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Gretchen Walsh to Make High-Stakes Olympic Debut Three years ago, Gretchen Walsh watched from back in the United States as older sister Alex raced for an Olympic medal in the women's 200 IM. Alex led that final with 50 meters remaining before taking silver behind Yui Ohashi. Now, as Gretchen and Ale...

Jillian Cox Among Three Repeat Winners at Speedo Summer Championships During the middle night of racing at the Speedo Summer Championships in Irvine, Calif., three highly-regarded swimmers won their second individual event apiece of the meet. Texas' Jillian Cox pulled away for a win in the women's 4...

Is Caeleb Dressel Confident in Clean Olympics? 'No, Not Really' Within the last three months, accomplished international swimmers have heavily criticized the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and World Aquatics for a lack of transparency after 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine in e...

11 Americans Among Aquatics Technical Officials at Paris Olympics Eleven Americans are among the aquatics technical officials and specialized committee members at the Paris 2024 Olympics for aquatics. Five Americans are on technical and specialized committees for the Games, while six are serving as ...

Rex Maurer, Kayla Han Record Strong 400 IM Performances at Speedo Summer Championships On the second evening of racing at the Speedo Summer Championships in Irvine, Calif., Rex Maurer and Kayla Han each swam exceptional performances in the 400 IM. Maurer posted a time which would have placed fourth ...

Olympics Mini Feature: Summer McIntosh Chasing Fistful of Paris Medals Had the Tokyo Olympics been held in 2020 as originally scheduled, Summer McIntosh likely would not have qualified as a 13-year-old, but the one-year delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic gave her a little extra time to develop. ...

At Paris Games, Kate Douglass Seeking Next Step in Sensational Career Kate Douglass welcomed Kate Douglass to Indianapolis for U.S. Olympic Trials.  If Douglass was feeling pressure as she pondered a four-event program at Trials, seeing her visage rendered stories tall on the side of Lucas Oil Stadi...

Trenton Julian Blasts 1:54.71 200 Fly at Speedo Summer Championships In the Olympic Trials final of the men's 200 butterfly, Trenton Julian led throughout but faded to eighth on the last length. Now, Julian has recorded a time that would have qualified him for the American Olympic team at the Speedo...

A Refreshed Caeleb Dressel is Surging Toward Paris With Momentum Following his signature explosive start, Caeleb Dressel emerged ahead. As he and seven competitors barreled down the length of the temporary 50-meter pool inside Lucas Oil Stadium, the 27-year-old University of Florida Gator never surr...

Return of Fans, Olympic Experience Herald Normalcy for Veterans at Paris Olympics In a sense, everyone was a rookie at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. There was no precedent for an Olympics, already postponed a year, to be held during a global pandemic. With no overseas fans, no family, an impermeable b...

Thomas Heilman is Latest Rising American Star to Pursue Olympic Success Before arriving at his first U.S. Olympic Trials, Thomas Heilman was already the owner of 20 national age group records, the most impressive of which were set last summer when he made the leap from Junior Pan Pacific Championshi...

Brent Rutemiller Posthumously Recognized by United States Aquatic Sports with Prestigious Max Ritter Award United States Aquatic Sports President Patty Miller presented the prestigious Max Ritter Award to the family of Brent Rutemiller during a virtual ceremony last week. Rutemiller, who contributed...

Canada’s Resilient Regan Rathwell Earns ‘Magical’ Olympic Chance There’s no easy way around it, so you might as well just ask it. Regan Rathwell has spent the last five minutes presenting an atlas to her various injuries over a hellish last two years, and the question is begging its way out. The bro...

USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming, today announced the dates for its domestic competitions for the 2025 calendar year. Some locations are still being finalized and will be announced in the coming months. The event schedule features Open Water Nationals and Junior .....

Olympic champion and record holder Michael Phelps has been named the No.1 athlete of the past 25 years by ESPN. The sports network released its decision in a video. Phelps became a household name when he won a record eight Olympic gold medals in 2008 in Beijing. In his career, his is a five-time Oly...

Canadian Olympic Medalist Elaine Tanner Shares Personal Message Ahead of Paris Games Three-time Canadian Olympic medalist Elaine Tanner, nicknamed Mighty Mouse, reached out to Swimming World this week with a letter drafted to the members of this year's Canadian squad to compete at the Olympic Games ...

Canadian Molly Carlson is Reaching New Heights, On Diving and Online Platforms The first time Molly Carlson watched one of her videos on TikTok go certifiably viral, the content of it surprised her. It wasn’t a well-executed dive. It wasn’t a life milestone or a swimsuit haul that took off. It wasn’...

ASCA Announces Top 10 Age Group Coaches of the Year The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) and Fitter & Faster Swim Camps are pleased to announce the Top 10 age group coaches for 2024. Congratulations to the following outstanding coaches (in alphabetical order): Name Club Joe Finke Saint P...

Long-time Indiana high school swimming coach John VanDriessche has been announced as the next head swimming and diving coach at Penn High School. The move was announced Wednesday by Penn High School Athletic Director Jeff Hart and is pending board approval.   VanDriessche comes to Penn after spendin...

'Swimming Pretty' A Groundbreaking History of Artistic Swimming is Pivotal Work As the 2024 Paris Olympics reach audiences around the world, there will be plenty of focus on the water. From swimming to diving to open water and water polo, aquatics athletes will be on display. It is also the biggest ...