MORAGA, Calif, July 26. IT was a night of firsts for the Hungarian national water polo team in FINA World League play in Moraga, California, tonight. It was the first

By Duncan Scott PHOENIX, July 26. ONCE again, the highlight of today's session at the Four Corners Sectional Championships featured Dana Kirk. The reigning Summer USA Swimming National Champion in

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 26. CHUCK Wielgus, Executive Director of USA Swimming, has proposed the creation of a U.S. National Swim Center, located in a warm, safe environment, that would serve

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 26. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of America named Florida State’s Christy Cech and Justin Betts Academic All-Americans for 2002. Cech and Betts join 223 other Division

POTSDAM, Germany, July 26. RUSSIA'S Yuri Kudinov, the defending world champion, won the men's 25K open water swim at the European Championships today. Like Holland's Edith Van Dyke, who won

CANBERRA, July 26. TO absolutely no one's surprise, controversial swimming coach Gennadi Touretski was fired today by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC). The sacking comes seven weeks after an "air

By Duncan Scott PHOENIX, July 25. THERE were only four individual races and two relays today, the third day of competition at the Four Corners Long Course Sectional Championships being

PORTLAND, Oregon, JUly 25. NIKE Swim is one of the sponsors of the NCSA Junior Nationals Swimming Championships, to be held August 5-9 in Boca Raton, FL. The NCSA Junior

BRISBANE, July 25. AUSTRALIAN Olympic swimming coach Scott Volkers must stand trial on seven counts of indecent behaviur towards girls under the age of 16, a court ruled today. Volkers,