Archive for the 'Swimming in the News' Category

Interesting News Updates

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Polish Olympic swimmers to jump into Cheshire’s community
pool
London Awarded 2012 Olympic Games
Freestyle Clean Catch Technique Tip

Select few redefine human abilities

Friday, May 13th, 2005

To the average person, swimming a mile in the frigid waters off Antarctica, diving more than 500 feet on a single breath, or climbing the world’s highest mountains without the help of extra oxygen would be deadly.
Select few redefine human abilities

YMCA Nationals

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Wilton Guys Take Down Long-Standing Record On Day Two of YMCA Nationals.

2005 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship on TV

Monday, March 21st, 2005

2005 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship will be on TV Friday March 25th at 2:00 PM on ESPN2 (channel 35).
2005 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship will be on TV Friday April 1st at 1:30 PM on ESPN2 (channel 35).
For more information, go to http://www.ncaasports.com/broadcast/tv.

American Short Course Championships

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Read the two articles below for some extremely fast swimming. Phelps broke Matt Biondi’s 1987 American record of 1:33.03 and Simon Burnett’s overall record of 1:32.22 in the 200 yard freestyle with a 1:32.08. On the women’s side Natalie Coughlin went a 1:44.86 in the 200 yard freestyle and a 52.13 in the 100 [...]

Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championships on TV

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

College Swimming “Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championships” will be on televised on March 12th at 4 PM on FSN NY (should be channel 72 if you use Cablevision).

Fast times

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Top times from the college conference championships.

Interesting Articles

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Michael Phelps, Post Olympics, Part I
Michael Phelps, Post Olympics, Part II
Larsen Jensen in the 1500M Freestyle Video
Amanda Beard to appear in SI’s Swimsuit Issue
Russian Swimming Great Popov Confirms Retirement
USMS redesigns site

Times from Phelps swimming SCY’s

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

For those of us who don’t have a lot of long course experience and want to be able to compare Olympic swimmers times to our own here are some swims that Phelps recently did swimming Short Course Yards at the University of Michigan.
1:43.05 200 Yard IM
46.48 [...]