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The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) named 1,479 swimmers and divers to Scholar All-American Team for the 2019-20 season. The award recognizes students who achieved a grade point average of 3.50 or higher and were invited to compete at their respective national c...

Three-time Olympic gold medalist and USA Swimming Foundation Ambassador Rowdy Gaines was upgraded to the role of Director of Community Engagement by USA Swimming on Wednesday, the organization announced. Active as an Ambassador of the USA Swimming Foundation since 2011, Gaines will continue his advo...

The Southern Zone Athletes' Commission has issued a statement regarding the current status of the coronavirus in the United States. USA Swimming's Southern Zone consists of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, West Virginia, Georgia, North & South Carolina and Florida. Two of...

When Brendan Hansen Earned World-Record Status...And Vanquished Demons Today marks the 16th anniversary of the first of five individual world records for Brendan Hansen, the United States breaststroke star who collected six career Olympic medals. Hansen entered the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials in Long B...

Commentary from Jim Gamble, swimmer and then coach at the Pittsburgh Panthers, on his experience of growing up in swimming as "the only one", in other words, the only black kid on the blocks - and why he says "I have no idea what my life would be like if it wasn't for swimming." Coach Mark Rau...

More than most of his peers, Brandonn Almeida was hoping 2020 would bring stability. In what had become an all-too-familiar theme, the Brazilian changed coaches last fall, culminating a stretch of 18 months where he changed coaches four times. That stretch included a season at the University of Sout...

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the advent of Helene Madison as a dominant force in freestyle swimming. By the time the American was done racing, she had gone down in history as an Olympic and World-record pioneer who set 16 World records on freestyle in just 16 months. This day in 193o ...

In one of the first sanctioned marathon swims since the falling of COVID-19 restrictions, Henry Palmer completed a swim across the Santa Barbara Channel this week. Palmer finished the swim from Oxnard, Calif., to Anacapa Island in six and a half hours. He covered 14.3 miles in what was originally pl...

When Renzo Tjon-A-Joe weighed the possibility of an elite swimming career in his late teens, he knew it would require leaving his native Suriname. To work his way into the upper echelons of the world of swimming, the United States would be the best place for him, he reasoned then. As much as he love...

Olympic gold medalist Tom Dolan appeared on the podcast Inside With Brett Hawke to talk about his career and how he used his competitiveness to ultimately be a great swimmer. Dolan chatted about his early beginnings in the sport with summer league and how his competitive nature kept him going during...

Mark Schubert and John Leonard, two of the most senior coaching figures in World swimming for the past 40 years have flatly denied accusations against them in an open letter from Robert Allard, the lawyer representing sexual abuse victims and claimants, to USA Swimming. Neither Schubert, who has inf...

UMass Dartmouth announced Wednesday that men’s and women’s swimming and diving are among eight varsity athletic program to be cut. The decision is reportedly not related to coronavirus budget reductions. The programs cut include women’s equestrian, men’s golf, men’s lacrosse, co-ed sailing and men’s...

On the day the women's 100 backstroke finals were supposed to take place at the 2020 U.S. Olympic trials, Olivia Smoliga was at her family home in the Chicago suburbs. She was not in the water, nor was she dwelling on what could have been had the COVID-19 pandemic not pushed the trials and the Olymp...

New Jersey Given Green Light to Open Indoor Pools - With Restrictions In the midst of rising COVID-19 numbers in many states, New Jersey swimmers received good news on Thursday when Gov. Phil Murphy announced that indoor pools were allowed to open. This decision followed a June 22 opening date for o...

Lance Larson turns 80 today in the same week in which, sixty years ago, he became the first swimmer to race inside the minute over 100m butterfly. The American, better known for the first place at the Olympic Games that resulted in the faster swimmer being handed the silver medal over 100m freestyle...

When news broke on Thursday that the YMCA of Central Florida was eliminating its competitive aquatic sports program at 22 locations, reactions were swift. Some individuals floated the idea that the decision was using COVID-19 as a shield to make the unpopular cuts. Others were angered that their chi...

The YMCA of Central Florida competitive aquatic sports have been disbanded indefinitely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Florida has been hit harder than most states during the pandemic and the YMCA made the decision to discontinue the competitive programs at the 22 YMCA of Central Florida location...

TYR Sport is proud to reveal the new TYR Venzo Genesis USA technical suit. To celebrate the launch of the new patriotic print, the American brand will be giving away a TYR Venzo Genesis USA to one lucky winner. Head to Swimming World’s instagram to find out how you can enter to win! About the TYR Ve...

In 2020, we’re missing out on one of the fastest and most exciting meets in the sport of swimming: The U.S. Olympic Trials.  The history of this meet reveals an interesting progression of events as they were included in the Olympics, and gives insight into the history of the sport of swimming.  Look...

When Katie Robinson was named as the head coach for Northwestern Swimming and Diving this spring, there was a sense of relief she saw on the faces of the swimmers. Robinson had been upgraded from the associate head coach role that she held the last two years, as the Wildcats saw tremendous improveme...