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TYR Pro Swim Series: What We Learned From the First Prelims/Finals Meet of the Year Usually a prelims/finals meet in mid-January would be another ho-hum competition in the leadup to the Olympic Trials. But this past weekend's Pro Swim Series in San Antonio and Richmond was a welcomed sight for swim ...

Ranking the Best Men’s Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 202...

Ranking the Best Women's Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 2...

US National champion Michael Andrew appeared on Inside With Brett Hawke about his 2021 plans and the current status of his Olympic goals. Andrew talked about his surfing tactics, something he took on when he moved out west to Encinitas, California, and how he views it as a good "out of the pool" act...

Masters Hall of Fame swimmer Rich Burns has joined ISHOF's "One in a Thousand campaign," designed to help the hall prosper during the difficult financial times of the COVID-19 pandemic. "I feel like I've always had a connection or affiliation to the Hall of Fame. The first time I ever swam down ther...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. Three-time US Olympian Klete Keller has dominated the news in the last week after he was identified in a video from the US Capitol Insurrection on January 6, 2021, where he was seen inside the US Capitol rotunda. He is facing criminal charges and up to five y...

2021 TYR Pro Swim Series: Emily Escobedo Throws Down 2:23 in Richmond; Fink Runs Down Licon in San Antonio Despite all the attention seemingly on short course meters American record holder Lilly King and national team member Madisyn Cox in San Antonio, UMBC grad Emily Escobedo threw down a 2:23.46 i...

The 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series continued Saturday from Richmond and San Antonio with the heats of the 400 free, 100 back, 200 breast, 50 free and 200 fly. The women's races were highlighted by some good January swims from Emily Escobedo, Catie DeLoof, Olivia Smoliga and Emma Weyant. Results 200 Fly Re...

Eleven Michigan State women's swimmers have filed a lawsuit against the University for the elimination of the swimming and diving program in October. Full court document Michigan State swimmers Sophia Balow, Ava Boutrous, Julia Coffman, Kylie Goit, Emma Inch, Sheridan Phalen, Madeline Reilly, Olivia...

The 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series continued Friday morning from San Antonio and Richmond as many of the United States' best were opening up the Olympic year in their first long course action since late November. This morning's session was a short one with the 200 free, 100 fly, 100 breast and 400 IM on t...

The Tennessee Women's swimming and diving team knocked off unbeaten No. 10 Kentucky Thursday at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center, defeating the Wildcats 178.5 – 121.5. Despite winning five of the first eight events, Kentucky trailed Tennessee after the first diving break thanks in part to the Lady Vol...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, January 14, 2021, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: How often do your parents quiz you about practice? Parents are the foil to what makes age group swimming so enjoyable. If parents are supporting the...

Five Men's Storylines to Follow at the 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series The first major national level meet of 2021 will begin this weekend in San Antonio and Richmond as USA Swimming will hold the TYR Pro Swim Series in two locations to adhere to social distancing during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With...

Bill Wadley is no longer the executive director of the American Swimming Coaches Association, sources have confirmed to Swimming World. The ASCA had a vote of 'no confidence' in Wadley from which he resigned. "The hard working staff at ASCA is doing a phenomenal job," ASCA Board Chair Mike Koleber t...

Five Women's Storylines to Follow at the TYR Pro Swim Series The first major national level meet of 2021 will begin this weekend in San Antonio and Richmond as USA Swimming will hold the TYR Pro Swim Series in two locations to adhere to social distancing during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With 15...

Bluffton University will add swimming and diving as an intercollegiate sport for the 2021-22 academic year. The Beavers are an NCAA DIII school in Bluffton, Ohio, and compete as part of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC). With Bluffton's addition of men's and women's swimming and di...

USA Swimming has added 14 new swimmers to the National Junior Team with three new girls and eleven new boys added to the official roster. All members of the 2019-2020 National Junior Team retain their spots for the upcoming year’s team, while new athletes must be registered USA Swimming members who ...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. East Carolina University, one of the first schools to eliminate swimming and diving this COVID offseason, announced it would be bringing back women's swimming and diving effective immediately. In other college swimming news, the Southeastern Conference & Big ...

USA Swimming has released its motivational time standards for 2021 - 24, designed to encourage age group swimmers to reach certain time standards as they age up to track and improvements and set goals along the way. The standards are laid out for the next Olympic quad, concluding in 2024 at the Game...

The pre-scratch psych sheets for the 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series in Richmond and although the meet is not as stacked as the San Antonio site, it is still littered with a number of swimmers that have competed in the Olympic Games. The biggest name is current 200 IM world record holder Ryan Lochte as wel...