At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Lagoun qualified as an individual swimmer for the men's 100 m butterfly.

A dual meet is a meet where each individual event is scored based on how individual swimmers on a team swim.

Entry fee is $100 for an individual swimmer, $115 after Sept. 1.

Over two thousand individual swimmers typically participate.

It was a good day for the Americans, who qualified a relay team and seven of their eight individual swimmers for the evening finals.

This year's marathon had its largest field: 78 people, comprising 30 individual swimmers and 8 six-person relay teams.

County galas are for individual swimmers that have achieved the qualifying times and wish to compete at a county level.

None of the individual swimmers advanced to the finals, though the relay did advance before finishing fifth in the final.

Heavy eye make-up is often worn to help portray the emotions involved with the routine; it helps to accentuate the eyes of each individual swimmer.

Figures are performed in front of a panel of 5 judges who score individual swimmers from 1 to 10 (10 being the best).