Dan D'Addona — Swimming World Managing Editor - (Author)

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) today announced the 240-member 2020 U.S. Paralympic Team, including six guides for visually-impaired athletes, that will compete at the upcoming Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Following the year-long postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Over 550 junior divers from across the country flocked to Indianapolis, Ind. for the 2021 USA Diving Junior National Championships at the IUPUI Natatatorium. The USA Diving Jr. National Championship competition on Wednesday, July 28, ended with two newly crowned National Champions. Divers in the 11 ...

Andrew Capobianco advanced to and competed in the Men’s 3-Meter Finals today at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Capobianco, who had earned a silver medal earlier in the week in the synchronized competition with Michael Hixon, advanced to finals after qualifying 17th in the semifinal round earlier in t...

Olympics: USA Water Polo Tops Canada to Reach Semifinals The U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo Team has never missed the semifinal round at the Olympic Games, that won't change in Tokyo following a 16-5 win over Canada. Maggie Steffens, Makenzie Fischer and Alys Williams all scored three goals in an o...

The NCAA Division I Championships qualifying standards have been released, and while several races are the same as last year, there are a few differences, mostly with the automatic "A" cuts. On the women's side, the "A" cuts  100 and 200 breaststroke events are slightly faster, while the men's 100 a...

Texas A&M Announces Hiring of Caroline Maxvill as Assistant Women's Swimming Coach Texas A&M women's swimming & diving named Caroline Maxvill to the staff as an assistant coach, announced by head coach Steve Bultman Monday. "It's exciting to bring Caroline back to Texas A&M as our assistant coach," ...

Krysta Palmer Wins Bronze on 3-meter, First Female Diving Medal for USA Since 2000 Krysta Palmer earned the Bronze Medal in the 3-Meter Women’s Springboard today at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This marks the first time a U.S. female has medaled in the event since Kelly McCormick took Bronze in Seoul in...

Sarah Sjostrom was so excited with her silver medal in the 50 freestyle on the final night of swimming at the Tokyo Olympic Games that she celebrated as if she had won gold. It has been an extremely tough year for Sjostrom, who had an elbow injury just months before the games. She wasn’t expected to...

The Olympic Games bring many iconic moments captured in photos. Check out a gallery of the last finals session of the Tokyo Olympics. Caeleb Dressel and Emma McKeon won 50 freestyle titles to close their dominant Olympics with gold, while Bobby Finke won another distance gold for the U.S. Australia ...

The Olympic Games bring many iconic moments captured in photos. Check out a gallery of the sixth finals session of the Tokyo Olympics as well as the preceding preliminary session. Caeleb Dressel broke the world record in the 100 butterfly, while Katie Ledecky won again in the 800 free. Meanwhile, Au...

The Olympic Games bring many iconic moments captured in photos. Check out a gallery of the sixth finals session of the Tokyo Olympics as well as the preceding preliminary session. Emma McKeon hung on to win the 100 free, while Evgeny Rylov won the 200 backstroke. But the show was stolen by South Afr...

Olympic Semifinals: Emily Seebohm Takes Top Seed into Loaded 200 Backstroke Final Ahead of Bacon, White, Masse, McKeown Australia’s Kaylee McKeown made a big decision early in Tokyo. She decided to withdraw from the 200 IM and focus on the backstroke events. So far, no one had been able to stop her ...

Canada's Maggie MacNeil, who won Olympic gold in the 100 butterfly earlier this week, has entered the NCAA transfer portal. MacNeil won NCAA championships in the 100 butterfly and 100 freestyle earlier this year for the University of Michigan and is a 12-time All-American for the Wolverines. She was...

The heat sheets have been posted for sixth morning of finals action at the 2021 Olympics. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tokyo time Tuesday morning (9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT Monday in the USA), the two-hour session will include four gold-medal finals. Finals will be in the women's 200 breaststroke, men's ...

The Olympic Games bring many iconic moments captured in photos. Check out a gallery of the fifth finals session of the Tokyo Olympics as well as the preceding preliminary session. China and the USA stunned heavily favored Australia to win the 800 free relay on the women's side, while Caeleb Dressel ...

Michael Andrew looked to shake off his fourth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke with a strong preliminary swim in the 200 IM at the Tokyo Olympic Games to take the top seed. In semifinals, Andrew has the fourth seed after finishing second in the second semifinal heat. A It was a late charge from ...

Olympic Semifinals: Emma McKeon Leads Siobhan Haughey, Cate Campbell into Women's 100 Free Final Emma McKeon has been busy in Tokyo — and fast. McKeon was having a strong meet, already having been part of a winning relay, and earned a bronze medal in the 100 butterfly. But she saved her best for the...

Sarah Bacon, Emily Cook, Cameron Kelley Will Return to Minnesota for NCAA Extra Eligibility Year University of Minnesota Swimming & Diving student-athletes Sarah Bacon, Emily Cook and Cameron Kelley have all announced they will be returning to the Gophers for the 2021-22 season. The trio are all exe...

The Olympic Games bring many iconic moments captured in photos. Check out a gallery of the fourth finals session of the Tokyo Olympics as well as the preceding preliminary session. Katie Ledecky rallied to win the 1500 after Ariarne Titmus won the 200 free, while Kristof Milak broke the Olympic reco...

Siobhan Haughey looked at the board and a huge smile opened up across her face. She isn’t always the most outwardly emotional in the water, but this was a race like none other in her stellar career. This one was historic. Haughey finished second in the 200 freestyle to claim the first medal in Hong ...