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Slovenian Olympian Katja Fain Reveals Leukemia Diagnosis Slovenian Olympian Katja Fain revealed this week on social media that she is battling chronic myeloid leukemia. Fain posted on social media this week detailing “the hardest race of my life.” An Olympian in Tokyo and Paris, the 25-year-old had ...

Spain Captures First Men’s World Aquatics 4x4 Water Polo Title Didac Garcia was the penalty shootout hero as Spain topped Russia for the gold medal at the first World Aquatics 4x4 Water Polo Championships. Spain beat Russia, 3-2, in the first-to-3 format. Spain prevailed, 1-2, 4-3, 2-3, 5-4 before a...

Ryann Neushul Leads U.S. to Inaugural 4x4 Water Polo Title Led by Ryann Neushul, the United States won the first World Aquatics 4x4 Water Polo Crown in Dubrovnik, Croatia, this week. The U.S. claimed a 3-0 sweep by scores of 4-1 4-3 and 2-0 against Spain in the final. Led by head coach Molly Cahill,...

Olympian Tomoru Honda Gets One Year Suspended Sentence for Driving Incident Japanese Olympic swimmer Tomoru Honda received a suspended sentence of one year in prison on Wednesday for a dangerous driving incident. Honda, 24, will have his sentence suspended for three years. The judgement was handed d...

Former UNC Coach Rich DeSelm Leads North Carolina Swimming Hall of Fame Class Former North Carolina head coach Rich DeSelm is among the five-member Class of 2026 for the North Carolina Swimming Hall of Fame, announced on Tuesday. Joining him in the hall class are Joel Black, Stephanie Peacock, Brook...

Patrick Sammon, Michael Andrew Find GoPro Belonging to NBA Player Jaylen Brown in Ocean When swimmers Patrick Sammon and Michael Andrew retrieved a lost GoPro from the ocean in Hawaii, they hoped that posting the footage to social media might reconnect it with its original owner. They didn’t expect ...

Russia Picks up Three Golds at Junior Open Water World Championships Russian swimmers picked up three gold medals and four total medals at the Junior Open Water World Championships on Friday. It was a Russian 1-2 in the 14- and 15-year-old 5-kilometer race in Santa Fe, Argentina, with Kira Guseva to...

USA Swimming Announces 2026-27 National Team Roster USA Swimming on Tuesday announced the national team roster for the 2026-27 season, presented by Toyota. The roster includes 101 swimmers (46 women, 55 men) in the pool and open water disciplines. Results from Sept. 1, 2025, to Aug. 31, 2026, were u...

Evan Wilkerson Caps Para Pan Pacs With World Record American Evan Wilkerson capped the Para Pan Pacific Championships by setting the world record in the S11 men’s 100 backstroke. The swim capped a night of seven American marks at Mt. San Antonio College. Wilkerson went 1:04.84 in prelims of the S11 ...

Aiden Stivers, Katie Kubiak Lead Six American Records on Second Day of Para Pan Pacs Aiden Stivers and Katie Kubiak led the way as six American records were set on the second day of the Para Pan Pacific Championships. Kubiak, who set a world record on Friday, lowered her American mark in the S5 50 b...

Katie Kubiak, Leanne Smith Open Para Pan Pacs with World Records Americans Katie Kubiak and Leanne Smith set World records on Night 1 of the Para Pan Pacific Championships. Kubiak set three American records and a world mark to start the meet at Mt. San Antonio College. She went 1:16.10 in the S5 100...

Water Polo Coaching Carousel Sends Ikaika Aki to Hawaii, Dustin Litvak to Loyola Marymount The water polo coaching carousel kicked off last week has added two new changes this week. After James Robinson-O’Brien stepped down from Hawaii to take the women’s head coaching job at UCLA, Hawaii hired Ikai...

Embracing Fatherhood, Paralympic Champ Brad Snyder Aiming for LA 2028 Fatherhood has instilled a change in perspective for paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder, who is returning to paraswimming competition with a goal of qualifying for the 2028 Paralympics. Snyder had taken a four-year break from competit...

Vancouver’s Oldest Swim Club Facing Facilities Crunch Vancouver’s oldest swim club is struggling to find pool space amid a deepening battle for facilities in Canada at large. Dolphin Swim Club, which has roughly 240 swimmers, is being forced out of the Britannia Community Centre pool as it is underg...

New U.S. 50 Breast Champ Watson Nguyen to Compete at Vietnam National Sports Games Watson Nguyen, who won gold in the men’s 50 breaststroke at U.S. Nationals in July, is set to compete at the National Sports Games in Vietnam in December. Nguyen was also third in the 100 breast at Nationals in Irvine...

India Sending 12 Swimmers to 2026 Asian Games India is sending a 12-swimmer delegation to the Asian Games in September, including Olympians Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash. All 12 swimmers are on the men’s side. India did not bring female swimmers to the Commonwealth Games earlier this summer, eit...

Stanford Hires Three-Time NCAA Champ Dani Jackovich as Water Polo Assistant Stanford this week announced the hiring of Dani Jackovich as an assistant coach for the women’s water polo program. Jackovich competed for the Cardinal from 2014-17, winning three NCAA titles. She is transitioning into coach...

Moesha Johnson Savors 'Really Special' Open Water Win with Sister in Attendance Before Moesha Johnson locked in for the open water race at the Pan Pacific Championships, she did a quick scan of the shore at the Long Beach Marine Stadium. The Australian Olympian caught sight of who she was hoping to ...

Led by Sam Short, Men's 800 Freestyle Field in Pursuit of History The 2026 season has brought renewed hope that super-suited records could finally be consigned to history. Summer McIntosh harpooned the white whale that was Zige Liu’s 200 fly world record for the last one on the women’s side. David P...

Toledo Hires Indiana Diver Will Jansen as Diving Coach Will Jansen, a standout diver at Indiana University, has been hired as the University of Toledo’s diving coach, the university announced last week. Jansen dove for the Hoosiers from 2022-25. He competed at the Big Ten Championships during his ca...