Sisters Selected to New Zealand Olympic Team (Scoop.co.nz)
Dunedin synchronised swimmers Nina and Lisa Daniels have been selected for the New Zealand Olympic Team to Beijing 2008. The sisters won bronze in the duet event for pairs at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006, and have been steadily rising world rankings, since....more...Swimming: Dunedin sisters win Olympic selection (The New Zealand Herald)
Sisters Nina and Lisa Daniels will be the first New Zealand synchronised swimmers to compete at an Olympic Games for 24 years. The Dunedin pair were today named in the New Zealand team to compete at Beijing next year....more... Kiwi swim suit company eyes Beijing Gold (Stuff)
Kiwi Wetsuit company blueseventy has beaten global swimwear leaders Speedo and TYR to official approval for its new swimskin at the Beijing Olympics, offering competitors a 3-5% speed advantage....more... Ryan Lochte swims to live, doesn't live to swim (San Diego Union-Tribune)
ATLANTA, 2:36 p.m. Dec. 1 (AP): Swimming is what Ryan Lochte does for a living. It's not his life. After his races, the 23-year-old Olympian would rather talk about anything but what just happened. Like skateboarding, surfing or his fancy sports car with an awesome sound system....more... West County Scuttlebutt, Nov. 15 (Chesterfield Journal)
BASKETBALL REGISTRATIONS n Vianney High School basketball coach Kevin Walsh will host a coaches' clinic for elementary and middle school coaches on Sat. Nov. 17, 2007. The clinic will run from 9-11:30 a.m. The clinic will include presentations from the Vianney basketball staff and on-the-court demonstrations from the Vianney basketball team. Each coach attending the clinic will receive a booklet ......more... Two Cavaliers set sights on summer Olympic Trials (Cavalier Daily Online)
The No. 14 Virginia men's swimming and diving team is off to a strong 4-2 start this season, falling by very narrow margins to the fifth and sixth best teams in the country and dominating the rest of its competition....more... Sports: Stanford rolls into Austin for Texas tourney (Stanford Daily)
The Stanford men?s swim team will be heading down to Austin, Texas to face the Texas Longhorns in the Texas Invitational, which starts today and concludes on Saturday....more... W. Swimming pushes hard, but men rest up (Daily Pennsylvanian)
The Penn men's and women's swim team will face off against unfamiliar faces this weekend at the second annual Kenyon Invitational. A change from the usual Ivy competition, the Quakers will compete against powerhouses like Kenyon and Kansas....more... Phelps, Lochte float to short course nationals wins (USA Today)
Michael Phelps won his first competitive race since breaking a bone in his wrist in October, taking the 200-yard freestyle at the U.S. short course national championships Friday night....more... |