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2021 Big Ten Men’s Swimming Championships Day Three Heats, Columbus, Ohio The 2021 Big Ten men’s swimming championships continued from the campus of The Ohio State University with the 100 fly, 400 IM and 200 free as this is the last of the five major power five conferences to hold their championship...

The COVID-19 pandemic has obviously shaken up the world this past year. The Olympics got pushed back a year, various meet cuts were changed, and certain practices became difficult to get to. However, for some swimmers, the situation was even worse. Often times, when a high school swimmer's school di...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here The Mount Rushmore of Division I Swimming By Andy Ross If there were a sculpture made of the top American NCAA Division I swimmers s...

Swimming Australia Reveals Backup Plans and Insurance Swims for Olympic Trials Swimming Australia (SAL) has today announced a range of scenarios if a COVID lockdown and border closures disrupts its June Olympic Trials in Adelaide. Regardless, it will almost certainly see the Western Australian Tokyo...

Pac-12 Conference Men's Champs, Day Four Finals: With 17 Wins in 18 Events, Cal Captures Team Title Day Four Finals, Houston Texas From the opening day of the meet through its conclusion, Cal looked sensational in collecting its latest Pac-12 Conference championship. From senior Ryan Hoffer to fresh...

TYR Pro Swim Series: Katie Ledecky Returns to Competition With Strong Effort in 1500 Freestyle Before she stepped onto the blocks on Wednesday night at the USA Swimming TYR Pro Series stop in San Antonio, it had been a year since distance star Katie Ledecky last competitively raced. Obviously, Ledec...

2021 Big Ten Men’s Swimming Championships Day Two Finals, Columbus, Ohio The 2021 Big Ten men’s swimming championships continued from the campus of The Ohio State University with the 200 IM, 50 free and 500 as this is the last of the five major power five conferences to hold their championship meet ...

Cornel Marculescu, FINA’s executive director for the last 35 years, announced his resignation Wednesday at the first FINA Bureau meeting of 2021. The resignation is effective immediately. Marcela Saxlund Medvedev, previously FINA’s deputy executive director, has been nominated to fill Marculescu’s r...

Pac-12 Conference Men's Champs, Day Four Prelims: Cal's Reece Whitley Looks Sharp in 200 Breast Day Four Prelims, Houston Texas Cal's coronation is underway with the fourth day of prelims at the Pac-12 Conference Men's Championships. The Bears have won all but one event through the first three days ...

2021 Big Ten Men’s Swimming Championships Day Two Heats, Columbus, Ohio The 2021 Big Ten men’s swimming championships continued from the campus of The Ohio State University with the 200 IM, 50 free and 500 as this is the last of the five major power five conferences to hold their championship meet w...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Doc's Guys: Doc Counsilman's Legendary Swimming Program At Indiana University By John Lohn In the late 1960s into the early 1970s, D...

The psych sheets for the 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships have been finalized with the line set at 41. The meet will be held two weeks from today at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in North Carolina. Stanford is the three-time defending champion but will have its hands fu...

Elite swimmers will converge once more on Manchester Aquatics Centre from 12-14 March for the British Swimming Invitation Meet. It follows February's Manchester International Swim Meet (MISM) which was held at the same venue in the city in north-west England and offers Britain's top prospective Olym...

Sarah Sjostrom Checks in With Brett Hawke on Elbow Recovery & Relives Rio Gold Olympic gold medalist Sarah Sjostrom checked in with Brett Hawke on his podcast, Inside With Brett Hawke, about her recent elbow injury that was required after she slipped on ice at her home in Sweden. It will take three ...

6 Reasons Why Swimmers Make the Best Students Early alarm clock rings. Morning lifting practice. Breakfast. School. Lunch. Practice. Dinner. Homework. Swimming steals a lot of your time and begs the question as to when is there ever time for school? Our education is an important part o...

Playing Both Sides: How Swimmers Can be Friends and Competitors Swimmers usually find their closest friends through the sport because of the amount of time they spend with their teammates. It is very common for swimmers to find themselves racing against their friends, whether it is during a practice...

Molly Renshaw hesitated for a second or two when asked about matching the British 200m breaststroke record at last month's Manchester International Swim Meet. The three-time European medallist went 2:22.08 to equal the national mark set by Jocelyn Ulyett at the British Championships in April 2017. I...

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...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here All Systems Are Go...For Now: NCAA Division II Championships Still On By Andy Ross Although the NCAA Division III and NAIA had cance...

The 2021 Texas 5A and 6A Girls State Swimming and Diving Championships took place on March 1-2 at the Bill Walker Pool and Josh Davis Natatorium in San Antonio, Texas. Both meets were postponed not once, but twice because of the historic winter storm sweeping across Texas. Johnson's 4x50 free relay ...