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The Speedo Junior Nationals Championships will be this weekend with the East meet being held in Atlanta, and the West meet being held in Seattle. This is the fifth straight year that the meet will be split among east and west, with all of the states in the Eastern Time Zone going to Georgia while al...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The European Short Course Championships in Glasgow and the US Open in Atlanta concluded this weekend as many of the world's best swimmers finished their 2019 competitions as they go back home and gear up for the 2020 Olympic year. However the biggest story of...

The 2019 Alabama 1A-5A State Swimming & Diving Championships took place on Dec. 7 at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center at Auburn University. The UMS Wright Prep won the team title on the girls’ side for the fourth-straight year, finishing with 273 points ahead of a tight race with Whitesburg Chris...

Being a model of consistency has made Kylie Masse one of the world’s best backstroke swimmers. The 23-year-old, who trains at the University of Toronto, is the first Canadian to win back-to-back FINA World Championships gold medals. Since her bronze medal performance at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, M...

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For the third time in as many weeks, Mel Marshal, mentor to Adam Peaty, Luke Greenbank and other speedy swimmers, has been honoured for her work. The Action Woman Awards celebrate what the title suggests. Marshall collected the Lifetime Achievement Award, the oddness in the accolade for a 37-year-ol...

In an Open Letter to Swim England, English Masters have challenged governors to practise what they preach, reach for transparency and allow grown-up athletes to have a genuine say in running their affairs  Key Masters swimming volunteers have written an open letter to Swim England, formerly the Amat...

As open water swimming moves toward the Olympic year, FINA has announced the calendar for the 2020 edition of the FINA Marathon Swim World Series, which includes an 11-leg competition, taking place between February and October. The FINA Marathon Swim World Series will open on February 8, in Rosario,...

NEW COMMIT: San Clemente, Calif. native Mike Maurer has announced his in-state verbal commitment to Biola University and will suit up for the Eagles in the fall of 2020. Maurer does his club swimming with San Clemente Aquatic Team and placed 14th in the 200m fly this past summer at Santa Clarita Sec...

Mizuno, a global leader in sporting goods and apparel, introduced the Mizuno GX-Sonic V, the next evolution of acclaimed elite racing tech suit series known as the “Mizuno suit,” to the U.S. market today. Initially introduced in Japan, the Mizuno suit is now available for pre-order at mizunousa.com ...

The appearance of rising stars Clyde Lewis, Kaylee McKeown and Lani Pallister, a host of Olympians and a record number of internationals will highlight the up-coming 2019 McDonald’s Queensland State Swimming Championships at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre (December 14-20). The Open, Age and M...

STOCKTON, CA. Almost without fail, championships are won by the team that takes charge. The Stanford Cardinal did just that Sunday afternoon at the Chris Kjeldsen Pool,  racing to a 9-3 halftime lead over host Pacific before rolling to a 13-8 victory in the title match of the 2019 NCAA Men's Water P...

NCAA Swimming Meet of the Week The fall semester wrapped up over the weekend for many of the NCAA Division I, II and III teams across the country. The December Invites came to a close and gave fans some appetizers for what will come in February and March once we get into the meat of championship sea...

The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has the names of all suspicious athletes in the Moscow Laboratory database, which is said to be manipulated before being handed over to the agency's investigators in January 2019. That was the stark message from Jonathan Taylor,...

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has issued a stinging rebuke of the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to impose sanctions on Russia that will still allow Russian athletes to compete at the Olympic Games and other international events. In a statement, USADA describes WADA's decisi...

Russia’s swimmers have been given a green light to continue to race in the International Swimming League (ISL) provided that they have no doping penalty against their name. Sun Yang, Yuliya Efimova, Shayna Jack, Gabriel Santos and others are barred from the ISL, which has a "zero-tolerance", one-str...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned Russia from international sports events for the next four years in response to the manipulation of data related to thousands of doping tests. The ban means Russia will miss the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, as well as the Winter Games in Beijing in 2022....

Split Time for the 50 Short Course Meters Freestyle Skins races is sponsored by LumaLanes. Today we look at the  International Swimming League's (ISL) Skins races, specifically highlighting Caeleb Dressel and some of his male competitors he will most likely be facing off against in Las Vegas. First ...

The South East Asian Games, which concluded in the Philippines today after six days of racing, is not the best barometer of how Joe Schooling may fare come the defence of the Olympic 100m butterfly crown in Tokyo next July. Even so, two silver linings and a near miss in tight races with Singapore te...

Former European 400m freestyle bronze medallist Jay Lelliott won four gold medals at the National Winter Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. There was also a British record in the 200m breaststroke for Jocelyn Ulyett while Loughborough University claimed all the relay titles. [caption id="attac...