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January 12, 2023

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Penny Oleksiak's First Meet in Six Months, Kasia Wasick Honored at Poland Awards Gala, Jordan Crooks Staring At Opportunity, Court Decides in Favour of World Aquatics, Coach Pete Hovland Retires After 44 Seasons, Sandpipers Ready to Roll

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Penny Oleksiak Set for First Meet in Six Months Against Solid Competition in Knoxville

For this week’s TYR Pro Swim Series in Knoxville, Tenn., Simone Manuel will receive plenty of attention as she competes for the first time since the Tokyo Olympics, but the swimmer with whom Manuel shared Olympic gold in the 100 freestyle in 2016 is also back after a decent-length break of her own. Unlike Manuel, Penny Oleksiak did race in 2022, and she won four relay medals (two silver and two bronze) at the World Championships before she skipped the Commonwealth Games and then suffered a knee injury that required a lengthy recovery.

Kasia Wasick Honored as a Top 10 Polish Athlete at Poland Awards Gala

Katarzyna (Kasia) Wasick made her resurgence into the world’s elite swimmers at the Tokyo Olympics – her fourth. But she hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. In fact, she is getting even faster and is finally starting to get recognized as one of the top sprinters in the world.

Court Decides In Favour Of World Aquatics In Lawsuits Related To ISL

The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has decided in favour of World Aquatics in two separate lawsuits filed by the International Swimming League and a trio of elite swimmers in 2018. The ISL sued the global federation then known as FINA for anti-competitive conduct while American pair Tom Shields and Michael Andrew...

At Home, Jordan Crooks Staring At Opportunity to Prove Worth In Olympic-Sized Pool

Unlike in NCAA competition, where his name is found near the top of the psych sheets, scrolling is necessary to locate Jordan Crooks’ entries for this week’s TYR Pro Series stop in Knoxville. A short-course star, Crooks remains a largely unproven talent in the Olympic-sized pool, and that is the format which will be utilized from Wednesday...

Oakland Swim Coach Pete Hovland to Retire After 44 Seasons

Joining Oakland’s men’s program as an assistant in 1979 and taking over as head coach two years later, the Golden Grizzlies have established themselves as one of the country’s elite programs under Hovland’s tutelage, winning their conference championship every season he has been a member of the staff, a run that now stands at 44 consecutive.

Five Storylines for TYR Pro Series Knoxville: American Stars Return to Long Course; Sandpipers Ready to Roll

National-level competition for 2023 will begin this weekend in Knoxville, Tenn., for the first stop of this year’s TYR Pro Swim Series. The meet returns to the University of Tennessee for the first time in three years after the January 2022 edition of the meet was cancelled because of a spike in COVID-19 cases. The meet will bring together a handful of top American pros, college swimmers and high schoolers, and since many of the sport’s biggest names skipped U.S. Nationals in July and the U.S. Open in December, some will be racing in the 50-meter pool for the first time since the World Championships last June.

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