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Los Angeles 2028 Torch Relay to Touch All 50 U.S. States The Olympic torch relay for the 2028 Los Angeles will visit all 50 states in the United States, it was announced on Tuesday. The journey will begin in Atlanta, which hosted the most recent American Summer Olympics in 1996. The Olympic flame wi...

Siena Hires Morgan Soulia as Head Coach Siena University on Monday named Morgan Soulia as the head coach of the women’s swimming and diving team and aquatics coordinator. Soulia arrives after serving as the head coach of Division III Chatham University. She replaces Maggie Davenport, who left to bec...

Passages: Frank Busch, Former Arizona and USA Swimming Coach, 75 Frank Busch, who coached the University of Arizona to NCAA titles and served as the National Team Director for USA swimming at a pair of Olympics, died on Sunday. He was 75 years old. Busch collapsed from a heart attack at the Phoenix ...

PJ Foy Returns as North Carolina Sweeps Queens PJ Foy returned after missing last season due to injury with a win in the 50 freestyle as North Carolina swept Queens University on Friday. The men’s team claimed a 149-108 win, while the women prevailed, 156-101. Meet Results ACC Swimming News Foy went...

LA 2028 Olympic Triathlon Venue Includes Rare Beach Start The Olympic triathlon course for the 2028 Los Angeles Games was released this week by the LA28 Committee, with a start on Venice Beach. The course will include a singular transition zone that is adjacent to the finish line. It also will featu...

Coimbra, Istanbul, Athens Named 2027 Water Polo World Cup Hosts World Aquatics this week announced Istanbul, Athens and Coimbra, Portugal, as hosts for the 2027 Water Polo World Cup. All three locations will host matches that contribute to the first qualification spot for the 2028 Olympics in Los An...

Canada Names World Short-Course Team with Josh Liendo, Without Summer McIntosh Canada on Friday announced its team for the 2026 World Short-Course Championships, a group that includes the return of Josh Liendo but does not include Summer McIntosh. Liendo and Kylie Masse both return to the team after...

Hunter Armstrong Retires for ‘New Chapter’ of Racing American Olympian Hunter Armstrong on Thursday announced he is saying goodbye to professional swimming for, “a new chapter” in which he will continue racing. Armstrong competed in the first Enhanced Games, but with the have-your-cake-and-eat-it-to...

Zhang Zhanshou Asian Record Resets Field of 200 Free Favorites At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, just 0.15 seconds separated the top four finishers in the men’s 200 freestyle. If anything, the picture has only grown murkier in two years since, thanks to an abundance of options. Zhang Zhanshou’s Asian r...

At Swim Clinic in Japan, Leon Marchand Hails ‘Awesome’ Yumeki Koijma, Tomoyuki Matsushita Japan’s top medley swimmers are hard at work this week, and Leon Marchand has been paying attention. The French reigning Olympic double medley champion hailed the “amazing progression” of Yumeki Kojima and Tomo...

Reigning Champs Virginia, Texas Start Season No. 1 in CSCAA Polls The Virginia women’s team and Texas’s men start the 2026-27 season as the No. 1 teams in the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America polls, released on Friday. Virginia is fresh off its sixth straight NCAA title, a ...

Report: Fired CFO Cory Hilliard Admitted to Embezzlement Before USA Swimming Hiring Former USA Swimming chief financial officer Cory Hilliard admitted before he was hired by USA Swimming to misusing funds at the University of Colorado, per a report by USA Today Sports. In an internal university audi...

Retired Olympic Gold Medalist Tatjana Smith Returns for Short-Course Champs Retired South African Olympic gold medalist Tatjana Smith is returning to the water for this month’s South African Short-Course Championships. Smith, who also competed under her maiden name Tatjana Schoenmaker early in her c...

Cal Adds Brody Lewis, Keanan Dols to Coaching Staff The University of California on Friday named Brody Lewis and Keanan Dols as assistant coaches. Lewis spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Utah. He mentored one NCAA All-American and three Pac-12 podium finishers with the Utes. Lewis was prev...

Slovenian Olympian Katja Fain Reveals Leukemia Diagnosis Slovenian Olympian Katja Fain revealed this week on social media that she is battling chronic myeloid leukemia. Fain posted on social media this week detailing “the hardest race of my life.” An Olympian in Tokyo and Paris, the 25-year-old had ...

Spain Captures First Men’s World Aquatics 4x4 Water Polo Title Didac Garcia was the penalty shootout hero as Spain topped Russia for the gold medal at the first World Aquatics 4x4 Water Polo Championships. Spain beat Russia, 3-2, in the first-to-3 format. Spain prevailed, 1-2, 4-3, 2-3, 5-4 before a...

Ryann Neushul Leads U.S. to Inaugural 4x4 Water Polo Title Led by Ryann Neushul, the United States won the first World Aquatics 4x4 Water Polo Crown in Dubrovnik, Croatia, this week. The U.S. claimed a 3-0 sweep by scores of 4-1 4-3 and 2-0 against Spain in the final. Led by head coach Molly Cahill,...

Olympian Tomoru Honda Gets One Year Suspended Sentence for Driving Incident Japanese Olympic swimmer Tomoru Honda received a suspended sentence of one year in prison on Wednesday for a dangerous driving incident. Honda, 24, will have his sentence suspended for three years. The judgement was handed d...

Former UNC Coach Rich DeSelm Leads North Carolina Swimming Hall of Fame Class Former North Carolina head coach Rich DeSelm is among the five-member Class of 2026 for the North Carolina Swimming Hall of Fame, announced on Tuesday. Joining him in the hall class are Joel Black, Stephanie Peacock, Brook...

Patrick Sammon, Michael Andrew Find GoPro Belonging to NBA Player Jaylen Brown in Ocean When swimmers Patrick Sammon and Michael Andrew retrieved a lost GoPro from the ocean in Hawaii, they hoped that posting the footage to social media might reconnect it with its original owner. They didn’t expect ...