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The Stars of Invite Week: Rex Maurer, Claire Curzan Take Huge Steps at New Schools Is anyone surprised that Gretchen Walsh broke her own American and NCAA records in the 100 butterfly and almost knocked off her 50 freestyle mark at the Tennessee Invitational? They shouldn't be, not with Walsh's trac...

Georgia Tech Invite: Michigan Completes Sweep Behind Stephanie Balduccini, Gal Cohen Groumi The University of Michigan swim and dive teams finished off their sweep of the Georgia Tech Invitational Sunday with five additional victories. The Michigan women scored 1475 points, 100 ahead of runnerup Aub...

Georgia Tech Invite: Michigan Off to Hot Start Through First Two Days The Michigan women's team of Stephanie Balduccini, Brady Kendall, Claire Newman and Lindsay Flynn won the 200 freestyle relay in 1:27.21, with Flynn coming home in 21.49. Auburn, anchored by Lora Komoroczy in 21.44, came in three ...

Ohio State Invitational: Indiana Defeats Ohio State Women, Louisville Men For Team Titles The Indiana Hoosiers completed an impressive weekend of swimming at the Ohio State Invitational, comfortably defeating the Louisville men for the team win while out-pacing the host team's women by 100 points. O...

Texas Invitational: Jillian Cox, Emma Sticklen Impress for Longhorn Women on Final Night During the final session of the Texas Invitational, the home team continued to dominate for both the women and men. The Texas women got big swims from faces old and new, with the two-time defending NCAA champion...

Tennessee Invitational: Jordan Crooks Moves to Third All-Time in 100 Free, Swims Fastest Relay Split Ever Not long after Claire Curzan swam the fastest-time ever in the women's 200 backstroke, Tennessee's Jordan Crooks made a run at another all-time best in the men's 100 freestyle. The accomplished ...

Tennessee Invitational: Claire Curzan Shatters American Record in 200 Back, First Ever Under 1:47 In the 16 months since transferring to the University of Virginia, Claire Curzan has been working to return to her best times while many of her UVA teammates have have wracked up medals on the internati...

Texas Invitational: Rex Maurer Shines Again in 400 IM; Germonprez, Modglin Climb Rankings The new-look Texas men have posted some breakthrough swims at their home invitational this week, but no swimmer has been more impressive than Rex Maurer. The sophomore transfer from Stanford swam an American re...

Tennessee Invitational: Jordan Crooks Records 17.57 Relay Split, 43.77 100 Fly While Virginia's Gretchen Walsh has been unstoppable thus far at the Tennessee Invite, the Volunteers' Jordan Crooks has been almost as good on the men's side, with a 1:30.00 performance in the 200 freestyle Tuesday follo...

Tennessee Invitational: Gretchen Walsh Takes Down American, NCAA Records in 100 Fly Less than two years ago, the NCAA Women's Championships in Knoxville, Tenn., produced by far the fastest final in history in the 100 butterfly. Kate Douglass touched out 100-meter Olympic gold medalist Maggie Mac Nei...

Texas Invitational: Rex Maurer Shatters American Record in 500 Freestyle He finished his high school years as a national-record holder and among the country's top rising stars in the middle-distance events, but Rex Maurer struggled in his lone year at Stanford, falling to 31st at the NCAA Championsh...

Texas Invitational: Jillian Cox Enters All-Time Top-10 in 500 Freestyle While Rex Maurer stole the show in the 500 freestyle Wednesday evening at the Texas Invite, another Longhorn put on a show in the women's equivalent event while entering the all-time top-10 in the event. Jillian Cox waited one y...

Tennessee Invitational: Gretchen Walsh Swims Third-Fastest Time Ever in 50 Freestyle, Blazes in Relay Action Whenever Gretchen Walsh races in any collegiate meet of significance, you can expect a record scare, and it was nearly inevitable that she would push some of her own NCAA and American marks a...

Josh Liendo, Jordan Crooks Highlight Cadre of Men's Sprinters in Action This Week During the first four college swimming seasons after Caeleb Dressel exhausted his eligibility at the University of Florida, no one seriously challenged the legendary records he left behind in the short course yards spr...

College Swimming Invitationals: Most Top Teams in Action This Week Invitational season has arrived in college swimming. In recent years, most top-ranked teams have shifted their season schedules to swim their main midseason taper meet prior to swimmers heading home for a brief Thanksgiving vacation....

Bolles Boys Just Miss National High School Record in 200 Medley Relay The team from Bolles School threatening the national high school record in the boys' 200 medley relay has become an almost annual tradition. The independent school and overall record stands at 1:27.74, set by Baylor's team of Luke...

College Swimming Check-in: The Non-Superstar Men in Pole Position In the first college swimming season following the departure of Leon Marchand to the professional ranks, the early candidate to take over the mantle of the country’s top male swimmer is another Arizona State Sun Devil. Ilya Kharun won...

College Swimming Check-in: Unexpected Names Leading Women's National Rankings Entering Midseason The fall slate of college dual meets has largely concluded, with top teams now turning their attention to midseason invitations that will provide the top times in the country in most events while providi...

Even After Massive Changes, Arizona State Men Still Have Talented Core For Title Defense Two days after Arizona State University won its first-ever national title in men’s swimming, the head coach who guided a nine-year renaissance departed for the same position with the University of Texas men’s te...

Rylee Erisman Lowers 15-16 NAG Record, Public School Record at Florida 4A State Meet During a breakout summer, Rylee Erisman qualified for the Olympic Trials final of the 50 freestyle as well as two other semifinals, and then she earned five gold medals and one silver at the Junior Pan Pacific Champ...