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9 Test Sets Swimmers Love or Hate: Which is Your Nightmare? It’s no secret that the swimming community holds an incredible diversity of talent – sprinters and distance swimmers, IMers and freestylers, backstrokers and breaststrokers. It’s also no secret that tensions between these groups can sometim...

By Ryan Gibbons The course of a swim season is remarkably familiar: a few weeks of drills is followed by a long period of intense training, culminating in a few weeks of taper and a championship meet. Yet many swimmers overlook a major aspect of this season: large, in-season invitationals. Many swim...

3 Reasons Why Swimmers Have the Strongest Bonds By Ryan Gibbons The sport of swimming goes far deeper than individual times, personal goals, and internal growth. While it is true that a great deal of the sport remains focused on the individual, it is unquestionable that much of the sport is a team a...

4 Team Bonding Activities For Championship Season By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. Despite being generally an individual sport, swimming is commonly known to have an intense level of team strength and interaction. Swimmers routinely form the strongest team bonds of any sport, individu...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. With one day left in the 2019 Buffalo Speedo Sectionals, The Fish have taken a commanding lead, with their 871 points ahead of Radnor Aquatic Club's 561 points and Cougar Aquatic Team's 469.5. The evening's schedule of the 200 Fly, 50 Free, 200 Breast,...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. Night 3 of the 2019 EZSS Christianburg Speedo Sectionals featured a wide range of events, including the 200 Fly, 50 Free, 200 Breast, and 400 IM. National's Capital (NCAP) dominated all three competitions, with a combined 929 points leading Delaware Sw...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. The final night of competition at the 2019 Rochester Speedo Sectionals featured the 1500 Free, 200 Back, 50 Free, and 200 Fly. Closing out the Central Zone Section 1 Championships, the evening saw the Glenbrook men's team win its meet, while Scottsdale...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. The third day of competition of the 2019 Central Zone Section 1 Championships (Spring Sectionals) in Rochester, Minn. featured a slate of distance, stroke, and sprint events with the 400 IM, 200 Free, 200 Breast, and 100 Fly. The latest stop in the Spe...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. The second night of the 2019 Rochester Speedo Sectionals (the Central Zone Section 1 Championships) saw the Scottsdale women and Glenbrook men take leads, with Scottsdale in first in the combined competition as well. The evening featured the 400 Free, ...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. In a sport popularly known for its summer vibes, the Southern swimmer is generally regarded as living a swimming life of luxury – splashing into the warm, outdoor pools with gorgeous skies and a mild swimming winter. But despite how unpopular the opini...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. The final night of the 2019 Big East Swimming & Diving Championships featured the 1650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, women's 1M diving, and the 400 free relay. The women's competition saw a stunning perfect record by the Villanova Wild...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. The 2019 Big East Championships closed out night 3 in East Meadow, N.Y., featuring the 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Free, 100 Breast, 100 Back, 3M Diving, and 400 Medley Relay — a wide-ranging yet exciting event schedule. Villanova's women built on their night...

Day 2 of the 2019 Big East Championships featured a wide range of events, including for both men and women the 500 Free, 200 IM, 50 Free, and 200 Free relay, along with the women’s 3M diving. The night saw Villanova pull away in the women’s competition to lead with 378 points, above Georgetown at 22...

The 2019 Big East Championships took off today in East Meadow, N.Y., with an evening schedule of the 800 Free and 200 Medley Relays opening the men's and women's four-day competitions. Day 1 also featured prelims and finals of the Men's 1 meter diving. Villanova's men, led by strong performances fro...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. The pop culture view of swimming is nothing short of summer utopia: flips under the sun while diving off of a burning hot pool deck in the warm summer air. Yet, as the competitive swimming world knows, the sport doesn’t take a break for the cold – in f...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. It’s an unfortunate thing we frequently hear in and out of the pool and one that – albeit with regret – some of us may have let slip before: complaining directly about the coach. Despite their years of experience, hours toiled ov...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern.  The holiday season brings so much with it – the joy of friends and family, the excitement of large invitationals, and unimaginable amounts of food and cookies. Yet, it frequently also entails a great obstacle for swimmers: the oddly-timed, unconventio...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. It comes with little debate among the swimming community that swimmers are among the toughest athletes across the board both physically and mentally. The countless hours, hundreds of thousands of yards, and early mornings put in – even just for a singl...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. Last month at the United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Jacksonville, Fla., the USA Swimming Board of Directors unveiled additional championship meet sites for the 2019 Championship Series (Futures, Junior Nationals, TYR Pro Series, Nationals, and...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. Last month at the United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Jacksonville, Fla., USA Swimming’s House of Delegates voted on a number of amendments to the national Rules and Regulations - the document containing most of the laws governing swimming natio...