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Jack Roach Honored With Prestigious USA Swimming Award This week, USA Swimming honored longtime coach Jack Roach with the annual USA Swimming Award. Roach has coached at various club and college destinations for more than 50 years, and he served as USA Swimming National Junior Team Director beginnin...

Canada Names World Short-Course Team with Josh Liendo, Without Summer McIntosh Canada on Friday announced its team for the 2026 World Short-Course Championships, a group that includes the return of Josh Liendo but does not include Summer McIntosh. Liendo and Kylie Masse both return to the team after...

WFW Racing Launches Showdown-Based Event; Signs Shaine Casas, Brian Benzing WFW Racing, short for World’s Fastest in Water, has signed Shaine Casas and Brian Benzing to initial-event agreements as it builds the opening race card for its planned 2027 debut. The format of the venture centers on three-...

Allison Schmitt, Jack Bauerle Lead Class of 2027 Inductees Into International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) is thrilled to announce that it will host its 62nd Annual Honoree Induction Ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA on Saturday, April 10, 2027.  We a...

Anna Moesch Set to Continue Rise During Junior Season at Virginia Entering her first season of college swimming, Anna Moesch had already been an Olympic Trials semifinalist, missing out on a finals spot in the 100 freestyle in a swim-off. She quickly became a multi-event scorer for a Virginia Cavali...

Taylor Ruck Leading Seven Canadians into World Cup Competition Seven Canadian swimmers will represent Canada on a three-stop World Cup tour through Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan this fall. A Canadian team of three women and four men will begin its international tour in Baku, Azerbaijan, befo...

Tie Game: The 26th Anniversary of Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin Sharing Olympic Gold From the Archive Training together at the Phoenix Swim Club and living as roommates in the Olympic Village, veteran Gary Hall Jr. and upstart Anthony Ervin wrote an intriguing chapter in the history of sprinting w...

Three-Time Olympic Champion Mike Burton Dies at 79; Packaged Legendary Career in Distance Freestyle Legendary American distance star Mike Burton has died, according to a social-media post written by his son, Eric. Burton, 79, was a three-time Olympic champion between the 1968 Games in Mexico City an...

After Golden Summer, McKenzie Siroky Entering Fall With Opportunities to Continue Momentum Perhaps no American woman put together a better summer season than McKenzie Siroky. The 21-year-old Division I ice hockey commit-turned-standout breaststroker qualified for her first World Championships team i...

CSL Hires Two-Time Olympian Brittany MacLean as Analyst for First Stop Olympian an NCAA champion Brittany MacLean has been one of the world's most prominent swimming analysts in her work for CBC. The College Swimming League (CSL) announced the hiring of MacLean to be the analyst for the first to mat...

Luka Mijatovic Confirms Plans to Graduate Early, Join Texas in December The swimmer who has rewritten the National Age Group record books in mid-distance and distance freestyle over the past several years will begin his college career earlier than expected. Luka Mijatovic confirmed in an Instagram p...

Record-Breaking Troféu José Finkel Sets the Stage for Short Course Worlds as Gui Caribe Stars The Brazilian Championships, known as the Troféu José Finkel, held from August 31 to September 4, kicked off the global race for World Short Course Championships spots, as nations are in the process of sele...

Six-Time Olympic Medalist Brendan Hansen Recovering from Patellar Tendon Tears in Both Knees Six-time Olympic medalist Brendan Hansen, USA Swimming's National Junior Team Director, is on the mend after tearing both patellar tendons in his knees during a July 4 mishap. Hansen was taking part in a can...

Remembering Andy O'Grady - Former UCLA Swimmer That Died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 September 11, 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks that occurred in 2001, where nearly 3,000 people died after two planes hit the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. One...

USA Swimming Announces 2026-2027 U.S. National Junior Team Roster USA Swimming, the National Governing Body of the sport of swimming in the United States, today announced its 2026-2027 U.S. National Junior Team Presented by Speedo. The roster is composed of 97 of the nation's top 18-and-under athlet...

The Coaching Trio Behind Caeleb Dressel: Unique Collaboration Produced Stellar Results In 2025, Caeleb Dressel raced sparingly and only in 50-meter events. He skipped U.S. Nationals as he and wife Meghan prepared for the birth of their second child, although Dressel did compete at USA Swimming's Sum...

Which Men's Medley Relay is the Best in Team USA History? (VOTE HERE!) As impossible as it might be to get a definitive answer, debating sports across eras is part of being a fan. Michael Jordan or LeBron James? Choosing which legend is the greatest in NBA history has been a hot topic over the years...

On This Date: 54 Years Since Mark Spitz Went 7-For-7 at Munich Games Today, Sept. 4, 2026, marks the 54th anniversary of Mark Spitz's seventh gold medal of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Each of Spitz's titles was won in world-record time, and the accomplishment became the sport’s measuring stick...

Gretchen Walsh Could Pound Short Course Meters Records Again This Fall No one doubted Gretchen Walsh would immediately find success in the short course meters format. She first contested SCM seriously in the fall of 2024, three years into her NCAA career at the University of Virginia in which she di...

Battle for LA28: U.S. Women Facing Epic Challenge for Qualification in Sprint Freestyle and Backstroke The group of women representing the United States in international swimming over the past few years represents one of the greatest shows of depth in the sport's history. At the 2025 World Champions...