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Van Mathias Hoping to Continue Astonishing Run at Short Course Worlds Predicting two individual gold medals for Van Mathias at the upcoming Short Course World Championships would hardly qualify as a bold statement, not after the incredible year the 26-year-old has put together in the sprint breastst...

Luka Mijatovic Lowers 17-18 NAG Record in 500 Freestyle Beginning next semester, Luka Mijatovic will take his dynamic mid-distance freestyle skills to the University of Texas, where he is set to contribute to a team favored to win a third consecutive national title. In the meantime, Mijatovic contin...

Tennessee Freshman Charlotte Crush Making Instant Impact in Backstroke Events At the first U.S. selection meet of this quad, teenager Charlotte Crush threw her name into the talented mix of American women's backstrokers. In the 200-meter race, Crush dropped more than two seconds from her best time i...

Luca Urlando 'On the Right Path for Short Course Worlds' After Record-Setting Trials Since narrowly missing out on the Olympic semifinals in the event two years ago, Luca Urlando has been on a roll in the 200 butterfly. In 2025, he lowered the fastest time ever in the 200-yard fly on three occasions...

CSL Wild Card Match: Indiana Dominates Competition to Advance to Final The inaugural season of the College Swimming League concludes this weekend in Indianapolis. Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina State all qualified for the CSL final by virtue of their impressive results during each team's two...

SMU Men Take Down TCU in Wednesday Dual Meet A pair of Lone Star State men's swimming and diving teams raced Wednesday afternoon in Dallas as Southern Methodist hosted Texas Christian. SMU came out on top comfortably by a 202-92 margin. SMU's Thad Austin, Trey Clervi, Tate Bacon and George Gonzalez ...

American Men's Backstroke Shows Signs of Life at Short Course Trials, But Questions Remain The United States men have struggled mightily in backstroke for the past two years, at least since Ryan Murphy won bronze in the 100-meter race in Paris for his third consecutive Olympic medal in the event. Si...

American Women's Freestyle Relays Should Obliterate World Records at Short Course Worlds The United States has assembled its team traveling to the Short Course World Championships in Beijing, with the most but not all big-name American swimmers securing their spots at the biennial global meet. The c...

Jack Alexy, Luke Hobson Leading Elite U.S. Men's Free Relays to Short Course Worlds The United States has assembled its team traveling to the Short Course World Championships in Beijing, with the most but not all big-name American swimmers securing their spots at the biennial global meet. The combin...

Georgia Tech Takes Down ECU Women, Boston College in Home Meet The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets hosted the East Carolina women plus ACC rival Boston College Saturday. The home team was victorious on all fronts, with the women beating ECU 160.5 to 138.5 in the closest competition of the day while surp...

Pitt Women, Penn State Men Victorious in Rivalry Meet A Pennsylvania rivalry dual meet featured a pair of close finishes. With the University of Pittsburgh visiting State College, Penn., the Panther women defeated Penn State 161 to 138 while Penn State won 164-133 over Pitt. Pitt's women got their f...

Rex Maurer, Jillian Cox Lead the Way as Texas Sweeps South Carolina The Texas Longhorns flew east to face South Carolina in a dual meet Friday and picked up two dominant wins. The men's team won 225-73 while the women won every event and finished ahead by a 223-77 final margin, even with top breasts...

Kennedi Dobson Impresses in Georgia Win Over Florida; Gator Men Dominate Fierce rivals Georgia and Florida faced off Friday afternoon in Athens, and both teams came away with one victory. The Georgia women, powered by a strong performance from Kennedi Dobson, came out on top 197-97, the team's first...

U.S. Short Course Trials, Day Three Women's Finals: Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh Just Miss World Records; Liberty Clark Posts American Record Thursday evening's finals at the U.S. Short Course World Championship Trials began with a stunning performance from Claire Curzan, who took down veterans Kat...

Claire Curzan Drops World Record in 100 Backstroke Upset Over Katharine Berkoff and Regan Smith The women's 100 backstroke final at the U.S. Short Course World Championship finals featured the woman who holds the world record in both short course and long course plus another who has collected medals...

Kate Douglass Ties 50 Freestyle World Record to Conclude Brilliant Double Less than 20 minutes had passed since Kate Douglass won the 200 breaststroke at the U.S. Short Course World Championship Trials. Douglass was back out on pool deck, swimming in the middle of the pool in the 50 freestyle agains...

U.S. Short Course Trials, Day Two Women's Finals: Gretchen Walsh, Regan Smith Secure Beijing Spots as World Records Fall Two years after Gretchen Walsh dominated the Short Course World Championships with seven gold medals, she officially booked her ticket back to the global meet Thursday evening in ...

Katharine Berkoff Sets Her First World Record in 50 Backstroke at U.S. Short Course Trials For the past four years, Katharine Berkoff has been wracking up international medals in sprint backstroke, a stretch highlighted by a long course world title in the event last year. Now, Berkoff can claim the ...

Could Longstanding American Records Fall at U.S. Selection Meet? Short course meters meets in the United States are few and far between. Most swimmers follow the familiar pattern of short course yards from September through April, long course meters April through August. College and high school comp...

Erisman Siblings Positioned to Reach Short Course Worlds Together Over the past few months, Ryan Erisman has emerged as one of the country's best in the mid-distance and distance freestyle events. Erisman exceled while representing the United States in London in late May, and then he captured U.S. n...