Americas

When March hit and the worst of the COVID-19 lockdowns took effect, Rudy Garcia-Tolson sought something to fill the time. A four-time Paralympian who’d won five medals – four in swimming and one in track & field, and been a Team USA captain in 2016 – got the urge to get back in the water to train fo...

Jon Ornée and his “Epic Swim 2020” team have been dreaming about the chance to accomplish a truly rare feat in open water swimming. For the second time in history, a recorded swim has crossed Lake Michigan. Nearly 22 years after the first swimmer crossed Lake Michigan, Epic Swim 2020, a six-man rela...

Mark Emmert said Thursday in a video posted to the NCAA’s twitter account that there won’t be NCAA championships this fall season, citing lack of schools and leagues participating. The decision affects 22 sports in which the NCAA crowns champions, including the Division I Football Championship Subdi...

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) Wednesday revealed its plan for a condensed 2020-21 athletic calendar in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, moving football to the spring and condenses the seasons for other sports. All contest dates are suspended through the rest of Augus...

Mark Spitz Challenges Caeleb Dressel to Balance Cup in Butterfly (Video) Olympic great Mark Spitz is certainy having some fun with balancing a glass of water on his head. A few days after he responded to Katie Ledecky's ability to swim 50 meters of freestyle without spilling a glass of chocolate mil...

NCAA Designing Reprieve for Athletes Affected by COVID-19 Conference Shutdowns The NCAA Division I Council has recommended that fall athletes do not lose eligibility if they opt out of their sport due to COVID-19 concerns, or if the pandemic causes the cancellation of their seasons before half of th...

The Big East Conference announced Wednesday that it will postpone the 2020 fall sports season, but the conference deferred a decision on winter sports. The decision postpones fall sports – men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, volleyball and field hockey – from the fall, while t...

Bahamian Olympian Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace talked with her own college coach at Auburn Brett Hawke on his podcast about her career where she was a multi-NCAA champion for the Tigers and swam in three Olympic Games for the Bahamas. Vanderpool-Wallace came from the Bahamas, a country primarily of tr...

American Olympian Cody Miller showed off his new backyard pool setup, featuring a personalized endless pool, in a video posted to YouTube Wednesday. Miller, rocking his Team USA flag cap, provides a tour of his new backyard, complete with new deck and patio area, before showing off the endless pool ...

USA Swimming Tuesday announced a partnership with Futures Without Violence, a nonprofit organization that designs programming to reduce violence against women and children. The product of the collaboration are two programs, “Coaching Boys into Men” and “Athletes as Leaders,” that will be made availa...

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted unanimously on Tuesday, Aug. 11, to suspend all sports competition until Jan. 1, 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Swimming and diving is a winter sport, along with basketball, that will be ...

Stanford's Brooke Forde: “We knew it wasn’t going to be a normal season no matter what.” With the flurry of college fall seasons being canceled or postponed, the Pac-12 Conference’s announcement Tuesday was the first to affect college swimming. The Pac-12 postponed all sports through the end of the ...

The Big Ten Conference officially announced the postponement of the 2020-21 fall sports season, including all regular-season contests and Big Ten Championships and Tournaments, due to ongoing health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision is not a surprise, especially sinc...

USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming in the United States, concluded its COVID-19 Relief Program with a second round of funding to member clubs on August 11 in the amount of $1,524,253. Nearly twice the number of clubs applied for grants in the second round, with submi...

12th Anniversary of Jason Lezak's Epic Anchor Leg at Beijing Games (Video) When Jason Lezak entered the water for the United States on the anchor leg of the United States’ 400 freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the race was seemingly over. Lezak trailed Frenchman Alain Bernard by ...

Lillie Nordmann has announced she will defer her enrollment to Stanford for a year. Nordmann confirmed her decision with Swimming World. She is the second Stanford incoming freshman to make that decision, following world champion Regan Smith. "After much thought and consideration I decided to defer ...

The Mountain West Conference has joined the list of NCAA Division I conferences to put a halt on fall sports. The Mountain West announced the indefinite postponement of all scheduled fall sports competitions and MW championship events on Monday in response to ongoing challenges with the effective mi...

Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian was the latest guest on the Inside With Brett Hawke podcast as he went over his latest endeavors including his involvement with a swim school in Oakland, California that was started by 1948 Olympic gold medalist Ann Curtis. Adrian has been one of the most consiste...

Niagara swimming and diving head coach Eric Bugby has announced the hiring of Morgan Bullock, who will serve as an assistant coach for both the men's and women's teams. "I'm beyond excited to have Morgan join our swimming and diving program," Bugby said. "She has an extraordinary background and the ...

The Big Ten Conference has voted to cancel the fall sports season, including football, sources told the Detroit Free Press. The decision was made because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The presidents voted, 12-2, Sunday to end the fall sports in the conference. Only Nebraska and Iowa voted to...