, 50 back, 4×100 medley relay
• Erica Sullivan – 800 free, 1500 free
• Alex Sumner – 200 back
• Chase Travis – 800 free
• Alex Walsh – 200 IM
• Emily Weiss – 50 breast, 100 breast

Boys (18):

• Andrew Abruzzo – 1500 free, 400 free, 800 free
• Nicolas Albiero – 200 fly, 100 fly, 50 fly, 50 back, 100 back, 4×100 medley relay
• Michael Andrew – 50 fly, 50 breast, 50 back, 100 breast, 200 IM, 50 free, 4×100 medley relay, 4×100 free relay
• Michael Brinegar – 1500 free, 800 free
• Cody Bybee – 4×200 free relay
• Patrick Callan – 200 free, 4×200 free relay
• Will Davis – 50 free
• Carson Foster – 200 back
• Trey Freeman – 200 free, 400 free, 4×200 free relay
• Andrew Koustik – 200 fly
• Drew Kibler – 4×100 free relay, 100 fly, 100 back
• Eric Knowles – 400 IM
• Daniel Krueger – 100 free, 4×100 free relay, 4×100 medley relay
• Jack LeVant – 4×200 free relay
• Daniel Roy – 200 breast
• Kieran Smith – 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 back
• Reece Whitley – 200 breast, 100 breast, 50 breast
• Matthew Willenbring – 100 free, 4×100 free relay

Coaches

Head coaches had been announced by USA Swimming in late 2016. Dynamo’s Jason Turcotte was set to coach the boys team before his untimely passing this spring. Bruce Gemmell was named boys head coach to replace him.

Assistant coaches were finalized after U.S. Nationals.

Girls:

• Head coach Kate Lundsten (Aquajets Swim Team, MN)
• Mike Parrato (Riptide Swimming, MN)
• Chris Plumb (Carmel Swim Club, IN)
• Paul Silver (Marlins of Raleigh, NC)

Boys:

• Head coach Bruce Gemmell (Nation’s Capital Swim Club, MD)
• Crystal Coleman (Penn Charter Aquatic Club, PA)
• Dan Flack (Baylor Swim Club, TN)
• Emmanuel Lanzo (Ridgefield Aquatic Club, CT)

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While it essentially still contains all of the same elements of swimming individual strokes, swimming Individual Medley events is an entirely new monster to tackle. It not only exploits your stroke weaknesses, but it also challenges you to have the event discipline and perfection of a 50 freestyle over the course of a much longer race. This margin for error is normally where you see the best IM’ers in the world (Like the Iron Lady Katinka), and their mostly unknown competition.

The focus of our stroke clinic for this week is to limit some of these disadvantages one may have in an IM event. Of course, the only way to combat stroke weaknesses is training that specific stroke, but IM transitions are an area that all IM’ers can improve their performance. This IM transition drill is very simple. You swim 100s IM in a LCM pool, and as you switch strokes in the middle of the pool, make sure to dive under, get into a tight streamline, and take no less than 5 underwater kicks before engaging in an awesome breakout. This combats unconscious laziness while training IM and really gives you a good opportunity to focus on turn work even in a long course environment.

The beauty of 100s IM is that you are basically just sprinting 25s of each stroke, and since each stroke uses different muscles, you will tire much less than if you were to swim 100s of specific strokes. Integrate these IM transitions into your normal training routine and you will surely have an extra few meters on the competition.

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2017 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

• July 23 – July 30 (Swimming portion)
• Budapest, Hungary
• Meet Central
• Start Lists / Results (Closer to the meet)

Don’t want to miss a single one of our 2017 World Championship event-by-event previews or predictions? We’ve got you covered. Bookmark this page and come back daily for updated predictions and links out to each new event preview.

We’ll be individually previewing all 42 World Championships events, including predictions of the top 8 finishers in each. Below, we’ll be updating the chart to show our predicted medalists, as well as including links to the full-length previews on each event.

Women

Men

Mixed Relays

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Associate Head Coach Ryan Mallam is no longer a part of the Arizona State University coaching staff, sources tell SwimSwam. Mallam is no longer listed with the team coaching staff on the school’s website.

Older versions of the team’s coaching page show Mallam listed as associate head coach as recently as June 28. The staff currently shows only five names.

Mallam was well-known as a sprint coach, with coaching stops at junior college powerhouse Indian River and the SEC’s Texas A&M prior to Arizona State. He was hired on as associate head coach at ASU in the spring of 2015, shortly after Arizona State hired Bob Bowman as its head coach for the men’s and women’s programs.

Bowman’s coaching staff still lists Rachel Stratton-Mills as a senior assistant coach and Dan Kesler and Derek Schmitt as assistant coaches. The diving coach role is filled by Mark Bradshaw, potentially leaving one full-time coaching role still open on the team.

We’ve reached out to Arizona State for comment, but haven’t yet received a reply.

It’s worth noting that Bowman’s most famous pupil, Olympic hero Michael Phelps, retired from swimming (for good this time, he says) after last summer’s Rio Olympics. Phelps has previously said that after his retirement from competition, he would be serving as a volunteer assistant on Bowman’s Arizona State staff.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Associate Head Coach Ryan Mallam Out At Arizona State

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Paulina Ziolek has been named to the Penn State coaching staff, announced yesterday by head coach Tim Murphy.

Ziolek comes to Penn State after spending two years coaching at the club and collegiate level in Austin, Texas. She served as a volunteer assistant on the women’s University of Texas program, and also acted as assistant coach with Texas Longhorn Aquatics. She will join the Nittany Lions for this upcoming season as an assistant.

Penn State has made waves most recently with Ally McHugh, who had a breakout meet at the U.S. Worlds Trials in Indianapolis a couple of weeks back. McHugh excelled far past the bounds of her seed times, her week highlighted by 4th place finishes in both the 1500 free and 400 IM.

Below is the full press release, courtesy of Penn State Athletics.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State swimming & diving head coach Tim Murphy announced the addition of Paulina Ziolek to the Nittany Lions’ coaching staff Monday, as she will join the program as an assistant after most recently coaching at the University of Texas.

The native of Londonderry, New Hampshire, arrives in State College after simultaneously serving as a volunteer assistant coach for the Texas women’s swimmers and an assistant coach with Texas Longhorn Aquatics for the past two seasons.

“I want to thank Coach Tim Murphy and the rest of the staff for the opportunity to join the Penn State team,” said Ziolek. “I felt a sense of family from the moment I stepped onto campus and am excited to be a part of this community. Penn State has an accomplished history of top academics and athletics, and I’m grateful to work with this rising team.”

At Texas, Ziolek primarily worked with the Longhorns’ distance swimmers, highlighted by Joanna Evans, who represented The Bahamas at the 2016 Rio Olympics and was a semifinalist in the 400-meter freestyle before claiming five Big 12 titles and an All-America nod in the mile in 2017. The Longhorns won the Big 12 title and were top-15 finishers at the NCAA Championships in both seasons with Ziolek on staff, including a fifth-place finish at NCAAs this past season.

“We are extremely excited to welcome Paulina to the Penn State swimming & diving coaching staff and family,” said Murphy. “Paulina’s experience will add an exciting dimension to our program.”

Also while in Austin, Ziolek coached Elite Age Group swimmers at Longhorn Aquatics and was a counselor at Longhorns Swim Camp. Her club coaching experience began in her native New Hampshire during her summers in college at the Executive Swim Club in Manchester, where she was the head assistant swim coach until July 2015. Ziolek led age group workouts while assisting with the senior group, helping guide the team’s largest contingent in its history to New England Seniors.

Ziolek was a four-year varsity swimmer at Tufts University, from where she graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in international relations. Highlights include all-conference and Collegiate Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America Team honorable mention recognition in 2012 and the school record in the 200-yard freestyle relay, while also being named to the Dean’s List five times. Before attending Tufts, she studied for a year at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and she also studied abroad while at Tufts, spending a semester in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Paulina Ziolek Joins Penn State Coaching Staff After Stint in Austin

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2017 L.A. Invite

• Thursday, July 13th – Sunday, July 16th
• Uytengsu Aquatics Center, USC Campus
• Psych Sheets
• Results

With American Olympian Ryan Lochte‘s 10-month suspension officially over, the 32-year-old is making his first USA Swimming race debut this weekend. The meet takes place within his new home state of California, as Lochte takes on local talent at the L.A. Invite slated for July 13th-16th on the University of Southern California campus.

While ineligible to swim at the 2017 U.S. Nationals and, thus, unable to qualify for the World Championships in Budapest, Lochte still got some post-Rio racing in by way of the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) National Championship meet last April.  Lochte swam away with multiple medals at the short course yards meet, including a new Masters National Record in the 100 IM.

Representing Trojan Swim Club this weekend, Lochte is expected to swim the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle and 200m IM events. In the former, Lochte enters as the 8th seeded swimmer in a time of 23.35, while he sits atop the field in the latter events with entry times of 48.16 and 1:54.00, respectively.

The meet will serve as Lochte’s first long course meters test post-Rio, as well as several months removed from his former training home of Team Elite in Charlotte, North Carolina.  The L.A. Invite will also represent the 2nd most decorated Olympic swimmer’s first competition as a new dad, with he and his fiancée having welcomed son Caiden Zane Lochte on June 8th.

Trojan Swim Club’s Kendyl Stewart and Cal pro Tom Shields are also expected to swim this weekend, however, each with a minimal schedule. Stewart will take on the 100m freestyle and 200m IM, while Shields has entered just the 100m butterfly.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Ryan Lochte Set To Make USA Swimming Racing Return At L.A. Invite

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As the Budapest-bound U.S. World Championships squads makes their way to Croatia for final preparations, Great Britain’s squad of 27 is headed for Edinburgh. From July 15-18th, the British line-up, including reigning 200m freestyle world champion James Guy, Olympic silver medalist Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and world record holder Adam Peaty, will be based at the Royal Commonwealth Pool for a team-building taper camp.

Head Coach Bill Furniss says, “The guys are in a great place to finalise their preparations alongside the coaches and staff they’ll be working with throughout the World Championships.

“Each athlete has their own individualised plan designed to maximise performance on a specific day or days. It’s crucial that our swimmers are physically at their peak on the day of their race and the camp will help us to achieve this.”

As to the advantages of Edinburgh, a relatively close training location for most of the roster, Furniss explained, “We have fantastic access to a world-class pool and the historic city lends itself to a relaxed, low-key training camp at a very high-pressure time.

“We’re confident this camp will be conducive to finalising preparations and ensuring the nation’s swimmers are at their very peak as they prepare to represent Britain at the World Championships.”

Quotes courtesy of British Swimming.

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Though most probably saw it coming, the IOC officially announced it will award both the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games simultaneously during the summit in Lima, Peru, on September 13th.

The notion of awarding both iterations of the Games first came up in March when IOC President Thomas Bach took a creative interpretation of an IOC rule stating that a future Olympic city must be chosen 7 years out from the Games it will host. While the LA 2024 and Paris 2024 organizing committees approve of awarding both versions of the Games simultaneously, neither is ready to concede 2024.

Los Angeles and Paris will continue campaigning for the privilege of hosting the 2024 Games, though LA 2024 Chairman Casey Wasserman has said Los Angeles is not opposed to hosting 2028. Paris, on the other hand, has repeatedly stated that it must host 2024, because if it does not, the land earmarked for the Olympic Village will no longer be available. LA, meanwhile, will not build any new infrastructure for the Games, and would use UCLA’s dorms to house athletes.

Regardless of which city gets 2024 and which gets 2028, both will win the right to host one of the next three Summer Olympic Games–the 2020 Summer Games are taking place in Tokyo. LA and Paris have received much praise for their bids, which have heavily drawn on suggestions made in the Olympic Agenda 2020, putting great emphasis on environmental and economic sustainability and community inclusion.

In June, IOC President Thomas Bach and US President Donald Trump met at the White House to discuss the LA 2024 bid. Prior to meeting with Bach, Trump had claimed numerous times to be in favor of bringing the Games back to LA in 2024. French President Emmanuel Macron has also voiced his support for Paris 2024 and met with IOC officials when they visited Paris in May, shortly after his election.

Earlier today Trump tweeted about bringing the Olympics back to the USA:

Working hard to get the Olympics for the United States (L.A.). Stay tuned!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2017

Macron has also been tweeting about Paris 2024:

#Paris2024 : We are ready to celebrate sport, culture and olympic values. Ready to share! pic.twitter.com/crk4JmAQIg

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) July 11, 2017

Despite speculation that Trump’s travel ban might impact the IOC’s decision and sway the vote in favor of Paris, the IOC has refrained from commenting on the legislation.

The IOC’s full press release regarding the decision to award the 2024 and 2028 Games simultaneously is below:

IOC makes historic decision in agreeing to award 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games at the same time

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today unanimously agreed in principle to award both the Olympic Games 2024 and 2028 at the same time, paving the way for a “win-win-win” situation for the Olympic Movement, Los Angeles and Paris.

The 130th IOC Session met today at the SwissTech Convention Centre in Lausanne to discuss the proposal made by the IOC Executive Board on 9 June.

The IOC membership approved the following proposal:

“Recognising the exceptional circumstances and unique opportunities presented by the candidatures of Los Angeles and Paris for the Olympic Games 2024, the International Olympic Committee takes the following decision:

1. To authorise the IOC Executive Board to conclude a tripartite agreement with Los Angeles and Paris and their respective NOCs for the simultaneous election of the host cities of the Olympic Games 2024 and 2028 during the 131st IOC Session in Lima;

2. Should such tripartite agreement be concluded, the 131st IOC Session will ratify the tripartite agreement, thereby electing one city for the Olympic Games 2024 and the other city for the Olympic Games 2028. To that effect, the 130th IOC Session hereby waives the seven-year deadline set out in Rule 33.2 of the Olympic Charter; and

3. Should such tripartite agreement not be concluded, the 131st IOC Session will proceed with the election of the host city 2024 in accordance with the current election procedure.”

Seconds after this decision, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo signalled their desire to reach an agreement by making a surprise joint appearance before the Session to thank IOC Members.

Earlier in the day, the delegations of Los Angeles 2024, led by Mayor Garcetti, and Paris 2024, led by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, made outstanding and emotional presentations at the 2024 Candidate City Briefing.

IOC President Thomas Bach called the IOC decision a “golden opportunity” for all concerned.

“Ensuring the stability of the Olympic Games for 11 years is something extraordinary,” the IOC President said later at a press conference with the two mayors and leaders from the two candidatures. “That is why we say this is a great day for the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement, and it’s a great day also for these two wonderful cities, these two great Olympic cities,” he stressed.

President Bach added that it was only the second time he had been stunned into momentary silence by good news, the first being after he was elected IOC President in 2013.

The two mayors said they were eager to start their discussions over which city would go first and expressed confidence that they can reach an agreement.

“In Olympic history there’s only been 37 times in which there has been a tie for a gold medal. Maybe today is the 38th,” Mayor Garcetti said. “For Los Angeles, it’s a golden opportunity, one that we don’t take lightly.”

Mayor Hidalgo said: “I am fully committed with the Paris team to putting all my energy, our creativity and my resolve into reaching an agreement for Paris to experience once again this Olympic adventure that it has been longing for for 100 years.”

French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier that he had signalled his support for a dual award even before the IOC formally approved the concept.

“We are ready to work with them on this ‘win-win-win’ approach,” President Macron said.

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Mexican Long Course Nationals

• July 5th, 2017-July 9th, 2017
• Leon, Guanajanto, Mexico
• Meet Central
• Full results

While not all of Mexico’s elites attended last week’s Mexican Long Course National Championships in Leon, the meet attracted attention with the presence of two-time Olympian Lili Ibanez. Besides her prestige as one of the country’s highest-profile swimmers, Ibanez is a Guanajuato native, and is making a homecoming.

Ibanez won 2 national titles, which brings her career national championship count up to 13 at meet’s end. She wound up disqualified in the 100 free for a procedural error (she says she didn’t follow the ‘new protocol’), but made up for it by winning the 50 free in 26.26 and later the 50 fly in 28.37 (with a 28.13 in the morning heat).

Ibanez is one of 11 swimmers who will represent Mexico at the World Championships in Budapest later this month.

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Mark Spitz’s role with SportTV this summer has been confirmed. The 9-time Olympic Champion will be working for Brazil’s SportTV as a special guest to discuss pre and post finals coverage every evening of swimming in Budapest for the 2017 World Championships.

Domestic rights holder SportTV is a sport-oriented Portuguese-language broadcasting network.  They covered Swimming at the Rio 2016 Olympics with the same group that they are bringing to Budapest.  This team includes Milton Leite, Mariana Brochado, Alexandre Pussieldi, Alexandre Oliveria, and Edgar Alencar. With swimming being SportTV’s main coverage focus among the 6 disciplines in Budapest, it has been confirmed that they will have 67-year-old Spitz will be summarizing each finals session directly from Budapest.

Although the Olympic gold medalist has been out of the pool for years, he has been busy behind the scenes.  Spitz worked with SportTV during Rio 2016 in their award-winning “É Campeão” program. He also previously commentated for ABC Sports and covered the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Over the 16 days of competition SportTV will commit the full team to broadcast live all 6 water sports (swimming, open water, synchronized swimming, water polo, diving, and high diving). Milton Leite was the voice of swimming for SportTV in Rio and will be returning this year to commentate at his second World Championships. Returners Mariana Brochado and Alexandre Pussieldi will work together commentating and Edgar Alencar and Alexandre Oliveria will be reporting. Spitz is SportTV’s special guest, discussing daily pre and post finals coverage every night of swimming.

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Ema Rajic of Urbana, Illinios has made a verbal commitment to swim for the University of California, Berkeley beginning in the 2018-19 season. Rajic announced her decision on Instagram:

Rajic is a rising senior at Urbana’s University High School. At the Illinois High School Association Girls State Championships in November 2016, she broke the IHSA records in both the 200 IM and 100 breast. Her 2:00.27 in the IM downed the oldest record on the Illinois books, a 2:00.63 set in 1998 by Emily Pisula. She then lowered her own 100 breast mark of 1:00.90, set in prelims 2 days earlier, with 1:00.77 in finals.

The polyvalent Rajic swims year-round with Champaign County YMCA, with whom she competed at the U.S. Nationals and World Championship Trials in Indianapolis last month. There she placed 14th in the 50m breast, 18th in the 100 breast, 35th in the 200 IM, 51st in the 100 fly, and 69th in the 50 free, notching personal bests in all five events.

Rajic will fill a much-needed slot at Cal. The Bears’ top scorers in breaststroke, Marina Garcia and Maija Roses, will have both graduated, and the incoming breaststrokers in Cal’s class of 2021 (Alexandra Skorus-Neely and Ali Harrison) have yet to match Rajic’s 1:00.7/2:14.1 in the 100/200 breast.

Top SCY times:

• 50 breast – 27.89
• 100 breast – 1:00.77
• 200 breast – 2:14.12
• 200 IM – 2:00.23
• 400 IM – 4:14.15
• 100 fly – 54.48
• 50 free – 23.17

Rajic will join #5 Cassidy Bayer and #18 Elise Garcia, who have also verbally committed to the Cal class of 2022.

If you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to Recruits@swimswam.com

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The Canadian World Championships team is currently headed off to their Worlds training camp in Ostia, Rome. The team will stay in Italy until July 19th, when they will travel to Budapest, Hungary for the 2017 FINA World Championships.

You can see the Canadian 2017 Worlds team roster here.

Joining the Worlds team will be Canadian swimmers Taylor Ruck, Colin Gilbert, and Alex Perreault. According to a spokesperson for Swimming Canada, the group of younger swimmers was invited to the staging camp as a development opportunity. Ruck, a 17-year-old double Olympic bronze medalist, was expected to play a key role on Canada’s relays this summer in Budapest. However, she missed the World Championships team at Canadian Trials in April. She ended up eighth in the 200 free (2:00.63), fourth in the 100 back (1:00.78), and eighth in the 100 free (55.37).

Something similar happened last year for Ruck, when she failed to make the team but then was added by Swimming Canada’s High Performance Director at the end of the meet. The decision paid off, as she brought Canada a pair of bronze medals in the 400 and 800 free relays. However, she still will not be on this year’s squad.

Ruck and the other two junior swimmers will go back home on the 19th, when the rest of the team goes on to Hungary.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Canada Team Off to Training Camp, Ruck Going to Camp, But Not Worlds

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The Minnesota Golden Gophers will be adding Denver’s Alicia Hicken-Franklin to its coaching staff as associate head coach, replacing the departed Ryan Purdy.

Hicken-Franklin is a Gopher alumnus from the mid-1990s, competing for the legendary head coach Jean Freeman. Hicken-Franklin spent a brief time coaching at Washington State before settling in Denver for 17 years. She was an associate head coach with the Pioneers and will jump into that same role with the Golden Gophers.

A distance swimmer herself, Hicken-Franklin has had a solid run of success with Denver’s distance swimmers. It appears she’ll slide into that role with the Gophers, who have recently gotten big production out of a distance crew that includes All-American Brooke Zeiger.

Hicken-Franklin also has an international connection with Minnesota. As a swimmer, she represented Canada individually, making finals at Canadian Nationals and Canadian Olympic Trials. Minnesota’s close proximity to Canada has developed a nice recruiting pipeline that’s recently included breaststroker Kierra Smith and open water swimmer Breanne Siwicki, both of whom will compete for Canada at World Championships later this month.

Hicken-Franklin will take over for Purdy, who is the new head coach at Youngstown State. The rest of Minnesota’s coaching roster remains intact from last season: Kelly Kremer is the head coach along with senior associate head coach Terry Ganley, associate head coach Gideon Louw, assistant coach Tyler Gerst and diving coach Wenbo Chen.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Minnesota To Add Denver’s Hicken-Franklin As Associate Head Coach

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2017 SOUTHERN ZONE SECTIONALS – AUSTIN

• July 6th-9th, 2017
• Psych Sheet
• Pre-Scratch Timeline
• Meet Info
• Real-Time Results

An intense double from current Lakeside Aquatic Club, and future Stanford Cardinal, swimmer Lauren Pitzer was the highlight of the final night of the 2017 Austin Long Course Sectionals.

Pitzer, the #6 recruit in the high school class of 2017, is an incredibly versatile sprinter who goes 22.6 in the 50 yard free and 4:42 in the 500 yard free, all the way to a 4:16 400 IM and a 16:23 mile. She showed off that versatility on Sunday by first winning the 800 free in 8:52.73, and then coming back to win the 50 free in the next women’s event in a time of 26.14. That 50 free win came in a time .01 seconds better than the runner-up, Anelise Diener of Lonhorn Aquatics.

Her 40 individual points were the difference for Lakeside, who won the women’s title by 30 points. Lakeside won both the women’s and men’s titles.

Sam Stewart won his 3rd event of the meet, taking the 200 IM in 2:03.02. He previously won the 200 fly (2:04.19) and 400 IM (4:25.11).

Other Day 4 Winners:

• Monika Gonzalez Hermosillo won the women’s 200 IM in 2:15.70 – two-and-a-half seconds ahead of the field.
• David Forsyth won the men’s 1500 in 15:54.51. That’s a 35.5-second improvement over his previous lifetime best in the race.
• Texas undergrad Tate Jackson won the 50 free in 22.54, beating-out his college teammate Brett Ringgold (22.75). 4 swimmers in total were under 23 seconds, but the only high school student among them was Texas commit Matthew Willenbring.
• The Austin Swim Club won the women’s 400 medley relay in 4:18.91 – with 15-year old Quinn Schaedler chasing down Rice’s anchor Alicia Caldwell by splitting an anchor leg of 56.92.
• The Austin Swim Club boys won their 400 medley relay in similar fashion one event later. This time, it was Luke Bowman who chased down Kyrylo Shvets with a 51.56 anchor split to give ASC the win.

Team Scores:

Women’s Top 5 Scores (FINAL):

1. Lakeside Aquatic Club – 560
2. Austin Swim Club – 530
3. Aggie Swim Club – 478
4. Rice Aquatics – 281
5. Texas Ford Aquatics – 248

Men’s Top 5 Scores (FINAL):

1. Lakeside Aquatic Club – 478
2. Aggie Swim Club – 454
3. Austin Swim Club – 409
4. Rice Aquatics – 247
5. Texas Ford Aquatics – 207

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Alex Sumner from Wallingford, Pennsylvania has announced via Instagram that she will swim for the University of California, Berkeley, beginning in the fall of 2018.

“Very excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim at the University of California Berkeley!!! I can’t wait to further my academic and swimming careers with the support of such an amazing team and coaches! Go Bears

USA Swimming has released the organization’s first-ever 

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Head coach Bob Bowman has added four big-time dual meets to the schedule for his Arizona State Sun Devils in 2017-18. Two of those are going to be smackdowns with top programs– ASU races Indiana University on December 20th, an unusual late December dual meet, while they face a dominant Texas program on January 26th. Both meets will be home meets held in Tempe, Arizona.

The other two new meets will also be home meets, as Florida State will come to town on October 28th, while the Harvard men will come to battle on January 6th. That means that rising sophomores Cameron Craig and Dean Farris will get to go head-to-head in a dual meet setting– they finished 5th and 4th, respectively, in the 200 free at 2017 NCAAs.

ASU is in the Pac-12, meaning they already have a very tough schedule. They have dual meets with USC, UCLA (W), Cal, Stanford and Arizona slated for conference action– add in the new non-conference meets, and the Sun Devils will be racing against 5 of last year’s top 10 teams at men’s NCAAs and 5 of the women’s top 10, including defending national champions Texas (M) and Stanford (W).

The Sun Devil men launched themselves to a 14th place NCAA finish last season, and will likely only climb higher with a lot of talent cycling in their next two incoming classes. The women had an NCAA scorer and Pac-12 Champion in freshman breaststroker Silja Känsäkoski, and they, too, will look to a strong incoming class to continue ASU’s revamp under Bowman’s coaching.

2017-18 ASU Swimming & Diving Schedule
Friday 10/6/17 – 3 p.m. – Intrasquad – Tempe, AZ
Friday, 10/27/17 – 4 p.m. – Utah* – Tempe, AZ
Saturday, 10/28/17 – 11 a.m. – Florida State – Tempe, AZ
Friday, 11/3/17 – 2 p.m. – USC* – Tempe, AZ
Saturday, 11/4/17 – 11 a.m. – UCLA* – Tempe, AZ (WSWIM/DIVE)
Thursday-Saturday, 11/16-18/17 – Art Adamson Invitational – College Station, TX (WSWIM)
Thursday-Saturday, 11/16-18/17 – NAU Lumberjack Invitational – Flagstaff, AZ (DIVE)
Thursday-Saturday, 11/30-12/2/17 – Texas Invitational – Austin, TX (MSWIM)
Wednesday, 12/20/17 – 2 p.m. – Indiana – Tempe, AZ
Saturday, 1/6/18 – 12 noon – Harvard – Tempe, AZ (MSWIM/DIVE)
Saturday, 1/13/18 – 12 p.m. – Washington State* – Pullman, WA (WSWIM/DIVE)
Friday, 1/19/18 – 3 p.m. – Cal* – Berkeley, CA
Saturday, 1/20/18 – 1 p.m. – Stanford* – Palo Alto, CA
Friday, 1/26/18 – 2 p.m. – Texas – Tempe, AZ
Saturday, 2/3/18 – 1 p.m. – Arizona* – Tempe, AZ
Wednesday, 2/21-24/18 – Pac-12 Championship – Federal Way, WA (WSWIM, M/W Dive)
Wednesday, 2/28-3/3/18 – Pac-12 Championship – Federal Way, WA (MSWIM)
Monday-Wednesday, 3/5-7/18 – NCAA Zone E Diving Championships – Flagstaff, AZ (DIVE)
Wednesday, 3/14-17/18 – NCAA Championships – Columbus, OH (WSWIM/DIVE)
Wednesday, 3/21-24/18 – NCAA Championships – Minneapolis, MN (MSWIM/DIVE)

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Duals with Texas, IU Among Major Additions to ASU 2017-18 Schedule

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2017 Para Swimming World Series – Berlin

• July 7th-9th, 2017
• Berlin, Germany
• Multi-Class Scoring
• Final Stop Of The 2017 Series

Germany Me Chal Rhe Para Swimming World Series Me 40 World Records Tod Kar New World Record Bnaye Gye, Jisme Pure World Se Aye Swimmers Ne Lagbhag Har Class Me Records Tode.

Jisme Carlotta Gilli Bhi Samil Hai Jinohne Class Sm13 Ke 200im Ka Record Tod Ka New World Record Apne Name Kiya Aur Inhone 200im Ko 2:23:62 Me Complete Kiya. Same Day Carlotta Gilli Ne 50fly Me 27.98 Ke Timing Ke Sath Ek Aur World Record Apne Name Kiya Aur Britain Ki Eleanor Robinson Ne  Silver Medal Apne Name Kiya.

Opening Day Ke Din Hi Total 12 World Record Tode Gye The, Jisme Men’s 200 Backstroke Me Sare 4 Category Me New World Record Bnaye Gye, Jisme America Ke Robert Griswold Ne 2:17.77 Kar Purane 2:22.04 Ke Record Ko Apne Name Kiya.

Griswold Kahte Hai :- “I Am Really Proud Of My Race. I Have Not Swum In Two Years Competitively, But I Knew I Had A Lot In Me. It Is Great To Be Here In Berlin,”

Other Records:-

 Great Britain’s Jonathan Fox Broke The S7 World Record In 2:32.68

 Netherlands’ Oliver Van De Voort Broke The S10 World Record In 2:06.41

 Great Britain’s Jordan Catchpole Broke The S14 World Record In 2:18.31.

British Phle Din Ke Sabse Bde Vijeta Bane, Jisme Jessica-Jane Applegate Ne 400im Me Apni Class Sm14 Me New Record Bnaye Aur 400 Im Ko 5:13.91 Me Complete Kiya. Aur Megan Richter Ne S8 Class Me 200 Back Me 2:45.97 Ka Time Karke New Record Apne Name Kiya.

Berlin Ke Para Swimming World Series Ke Akhiri Din Brazil Ke Daniel Dias Aur Italy Ke Monica Boggioni Ko Overall Championship Bnaya Gya.

Top 3 Nations:

• Great Britain (8,122)
• Netherlands (7,906)
• Italy (7,814)

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As the British World Championships squad for pool swimming heads to Edinburgh for final preparations, the 6-strong open water contingent is also in the home stretch of getting ready for their upcoming international competition.

Olympian Jack Burnell and teammate Caleb Hughes will take on the 10k race, while Toby Robinson and Tim Shuttleworth will be tackling the 5k event. Burnell was ruled out of the medals in Rio due to a 10k disqualification and was also disqualified during the 10k race at the most recent U.S. Open Water Nationals 10k. The 24-year-old did reach the top of the podium in Abu Dhabi this past March, however, having won that stop of the FINA/HOSA 10k Marathon Swimming World Cup.

Looking forward to a potential redemption of sorts in Budapest Budapest, Burnell says, “My build up to Worlds has gone well. Considering the number of races we have done this season, everything has gone to plan and slotted in really nicely. I think I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in.

“In my training I’ve managed to get best times which means the quality of what I’m doing in the water is really good. I am going into the Worlds feeling strong so we’ll see what happens.

“I’ve competed at Lake Balaton before for a World Cup that event I won. When we were there it was quite flat but in marathon anything can happen and change but I think we’ve prepared well so I’m looking forward to it. Lake Balaton is a great venue. I can’t wait to go back.”

For the women, Danielle Huskisson, the lone non-Loughborough-based team member, will headline both the 10k and 5k races for GBR, while 2016 World Junior Champion Alice Dearing will join her in the longer event.

Huskisson is also feeling prepared headed into her Hungary campaign, stating, “I am really looking forward to the World Championships. This is my third Worlds and I am the most prepared I’ve ever been. We have been doing a lot of hard, back to back racing in the last few months, which has been great for gaining experience as well as race toughness. This will be a great start to this Olympic cycle.

“The race venue is quite familiar as we raced in Lake Balaton back in 2014 as part of the World Cup series. It produced one of my best performances so I am looking forward to heading back.”

Marathon Swimming Lead Bernie Dietzig says,  “The World Championships is always incredibly competitive. We will be expecting a huge field in both the men’s and women’s 10km and we have done everything we can this season to be ready for this.

“We have competed in more races this season and I believe that has been a vital part in the preparations for the World Championships. We have a team that have a lot of potential and I’m looking forward to seeing what they can achieve in Budapest.”

The British Marathon Swimming Team comprises:

Jack Burnell – National Centre, Loughborough

Caleb Hughes – National Centre, Loughborough

Toby Robinson – National Centre, Loughborough

Tim Shuttleworth – National Centre, Loughborough

Alice Dearing – National Centre, Loughborough

Danielle Huskisson – University of Stirling

Quotes courtesy of British Swimming.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: British Open Water Swimmers Making Final Preparations For Budapest