Mel Stewart (@goldmedalmel)

Official Psych Sheets Released For 2025 Men's NCAA Championships Coming off a record-setting SECs, Florida's Josh Liendo comes into the 2025 NCAA Championships as the defending champion in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly.

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12.03.2025 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

USA Swimming Membership Stays Stable In 2024, Predicting Post-Olympic Growth for 2025 The USA Swimming Demographic Data for 2024 came out today, and membership numbers stayed very stable, increasing just 0.13% from last year.

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08.03.2025 15:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

College Swimming & Diving Programs Make Huge Roster Cuts Ahead of Portal Opening My inbox has been full of requests this week to do an article about all of the cuts happening across the country this week in anticipation of next week's

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07.03.2025 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Texas Will Add Almost 200 New Athletics Scholarships, Including 100% Full Rides for Swim Teams After sweeping the SEC Championships last week in their inaugural season, the University of Texas will get another recruiting boost: the ability to offer full rides to all 52 members of their swimming...

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28.02.2025 16:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Podcast: Fitter & Faster CEO David Arluck Adds Massive Support and Vision To College Swimming David Arluck: "College Swimming an essential part of the sport—one that deserves greater visibility and long-term sustainability.

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25.02.2025 19:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gretchen Walsh on Last ACC Champs: "I feel like It hit me half way through the meet" Gretchen Walsh won swimmer of the meet at her final ACC Champs, sweeping her individual events and setting a new ACC record in the 200 free

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24.02.2025 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OH MY! Florida Men Swim 2:55.6 in the 400 Medley Relay, Break NCAA Record by 1.6 Seconds A historic split from butterflier Josh Liendo was one of the key pieces to Florida annihilating the NCAA Record in the 400 medley relay on Friday.

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22.02.2025 02:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gretchen Walsh on 1:39 200 Free, 800 Free Relay NCAA Record: "We've definitely had a grudge" While Walsh clocked a 1:39.34 on the lead-off, the 2nd fastest performance ever, the relay itself finished at 6:44,13, shattering Stanford's previous record

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20.02.2025 04:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

IOC Announces Inaugural Olympic Esports Games for 2027 in Saudi Arabia IOC President Thomas Bach (left) was in Saudi Arabia to discuss the organizing of the first Olympic Esports Games in 2027 with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right)

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17.02.2025 17:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Karina Plaza Breaks 200 Breaststroke NAG Record, 1 Night After Taking Down 100 Yard Mark SwimMAC Carolina's Karina Plaza has broken her second National Age Group Record in as many nights as the North Carolina Age Group Championships.

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16.02.2025 15:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2025 SEC & ACC Championships Preview | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we preview the SEC and ACC Championships, which will both take place on February 18-22.

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13.02.2025 17:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SwimSwam's Top 100 For 2025: Women's #30-21 Claire Weinstein (left) and Paige Madden (right) are both coming off strong performances at both the Olympics and SC Worlds, riding some momentum into 2025.

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11.02.2025 23:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WATCH: Alex Walsh and Gretchen Walsh Swim Matching 56.8s in the 100 Breast Alex Walsh swam a new lifetime best in the 100 breaststroke on Friday night - and her sister Gretchen wasn't far behind.

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09.02.2025 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beyond Gold: Post-Olympic Blues Through Nietzsche, Schopenhauer And Heraclitus What's left after an Olympic gold? What would philosophers like Heraclitus, Schopenahuer and Nietzsche think about post-Olympic blues?

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09.02.2025 01:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SwimSwam's Top 100 For 2025: Men's #31-40 Matt Richards didn't swim lifetime bests in his primary events during 2024, but he did earn his first individual Olympic medal.

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08.02.2025 19:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gretchen Walsh Continues Historic Season, Rips 57.34 100 Breaststroke At Cavalier Invitational Gretchen Walsh hit 57.34 in the 100 breast at the Cavalier Invitational, moving to 14th all-time in the event and showcasing her short-course versatility.

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07.02.2025 21:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Taking Five With Becca Man: Outside The Lines Mann's new book, "Outside the Lanes: A Pro Swimmer's Story of Resilience, Reinvention, and Redefining Success," will be released in April.

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06.02.2025 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How Much Faster are Conference Championship Meets Getting? Part III: ACC Men ACCs have been dominated by NC State over the last decade, interrupted by Louisville in 2022, but there may be a new winner this year

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06.02.2025 03:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NCAA Champion Reilly Tiltmann Announces Medical Retirement Tiltmann helped Virginia to two NCAA relay titles during her career and was a consistent finalist at the NCAA level, helping the team to a four-peat.

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06.02.2025 03:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here for my mental health… 🏊💪🏽

06.02.2025 03:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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