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U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) has concluded its at-large director elections and honored many of its deserving volunteers and coaches during its 2024 annual meeting. Board of Directors Elections The following at-large directors were elected or re-elected for their zones: Samantha Kraft (Breadbasket .....

Ava De Anda Remains In State With 2026 Verbal To Cal Golden Bears NEW COMMIT: The University of California, Berkeley has earned another big verbal commitment for its Class of 2026 recruiting from in-state standout Ava de Anda of Riverside, California. She will join Isabel Wolk as a member of the Gol...

Swimming & Para Swimming Among 10 Sports At 2026 Commonwealth Games: Diving Misses Out Swimming and para swimming have been confirmed among 10 sports to be contested at the 2026 Commonwealth Games although diving will not be on the scaled-down programme in Glasgow. The programme also includes athlet...

Underwater Kicking Champ and Big Personality Emma Sticklen Starting Strong in Fifth Year at Texas Down the stretch in the arduous 200 butterfly, Emma Sticklen finds her groove. During those laps, when even top-notch competitors are fading and trying desperately to reach the wall, Sticklen can reach ...

Polar Opposite Types of Swimmers: Where Do You Fit? In the sport of swimming, we practice every stroke and use every piece of equipment throughout our training week no matter what our primary events are, or gear preferences may be. Obviously, we are much better at some strokes and events than others...

NAG Record Holder Charlotte Crush, Top Recruit In Class of 2026, Chooses Tennessee NEW COMMIT: The University of Tennessee has scored a new verbal commitment for the 2026-27 season and beyond from Louisville, Kentucky native Charlotte Crush - arguably the top recruit in this class. Crush currently o...

Eliza Wallace, Junior Pan Pac Finalist, Sends 2026 Verbal To Tennessee  NEW COMMIT: The University of Tennessee has landed a big recruit for the Class of 2026 from Olympic Trials qualifier Eliza Wallace of Charlotte, North Carolina. Regarding her commitment, she said: "ROCKY TOP TENNESSEE🍊 I am ext...

'Battle at the Burr III': Georgetown Claims Victories, But Howard Has Created Defining Meet The lots filled with spectators in Washington, D.C, crowds buzzing with excitement over the event they were to witness. The crowd could’ve easily been present for the school’s football team, or a basketball g...

The waters have been smoothed and peace has been restored in the corridors of power at Swimming Australia – and its back to the business of what really matters - trying to win more gold medals than the U.S. at the next Olympics in Los Angeles. Latest CEO, two-time Olympian Rob Woodhouse, has delive....

Get Ready for Gretchen Walsh Show at Short Course World Championships Elite swimmers regularly decline the chance to race at the Short Course World Championships. Katie Ledecky has never attended that meet, and Michael Phelps only did so once, when it was held in the United States. Fortunately for s...

A Look and Breakdown Of the Legendary 100 x 100s Set Of Mike Bruner About eight months before he set a world record in the 200-meter butterfly (1:59.23) and won a second gold medal in the 800 freestyle relay at the 1976 Olympics, Mike Bruner completed an aquatic first - swimming 10,000 yards in unde...

Who's Getting In? 12 Types of Swimmers Entering the Pool for Warmup By Temarie Tomley Swimmers are sometimes known for their distinct ways of entering the pool. Each person has a favorite way to start off practice. Here are 12 of the most common ways that swimmers love to hit the water. 1. The Class...

Great Races: When Tom Jager and Matt Biondi Took the 50 Freestyle Into Sub-22 Range Their duels produced one of the greatest rivalries the sport has seen, so it was only a matter of time before our Great Races Series featured one of the battles between Matt Biondi and Tom Jager. Together, Biondi and...

Texas A&M Sweeps Two-Day Tri-Meet Against TCU and BYU The Texas A&M Aggies hosted intercollegiate competition for the first time this season over the weekend and proved dominant against a pair of teams from the Big 12, Texas Christian University and Brigham Young University. Friday Women's Scores: T...

Italy Men’s Water Polo Team Handed Six-Month Suspension for Abuse of Officials The Italian men’s water polo team was handed a six-month suspension on Thursday for abuse of officials, which will rule them out of the 2025 World Cup. Italy, which won a silver medal at the 2023 World Cup and silver at t...

Luca Urlando Continues Hot Start in Georgia Sweep of Florida State Luca Urlando has continued his fine form to start the 2024-25 season, the Georgia swimmer dropping the third-best 200 fly time of his career in helping Georgia to a pair of wins over Florida State. Urlando improved on last week’s A c...

The World Aquatics World Cup stop in Shanghai concluded on Sunday. The short-course meters (SCM) has seen several world records set and is a tune-up for short-course worlds later this year. Day 1 Recap Day 2 Recap World Cup: Men's 400 IM France's Leon Marchand started the final session with a win .....

FLASH! Noè Ponti Crushes 50m Butterfly S/C World Record Noè Ponti lowered the 50m butterfly short-course world record to 21.67 in prelims on day three of the World Cup in Shanghai. The Swiss reached the turn in 9.95 secs before a blistering 11.72sec second 25 propelled him into the wall in a new gl....

8 Types of Swimmers You Will Encounter During Your Aquatic Journey By Evangelia Vasilakis, Swimming World College Intern. Every swimmer knows that throughout your career, you meet many people. From age group to college, we encounter many of the same types of swimmers. Each swimmer has their own pers...

Michigan Dominant Against Wisconsin and Notre Dame Women in Two-Day Tri-Meet The University of Michigan swim and dive teams crushed their competition this weekend as they hosted Wisconsin and the Notre Dame women for two days of competition. Michigan's women won by dominant margins, 238-115 over Wis...