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Alex Walsh Swims 1:51.95 200 IM at Cavalier Invitational, Top Time in Country Last March, Alex Walsh posted the fastest time ever in the 200-yard IM at the NCAA Women's Championships in Atlanta, her time of 1:50.08 knocking almost six tenths off the previous record of 1:50.67 established by Ella Eas...

The 24th-ranked Wisconsin men's swim and dive program wrapped up its regular season with a 176-103 win over Green Bay on Friday. The Badgers won 14 events, including four by seniors during UW's Senior Night celebration. Four Badger seniors won events on Friday, including double-event winners Wes Jek...

The No. 2 ranked Cal men’s swimming & diving team returned to the friendly confines of Spieker Aquatics Center where they have not lost a dual meet since January 12, 2012. On Friday afternoon, the Bears continued that home winning streak – now at 37 meets, following a convincing 171.5-124.5 win over...

USA Swimming announced today that Lucinda McRoberts, Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Director of the USA Swimming Foundation, is stepping down from her current roles effective March 3, 2023. “USA Swimming’s relentless protection of youth athletes and the integrity of our member relations ...

SPORTI’S LATEST ARTIST SERIES COLLAB CELEBRATES THE BEAUTY OF BLACK SKIN Introducing the Sporti x “She Is This” Collection In honor of Black History Month, Sporti is pleased to announce their latest collaboration with celebrated illustrator and maker Shae Anthony, the Sporti x She Is...

How many people can say they’ve been swimming for more than 80 years?  Jurgen Schmidt of Southern California can! Schmidt never gave competitive swimming a thought, until he wanted to be a lifeguard at his high school pool and was told to take a Red Cross water safety course.  The year was 1941 and...

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has selected 803 teams from 479 institutions to the Scholar All-America Team for the Fall 2022 semester. Teams were selected on the basis of their Fall 2022 team grade point averages and represent 19,426 student-athletes. Nine t...

Swim England CEO Jane Nickerson To Retire As Review Demands Urgent Reform Of Safeguarding & Disciplinary Procedures Swim England CEO Jane Nickerson will retire at the end of 2023 as an independent review into the handling of allegations of bullying and fat-shaming demanded urgent reform of disciplin...

Tokyo Olympian and double Irish record holder Brendan Hyland has announced his retirement to start a new chapter of his life in Australia. The 28-year-old represented Ireland at the World and European Championships as well as at the 2020 Games where he was a member of the 4x200 quartet as Ireland co...

Ohio State Women Looming as Sleeper Top-Five Candidate for NCAA Championships Even diehard Buckeye fans would not confuse Ohio State's women's swimming and diving program with a national powerhouse. In head coach Bill Dorenkott's first 11 seasons in Columbus, the team never placed higher than 13th o...

Strong Women are Beautiful Women: Growing Up in a Swimmer’s Body By Lillian Nelson (From the Archive) Whether you are 13 years old and just growing into your body, or 20 years old and reshaping your body with college swimming, this sport really forces you to be aware of your own presence. I cannot s...

Underappreciated, Don Schollander Was a Legend; And a Star During the First Tokyo Games How can a five-time Olympic champion be underappreciated? How can a man who set double-digit individual world records go overlooked? How can the one-time face of Team USA find himself snubbed on the scale of hist...

Australia’s Olympic 200m breaststroke champion Zac Stubblety-Cook admits the next two years towards Paris will be both “exciting and scary.” “They are the two words that come to mind first of all – being such a quick turn around from Tokyo (in 2021) is a little bit daunting – but for me it’s also ex...

The 29 Confessions of a Distance Swimmer - From the Archives By Chandler Brandes "I didn't choose the distance life. The distance life chose me." Well, not quite. Distance swimmers are all born the same way: we swam the 500 for the first time around age nine or 10 and didn't do too badly, so our coa...

How to Win a Championship: Lose a Dual Meet By Ron Blanc, Guest Contributor/Santa Margarita Catholic High School Swim Coach As a boys’ and girls’ high school coach for 35 years, I have been blessed to coach many championship teams...but only on the girls’ side. The boys’ run to titles, however, has ...

The Fine Art Of In-Meet Coaching: It Can Take a Deft Touch...Or a Hammer You want smoke on the water, excitement in aquatics? Just put longtime coaches in the same room. For starters, invite Jack Bauerle, Don Gambril, Frank Comfort, Bob Boettner or the departed Don Easterling and Ray Bussard. The su...

What is Overtraining Syndrome? A Glance At An Overlooked Illness Overtraining syndrome is a condition where an athlete deals with declining performances and overall fatigue in their sport, despite continued or increased training. The name of the game in the sport of swimming is hard work and perseve...

Butterflyer Addison Reese Verbally Commits to Kentucky's Class of 2028 NEW COMMIT: The University of Kentucky has received a new verbal commitment for the 2024-25 season and beyond from butterflyer Addison Reese of Windermere, Florida. She will join Avery Mehok, Bailey O’Regan, Taylor Grimley and Em...

Bob Bowman on Arizona State’s Techsuit Swims: It’s a Learning Experience Arizona State turned heads nearly two weeks ago, blitzing the NCAA leaderboard – not to mention Stanford and California – in dual meets. It came with the Sun Devils, the men’s team already ranked No. 1 in the nation, wearing te...

David Popovici and Sarah Sjostrom are among the nominees for the 2022 LEN Awards with 54 athletes nominated across 12 categories. There will be a public vote which will count for 30% of the total voting with LEN members and the technical committee of each discipline making up the other 70%. Vote her...