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4 Ways to Mentally Recover From the Grind of Swimming By Evangelia Vasilakis, Swimming World College Intern.  All swimmers know how hard the sport can be on them mentally. The draining practices, the long meets, and the stress of working hard out of the pool. This can be a lot on an athlete, it can ...

7 Reasons Why Sprint Squad is the Best Squad "All right folks! Split up into your groups! Let's rock and roll!" Your coach cheers and graciously pairs those words with a few enthusiastic claps. You quickly hop out of your warmup lane, carefully organize your equipment in your mesh bag and make your ...

Great Races: The Olympic Showdown Of Matt Biondi and Tom Jager in Inaugural 50 Freestyle There is something special about being identified as the fastest person on the planet in a specific endeavor. Usain Bolt, the Jamaican track legend, holds the distinction on land. In the water, the honor current...

Olympic 200m breaststroke champion Tatjana Schoenmaker has been unveiled as a new ambassador for Discovery Vitality, a programme that encourages healthy living. Schoenmaker became the first woman to break 2:19 when she won the title in Tokyo in July in a world record 2:18.95 and also claimed silver ...

Tatjana Schoenmaker Discusses Olympic Title and World Record On Inside With Brett Hawke Podcast One of the top feel-good stories from last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo was the gold-medal performance by South African Tatjana Schoenmaker in the 200-meter breaststroke. En route to the gold medal, th...

The SEC announced its swimmers and divers of the week. Men’s Swimmer of the Week: Jarel Dillard, Tennessee Tennessee’s Jarel Dillard, a senior from Hendersonville, Tenn., swept the breaststroke events against No. 4 NC State with a pair of NCAA B-cut times. Dillard, the top points scorer for the Vols...

NC State’s Nyls Korstanje has been named ACC Men’s Swimmer of the Week, and Florida State’s Joshua Davidson has been selected as the Diver of the Week. On the women’s side, Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh has been named the ACC Women’s Swimmer of the Week, while Notre Dame’s Kelly Straub has been selected...

The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) announced its intent to upgrade and expand educational offerings for coaches with the appointment of Coach Chad Onken as Director of International Clinics and Coach Ariel Hodges as the Director of Communications and Education. Onken will be responsibl...

The Pride of Being a Student-Athlete: Swimmer Edition The United States’ collegiate programs funnel swimmers to both the National Team and Olympic Team. Forty-nine of the 53 athletes that were on the Tokyo Olympic roster competed with some type of college affiliation, whether having raced for a coll...

USA Swimming Names 43 Girls, 36 Boys to 2021-22 U.S. National Junior Team USA Swimming announced 79 athletes (43 girls, 36 boys) to the 2021-22 U.S. National Junior Team. In all, 61 clubs and 26 states are represented. Leading the way with four events is Justina Kozan, selected in the girls 200 free...

Spain Tops Greece to Win Women’s Junior Water Polo World Championship Ariadne Ruiz and captain Paula Camus scored three times each as Spain beat Greece, 10-5, on Saturday to win the 14th FINA Women’s Junior Water Polo World Championship. Spain used a 4-0 run over two minutes in the first half to bui...

USA Swimming announced today 200 clubs will be recognized as Gold, Silver or Bronze medal clubs in the 2021-2022 Club Excellence Program. Number one seated club, TAC Titans (TAC), posted 69,591 points to oust 7-year defending champion Nation’s Capital Swim Club (NCAP) club by 9,215 points. TAC’s top...

Fuel Foods Every Swimmer Needs in Their Life By Suzie Ryan Training hard, giving 100% in every session, day in and day out, both in the pool and the gym, are all essential for smashing your goals, making that podium, and earning qualifying times. While dedicated to these aspects of the sport, swimme...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. This week, the defending NCAA champion Virginia Cavalier women traveled to the Bay Area to face the California Golden Bears, one of the most consistent teams in the country over the past two decades, and the Cal men, who have finished in the top two at the NC...

Kyle Chalmers Still Superb, Still Searching for Big Win Over Caeleb Dressel When Kyle Chalmers became an Olympic champion, he was just a month past his 18th birthday, the youngest man in a loaded heat of 100 freestylers. He had never swum an individual event at a major international meet, although h...

NEW COMMIT: The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has received their first verbal commitment for the fall of 2023 from U.S. Open qualifier Maren Conze of Garrett Park, Maryland. She told Swimming World: "I’m super excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and swimming ...

Milly Routledge, Freestyle Depth Lead Villanova Past UConn in Big East Showdown Milly Routledge and Kelly Montesi won three times each, and Villanova swept the freestyle races as the reigning Big East champs downed the University of Connecticut, 166.5-133.5, in women’s swimming action Saturday. Rout...

Laticia Transom, Calypso Sheridan Help USC Win Trojan Invitational Laticia Transom and Calypso Sheridan led a formidable showing on the women’s side as USC won the four-team Trojan Invitational on Saturday. USC collected 1,741.5 points across the men’s and women’s competition over the two-day meet. ...

NEW COMMIT: One of the top recruits in the Class of 2023 is officially off the market: Jacksonville, Florida native and Olympic Trials qualifier Will Heck has verbally committed to NC State University. Regarding his commitment, he said: "It is with great pleasure that I am proud to announce that I w...

California and Virginia Compete in Unique Events in Day Two of Dual Meet After a Friday evening dual meet where the reigning national champion Virginia women took down California while the Golden Bear men beat the Cavaliers, the two teams returned to Spieker Aquatic Complex Saturday for a meet with ...