Tag: swimming and diving
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Swimming and diving teams celebrate Senior Day
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Ten Phoenix seniors were honored on Saturday morning as the Green Bay men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams welcomed Wisconsin to the Peter F. Dorschel Natatorium for their annual Senior Day meet. The Phoenix turned in several strong performances against the tough Big Ten opponents, but Badgers prevailed on both sides, winning the women’s…
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Success for swimming and diving teams, men’s tennis
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It was a winning weekend not only for the much-publicized Phoenix basketball teams, but also for the swimming and diving teams and men’s tennis program. • The Green Bay men’s swimming and diving squad earned the Butler Invitational championship on Sunday, besting Xavier, Ball State and Evansville. Reigning Horizon League Swimmer of the Week Willem…
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Men finishing fourth, women a close third at Horizon swimming/diving meet
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The perennially successful Green Bay men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams made good showings as the 2013 Horizon League Championships wrapped up over the weekend at the UIC Flames Natatorium in Chicago. The women’s squad finished third in a tight race for the team title, while the men’s squad moved up a spot to…
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Swimming/diving teams off to a fast, Phelps-like start
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The Green Bay men’s and women’s swimming teams both picked up convincing dual meet victories at Horizon League opponent Valparaiso last Saturday. The women’s squad had a winner in all 11 events, cruising to a 128-68 win, while the men’s team took seven events in a 129-76 victory. It was a convincing follow-up to the…
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Sun Prairie’s Caruso is graduation speaker at UW-Green Bay
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Lauren Caruso of Sun Prairie, who is receiving her bachelor’s degree with summa cum laude, or highest, honors, has been selected to speak on behalf of the graduating class during UW-Green Bay’s mid-year commencement ceremony set for 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on campus. Caruso carries a…
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Smart swimmers: Phoenix women make the grade for Scholar All-America list
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The UW-Green Bay women’s swim team added to the list of athletics’ academic accolades recently, when the squad was named to the Swimming Coaches Association of America’s Scholar All-America list. The Phoenix logged a collective GPA of 3.34 during spring semester, one of 13 UW-Green Bay sports teams to achieve a 3.2 or higher GPA.…
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Who Askew? Phoenix swimmer is guy who beat the guy who beat Phelps
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It’s a small world: Our phone rang the other day with news that former Phoenix swimmer Jason Askew, an Accounting and Business Administration major from Durban, South Africa, was being interviewed that very minute on a local sports radio program. We missed most of the interview, but got the gist. On the day that Chad…
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Great showing in the pool, but championship streak ends for Phoenix
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The Green Bay swimming and diving teams concluded the 2012 Horizon League Championship Meet on Saturday night with the women’s squad finishing third and the men’s squad finishing fifth. Milwaukee took the team titles on both sides, ending the Phoenix women’s run of seven consecutive league championships. “We had a lot of good things that…
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Swimmers pursue amazing eighth
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The Green Bay women, who are looking for their eighth consecutive conference title, were in third place through the halfway point of this year’s Horizon League swimming and diving tournament, being contested through Saturday in suburban Milwaukee. The Phoenix men were in fifth place. Among the highlights for Coach Jim Merner and his teams: Kendra…