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The last time Alex Meyer on American soil was when the conditions were rough in Fort Lauderdale. During that rough water, the Harvard graduate battled all kinds of ocean chop to win the 2011 World Championships qualifier. Early in today’s USA Swimming Championship 10 km race on Castaic Lake, the wind kicked up surface chop […]
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Kara Tracey of Corpus Christi, Texas was all smiles before, during and after today’s 10 km race in Lake Mead. No one was more ecstatic after finishing the 2013 U.S. Masters Swimming 10 km open water swimming championships in Lake Mead, Nevada. “I loved it. I felt good during the race. Lake Mead is really
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Bill May and Lexie Kelly win the USMS 10 km marathon swim in Lake Mead, Las Vegas, Nevada in 2013.
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Becca Mann has long been seen as a precocious swimmer, both in the pool and in the open water. She works hard and is focused. But the 15-year-old has always just been behind her more senior competitors. Not anymore. She had a breakout swim yesterday at the 2013 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships
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Once upon a time there was a beautiful mermaid who lived by the sea. She was a dynamic, personable, fluid creature who touched everyone and everything she encountered. One day she went on vacation and met a mountain man along the shoreline. The mermaid and the mountain man both immediately fell in love and moved
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The 10 km U.S. Masters Swimming National Championships will be held in Lake Mead, near Las Vegas Nevada this morning. The expected conditions are forecasted to be nearly perfect – with calm and comfortable water. It will have an unusual feeding pontoon where the swimmers will swim AROUND the feeding station that is set up
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The 2013 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships was a race to remember. The race was fast from the start, strategic in the middle, and furiously frentic at the finish. With 400 meters to go, there were eight young women giving it everything they had. The eight women were eight possible candidates to represent
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It makes sense there is a Hollywood connection when USA Swimming brings its national championships to Los Angeles. And it makes double sense that Hollywood will be involved in what may be the most exciting photo finish on American soil – or in this case, water. J.E.M. F/X is a specialty FX design and custom
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20 years yesterday Gary Emich (shown on left) did his first Alcatraz Island. And he has been doing an average of one Alcatraz Island swim a week for 20 years, in conditions that have ranged from tranquil to treacherous with only 2 weeks off for vacation per year. Emich will join Steven Hurwitz of the
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Kate Greene won the initial Adventure Swim Contest organized by Jamie Patrick. The Kate Adventure Swim consisted of many individual swims done while she traversed across America. After her swims done in every American state between Tennessee and California, Greene continued on in her high-level scientific work. Below is one NASA project the multi-talented athlete
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