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By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Day 4 of Cary Futures saw competition in the women's and men's 100 free, 200 back, 200 IM, and 400 medley relay, as well as the women's 1500 free and the men's 800 free. After three tough days of hard racing and fast swimming, Day 4 saw perhaps the m...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Night three of action at the 2018 Cary Futures Championships saw the women's and men's 200 fly, 50 free, 200 breast, 100 back, and 400 free take place. Another night of phenomenal swimming and massive time drops shone through as countless impressive ...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Action continued today at the 2018 Cary Futures Championships, with the women's and men's 200 free, 100 breast, 100 fly, 400 IM, and 400 free relays. Lots of incredible time drops and gutsy swims lit up the pool in Cary tonight. Women's 200 Free Addi...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. The 2018 Cary Futures Championships kicked off today with the women's 800 free, the men's 1500 free, and the women's and men's 800 free relays. Fast swimming was abound today, with some big time drops highlighting our distance freestyle events. Women...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. The Cary Futures Championship Series is set to take place August 2-5 in Cary, NC. The meet features many up-and-coming talented swimmers from states ranging as far south as Florida to as far north as Michigan. The meet's psych sheet shows that a lot ...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. This summer's U.S. National Championships are less than a week away, and the swimming world is gearing up to see the country's best take to the pool in Irvine, Calif. to fight for spots for this summer's Pan Pacific Championships team. The meet is se...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Last week at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy, we saw Andrii Govorov break the world record in the men's 50-meter butterfly. He clocked a new record of 22.27 to smash the old record of 22.43. The significance of the old record was that it was he...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. As the summer begins to heat up and taper season edges closer and closer, many American swimmers will be setting their sights on the 2018 Summer National Championships, which will serve as the qualifying meet for the Pan Pacific Championships later i...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Last weekend at the Mel Zajac Invitational in Vancouver, 15-year-old phenom Isabelle Stadden swam an incredible 2:08.37 in the women's 200 back, placing first overall and vaulting to eighth in the world for the 2018 long course season. Stadden, who s...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. In her first meet as a professional swimmer, Katie Ledecky stunned the world with remarkable swims and silenced a lot of her recent critics at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianpolis. She put up a new world record in the 1500 freestyle and strong worl...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Every year at the NCAA DI Championships, we get to see some otherworldly swimming by all the best collegiate swimmers across the United States. This past season was no different, as swimmers like Katie Ledecky, Ella Eastin and Caeleb Dressel stole th...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Two weeks ago, I took a look at the incoming class of college freshmen men's times swum for their club or high school teams this season, and compared them to what it took to place 16th or better at the 2017 DI NCAA Championships. With the women's NCA...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Every season, the NCAA Championships meet is among the most competitive and exciting in the country. Even qualifying for this exclusive meet takes a massive amount of motivation, talent, and training. It's even tougher to make it into the top sixteen...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. At the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, North Carolina tod...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Out at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary tonight, a ragi...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. On Thursday in Cary, North Carolina, the NC 3A public high schools met up to compete against each other in t...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. North Carolina high school state championship meets are se...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. February 8th marks the beginning of a weekend of high scho...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. The winter high school swimming and diving season is beginning to wind down, but not before many athletes across the country take the blocks to take aim at some insanely fast USA high school swimming national records. The USA high school swimming rec...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. As the NCAA season begins to wind down and anticipation begins to build for the multitude of conference championships, all culminating with the NCAA Championships themselves, all eyes turn to the pool to watch swimmers achieve some amazing feats in t...