Women's 50 Freestyle Final | 2021 NCAA Swimming Championships
Virginia's Kate Douglass wins the national championship in the 50y Freestyle at the 2021 NCAA Swimming Championships. Douglass's time of 21.13 is the eighth-...
March 9, 2021
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14-year-old Maximus Williamson of the North Texas Nadadores clocked a 1:47.85 in the 200 back on Sunday, ranking himself above Texas graduate Austin Katz.
March 8, 2021
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Coming out on top again this weekend was Simone Manuel, swimming the only sub-25 time of the event at 24.70. That now moves Manuel up to 2nd in the nation
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Simone Manuel shares her current #swim training focus
Simone Manuel Details the Work She's Doing in Practice to Perfect her 50 Free
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Feb. 10, 2021
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No female swimmer has ever been as fast as Belarus's Anastasiya Shkurdai in *both* the 100 fly (56.9) and 100 back (59.0), and she's only 18.
Jan. 20, 2021
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Abbey Weitzeil becomes the third American woman under 25 seconds this season, clocking 24.97 to sit second in the country behind only Gretchen Walsh (24.65). Weitzeil’s last long course 50 prior to this morning came in December of 2019, where she went 24.70 at a time trial in Minnesota. Margo Geer improved on her prelim swim by just over a tenth to claim second in 25.46, while Casey Fanz and Olivia Smoliga tied for third in 25.58. All four members of the podium improved on season-bests set in prelims (Fanz was the only one who had raced prior to this morning). Weitzeil’s last long co ...
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Abbey Weitzeil Describes the Mental Struggles of Getting Back Into Shape
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July 19, 2020
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Stanford University has landed another big recruit for the 2021-22 season, this time from Bellevue, Wash. native and U.S. National Junior Team member Amy Tang . She will join Anna Shaw, Samantha Tadder, Torri Huske and Meghan Lynch, as well as diver Lauren Burch, as a member of the Cardinal’s class of 2025. At the 7th FINA World Junior Championships last summer in Budapest, Tang swam the third leg on the winning mixed 4x100m free relay along with Luca Urlando, Adam Chaney, and Gretchen Walsh.
July 18, 2020
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Bellevue, Washington native Amy Tang , the number 4 recruit on our list of top 20 girls from the high school class of 2021 , has announced her intention to swim at Stanford University beginning in the fall of 2021. Tang is the last of our Top 20 recruits to make her decision known. She will join #2 Torri Huske , #8 Samantha Tadder , “best of the rest” category member Meghan Lynch , Anna Shaw , and Lauren Burch in the Cardinal class of 2025. “I am so excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim and study at Stanford University! It has been my dream ever since I was twelve, and I a ...
June 4, 2020
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According to NISCA, the tournament is intended to create a fun activity in light of the coronavirus pandemic, especially since swim meets around the country have been canceled. In order to enter, teams had to fill out a form and include their top times all-time for their entries. Each swimmer was allowed to “swim” up to two individual events and two relays like they would in a traditional high school dual meet. Real times from verified high school competition had to be used for entries. Once the field was narrowed down to 64 schools, the regional finals were completed. Teams that mad ...
March 8, 2020
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The Nashville Aquatic Club girls have broken their 2nd National Age Group Record in as many days at the 2020 Southern Premier Meet. This time, they opened the Saturday finals session with a record-breaking 200 medley relay with the same foursome that, a day earlier, broke the 17-18 200 free relay record . The group’s winning time on Saturday in the 200 medley relay was 1:38.98. That broke the SwimMAC's Record of 1:39.40 .
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The Nashville Aquatic Club girls, new NAG record 200 medley relay
March 8, 2020
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There were quite a few highlight swims in Atlanta on Saturday, which featured some of the nation’a top junior swimmers. Nashville Aquatic Club’s Gretchen Walsh put up a lifetime best in the 50 free on night 2 of the 2020 Southern Premier. Walsh raced to a 21.50, taking 9 hundredths off her best from the TISCA Championships last month. Walsh, 17, has now moved ahead of Kate Douglass as the 3rd fastest ever in the 17-18 age group.
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Rising star Gretchen Walsh is now 3rd fastest 17-18 50 #freestyle
March 7, 2020
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A quartet of swimmers from the Nasvhille Aquatic Club broke the 17-18 National Age Group Record in the 200 yard free relay on Friday. Swimming at the elite Southern Premier Meet in Atlanta, Georgia, the group of Alex Walsh , Alex Massey , Lauren Hurt , and Gretchen Walsh combined for a 1:29.69. That swim undercuts the old record of 1:30.09 that was set by SwimMAC Carolina in 2015.
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Nasvhille Aquatic Club new 17-8 NAG record 200 #freestyle relay
March 7, 2020
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2020 Southern Premier Meet The 2020 edition of the annual Southern Premier meet, which brings together several of the best club teams in the southeastern U.S., kicked off on Friday evening in Atlanta. A group of future teammates at the University of Virginia stole the show on the meet’s first night. In the girls’ 200 free, 17-year old high school junior Gretchen Walsh of the Nashville Aquatic Club knocked more than a second off her lifetime best, swimming 1:43.75 to win.
Feb. 10, 2020
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Harpeth Hall’s Gretchen Walsh highlighted the meet by breaking the overall National High School record in the 50 free with a jaw-dropping 21.59 on day one, then following it up with yet another national record-setting performance with a 46.98 in the 100 free on day two.
Her older sister, Alex Walsh, also had herself a meet. One day after Claire Curzan broke the National High School record in the 100 back at the North Carolina 4A State Championships, A. Walsh lowered it once again with a final time of 51.35.
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Walsh sister are a force #swimming #records
Feb. 9, 2020
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After a dominant first day at the 2020 TISCA Championships in Knoxville where she broke the National High School record in the 50 free, Gretchen Walsh wasted no time rewriting history on day two.
While representing Harpeth Hall High School, Walsh blasted a 46.98 in the 100 free to break Abbey Weitzeil’s overall National High School record of 47.09 set on May 16, 2015 at the CIF State Championships.
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Congrats: Gretchen Walsh new 100yds free national high school record #swimming
Feb. 9, 2020
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Interestingly, Alex Walsh's new State Record broke the former mark held by her younger sister. Gretchen's old record was a 51.57 from last season's TISCA.
Feb. 8, 2020
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Gretchen Walsh stole the show on the first night of the 2020 TISCA Championships in Knoxville. Shortly after anchoring Harpeth Hall’s winning 4×50 medley relay in a blazing 21.20 split, she was back in the pool to win the 50 free in a jaw-dropping 21.59.
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Congrats: Gretchen Walsh new #50Free national high school record #swimming
Feb. 8, 2020
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Walsh popped a new lifetime best in the 50 free, winning in 21.59. That came shortly after a 21.20 anchor split on the Harpeth Hall 200 medley relay.
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Gretchen Walsh new national high school record 50 free #swimming
