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With World Record, Shin Ohashi Enhances Japan's Rich Tradition in 200 Breaststroke Let's be honest. We knew it was coming. Exactly when? Well, the timeframe is never easy to determine. But when 17-year-old Shin Ohashi ripped a world record of 2:04.83 in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Asian Games,...

College Swimming League Heads to Stanford for Match Three; Cal Makes Debut After an opening weekend in which Indiana and Virginia captured victories, the College Swimming League will host its third match on Friday. The competition will feature Cal, Stanford and Auburn making their CSL debuts, while ...

A New Deal for College Sports? How the Protect College Sports Act Would Work By Alexander L. Ballard The Protect College Sports Act would change college athletics by altering compensation, transfer, and eligibility  rules, establishing protections for non-revenue sports, limiting antitrust liability...

Psych Sheets Released for Opening Stop of World Cup Circuit The first stop of this year's World Aquartics World Cup, known as the Silk Road Tour, will take place from Thursday through Saturday in Baku, Azerbaijan. The series will feature a strong field of international athletes, many of whom will ra...

Cutino Award Watch List Released: 20 College Athletes to Follow for Top Water Polo Award USA Water Polo and The Olympic Club are thrilled to collaborate with the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) on the Cutino Award Watch List. The Peter J. Cutino Award, named in honor of the late...

His Baseball Career Behind, Japan's Shoon Mitsunaga Hitting Home Runs in the Pool There was a time when Shoon Mitsunaga envisioned a professional career in a different sport. In high school, he excelled as a two-way athlete, hitting cleanup on the baseball diamond while also flourishing in the pool....

Dune Coetzee Adds Another Title as South African Short Course Champs Come to a Close The South African Short Course Championships wrapped up in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, with several swimmers adding their names to the mix for selection for the World Short Course Championships by achieving B qualif...

Kate Douglass, Van Mathias Lead Winners at Golden Goggle Awards USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming in the United States, and the USA Swimming Foundation, the philanthropic arm of USA Swimming, celebrated the 23rd annual Golden Goggle Awards ceremony. The event, which...

Armand Landmann Nails Down World Champs Berth in 50 Freestyle at South African Titles Armand Landmann proved the star of the third day of the South African Short Course Championships in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday. Having missed the qualifying time for the World Short Course Championships in Friday...

Tom Dolan, Gunnar Bentz, Tom Ugast Elected to USA Swimming Board of Directors USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming in the United States, has announced the election of Gunnar Bentz, Tom Dolan, and Tom Ugast to its Board of Directors. The organization’s House of Delegate...

Marrit Steenbergen, Egor Kornev Among Headliners Expected for World Cup Circuit Less than a week remains before the start of the three-leg World Aquatics World Cup, which will be held along the Silk Road. Action kicks off in Azerbaijan from Oct. 1-3 and will then unfold in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Oct....

On Comeback Trail, Tatjana Smith Threatens Own South African Record in 100 Breaststroke Both Tatjana Smith and Michael Houlie achieved their second World Championships qualifying times on day two of the South African Short Course Championships in Pietermaritzburg on Friday. Smith added the 100m brea...

Asian Games, Day Six Finals: Zhang Yufei Claims Two Gold; Zhang Zhanshuo Caps Stellar Meet with 400 Freestyle Title For five days, the Asian Games have offered top-flight performances. Of course, a world record from Shin Ohashi in the 200-meter breaststroke has been the highlight, but that effort ha...

Allison Schmitt, Jack Bauerle Lead Class of 2027 Inductees Into International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) is thrilled to announce that it will host its 62nd Annual Honoree Induction Ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA on Saturday, April 10, 2027.  We a...

FLASH! Shin Ohashi Destroys World Record in 200 Breaststroke; Takes Event Below 2:05 For the past two years, Japan's Shin Ohashi has teased the sport with his burgeoning talent, setting world junior records in the 100-meter breaststroke and 200 breaststroke. On Thursday night, the 17-year-old delive...

Asian Games, Day Five Finals: Shin Ohashi Rips WR in 200 Breaststroke; China Pops Asian Record in 400 Freestyle Relay Can Siobhan Haughey capture her third freestyle title of the meet? Will rising star Shin Ohashi threaten his world junior record in the 200-meter breaststroke? What will Zhang Zhansh...

Taylor Ruck Leading Seven Canadians into World Cup Competition Seven Canadian swimmers will represent Canada on a three-stop World Cup tour through Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan this fall. A Canadian team of three women and four men will begin its international tour in Baku, Azerbaijan, befo...

Asian Games, Day Four Finals: Zhang Zhanshuo Rips Asian Record in 200 Freestyle; 13-Year-Old Yu Zidi Makes History What will Chinese 13-year-old Yu Zidi produced in the final of the 400-meter individual medley on the fourth night of finals at the Asian Games? That question follows the rising star's ...

Asian Games, Day Three Finals: World Junior Record from Yumeki Kojima in 400 IM; Peng Xuwei Sets Asian Mark in 200 Backstroke The Asian Games reached their midway point on Tuesday at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, with six events highlighting the Night Three schedule. Through two days, China has been th...

You’ve Probably Seen FINIS SlipFin Pro: Here’s What Makes It Different! By now, there’s a good chance you’ve seen or heard of the FINIS SlipFin Pro. The strapless training fin has been making its way onto pool decks, social media, and into the hands of swimmers and coaches over the past year. But wh...