2006 Swimming World Magazine Covers in Review

PHOENIX, Arizona, December 30. OVER the past year, Swimming World Magazine covered some top-flight and exciting action throughout the swimming community. One of the greatest honors the magazine can bestow, outside of its World Swimmer of the Year awards, is a spot on one of 12 covers each year.

To the right, we have created a slideshow for each cover of 2006, as detailed below:

January
Ian Crocker's 50.40 in the 100 meter fly won the FINA Point Scoring title in 2005.
Photo by Peter H. Bick

February
Named for USC swimmer Mike Nyeholt, who broke his neck in 1981, "Swim with Mike" is an annual swimathon that raises scholarship money for student-athletes who — like Nyeholt — have sustained a catastrophic injury.

Photo by Tony Duffy

March
Peter Vanderkaay earned the cover in March with the NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships on the horizon.

Photo by Amir Gamzu

April
Japan's Shoko Yonezawa was our choice for Masters Swimmer of the Year in 2005. The 71-year-old broke 11 Masters world records in '05.

Photo by Swimming Magazine Japan

May
In our May issue, we profiled the NCAA Division I Championship double-dip accomplished by Auburn University after it claimed both the men's and women's titles.

Photo by Todd J. Van Ernst

June
Ryan Lochte closed his college career with three American and four NCAA records. He then earned six medals while setting three world and four American records at the World Short Course Championships in March.

Photo by Nir Elias, Reuters

July
Libby Lenton won three events to go along with two golds and a silver in relays at the World Short Course Championships.

Photo by Jeff Crowe, Sport – The Library

August
Kate Ziegler set two national high school records on her way to being named Swimming World Magazine's Female High School Swimmer of the Year.

Photo by Christinne Muschi, Reuters

September
For the third time in four years, Ann Arbor (Mich.) Pioneer won Swimming World Magazine's Girls' National High School Championship. The team won in 2003 and tied last year with Germantown Academy of Pennsylvania.

Photo by Pioneer High School

October
Brendan Hansen distanced himself from the competition in the breaststroke with three world records in less than a month in August.

Photo by Andy Clark, Reuters

November
14-year-old Chloe Sutton took the open water swimming community by storm when she won the 10K at nationals on a whim.

Photo by Gary Hromada

December
Michael Phelps had an incredible year in 2006 to recapture Swimming World Magazine's Male Swimmer of the Year honor for the third time after winning in 2003 and 2004.

Photo by Jason Reed, Reuters

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