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Pan Pacific Championships, Day 1 Men's Prelims: Three Trade Meet Marks in 50 Fly The morning session at the Pan Pacific Championships was going to have guaranteed racing in at least one dimension. With only two finalists for each county allowed in locked finals and up to five participants per countr...

Sight of SoFi Gives Summer McIntosh Chills as She Preps Program for Pan Pacs Summer McIntosh’s training has long been geared to be in Los Angeles in 2028. She’s in Southern California this week for a dry run. The four-day Pan Pacific Championships will present different challenges and opportunities ...

Hawaii Hires NCAA Champ QiongJie Drew as Head Diving Coach The University of Hawaii this week announced the hiring of QiongJie Drew as the program’s head diving coach. Drew, who competed under her maiden name QiongJie Huang, was an eight-time All-American who won 1-meter springboard at the NCAA Cham...

Pan Pacific Championships: Moesha Johnson Swims Away with Open Water Crown Australia’s Moesha Johnson went to the front early in Monday’s 10-kilometer swim at the Pan Pacific Championships. She made a mockery of it late. The Olympic silver medalist was in control most of the way, then made a move wi...

Pan Pacific Championships: Florian Wellbrock Adds Another Title in Men's Open Water Different continent, different field, same result for Florian Wellbrock. The impervious German made his flight to Los Angeles worthwhile, adding a gold medal in the Pan Pacific Championships in the men’s 10-kilometer...

Lafayette Coach Jim Dailey to Retire after 32 Seasons Lafayette College head swimming and diving coach Jim Dailey announced on Friday that he will retire before the 2026-27 season, ending 32 seasons at the helm of the program. Mike Rinde will take over as interim head coach. He has been an assistant...

Japan’s Tomoru Honda Out of Pan Pacs, Asian Games after Driving Charge Japan’s Tomoru Honda will not participate in the Pan Pacific Championships and Asian Games after a charge of reckless driving. The Japanese aquatic federation announced the news on Friday. It said that Honda, the silver medalist ...

Olympic Medalist Gabriele Detti Announces Retirement Italian Olympic medalist Gabriele Detti announced his retirement from the sport on Wednesday, a decade after he won a pair of medals at the Rio Olympics. Detti, 31, won bronze in the 400 free and 1,500 free at the Rio Olympics in 2016. He was at t...

Olympian Jordan Wilimovsky Inducted to Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame Olympic swimmer Jordan Wilimovsky was announced last week as a member of the 2026 Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame Class. The class will be inducted on Oct. 23, with an on-field recognition during the Oct. 24 football game...

Texas Inducts Amy Shaw, Garrett Weber-Gale to Hall of Honor Swimmers Garrett Weber-Gale and Amy Shaw were announced this week in the Hall of Honor 2026 Class by the University of Texas. Members of the Hall will get a special salute during the Longhorn’s Sept. 19 football game against UTSA. Weber-Gal...

U.S. Nationals, Day 2 Men's Prelims: Ilya Kharun Sets Meet Record in 50 Fly Ilya Kharun seems to be enjoying being back among the American swimmers. He celebrated Wednesday with a meet record in the 50 butterfly. Kharun went 22.77 to lower Caeleb Dressel’s meet record from 2022 and take the top spot...

Commonwealth Games, Day Five Finals: Jersey Boy Filip Nowacki Wins 200 Breast Filip Nowacki made history for Jersey at the Commonwealth Games, winning the men’s 200 breaststroke Tuesday night. The teenager bested the field at the Tollcross International Aquatic Centre in Glasgow with a time of 2:07....

Evan Wilkerson Sets Four American Records at Jimi Flowers Classic Evan Wilkerson set four American records at the Jimi Flowers Classic, one of the final tuneups for American paraswimmers before the Para Pan Pacific Championships this summer. Wilkerson, 19, led the way in the two-day long-course meet...

Commonwealth Games, Day Five Finals: Lewis Clareburt Repeats as 400 IM Champ Four years has found Lewis Clareburt in the same spot relative to his Commonwealth peers: Atop the podium, and just .02 off of history. The New Zealand swimmer repeated as the champion of the men’s 400 individual medley at ...

Princeton Hires Lara Mitchell as Assistant Coach Princeton University on Monday hired Lara Mitchell as an assistant coach to its women’s swimming and diving program. Mitchell joins the staff of head coach Abby Brethauer after two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Ithaca College from 2024-26. ...

Caeleb Dressel Shows Positives Signs with 47.98 in 100 Free at Nationals What to expect from Caeleb Dressel this summer is a question looming over American men’s swimming two years out from the next Olympics. The longtime sprint cornerstone is a nine-time Olympic gold medalist, 15-time World Champio...

U.S. Nationals, Men’s Prelims: Showdown Set in 200 Fly The first men’s event of the 2026 Toyota U.S. National Championships in Irvine, Calif., left plenty in reserve. But the way that the swimmers queuing up sets the stage for a tense final. Just 0.79 seconds separated the eight A finalists on Tuesd...

Commonwealth Games, Day Three Finals: Pieter Coetze Takes Games Record in 200 Back Pieter Coetze has cemented himself as one of the world’s top male backstrokers of this Olympic cycle. He added another accolade to the cabinet on Sunday. The South African went 1:54.22 to win the final of the men’s 20...

Commonwealth Games, Day Three Finals: Josh Liendo Edges Matthew Temple by .01 for 100 Fly Gold Given the gauntlet that was thrown down in a record-setting semifinals, the men’s 100 fly final at the Commonwealth Games promised something special. Josh Liendo and Matthew Temple obliged. The Canadian Li...

Tom Fannon, Ellen Walshe Lower Irish Records Tom Fannon and Ellen Walshe have lowered Irish records at the Irish Summer National Youth and Senior Championships. Fannon started it on the second day of the five-day meet on Wednesday. He went 21.58 in the men’s 50 freestyle, lowering his national mark ...