Read moreCentral League Swimmers Sweep 11 Events at Pennsylvania 3A Boys Championships17 March 2024Central League Completes Sweep at PIAA 3A Boys Championships The group of swimmers from high schools in the Central League moved about the deck at Bucknell University like they owned the place. At the very least, they had sole dominion over the most important real estate at Kinney Natatorium: The to...
Read moreRoad to Paris: Quest for Third Olympics Leads Egypt’s Ali Khalafalla through Oklahoma17 March 2024Road to Paris: Quest for Third Olympics Leads Egypt’s Ali Khalafalla through Oklahoma The road to the Olympics takes swimmers from all over the world through the American college system. From far and wide, countries big and small, a litany of colleges can contribute to the 800 or so Olympic swimmers...
Read moreNCAA Division II Championships: Nova Southeastern Women Complete Repeat; Tampa Men Prevail17 March 2024NCAA Division II Championships: Nova Southeastern Women Complete Repeat All meet at the NCAA Division II Championships, it had been Nova Southeastern out front. With an emphatic start on the final night Saturday at SPIRE Institute, the Sharks put the finishing touches on a second straight title. Emi...
Read moreNCAA Division II Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Benjamin Sampson Chases Third Title in 100 Back15 March 2024NCAA Division II Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Benjamin Sampson Chases Third Title in 100 Back Benjamin Sampson has been in great form this week at the NCAA Division II Championships. The junior at Colorado Mesa set a national mark in the 400 individual medley Thursday night and won the 200 IM on We...
Read moreMeet Records by Ali Khalafalla, Farida Osman Cap African Games14 March 2024Meet Records by Ali Khalafalla, Farida Osman Cap African Games Meet records in the men’s and women’s 50 freestyle events by Egyptians Farida Osman and Ali Khalafalla on the final day highlighted the African Games in Ghana this week. Osman won her eighth medal and fourth gold in the 50, with a time o...
Read moreLenoir-Rhyne Coach Paul Schiffel Announces Retirement14 March 2024Lenoir-Rhyne Coach Paul Schiffel Announces Retirement Paul Schiffel, the founding coach of Lenior-Rhyne’s men’s and women’s programs, will retire at the end of the year, the school announced Monday. Schiffel was hired to lead the Bears’ women’s team in 2007. In 2010, when the Division II school adde...
Read moreNCAA Division II Championships, Night 2 Finals: Emily Trieschmann Repeats in 1,000 in Record Time; Tight Team Battles13 March 2024NCAA Division II Championships, Night 2 Finals: Emily Trieschmann Repeats in 1,000 in Record Time For the second straight year, Nova Southeastern’s Emily Trieschmann is the NCAA Division II champion in the women’s 1,000 freestyle. For the second straight year, it’s in record time. Treischmann opened...
Read morePassages: Judy McGowan, ISHOF Artistic Swimmer Inductee13 March 2024Passages: Judy McGowan, ISHOF Artistic Swimmer Inductee Judy McGowan, a long-time synchronized and artistic swimming competitor, coach and official, died on March 10. McGowan was a massive figure in American synchronized swimming for a half-century, including as Founding President of U.S. Synchroniz...
Read moreNCAA Division II Championships, Night 1: Nova Southeastern Women Obliterate 800 Free Relay12 March 2024NCAA Division II Championships, Night 1: Nova Southeastern Women Obliterate 800 Free Relay It’s no exaggeration to call what Nova Southeastern did Tuesday night to begin the NCAA Division II Championships a quantum leap. Before the Sharks hit the water at SPIRE Institute, the NCAA record in the 800 ...
Read more1Back in the Water at 37, Brooke Boak (nee Bishop) Hopes Olympic Trials Cut Is Just the Start12 March 2024Back in the Water at 37, Brooke Boak Hopes Olympic Trials Cut Is Just the Start What started as an off-hand joke last summer grew serious pretty quickly for Brooke Boak. Boak was hiking one day with Scott Shea, who had coached her at Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics in the late 1990s when Boak – then Bro...
Read moreAbbie Wood Finishes Edinburgh International with 200 IM Meet Record10 March 2024Abbie Wood Finishes Edinburgh International with 200 IM Meet Record Abbie Wood capped the final day of the Edinburgh International Sunday with a meet record in the women’s 200 individual medley, besting a loaded field. The English swimmer clocked in at 2:10.06 in the last event of the day to get the...
Read moreTYR Pro Swim Series, Day 4 Prelims: Simone Manuel Sets Pace in 100 Free09 March 2024TYR Pro Swim Series, Day 4 Prelims: Simone Manuel Sets Pace in 100 Free Simone Manuel has quietly had a very solid week at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont. While much of the attention has gravitated toward the exploits of Regan Smith and the return of Caeleb Dressel, Manuel has just as impressiv...
Read moreOliver Morgan, Angharad Evans Spin A Cut Times to Open Edinburgh International08 March 2024Oliver Morgan, Angharad Evans Spin A Cut Times to Open Edinburgh International Englishman Oliver Morgan opened the 25th annual Edinburgh International Swim Meet Friday by going 53.69 seconds in the 100 backstroke. That’s a meet record and is under the Olympic A cut. Morgan, 20, set the meet record i...
Read moreSara Curtis Rips Italian, European Junior Record 24.56 in 50 Free at Italian Championships08 March 2024Sara Curtis Rips Italian, European Junior Record 24.56 in 50 Free at Italian Championships Italian sprinter Sara Curtis took down an Italian record in the 50 free in the morning session of the Italian Championships Friday to book a spot at the Paris Olympics. Curtis won prelims with a time of 24.56....
Read moreTYR Pro Swim Series, Day 3 Prelims: Caeleb Dressel 8th in 50 Free in 22.6508 March 2024TYR Pro Swim Series, Day 3 Prelims: Caeleb Dressel 8th in 50 Free in 22.65 Caeleb Dressel started the TYR Pro Swim Series Thursday night in Westmont, Ill., with a win in the 100 butterfly. He wasn’t a sharp Friday morning, barely scraping into the 50 free final with the eighth-best time in prelims. ...
Read morePac-12 Men's Championships, Day 2 Finals: Leon Marchand Blasts NCAA Record in 500 Free; ASU Sweeps the Night07 March 2024Pac-12 Men's Championships, Day 2 Finals: Leon Marchand Sets NCAA Record in 500 Free Leon Marchand is a great many things. You would not suspect that a distance swimmer is among them, not when he arrived at Arizona State and not on the international stage for France. And yet … no man in NCAA history...
Read morePac-12 Men's Championships, Day 2 Prelims: Leon Marchand Opts for 500, Grabs 2nd Seed07 March 2024Pac-12 Men's Championships, Day 2 Prelims: Leon Marchand Opts for 500, Grabs 2nd Seed There are no shortage of options for Leon Marchand when it comes to events to swim at a meet like the Pac-12 Men’s Championships. So with an A cut already solidified in the even in which he holds the NCAA record, t...
Read moreKatie Ledecky to Release Memoir 'Just Add Water' in June07 March 2024Katie Ledecky to Release Memoir 'Just Add Water' in June Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky has written a memoir that will be released in June. Ledecky revealed the title and cover for her book, “Just Add Water: My Swimming Life,” on Thursday. The book, published by Simon & Schuster, will be released Jun...
Read moreTYR Pro Series Westmont, Day 2 Prelims: Regan Smith, Torri Huske Slated For 100 Butterfly Showdown07 March 2024TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont: Claire Weinstein Grabs Top Seed in 200 Free The morning after her win in the 800 free, Claire Weinstein followed it up Thursday morning by taking the top seed in the women’s 200 free at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont. Swimming for Sandpipers of Nevada, Weinstein we...
Read more2Pac-12 Men's Championships: Arizona State Sets NCAA Record in 200 Medley Relay; Leon Marchand Leads 800 Free Relay With 1:30 (Video)06 March 2024Pac-12 Men's Championships: Arizona State Sets NCAA Record in 200 Medley Relay (Video) The final Pac-12 Championships are here, as the men will take the conference’s bows at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center starting Wednesday. It may well be a championship swansong, in the final conferenc...