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Bjorn Seeliger Returns His Immense Speed For Cal's National Title Defense By no means is Bjorn Seeliger the most well-known swimmer on the Cal men's swimming roster. That title would likely belong to defending 400 IM national champion and NCAA-record holder Hugo Gonzalez, 200 backstroke national tit...

Regan Smith Envisioning Return to World-Record Form After Outstanding U.S. Open It was the U.S. Open in early December, not exactly the cornerstone competition of an elite swimmer’s season, and Regan Smith was up against none of her main rivals in this 200 backstroke final. But after winning the rac...

Can Summer McIntosh Take Down Katinka Hosszu's 400 IM World Record? Without conducting an exhaustive search, it's pretty clear that no female swimmer had ever covered the first 100 meters of a 400 IM in under 1:00 — not until Summer McIntosh did so in the final of the U.S. Open Friday evening. Even ...

Four Olympians Among Deep Group of 18-and-Under Swimmers Racing at U.S. Junior Nationals The top 18-and-under swimmers in the United States will show off their skills the second weekend of December at a pair of Junior National Championships held in short course yards, with the east edition taking pl...

Minnesota Invitational: Kelly Pash Tops National Rankings in 200 Fly; Three No. 2-Ranked Swims The Texas Longhorns and California Golden Bears put the finishing touches on a weekend of strong midseason efforts at the Minnesota Invitational Saturday evening, and the Cal men and both Texas teams once ...

Minnesota Invitational: Kelly Pash Blasts 1:53 200 Fly; Stadden-Bacon, Whitley-McHugh Showdowns Set The first three days of the Minnesota Invitational have produced plenty of swims stacking up well in the national rankings, and that pattern continued Friday evening with Cal's Destin Lasco recording ...

Lydia Jacoby Lowers Kaitlyn Dobler's 17-18 NAG Record in 100 Breaststroke In the 100 breaststroke Friday evening at the Minnesota Invitational, Texas swimmers Anna Elendt and Lydia Jacoby finished 1-2 in a tight race, with the German swimmer getting the better of the Alaska native by six hundredths,...

Minnesota Invitational: Destin Lasco Swims Sub-45 in 100 Back; Elendt, Jacoby Post 57s in 100 Breast The reigning national-champion Cal men continued to post impressive results at the Minnesota Invitational, and during Friday night's finals session, junior Destin Lasco swam the fastest time in the c...

Summer McIntosh Becomes Third Woman Ever Under 4:29 in 400 IM at U.S. Open, Sets World Junior Record Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh has already become one of the best middle-distance freestylers in the world and the world champion in the 200-meter butterfly, but the event that is truly her domain...

Minnesota Invitational: Erica Sullivan, Kelly Pash Lead Texas Women to Strong Night; Bjorn Seeliger, Destin Lasco Pace Cal Men The first night of individual finals and second night overall of the Minnesota Invitational saw swimmers five swimmers post the second-fastest times in the country in their ...

Chase Kalisz, Regan Smith Post Impressive 200 IM Wins at U.S. Open The highlight of Thursday night's finals at the U.S. Open in Greensboro, N.C., was Katie Ledecky's narrow win over Summer McIntosh in the women's 400 freestyle, but the night also saw a pair of Ledecky's longtime teammate on U.S. nat...

Katie Ledecky Edges Summer McIntosh By Eight Hundredths in Epic 400 Freestyle Duel at U.S. Open As Katie Ledecky raced in her first long course 400 freestyle final since recapturing the world title in the event in June, she was up against the teenager who captured silver at those Budapest World Cham...

Minnesota Invitational: Carson Foster Anchors Texas Men to Nation's Top Time in 800 Free Relay The final major college swimming invitational began Wednesday evening in Minneapolis as elite programs Texas and California joined Wisconsin, Arizona, Harvard, Pitt, UNLV and the hosting Golden Gophers. Th...

Texas, Cal Set for Midseason Clash at Minnesota Invitational; Three Defending NCAA Champions to Swim (Psych Sheet) For the second consecutive season, the two top men's swimming programs in the country will race at midseason as the Texas Longhorns and California Golden Bears are among the teams set t...

What's Left in 2022? Short Course Worlds Highlight December Competition Schedule We're down to the last month of 2022. With the International Swimming League on hiatus this year, it has been a relatively quiet fall after three consecutive months of major international competitions in June, July and ...

Women's World Records: Which Are Safe and Which Are In Jeopardy? While five men's long course world records have been broken in 2022, with Hunter Armstrong, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Thomas Ceccon, Kristof Milak and David Popovici all recording history-making swims between April and August. But on the wom...

Olympic Qualifying Procedures Announced for Paris 2024 Games; Qualifying Period Opens March 1, 2023 FINA has released the full slate of qualifying procedures for aquatic events for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. There will be 852 athletes competing in the 35 pool swimming events in Paris, and the ...

David Popovici Will Chase Another 13-Year-Old World Record Next Month Over the last six months, David Popovici has exceeded expectations at every opportunity. After dominating a pair of individual events at the World Championships, the Romanian teenager broke a world record more than a decade old in...

Kliment Kolesnikov Lowers 50 Backstroke Short Course World Record Russian swimmers are currently banned from international competition, but at the country's short course national-championship meet, one of the most decorated active Russian swimmers took down a world record. Kliment Kolesnikov, a 22-y...

College Swimming Record Chase: What Barriers Could Be Broken in 2023? After pulling away from Torri Huske and hitting the wall first for her second consecutive NCAA title in the 200-yard IM, Alex Walsh looked genuinely shocked — not necessarily because of her victory but because she had recorded the...