LOS ANGELES, California, May 22. THE Palisades Charter Dolphins swept the team titles at the CIF-Los Angeles City High School Swimming and Diving Championships May 14-17. Prelims were held May 14 and finals were conducted May 17, both at East Los Angeles College. A separate diving competition was held May 15 at L.A. Valley College.
Girls The Dolphins claimed their fourth straight t...
ORLANDO, Florida, May 22. AT the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Business Meeting and Convention in Orlando, FL the membership of the CSCAA elected three new representatives to the organization's board of directors.
The new Division I Men's Swimming Representative is 6-time CSCAA Coach of the Year Jack Bauerle of the University of Georgia. Coach Bauerle ...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 22. SPORT Minister Fikile Mbalula has announced has announced that his department will offer financial assistance to the cash strapped national swimming federation Swimming South Africa.
The R2,7million sponsorship will help the national team's campaign at the forthcoming FINA World Swimming Championships that will tak...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 22. USA Diving yesterday named 15 athletes to participate in the world championships in Barcelona this summer, including Olympic champ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, May 22. THE final stop of USA Swimming's 2012-13 Arena Grand Prix Series -- the May 30-June 2 Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara -- will feature a star-studded field including Olympic gold medalists Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo.) and Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), as well as a number of Northern California-based standouts, competing at the George F. Haine...
SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 22. LAST Sunday, Craig Dietz swam the treacherous 1.5 miles from Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay to the mainland, placing 689th out of 817 competitors.
Dietz is becoming a notable name in the open water swimming community, traversing some of the toughest waterways without arms or legs. Born limbless in Pennsylvania in 1974, Dietz has become an inspir...
LONDON, England, May 22. SUTTON Coldfield swimmer Bradley Lynch believes he is capable of hitting peak form in time for Rio 2016. The 17-year-old City of Birmingham Swimming Club member made his Great Britain debut in last ...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 22. CHARLIE Wiser joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show shortly after becoming the second-fastest 100 breaststroker in...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 21. THE 2012-2013 high school swimming season will be remembered as one of the most exciting in recent history, if only for the extraordinary number of national records broken in the past seven months.
Never has the staff at Swimming World had to make so many revisions to our ...
SAN DIEGO, California, May 21. FOUR sectional and four divisional records fell during the CIF San Diego High School Division 2 Swimming and Diving Championships. The swimming events were held May 15 and 18 at Granite Hills High School; the diving took place May 17 at San Diego Mesa College.
Girls Cathedral Catholic collected its sixth straight Division 2 championship. The Dons were...
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, May 21. THREE of the American divers who won Olympic medals last summer in London look to repeat or improve on their Olympic performances this summer at the FINA world championships in Barcelona.
David Boudia, the lone gold medalist among the Americans last year, will face strong competition in the platform event, as he did last summer to win gold. In addition to the...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 21. THE 2012-2013 high school season had its last hurrah last weekend, with two national records broken and another one close to falli...
SAN DIEGO, California, May 21. THANKS to a trio of talented seniors and a solid swimming team, the Torrey Pines Falcons earned their fourth consecutive girls title at the CIF San Diego High School Swimming and Diving Championships. The Carlsbad Lancers claimed the boys team title. The swimming portion of the competition took place May 16 and 18 at Granite Hills High School; the diving events ...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 21. YANNICK Agnel has been looking around for a place to train in the United States, and it appears he has found it. The French sports...
SOMERS, Wisconsin, May 21. MARTYN Wilby, Anthony Nesty and Matt Tallman have been named Assistant Coach-of-the-Year by CollegeSwimming.com. Tallman, of Notre Dame was named the top Rising Assistant Coach of the year while Florida's Wilby and Nesty were recognized in the Lifetime/Career Category.
It was the second time that Tallman and Nesty had been recognized. Both had been named...
SARASOTA, Florida, May 21. U.S. Masters Swimming has joined the fray to lower the drowning rate in the United States by offering grants to programs that teach adults to swim the length of a pool.
Through the USMS Swimming Saves Lives Foundation, more than $20,000 was given to five organizations in 2012. Organizations can receive grants of up to $5,000. The deadline to submit applications f...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 21. OLYMPIC champion Yannick Agnel held a press conference today to explain his decision to move to the United States and train with Bob Bowman at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, an announcement he made to L'Equipe yesterday.
LIVERMORE, California, May 21. FINIS out does itself as the world leader in technical swimming products with the launch and immediate availability of the Neptune MP3 Player .
NICE, France, May 20. JUST days after the French Swimming Federation announced that Olympic gold medalist Yannick Agnel would be moving to the States, French paper L'Equipe has broken news that Agnel will be training with Bob Bowman.
Agnel had already stated that he would be missing out on indivi...
By Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas, High Performance Director, USA Pentathlon
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, May 20. THE International Federation of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM) has announced that two US pentathletes, sisters Margaux Isaksen and Isabella Isaksen have qualified for the World Cup Final, which will be held in Nizhnyj Novgorod, Russia on May 31 -- June 2. Only 36 of the world's t...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado, May 20. As the Colorado 5A High School State Swimming and Diving Championship finals were about to start May 18, it was noticed by meet officials that the two bulkheads at the Colorado Mesa University swimming pool were not set apart at the correct distance. The bulkheads were 3/16" short, which would cause problems should any national and/or state records be set.
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 20. THE roster of swimmers that will represent Brazil in the pool at the FINA world championships this summer contain a defending world champion and a rising star in the sprinting ranks.
Cesar Cielo is the brightest star for Brazil, and will go into the world championships in Barcelona set to defend his 2011 world title in the 50 freestyle. With Cielo undergoing surge...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina, May 20. IN the fight to keep men's and women's swimming and diving at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, the backers of the "Save UNCW Swim & Dive" have sent a letter to University Chancellor Gary Miller. In it, they state the case for keeping the program, which is in danger of ending in a few months after the release of ...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 20. THE high school swimming season came to a close last weekend with two national high school records broken at California's nor...
THORNTON, Colorado, May 20. AIR Academy scored 324 points to claim the championship title at the Colorado State High School 4A Swimming and Diving Championships. The meet was held May 17-18 at the Veterans' Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.
D'Evelyn took second place, six points ahead of Coronado (239-233). Rounding out the top five teams were Thompson Valley (194) and Discove...
PORTLAND, Oregon, May 20. ARENA North America is giving a "sneak peek" at two new colors of the new generation POWERSKIN Carbon-Pro Mark 2, which will be available to consumers this summer. The Orange and Cyan colors are part of Arena's Colors of Victory campaign.
The POWERSKIN Carbon-Pro Mark 2 is Arena's second-generation racing suit to utilize the new technology of Carbon. Ut...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 20. TWO of the best breaststrokers in Masters history smashed long course world records in the 200 distance over the weekend in meets in the United States and Italy.
One week after wrapping up competition in short course yards at the U.S. Masters nationals in Indianapolis, David Guthrie took to the long course pool at The Woodlands near his home in Houston and swam a ...
REDDING, California, May 20. YESTERDAY, at a meet hosted by his home club the Redding Swim Team, 10-year-old Winn Aung knocked a second off an 18-year-old U.S. National Age Group record previously held by NBA basketball player Kris Humphries.
Aung clocked a time of 1:01.21 to become the fastest 10 year old in U.S. history in the boys 10-and-under 100-meter freestyle event. That swim wh...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 20. ONE of the key players in the University of Southern California's women's water polo NCAA win, Madeline Rosenthal, joins toda...
NAPLES, Florida, May 19. AT the T2 Norris Foundation Meet this weekend, T2's own Matthew Limbacher, just 12 years old, took down the U.S. National Age Group record in the boys 11-12 50-meter breaststroke event.
Limbacher clocked a scorching 31.63, nearly a full eight seconds ahead of his closest competitor, to top the sprint breaststroke event. That swim broke a record set well befo...
SANTA CLARITA, California, May 19. ANDREW Gemmell (Wilmington, Del.) and Haley Anderson (Granite Bay, Calif.) won the 5-kilometer national titles on Sunday to conclude the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships at Lower Castaic Lake.
With their victories, Gemmell and Anderson qualified for July's FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. They will join Christine Jennings (...
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 19. CASEY Barrett and Peter Busch got the story right. Michael Phelps is going to come back and compete again for the United States in the sport of swimming.
The Associated Press, Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News, Sports illustrated, Sporting News, and Huffington Post all picked up on their comeback reports ...
CARSON CITY, Nevada, May 19. FOR the first time, high school swimmers competed in Divisions 1 and 1A to determine champions in the Nevada High School Swimming and Diving Championships. The two meets were held May 18 at the Carson Aquatic Center in Carson City, Nevada. Previously, the championships were held as a single-division event.
Division 1 With 140 points, Bishop Gorman claim...
TOPEKA, Kansas, May 19. HANNAH Angell, a senior at Blue Valley Southwest, was named Athlete of the Year at the Kansas Girls 5-1A Swimming and Diving Championships May 16-18 in Topeka. Her coach, Arvel McElroy, received Coach of the Year honors.
Angell set the only state record this year with her 55.58 in the 100 back, taking out Emily Dicus' 2008 mark of 55.84. Hannah, who will be swi...
CONCORD, California, May 18. IT took thousands of swims since Patrick Fowler got into the pool on Feb. 20, 1998 to set the national high school record in the 100 yard breast at 53.66. Brendan Hansen came oh-so-close with his swim of 53.67 in 2000. No male high school swimmer had been able to beat those time.
Until today.
Steven Stumph, a senior at Campolindo, cruised to a 53.39 at the C...
CONCORD, California, May 18. SHORTLY after Campolindo's Steven Stumph dropped the fastest boys 100-yard breaststroke record of all time in high school competition, the Carondelet girls became the first prep quartet under 3:21 in the girls 400-yard free relay at the California Interscholastic Federation North Coast Sectional Championships.
CONCORD, California, May 18. IN the fastest high school heat ever in a 100-yard breaststroke event, Campolindo's Steven Stumph took down the national high school record in the event at the California Interscholastic Federation's North Coast Sectional championships.
Stumph, who tied Brendan Hansen's 2000 national public school record of 53.67 during prelims, scorched the fin...
TOPEKA, Kansas, May 18. FOR the fourth straight year, Shawnee Mission East High School claimed the team title at the Kansas 6A Girls Swimming and Diving Championships May 18-18 in Topeka. The Lancers did so in convincing fashion, scoring 404 points to runner-up Lawrence Free State's 295. Two Blue Valley Schools--Northwest (252) and North (183) took third and fourth places, respectively, ...
