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Florida’s men’s and women’s swimming head coach Anthony Nesty was honored as the 2024 ASCA George Haines Coach of the Year recipient Thursday night at the Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Celebration during the ASCA World Clinic at the Rosen Centre Resort in Orlando, Florida. This award is present....

Olympic champion Lydia Jacoby is turning pro. The breaststroker from Alaska will forgo her eligibility at the University of Texas and become a professional swimmer. Jacoby made her announcement on Instgram. "After careful consideration and with the support of my coaches and loved ones, I have decide...

Target Los Angeles: Women Who Could Join U.S. Senior Team By 2028 As the United States women excelled at the Paris Olympics with 18 total medals, experienced swimmers provided the highlights. Of the nine American women who won individual medals, seven were returners from the Tokyo Games, with Gretch...

Leah Shackley Has Risen to Swimming World Female High School Swimmer of the Year Via Unusual Setting Elite athletes don’t often come from places like Leah Shackley’s hometown of Bedford, Pennsylvania. A town of some 2,800 people in a county of the same name with a population of 47,000, the facilitie...

Swimming World High School Boys' Mythical Championship Meet: Full Results Recently, Swimming World recognized Carmel High School (girls) and Keller High School (boys) as its national champions for the 2023-24 scholastic season. Now, Swimming World brings its readers a full look at the boys’ mythical...

Christie Raleigh Crossley Victim of 'Disgusting' Online Bullying After Winning Paralympic Medal Winning a medal at the Paralympics was supposed to be the highest moment for Christie Raleigh Crossley. But it wasn't. After setting a world record in the prelims, then winning a silver medal in the 50 fr...

USA Swimming to Replace CEO Tim Hinchey, Director Lindsay Mintenko (Updated) USA Swimming confirmed in an email and letter posted on its website on Thursday night that CEO Tim Hinchey is resigning from his position. Sources have also told Swimming World that National Team Mnaging Director Lindsay Mi...

Swimming World High School Girls' Mythical Championship Meet: Full Results Recently, Swimming World recognized Carmel High School (girls) and Keller High School (boys) as its national champions for the 2023-24 scholastic season. Now, Swimming World brings its readers a full look at the girls' mythic...

Rylee Erisman Sprinting Through Junior Pan Pacs Toward Senior Level This year, the United States assembled its fastest-ever collection of female 100 freestylers on the way to an American record and silver medal in the 400 freestyle relay at the Paris Olympics. At the U.S. Olympic Trials, a time of 5...

Throwback Thursday: When Ian Crocker Dazzled in 100 Butterfly in Montreal In this Throwback Thursday, we celebrate the day in which Ian Crocker clocked 50.40 in the 100 meter butterfly. Racing at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, the 22-year-old delivered a swim that belied reality and, over...

The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) has announced the candidates for the ASCA Board of Directors, following a nominating process overseen by the ASCA Governance Committee.  Ten candidates are vying for five full-term and one partial-term positions on the 12-member Board. ASCA's Governan...

Another Record-Breaking Surge Makes Maximus Williamson Male High School Swimmer of the Year Entering his junior-year high school state meet, Maximus Williamson had conducted his research on the 13-year-old national high school record he was chasing. When David Nolan had clocked 1:41.39 back in 2011,...

Scottsdale Aquatic Club coach Bob Platt died on Saturday at age 58. Platt has been an inspiration in the swim community through his coaching and also his advocating for the LGBTQ+ community and any other people he felt were marginalized. No cause of death has been released. He has coached several el...

The US Masters Swimming Summer National Championships concluded from Mission Viejo California on Sunday. Ther were 35 USMS records set and 19 World Aquatics age group world records set at the meet. Gabrielle Rose led a group of 11 Olympians who competed in the meet, a group that also included  Jeff ...

Carmel High Claims Another Swimming World Girls Mythical National Championship The Carmel (Ind.) High School swimming dynasty has been nothing short of remarkable. The Greyhounds have won 38 consecutive Indiana girls state championships, a national record that grows yearly. This year, they are once ...

City Swim Project in Buffalo Thriving With Diversity, Building Toward Future of Swimming Mike Switalski grew up in a mostly white town, went to a mostly white college and competed in a mostly white sport. It gave him a narrow understanding of swimming, but when he got to Buffalo, everything changed....

How Training Has Changed Since the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic Four years removed from the worldwide shutdown due to COVID-19, aquatics has re-established a rhythm of training and championships. Paris beckons the world for a second Olympics since, and coaches have resumed mentoring their charges ...

Bruno Fratus has turned his career toward coaching. The Brazilian Olympian has taken over as head coach of Coral Springs Swim Club, the same club that he trained with in Florida while training to make the Olympic team and will coach alongside his wife, Michelle Lenhardt, who is the national team coa...

Junior Pan Pacific Champs: Teagan O'Dell Surges to Gold in 200 IM; Aussie Milla Jansen Takes 50 Free Title One of the themes during the Junior Pan Pacific Championships has been the United States' ability to claim multiple gold-silver finishes in women's competition. So, it was appropriate that one ...

Junior Pan Pacs, Day 4 Prelims: Lilla Bognar, Rylee Erisman, Shin Ohashi Chasing More Gold In six prelims events on the final morning of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in the Australian capital of Canberra, three swimmers who have already secured individual victories claimed top seeds. Top tim...