Read more0Emma McKeon and the Story Behind Australia's Most Underrated Star13 February 2021Emma McKeon and the Story Behind Australia's Most Underrated Star (From February's Swimming World Magazine) After not qualifying for Australia’s Olympic team in 2012, Emma McKeon was ready to quit, but over the next several months, she had a change of heart and understood what was necessary to compe...
Read more0Lia Neal Working for Change, Diversity and Inclusion in Swimming11 February 2021Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley Working for Change in Swimming (From Swimming World Magazine) In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, elite swimmers Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley created Swimmers for Change to promote diversity and to make swimming a more inclusive sport and a more inclusive community...
Read more1Michael Andrew Confident on Road to Monumental Olympic Trials Test15 January 2021Michael Andrew Confident on Road to Monumental Olympic Trials Test (From January's Swimming World Magazine) Michael Andrew has been the target of criticism the last seven-and-a-half years for his decision to turn pro at 14, his unique training style (USRPT), his training plan and more. But he’s also...
Read more0Gregorio Paltrinieri Has Olympic History Within Reach01 December 2020Gregorio Paltrinieri Has Olympic History Within Reach (From November's Swimming World Magazine) Despite the global pandemic, the Olympic postponement and a coaching change, Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri put together some of the best swimming of his career last summer in the 800 and 1500 meter freesty...
Read more0Are There Too Many Events in Olympic Swimming?22 September 2020Of the three new Olympic swimming events added to the program in 2017, none will draw more attention at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics than the women’s 1500 free, largely because of the woman who won the race at three straight World Championships, including by almost 15 seconds in 2015 and then more than 1...
Read more0The Golden Years of High School Swimming: Santa Clara and Mission Viejo (Full Story)18 September 2020The Golden Years of High School Swimming: Santa Clara and Mission Viejo (from September's Swimming World Magazine) Public schools Santa Clara and Mission Viejo built high school swimming dynasties from the 1960s through the early 1980s. Not only did they dominate high school swimming, but unlike tod...
Read more0Record-Breakers: The Stars of the Abbreviated High School Swimming Season19 August 2020The 2020 High School Swimming Record-Breakers (from August's Swimming World Magazine) Despite an abbreviated season that ended in March instead of May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nine high school swimmers from eight different states combined for 11 public or independent school records and eight ov...
Read more0Great Scot(t): Duncan Scott Standing and Soaring in the Pool21 July 2020Duncan Scott (from July's Swimming World Magazine) Scotland’s Duncan Scott should be an Olympic medal threat next year in the 100 and 200 free and maybe even the 200 IM, and he will be a key cog for British 800 free and 400 medley relays with gold medal aspirations. ********** In a period of unprece...
Read more9Alex and Gretchen Walsh Chasing the Ultimate Dream... Together13 June 2020Alex and Gretchen Walsh (From June's Swimming World Magazine) Alex and Gretchen Walsh have worked their way up the pecking order of American swimming, and in 2021, the talented sisters from the Nashville Aquatic Club and two-time national champion Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tenn., will get th...
Read more0Dave Durden Impacting Swimming and Lives Through Coaching21 May 2020Dave Durden (From May's Swimming World Magazine) Dave Durden, University of California and U.S. national team coach, simply refers to himself as a swim coach. But he’s also a leader, an expert at maximizing performance, removing doubt, instilling confidence and navigating young men through demanding...
Read more0Louise Hansson Got Best of Both Worlds From College Swimming19 March 2020Swedish swimmer Louise Hansson never envisioned herself swimming in college in the United States. But as she prepares for this month’s women’s NCAAs, the University of Southern California senior says that moving to the U.S. was the best thing she’s ever done. At her first Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,...
Read more1Simone Manuel Collecting Medals and Making a Difference14 February 2020Simone Manuel (From November's Swimming World Magazine) Through a constant drive for bettering herself, Simone Manuel has crafted a career for which she may eventually be remembered as the greatest American sprinter ever. But she has forever changed the sport, her impact reaching far beyond any meda...
Read more4Ryan Murphy Ready and Refocused for 2020 Olympic Campaign12 February 2020Ryan Murphy The January issue of Swimming World Magazine included a feature on Ryan Murphy, the triple Olympic champion from the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. The profile takes a look at Murphy's preparation for the 2020 Olympic season. The January issue can be purchased here as a PDF while subscrip...
Read more0Navigating the U.S. Olympic Trials Gauntlet in Men's 100 Freestyle Will Be No Easy Task04 November 2019Navigating the U.S. Olympic Trials Gauntlet in Men's 100 Freestyle Will Be No Easy Task (October Issue - Swimming World Magazine) For most of the 21st century, the American men have struggled to maintain hold of the 400-meter freestyle relay. Almost every time they did finish atop the podium at a ma...
Read more3Rieder’s Richter Scale: Duncan Scott and Regan Smith Provide Jaw-Dropping Gwangju Sendoff28 July 2019Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indicates just a minor tremor, while a “10” means a race brought massive upheaval. Duncan Scott, Regan Smi...
Read more4Florian Wellbrock Out-Swims Romanchuk and Paltrinieri in Extraordinary 1500 Free Battle28 July 2019World Swimming Championships Florian Wellbrock Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Finals Men's 1500 Free For 1400 meters, the top three seeds in an all-European 1500 free final swam neck and neck, rarely separated by more than a couple tenths. That trio included Ukraine's Mykhailo Romanchuk in lane three, Italy...
Read more11Zane Waddell Posts Big Upset for World Title in Men's 50 Back28 July 2019World Swimming Championships Zane Waddell Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Finals Men's 50 Back Russia's Kliment Kolesnikov held the world record in the men's 50 back and posted the top time in the semifinals at 24.35. But Kolesnikov appeared to get off to a poor start and emerged well behind the field, leavi...
Read more0Katinka Hosszu Comfortably Takes Top Seed in Women's 400 IM, Eyes Fourth Straight World Title27 July 2019World Swimming Championships Katinka Hosszu Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Heats Women's 400 IM Hungary's Katinka Hosszu has captured three straight world titles in the 400 IM, and even after a quiet World Championships by her standards, she will be heavily favored to capture a fourth straight gold medal an...
Read more3Regan Smith Secures First World Title in 200 Back, Just Misses Own WR With 2:03.69 (Race Video)27 July 2019World Swimming Championships Regan Smith Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Finals Women's 200 Back After taking down a legendary world record in the semifinals, Regan Smith of the United States won her first international gold medal with an utterly dominant performance. Smith went out well under world record-p...
Read more7Rieder’s Richter Scale: Caeleb Dressel Transcendent in Repeat Threepeat27 July 2019Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indicates just a minor tremor, while a “10” means a race brought massive upheaval. Caeleb Dressel On July ...