Wonder how much Tom Shields cares about representing the United States in international competition? Wonder how much dedication he puts into his craft? Wonder how much a poor performance matters?
LIMA, PERU. In a country with virtually no history of water polo success, Augusto Otero is an important and influential outlier for Peru. Stumbling on the sport when he was
The first night of finals from the 2019 FINA Swimming World Cup in Jinan, China had 10 total events. There were two new World Cup records with China’s Liu Xiang breaking the
Q&A with California Baptist University’s Coach Rick Rowland By Michael J. Stott After success at the highest NAIA and NCAA D-II levels, California Baptist University coach Rick Rowland—a man committed
The recent addition of mixed relays to the FINA event program has proved enormously beneficial to USA Swimming, as the States’ lethal quartets show no signs of slowing. In addition
In true form, the U.S. went for another 1-2 sweep in the men’s 200 back, as Daniel Carr and Nicholas Alexander left the rest of the field to go 1:58.13
Alex Walsh manhandled the competition in the women’s 100 back to earn top honors for the States, clocking in at 2:08.30 to come dangerously close to the previous Pan American
Thomas Shields (51.59) contributed to the U.S. dominance of night two with a come-from-behind win in the men’s 100 fly. It didn’t come easily, as Guatemala’s Luis Martinez sought to
Coming off a climactic first night, the 2019 Pan American Games entered its second day of competition with excess momentum. Staged in Lima, Peru, the multi-sport competition is the largest
Brazil flipped the script after a U.S. dominated women’s event, going 1-2 in the men’s 200 free with the help of Fernando Scheffer (1:46.68) and Breno Correia (1:47.47). After a
