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NEW COMMIT: The University of Kentucky has gotten off to a hot start with recruiting for the 2023 cycle, most recently landing their second verbal pledge from Junior National qualifier Paige Housman of Tucson, Arizona. She will join Madi McGlothen in Lexington as a member of the Wildcats' Class of 2...

USA Swimming today announced the full list of 2020-2021 Scholastic All-America recipients. The list consisted of 1,239 athletes in 9-12th grade who maintained a minimum 3.5 grade-point average and swam a time that met the 2019 Winter Junior qualifying time between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 20...

Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky announced she has joined the Florida swimming and diving program as a volunteer swimming coach and will train for the 2024 Olympics in Gainesville with Florida head coach Anthony Nesty, who was an assistant coach for Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics. Flor...

After Rough Olympics, Daiya Seto Notches Impressive Rebound in ISL Daiya Seto had the misfortune of swimming the worst meet of his life at the worst possible time. He was 27 years old and had won two gold medals and a silver at the previous global championships, and now he was competing in an Olympi...

Double Olympic champion James Guy has described as "horrendous" Swim England's prediction that almost 2,000 pools in England could be lost forever by the end of the decade. The governing body made its grim forecast in its newly-published A Decade of Decline: The Future of Swimming Pools in England r...

NEW COMMIT: The University of Louisville has officially entered the 2023 recruiting game, recently snagging their first Class of 2027 verbal commitment from Olympic Trials qualifier Summer Cardwell of Crystal Beach, Florida. Cardwell does her club swimming with Tampa Bay Aquatics and most recently c...

Texas Ready to Start Chase For 16th NCAA Title With Annual Orange-White Meet The University of Texas, which has captured five of the past six NCAA men’s team titles, will begin its 2021-22 campaign on Friday when the Longhorns race in their annual Orange-White meet. The intrasquad competition, at le...

Several Quick Times Dropped at Chinese National Games; Wang Shun Looking Sharp While many of the world’s top swimmers are racing in the short-course pool as part of the International Swimming League, China has put together some strong performances at the Chinese National Games. Leading the way has b...

Sydney Flashback: Misty Hyman and Her Epic Olympic Upset (Video) Twenty-one years later, we take a look at Misty Hyman's epic upset of Susie O'Neill in the final of the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Rare are the Olympic events that are considered locks. While favorites eme...

The Three Most-Dominant NCAA Male Swimmers Of Recent Years The last 10 years in NCAA swimming have changed the sport tremendously. In the last decade, there have been a plethora of athletes who have made their mark individually on the sport. This article will focus on males, specifically. When think...

Janet Evans - Ahead of Her Time On the 33rd anniversary of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, we take a look back at one of the iconic moments in the sport, when Janet Evans won the 400-meter freestyle behind an epic performance. ****************************** When Janet Evans stepped onto the blocks ...

The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) hosted its 2021 induction ceremony and welcomed its newest class. The ceremony took place virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yvetta Hlaváčová, Capri-Napoli (event), Gabriel Chaillou, Julian Critchlow, Stéphane Gomez, Neville Smith, V...

Don't Violate These 16 Unspoken Swimmer Laws By Allison Peters Once, during a meet, I had a revelation. After almost being jumped on by one of my teammates during warmup, I thought to myself, “Wow, he’s really breaking a norm right now.” Then I realized the way swim meets and swim practices run are ...

5 Impossible Things to Explain to the Non-Swimmer By Erin Himes, Swimming World College Intern Swimming is a different sport, which is why explaining things to non-swimmers can get tricky sometimes. While swimmers pretty much speak another language, here are a few of the hardest things to explain to...

Caeleb Dressel, Lydia Jacoby, Maddie Musselman Named Sullivan Award Finalists Swimmers Caeleb Dressel and Lydia Jacoby and water polo player Maddie Musselman were named finalists for the Sullivan Award by the Amateur Athletic Union this week. The 91st addition of the award, present by Eastbay, will ...

The Next Ian Thorpe or Kyle Chalmers? Aussie Flynn Southam a Surging Young Talent Bond University Swimming’s 16-year-old Flynn Southam has eclipsed the times swum by Olympic champions Kyle Chalmers and Ian Thorpe in an impressive record breaking weekend of racing at the Queensland State Short Course...

There Is No Right Form: Don't Let Anyone Knock Your Body Image “Your body is a temple, don’t knock it down.” “Beauty is pain.” “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” It’s no secret that we, as a society and as a human race, have put a huge emphasis on the physical body and what is considered “beaut...

Seoul Anniversary: When Matt Biondi Surged to Seven Medals at the 1988 Olympics This week, 33 years ago, Matt Biondi took home seven medals from the Olympic Games in Seoul, an iconic performance that continues to be revered. He had it all. The physique. The pure talent. The inner drive. Add those tr...

Matt Sates Wins 11 Events in Domination of South African Short-Course Championships Matt Sates turned in a dominant performance at the South African Short-Course Championships this weekend, winning 11 events at the meet in Pietermaritzburg. While Sates was the star on the men’s side, the women’s hal...

Ten former University of Texas student-athletes will be inducted this October into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor, including swimmers Tobie Smith, Clay Britt and diver Jessica Livingston Gibson. These 10 individuals will be recognized along with the 14 selections (13 former UT student-athletes an...