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Respected Australian sportswriter Wayne Smith is an old school scribe who has always had a keen eye for the finer points of the game and as a clever wordsmith he tells how it is - you can smell the sweat, you can see the blood and relate to the tears. He has been around sports grounds and swimming p...

SEC Swimming and Diving Championships Auburn, Alabama 2020 Conference season kicks off from Auburn, Alabama as the SEC Swimming and Diving Championships get underway on Tuesday night with the men's and women's 200 medley relay and 800 free relay. Finals will begin each night at 5:30 p.m. CST. Live R...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. Amidst the epidemic that is the coronavirus outbreak going on in China, many events going on in the area have been postponed or cancelled. The Olympic Games, which will begin in 158 days in nearby Tokyo, Japan, have no intention of being cancelled or postpone...

Senior Joe Turk has been named ACC Swimming athlete of the week after his unbeaten showing at the Ohio State Winter Invitational. Competing in the last meet of his collegiate career, Turk placed first in all four of his events. To kick off the weekend, Turk won the 200 IM finals race after narrowly...

NEW COMMIT: Danville, Calif. native Alexis "Lexi" DePaco has recently announced her in-state verbal commitment to the University of California, San Diego beginning in the fall of 2021. Primarily a butterflyer and IMer, DePaco does her club swimming with Crow Canyon Country Club Sharks and owns four ...

Having been life-long athletes themselves, filmmakers Eriksen and Soren Dickens, otherwise known as the Dickens Brothers, were drawn to making films about athletes. They had done a documentary on their high school football team in 2016. They made a short documentary on a golfer they met while in col...

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The Soak - Swim News In Brief Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Soak - highlights from the week gone by: Brit...

The South Africa rugby team were named World Sports Team of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin on Monday following their triumph at the World Cup in Japan, a victory which brought Chad le Clos to tears. South Africa beat England 32-12 in Yokohama in November 2019 to win the World ...

This week’s SEC Championships at Auburn University will be a long distance from the Great White North. But when the meet shifts to breaststroke, there will be a definite Canadian flair to proceedings. It’s an odd phenomenon that has landed so many Canadian breaststrokers in the SEC, but one that cre...

By Dave Crampton New Zealand's Erika Fair-weather, who turned 16 on the last day of 2019, raced inside the qualifying time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the weekend. She is the second of only two New Zealand-based swimmers to achieve the Games standard in individual events in the past year. At the ...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced the recipients of the 25th Annual Paragon Awards, sponsored by Pentair Aquatic Systems.  The Paragon Awards are presented annually to individuals or organizations for outstanding contributions to aquatics in six categories. This year’s recipi...

Nunawading has again confirmed itself as the powerhouse of Victorian swimming after running away with the prestigious Fred Blunt State Championship pointscore Trophy in Melbourne last weekend. The super club has always been at the forefront of elite High Performance swimming in Australia under the l...

The SEC Swimming and Diving Championships kick off the Division I conference championships on Tuesday night from Auburn, Alabama with the 200 medley and 800 free relays as well as the women's 1m and men's 3m diving. The SEC meet is arguably the most intense and most exhilarating of the conference me...

2020s Vision: The Athlete Voice Shane Gould, winner at Munich 1972 of what remains a record five solo medals in the Olympic pool, has urged Swimming Australia to join a sex-abuse redress scheme aimed at delivering justice for victims of historic crimes. Swimming Australia (SA) has not yet signed up...

St. Catherine sophomore Jordyn Wentzel broke the NCAA Division III record in the 200 breaststroke on Saturday night at the MIAC Championships in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wentzel swam a 2:11.85 to lower the old record of 2:12.20 set by Samantha Senczyszyn of UW-Eau Claire in 2016. Wentzel's previous b...

Two South East Queensland surf lifesavers will go head-to-head in a 10km Open Water shoot-out in May and the prize will be a place on the 2020 Australian Olympic Team. Surf-swim stars Hayden Cotter (Belgravia Swim Club, Burpengary) and Bailey Armstrong (Kawana Waters Swim Club) were the two best per...

NCAA Swim Meet of the Week The regular season is finished in Division I women's swimming and diving with Stanford taking down Cal head to head as both schools look to be prime contenders for the national title in 30 days. Cal was the mid-season favorite, but Stanford showed why they have won the las...

The 2020 Konami Open at the Tatsumi International Swimming Centre in Tokyo was a relatively calm affair in terms of the depth of quality often seen at Japanese meets. That noted, the men's 200m backstroke drew the eye, while Yui Ohashi (4:34 400IM) and Daiya Seto (1:46 200 free and 59 100 breast) co...

In years past, teams from the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s Division III conference—a collection of ten schools from the East and Midwest divided over two brackets—had no shot at a national championship. The best that Connecticut College, Grove City, Penn State Behrend, Utica, and Washington &...