Sydney Mason - (Author)

5 Overhadowed Swimmers Whose Summers Did Not Get Proper Credit; Gabriel Jett Soars to New Heights (Men's Edition) Did you hear? Johannes Liebmann shattered the world record in the 1500-meter freestyle by three-plus seconds. Get this. Hubert Kos almost took down the longstanding world standard of Aar...

5 Overlooked Swimmers Who had Stellar Summers; Claire Curzan Sharp at Pan Pacs (Women's Edition) This summer has not been short on elite performances, from Kate Douglass and Marrit Steenbergen rewriting the sprint-freestyle record books to Lani Pallister tripling at both the Commonwealth Games and P...

Gretchen Walsh Refreshingly Embracing Dominance of 100 Butterfly Some athletes claim they don't pay attention to their historical standing. That's not the style of Gretchen Walsh, who last week added another chapter to her stunning legacy in the 100-meter butterfly. After winning her prime event at ...

Next Month's Asian Games Will Feature Star-Studded Field Now that the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and Pan Pacific Championships have concluded, attention shifts to next month and the Asian Games in Tokyo. The meet is scheduled for September 20-25 and will mark the last major regional ...

Two-Time Olympian Phoebe Bacon Making Move to UVA Pro Group Two-time Olympian Phoebe Bacon took to social media on Friday to announce that she is moving her training base to Charlottesville, home of the high-powered University of Virginia program. Bacon is coming off the Pan Pacific Championships an...

Katie Ledecky and TYR Sport Launch Signature Swim Collection TYR Sport is proud to announce the launch of the Katie Ledecky Signature Collection, an exclusive new swim line designed in collaboration with nine-time Olympic gold medalist and 23-time world champion Katie Ledecky. Available beginning Au...

College Swimming League (CSL) Announces Media Rights Deal with DAZN The College Swimming League (CSL) and DAZN today announced a media rights agreement for the league’s inaugural 2026 season that makes DAZN the exclusive free-to-view home of CSL competition in every market outside the United States....

United States Claims Team Title at Junior Pan Pacs; Luka Mijatovic Exits with Seven Golds The United States comfortably claimed the team title at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships, which wrapped up on Thursday night in Vancouver. Team USA totaled 527 points via the meet's scoring system, easily o...

LA28 Announces Next Olympic Ticket Sale Will Take Place in 2027 A press release sent out by the LA28 Organizing Committee on Friday morning indicated that more than 6 million tickets for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles have been sold during the first two stages of the sales process. While that...

Michael Phelps on Texas Contingent: 'That's a One of One Training Group' It's been a decade since Michael Phelps bid farewell to the competitive stage, six medals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro raising his career count to 28, a seemingly unbreakable figure. The 41-year-old has no diffic...

POLL: What Was the Best Performance of the Summer? (VOTE HERE!) Multiple world records went down between the European Championships in Paris and the Pan Pacific Championships in Southern California. With the sport not holding a global championship meet, it was a refreshing sight to see some of the w...

Junior Pan Pacs, Night Four Finals: Audrey Derivaux Leads Gold-Silver Finish in 200 IM The final night of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships opened with a United States gold-silver haul as Audrey Derivaux and Sydney Hardy had too much for the field in Vancouver. Derivaux claimed victory in 2:12.10...

Guest Editorial: The Author's System of Sprint Swimming Biomechanics (Part II) Swimming World recently ran Part I of Serhii Lysobei's extensive article, "The Author's System of Sprint Swimming Biomechanics." Now, we run Part II, which examines sprint swimming from a technical perspective. PART I Par...

Junior Pan Pacs, Night Three Finals: Luka Mijatovic Just Misses Own NAG Record in 400 Freestyle Two weeks after he established a National Age Group (NAG) record in the 17-18 classification of the 400-meter freestyle, Luka Mijatovic threatened his own mark during Wednesday night's action at the Junio...

Millie Conner Adds Another Southern Zone High-Point Title Make it back-to-back Southern Zone High-Point championships for South Carolina age-group standout Millie Conner. One year after claiming the 12-and-under award, Conner recently captured the 14-and-under High-Point title, despite being just 13...

Junior Pan Pacs, Night Two Finals: Raito Numata Blazes to Title in 400 IM Japan's firepower in the 400-meter individual medley is impressive, led by reigning Olympic silver medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita, and it got even better on the second night of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Vancouver. ...

The St Peters Western Machine Shined at Summer Champs; Dean Boxall Overseeing a Juggernaut The Pan Pacific Championships were over for less than an hour and Dean Boxall sat alone in the stands of the William Woollett Aquatics Center. The Australian coach - who oversees the high-powered program at St...

Rich Burns Recognized with USMS' Ransom Arthur Award; Honored for Decades of Service By Daniel Paulling Rich Burns couldn’t figure out what was happening. Several of his teammates in the 1980s would disappear for a few days every September and come back talking about rule changes and national champ....

Hungarian Hubert Kos Tracks Down One Hall of Famer; Has Another Cornered In a way, Hubert Kos played a game of tag with a pair of Hall of Famers as he raced at the just concluded European Championships in Paris. On the final day of competition, Kos tapped countryman Laszlo Cseh, eliminating the 74-t...

Passages: Phillip Whitten, Former Editor of Swimming World, Dies at 82 Phillip Whitten, the former Editor-in-Chief of Swimming World, and its sister publications, Swimming Technique and SWIM (Masters), passed away on Saturday, August 15. He was 82. Whitten was a highly respected journalist, having c...