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Maggie MacNeil, Cameron Auchinachie, Luke Hobson Post Standout Performances at Minnesota Invitational During the first evening of individual event finals at the Minnesota Invitational, swimmers from Texas, Cal and Michigan each shook up the national rankings with times that established themselves as...

Luke Hobson Crushes 500 Free NAG Record Again, Breaks 4:10 in Race with Brooks Fail at Minnesota Invite The star of the Minnesota Invitational thus far has been Texas freshman Luke Hobson, a Reno-native who owned best times of 1:35 in the 200 free and 4:16 in the 500 free prior to his first midseaso...

Katie Ledecky Sets U.S. Open Record with 4:00.51 in 400 Free to Start Second Day Katie Ledecky’s post-Olympics return now includes two U.S. Open meet records in as many days. The reigning Olympic silver medalist in the event bested the field by nearly 10 seconds at the Toyota U.S. Open at the Greens...

US Open Day 2 Prelims: Katie Ledecky, Leah Smith, Mallory Comerford, Trey Freeman Lead Top Seeds The first prelims session of the 2021 US Open kicked off from the Greensboro Aquatic Center on Thursday morning. One day after winning the 800 freestyle, Katie Ledecky swam to the top seed in the 400 fre...

Kelsi Dahlia Used Post-Trials Reset to Propel Herself to Impressive ISL Season When Kelsi Dahlia finished the 100-meter butterfly final at this summer’s U.S. Olympic Trials, he run as the country’s premier swimmer in the event was over. Teenagers Torri Huske and Claire Curzan had taken the spots on ...

Texas Men and Women Crush Relays on Opening Night of Minnesota Invite; Freshman Luke Hobson Splits 1:31.34 The Texas men, last year's NCAA team champions for the fifth time in the previous six championships, flexed some serious depth during the first evening of the Minnesota Invitational. The Longho...

Katie Ledecky Starts U.S. Open With Victory in 800 Freestyle; Bobby Finke Rallies Behind Trademark Closing Speed Four months after she captured her third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle, Katie Ledecky kickstarted the U.S. Open with an impressive performance at the Greensbor...

Frank Elm, one of the top coaches in U.S. history has died. He was 92. Born on Oct 30, 1929, Elm was the head coach for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team. He also was an assistant coach for the 1968 and 1976 Olympic Games. Elm, who also coached the 1967 U.S. Pan American Games team, and two U.S. National T...

The 2021 Minnesota Invitational kicks off this week from Minneapolis with several of the top college teams in the country slated to participate. The University of Minnesota will host Michigan, Texas, Cal, Harvard, Arizona and Wisconsin at the four-day invitational, which begins Wednesday. MINNESOTA ...

Texas and Cal Men Set for Rare Midseason Battle at Minnesota Invitational Over the past decade, the Texas and California men’s teams have dominated college swimming. Those two programs have finished first and second in some order at the last seven NCAA championships and 10 of the last 11. The Texas-...

The 2021 US Open kicks off this week at the Greensboro Aquatic Center and several stars will participate in the meet. Last year, there were nine locations of the meet, which was scored virtually across the country. This year, it is back to a one-meet format. Katie Ledecky leads the field into the me...

Brent Rutemiller, ISHOF CEO and Swimming World Publisher, Continues to Inspire With Leukemia Fight This Thanksgiving weekend, the staff at Swimming World is thankful for many things. We are thankful that swim meets are back. We are thankful that Olympic dreams were achieved, and we are thankful that...

Ryan Murphy set a new US and ISL 50 backstroke record as London Roar ended day one of playoff match five at the head of the standings. ISL Playoff Match 5 Results Murphy touched the wall in 23.53 to take 0.01 off his own record of 23.54 set in November 2020 in Budapest and also won the 200 back. Ily...

Passages: Guillermo Echevarria, Mexican Olympian and World-Record Holder, Dies at 73 Guillermo Echevarria, a two-time Mexican Olympic and former world-record holder, died on Nov. 24 at the age of 73. Echevarria represented Mexico at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo and at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico ...

Great Races: When Tom Jager and Matt Biondi Took the 50 Freestyle Into Sub-22 Range Their duels produced one of the greatest rivalries the sport has seen, so it was only a matter of time before our Great Races Series featured one of the battles between Matt Biondi and Tom Jager. Together, Biondi and...

After Olympic Glory, Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass Pursuing Another Championship for Virginia For Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, the signature moments of their swimming careers happened together, on the morning of July 28 in Tokyo. The two University of Virginia swimmers were each competing in their f...

Open Water Olympian Ashley Twichell Expecting First Child Less than four months after she competed in her first and only Olympics, Ashley Twichell has announced that she is expecting her first child. Twichell, 32, posted to Instagram a series of photos where she, husband Derek Wall and their dog are...

Golden Goggles Look: Which Performance Will Win Male Race of the Year? The Golden Goggles Awards are presented annually, across several categories, to swimmers who excelled for the United States during the prior year. This year's nominees are considered with special emphasis placed on the 2020 Olymp...

No Concerns for Caeleb Dressel, Even After Off Performance in ISL Playoffs Whenever Caeleb Dressel swims even a little bit poorly at a meet, the whispers begin. “What’s wrong with Dressel?” the fans and pundits wonder. Because for essentially the past five years, Dressel has been unstoppable, from t...

Gregg Troy Joins Inside With Brett Hawke Podcast; Discusses Coaching Caeleb Dressel One of the big pieces of news last week was the announcement by Caeleb Dressel that he was switching coaches from longtime mentor and former University of Florida coach Gregg Troy to the group headed by Anthony Nesty...