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Daniel Diehl, Anna Moesch Highlight Field at YMCA Nationals Next Week (Psych Sheet) A pair of gold medalists from last summer's Junior Pan Pacific Championships are among the swimmers entered in the YMCA Nationals in Greensboro, N.C., running from April 3 through April 7. Daniel Diehl, the gold meda...

Santa Margarita Breaks National High School Record in Girls' 200 Freestyle Relay at Midseason Meet Most states have already completed their high school swimming seasons, but California races in the spring, so that means defending national girls' team champion Santa Margarita could be posting some qu...

Summer McIntosh Excels Beyond All Expectations On Way to World Record As Ariarne Titmus and Katie Ledecky dueled for gold in what became one of the most memorable Olympic finals ever, a 14-year-old sat in bronze-medal position for the majority of the race. In the end, Summer McIntosh fell behind Chi...

FLASH! Summer McIntosh Takes Down 400 Freestyle World Record With 3:56.06 For the the first time in her career, Summer McIntosh is a world-record holder. On the first night of the Canadian Swimming Trials in Toronto, the 16-year-old lowered the long course global standard in the women's 400 freestyl...

NCAA Championships Top Performances: Marchand, Douglass Highlight Dazzling Two Weeks of Swimming One week, it was the University of Virginia women putting on a dominant performance for the third consecutive year, riding a three-individual-record performance from Kate Douglass and a sweep of the five...

Drew Kibler, Alex Shackell, Aaron Shackell, Daniel Diehl Swim World-Class Times at Indianapolis Sectionals Many top high school swimmers plus one professional converged at the IUPUI Natatorium this weekend for a USA Swimming Sectionals meet held in long course (unlike most spring meets conducted in ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Cal Leads But Five Teams Within 40 Points Entering Day Three With seven out of 21 finals complete at the NCAA Men's Championships in Minneapolis, this meet has the makings of an all-time classic, perhaps akin to the 2018 championships — the last edition of this meet held at...

Zhang Yufei Hits 56.58 100 Butterfly on Day Four of Chinese Spring Champs The most recent Chinese swimmer to capture an Olympic gold medal was in action on the fourth day of the Chinese Spring Championships. Zhang Yufei, who dominated the 200 fly butterfly at the 2021 Olympics after winning silver i...

An A+ Student Of the Sport: Destin Lasco Leading Cal In Pursuit Of Another NCAA Title The best swimmers recognize the value of process above simply results. For Cal’s Destin Lasco, the combination of training plus other steps to ensure success in swimming and in life beyond the sport makes the exper...

Li Bingjie Swims 4:02 400 Freestyle at Chinese Spring Championships As the Chinese Spring Championships continued, Li Bingjie put together a strong performance in the 400 freestyle that sets her up for a strong summer coming up. Li, the 21-year-old Olympic bronze medalist in the 400 free and since N...

Duke Swimmers Excel at NCAA Championships While Honoring Their Late Coach, Dan Colella The results suggest this has been perhaps the most successful season in Duke swimming history. The women’s team placed fifth at the ACC Championships, best in program history, for the second consecutive season and...

Virginia Dominates NCAA Women's Championships, Wins Third Consecutive Team Title in 'Mind-Blowing' Fashion When the University of Virginia won the school's first-ever national title in women's swimming two years ago, it was a moment of validation. The Cavaliers had been on the verge of breaking thro...

NCAA Women's Championships: Kate Douglass 'A Little Speechless' After Another American, NCAA Record This Week in 200 Breast For the second consecutive season, Virginia's Kate Douglass has won all three of individual events at the NCAA Women's Championships, all of them in American-record time and fi...

NCAA Championships: Claire Curzan Secures First NCAA Title in 200 Backstroke; Bacon Edges Stadden for Second During her last two years of high school, Claire Curzan propelled herself from National-Age-Group-record breaker to Olympian, achieving the top stage in the sport with a second-place finish i...

NCAA Women's Championships: Kensey McMahon Uses Late Spurt to Claim Title in 1650 Free; Second Win This Week Over 66 lengths of the pool in the fastest heat of the 1650 freestyle, three different swimmers held the lead for long stretches. At the beginning, Texas' Erica Sullivan went into attack mode...

NCAA Women's Championships: Virginia to Pull Away on Final Night; Texas Looks Good for Second (Heat Sheets) NCAA team titles are often decided during the final prelims session, and even with the University of Virginia's point total already well clear of any rivals, the Cavaliers should only extend t...

NCAA Women's Championships: Kate Douglass Ties Fourth-Fastest Time Ever in 200 Breaststroke Prelims In two previous individual events at the NCAA Women's Championships, Kate Douglass has recorded the fastest time in history to defeat loaded fields. After beating the previous American and NCAA record...

NCAA Women's Championships: Claire Curzan Breaks 1:50 to Lead 200 Back Prelims; Rhyan White Misses A-Final Stanford's Claire Curzan has flown somewhat under the radar at her first NCAA Championships, mostly thanks to record-smashing performances in her first two individual events. Curzan placed four...

NCAA Women's Championships: Titles to Be Decided on Final Day (Heat Sheets) The NCAA Women's Championships will conclude Sunday, and the final day of preliminary action from Knoxville, Tenn., will begin at 10 a.m. ET with racing in the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke and 200 butterfl...

NCAA Women's Championships: Gretchen Walsh Swims 48.26 to Clobber 100 Backstroke Record One year ago, the idea of a 48-low 100-yard backstroke was unimaginable. Only five years after a 50-flat plateau and a 15-year-old Natalie Coughlin record was finally beaten, the best backstrokers in the country ...