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Abbey Weitzeil, Beata Nelson Leading Charge As ISL Rookies Make Presence Known When the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships were canceled in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was understandably devastating for all the swimmers and coaches involved. And no one was hurt more than the seniors, wh...

Speedo, the world's leading swimwear brand, has announced the appointment of four-time Olympic medallist Cullen Jones to its North America team.  Jones, who is known for his illustrious career as a competitive swimmer, joins Speedo as Philanthropic Sales Manager. He will lead the brand's fundraising...

Lilly King continued her unbeaten streak at the International Swimming League as the Cali Condor who trains at Indiana University with Ray Looze has yet to lose a race in the professional league. On Monday in Budapest, she broke the official American record with a 2:16.04, lowering Rebecca Soni's 2:...

Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin this weekend tweeted a response to IOC President Thomas Bach’s dissuasion of protest at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Bach Friday, in a guest column for The Guardian, cautioned against making the Olympics about anything other than sports. “Otherwise,” Bach wrote, “...

Champion’s Mojo podcast, known for hosting world’s best athletes and coaches, won “Best Single Podcast Episode”, Silver Award from w3 Awards. w3 selects only 1% to 10% or less of the entries to be winners. The award was presented to Champion’s Mojo for Episode 74, “Jeffrey Ritter: Broken Neck to Wor...

The International Swimming League's two newest teams get underway in ISL Match 3, with the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans each hitting the water for the first time. They're joined by two teams looking to make up ground after difficult starts. The LA Current finished third against a difficult fi...

The operative word for Rob Kent, the general manager of the Toronto Titans in the International Swimming League, is adaptation. It applied for a team that had, by his reckoning, 70 to 80 percent of its roster in place last December, when COVID-19 remained a word quarantined to the Asian scientific v...

October 23, 2010 changed Dick Shoulberg's life forever. It was on that day that Fran Crippen tragically lost his life at age 26 during an open water race in hot water off the coast of Dubai. Now 81, Shoulberg had been the head coach of the swim team at Germantown Academy for over 40 years, leading k...

2020 has been an extremely difficult year for people around the world. Between COVID-19 and its byproducts, it has put a physical, mental and emotional strain on the entire globe.  Missy Franklin is trying to lead the turnaround on all fronts, by encouraging people to safely return to the water and ...

Swimming Canada Thursday released data on the reopening process for its High Performance Centres, showing nearly 3,000 individual pool training sessions since reopening. The information, which Swimming Canada promises is the first of several releases, seeks to quantify the effort to reopen pools aft...

Cullen Jones hasn’t swum a high-profile race in four years, but he insists he is not retired. There is too much work to be done. The Olympic gold medalist is still putting in the work in the sport he loves. It's just a different kind of work. Jones, who won Olympic medals in 2008 and 2012, is a nati...

When Ky-lee Perry walked on the pool deck for her International Swimming debut, just being there was a huge accomplishment. From a personal standpoint, Perry had fulfilled a dream of becoming a professional swimmer. From a swimming standpoint, the ISL fulfilled its goal of being able to put on a saf...

Celebrating the Anniversary of the Debbie Meyer Olympic Trifecta This week marks the 52nd anniversary since Debbie Meyer won three Olympic gold medals in the distance-freestyle events at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. A study of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City typically produces three stand...

Tokyo Olympics officials Wednesday offered demonstrations of some of its preventative measures for a competition in the world of COVID-19, hoping to assuage fears about next summer’s games. The organizers held the event at the Big Sight convention complex in Tokyo, home of the media center. Among th...

Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley Working for Change in Swimming (From October's Swimming World Magazine) In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, elite swimmers Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley created Swimmers for Change to promote diversity and to make swimming a more inclusive sport and a more inclusive...

A Specific Look at the Training of World-Record Holder Caeleb Dressel Through the years, a consistent feature of Swimming World Magazine has been the highlighting of specific training programs and sets of various athletes, including the sport's elite performers. Today, we dip into the magazine vault...

The SEC swimming and diving weekly awards were announced by the conference. SEC Men’s Swimmer of the Week: Shaine Casas, Texas A&M Texas A&M’s Shaine Casas, a junior from McAllen, Texas, posted NCAA A-cut times in all four events he competed in at the First Chance Invite. Casas owns the top time nat...

Champion's Mojo Podcast: Olympic Champ Cullen Jones Talks Prioritizing His Purpose A two-time Olympian, gold medalist and world-record holder, Cullen Jones nearly drowned at a waterpark as a child. Today, he is the most decorated black swimmer in history. Cullen joins Kelly Palace and Maria Parker t...

You could see it behind the block as Ky-Lee Perry brought home the mixed freestyle relay, or in the DC Trident team box as Linnea Mack dueled through the women’s skins race. The Trident weren’t near challenging the London Roar in their first match of the 2020 International Swimming League season. Bu...

The comment from Rowdy Gaines, just after the 200 backstrokes at ISL Match 2, couldn’t have been more spot on. “We’re not knowledgeable about where everyone sits,” the commentator said, just after assumed favorite Katinka Hosszu was upset in the 200 back, fading to a distant fifth place. With the ra...