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Guest Editorial: Steps Away from Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale Honors Swimming’s Greatest Fraud By Daniel Slosberg If the City of Fort Lauderdale’s International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) ever completes construction of its new home, visitors will be able to learn about the sport’s greatest champ...

Commentary: Masters Swimming Needs to Add Transgender Classification By Jennifer Rines This article is literally me begging for the world to allow trans kids to play sports. I love sports so much. We all do. They’re so great. Wheeling my 84-year-old grandmother into Game One of the 2004 World Series...

Dean Boxall Honored at SWIM Coaches & Teachers Australia Awards Gala (Full List of Winners) Swim School of the year Metro – iSwim @ Immanuel; Swim School of the Year Regional Prouse Swim School Coach of the Year Michael Sage Teacher of the Year Liz Corr Master Coach award to Michael Bohl and Dean Bo...

The Importance of Qualitative Measures in Swim Coaching By Brad Jones In modern swim coaching, it is easy to become enamored with numbers. Stroke counts, power outputs, lactate levels, and spreadsheets can give the impression that performance can be fully captured in data. These tools are valuable, ...

Endurance Swimmer Lewis Pugh on the Mindset Behind Conquering the Impossible By The Champions Speakers Agency Lewis Pugh is a world-renowned endurance swimmer, maritime lawyer, and ocean advocate—emerging as one of the most compelling peak performance speakers today. Often dubbed the "Sir Edmund Hil...

Swimming Lessons Aren't Just for Kids: Adult Swim Lessons are Invaluable for Year-Round Water Safety By Crystal Petrovich - British Swim Schools, U.S. Swim School Association Accidental drownings change the lives of thousands of people across the U.S. each year. While most people think drowning is t...

The Top American Women’s Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part III: No. 10-No. 1) By Jeff Moulton - Guest Editorial In the third and final installment of this three-part series, water polo historian Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked Nos. 1 to 10 in his unofficial list of the to...

Rowdy Gaines: I Stand With Michael Phelps; I'm Fighting Too During the World Championships, Olympic gold medalist and NBC Sports analyst Rowdy Gaines issued criticism of USA Swimming while Olympic legends Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte posted an image depicting a funeral from USA Swimming. These com...

The Top American Women's Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part II: No. 11-No. 20) By Jeff Moulton - Guest Editorial In Part II of this three-part series, water polo historian Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked Nos. 11 to 20 in his unofficial list of the top-25 American women’s w...

Swimsuits Not Lawsuits: U.S. Masters Swimming Wants to Focus on Our Mission and Members By Ed Coates and Dawson Hughes, U.S. Masters Swimming In recent weeks, U.S. Masters Swimming has come under scrutiny from politicians, state officials, and other outside organizations for reasons that have little...

The Best American Women’s Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part I: No. 21 to No. 25) By Jeff Moulton - Guest Editorial The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation recognized women’s water polo as a varsity sport during the 1995-96 school year.  From 1995 through 2000, some college coaches organized an...

One Team Woven From a Single Thread: Including Transgender, Non-Binary and Queer Swimmers By Kerri Nicole McCaffrey - Guest Editorial “Diversity (in USA Swimming) is an issue right now…we need to develop coaching and athlete heroes that are of a diverse nature so that we can attract those athletes m...

The Best American Men’s Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part III: No. 1 to No. 10) By Jeff Moulton In the third and final installment of this three-part series, water polo expert Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked No. 1 to 10 in his unofficial list of the top-25 American men’s ...

Toward Fairness: The Future of Transgender and Non-Binary Swimmers By Kerri Nicole McCaffrey - Guest Editorial “But you have heard me say many times there should be no discrimination. Nobody should be excluded from our competitions.  Our sport must be open to everybody.” World Aquatics President, Hu...

The Best American Men's Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (Part II: No. 20 to No. 11) By Jeff Moulton In Part II of this three-part series, water polo expert Jeff Moulton discusses the individuals he has ranked No. 11 to 20 in his unofficial list of the top-25 American men’s water polo players of t...

The Top-25 American Men's Water Polo Players of the NCAA Era (No. 21-No. 25) By Jeff Moulton Before his untimely death in a bicycle accident in October 2022, Hall of Fame coach Dante Dettamanti and I often discussed American water polo players, coaches, and teams of the past and present. These discu...

Dryland Training: Six Exercises to Maintain Fitness During a Break By J.R. Rosania In this article, I have illustrated six exercises that will help both recovery and spark fun. After a season, it’s sensible to take your training down a level, but continue to do enough to maintain fitness. These exer...

Guest Editorial: USMS - Do Not Marginalize Transgender Swimmers By Kerri N McCaffrey Dear Swimming World Community, I am a transgender Masters swimmer and have competed in various genders and age groups over my lifetime. Currently, I am 61 years old. Starting around 1995, I began taking hormones and...

10 Things You Learn as a Swim Parent By Dr. Donald Lee Aivalotis, II – Guest Editorial newswimmer.com I once told my wife that we would NEVER become a swim family! I was serious. My son was playing basketball, a sport with a clear season. "Those swim families are crazy," I told her. "They don't slee...

Guest Editorial: A Lane for Every Woman By Jennifer Rines (Guest Editorial) I’m a transgender woman writing in response to Angie Griffin’s recent editorial. Like Angie, I swam in the women’s 45-49 100 breaststroke in San Antonio. Like Angie, I believe that every swimmer deserves a lane — and that th...