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The Answers You've Been Waiting For: What Your Best Stroke Says About You Have you ever taken a BuzzFeed Quiz? You know, the iconic miniature tests completed with a few clicks of a button, only to reveal some totally absurd and equally irrelevant piece of information about yourself that is probably ...

Event and Unique Scoring Explanation For the Duel in the Pool; How To Watch the Action Live In addition to the mixture of traditional events and unique races that will be offered at this weekend's Duel in the Pool, the United States and Australia will have the chance to take advantage of a few scori...

“Beware The US Team” Warns Australian Head Coach Rohan Taylor As Dolphins Host The Americans In Return of the Duel in the Pool  Rohan Taylor knows only too well the might of the US Swim Team and while on paper the Australian Dolphins look stronger overall in this week’s return of the Duel In The Poo...

Sean Nuttall Swims Across Lake Ontario And Back to Raise Money For Toronto Brain Research Center Open water swimmers have crossed some of the Great Lakes in the past, some as individuals and others with a group relay. Sean Nuttall took the next step and swam across Lake Ontario — and back — in a 100...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Wednesday, August 17, 2022, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Which country will win the upcoming Duel in the Pool? The Duel in the Pool originated in 2003 as a friendly competition between the United States an...

Olympic Finalist Luis Martinez Announces Retirement from Swimming Luis Martinez, the Guatemalan swimmer who made the final of the men’s 100 butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics, announced his retirement this week. Martinez made the announcement via social media. View this post on Instagram A post...

Canadian World Junior Champion Jade Hannah Transfers to LSU Canadian international Jade Hannah is transferring from USC to LSU, she announced via social media this week. Hannah spent her freshman year in Southern California, where she finished eighth in the 200 backstroke at the Pac-12 Championships...

European Championships: Italy Set Championship Record En-Route To Men's Medley Relay Gold Ahead Of France & Austria Italy set a championship record of 3:28.46 as they brought the European Championships to an end with a dominant victory in the men's medley relay in Rome. The quartet of Thomas Ceccon,...

European Championships: Sweden Claims Gold in 400 Medley Relay as Sjostrom, Hansson Throw Down Stellar Splits To cap women's action from the European Championships in Rome, a dominating performance from Sweden earned the country a gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay. The Swedish quartet touched...

Boston College Hires Joe Brinkman as Head Coach Boston College on Monday hired former Notre Dame assistant coach Joe Brinkman as its new swimming and diving head coach. Brinkman spent four seasons as an assistant at Notre Dame, working with the men’s and women’s teams. He oversaw 40 NCAA qualifiers,...

European Championships: Lukas Maertens Sets 400 Free Championship Record For Gold; Germany Claim 1-3 Lukas Maertens set a championship record of 3:42.50 as he eased to victory in the 400 free at the European Championships in Rome. It concluded a superb season for the 20-year-old who also won 800 sil...

European Championships: Teen Lana Pudar Claims Gold in 200 Fly for Bosnia and Herzegovina In a meet dominated by traditional swimming powers, Lana Pudar made her mark for Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday, surging to the gold medal in the women’s 200 meter butterfly at the European Championships i...

European Championships: Thomas Ceccon Becomes First Italian Man To Win 100 Back Ahead of Christou & Ndoye Brouard Thomas Ceccon became the first Italian man to win the 100 backstroke at the European Championships in Rome. Ceccon set a world record of 51.60 en-route to the world title in Budapest in ...

European Championships: Ben Proud Writes Unique Line In History After Winning 50 Free Gold Ben Proud made history as he added European 50 free gold to his world and Commonwealth titles in Rome. The Briton became the first swimmer to win the world, Commonwealth and European golds in one season, Proud...

European Championships: Hubert Kos Upholds Hungarian Tradition in 200 IM Anyone familiar with the history of the sport knows about Hungary's widespread excellence in the individual medley events. Tamas Darnyi. Katinka Hosszu. Andras Hargitay. Laszlo Cseh. All of these athletes have starred in the mu...

European Championships: Isabel Gose Mines Gold in 400 Freestyle; Denies Simona Quadarella the Triple-Triple Isabel Gose didn't have any interest in history being made on the last night of the European Championships. With Italy's Simona Quadarella needing a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle to co...

Lessons to Learn When Swimming Seems So Cruel The 400 IM is a race I only had to swim once to decide it was not my calling. Now when I watch people race it, and love all 16 laps of it, I cannot relate, but I certainly can respect. One such swimmer was shooting for his sectionals cut this past weeken...

European Championships: Ruta Meilutyte Fends Off Benedetta Pilato For 50 Breaststroke Title This summer, Ruta Meilutyte and Benedetta Pilato have seen a lot of one another. They first battled at the World Championships in Budapest, where each woman claimed a global title. Most recently, they've duel...

Duel in the Pool Will Feature Traditional Events, Along With Several Oddball Races When the Duel in the Pool is held from Friday through Sunday in Sydney, the reincarnation of the competition will look different from previous versions. The athletes from the United States and Australia will clash in ...

NEW COMMIT: US Open qualifier Caroline Foltz of St. Louis, Missouri, has announced her verbal commitment to Indiana University beginning in Fall 2023.  Collegiate swimming runs in her family, as her older sister, Grace Foltz, currently swims for Lynn University. Foltz will join Reese Tiltmann as a m...