Americas

Poolside Passport: One Day, Could Taylor Ruck Be Found Between the Bookshelves? A three-time Olympian, Taylor Ruck has been a key cog for Canada in international competition for the past decade. In addition to owning a quartet of relay medals from the Olympic Games, Ruck is a 16-time medalist betwee...

Luka Mijatovic Lowers 17-18 NAG Record in 500 Freestyle Beginning next semester, Luka Mijatovic will take his dynamic mid-distance freestyle skills to the University of Texas, where he is set to contribute to a team favored to win a third consecutive national title. In the meantime, Mijatovic contin...

Tennessee Freshman Charlotte Crush Making Instant Impact in Backstroke Events At the first U.S. selection meet of this quad, teenager Charlotte Crush threw her name into the talented mix of American women's backstrokers. In the 200-meter race, Crush dropped more than two seconds from her best time i...

Retired Swimmer Michael Gunning Earns Sports Personality Award Retired swimmer Michael Gunning was awarded Sports Personality of the Year at the UK’s Ethnicity Awards in October. Gunning was recognized in the public awards section, which highlighted online influencers, broadcasters and public figure...

The Events Nobody Volunteers to Race: How Swimmers Are Valued Swimmers who regularly take on demanding or less popular events give their teams flexibility. They fill gaps in the lineup, compete outside their specialties, and accept combinations of races that others would rather avoid. But when that ...

Luca Urlando 'On the Right Path for Short Course Worlds' After Record-Setting Trials Since narrowly missing out on the Olympic semifinals in the event two years ago, Luca Urlando has been on a roll in the 200 butterfly. In 2025, he lowered the fastest time ever in the 200-yard fly on three occasions...

American Men's Backstroke Shows Signs of Life at Short Course Trials, But Questions Remain The United States men have struggled mightily in backstroke for the past two years, at least since Ryan Murphy won bronze in the 100-meter race in Paris for his third consecutive Olympic medal in the event. Si...

How Kate Douglass Swam to a 49.64 in the 100 Freestyle At last week’s United States Trials for the Short Course World Championships, Kate Douglass swam some historic times. Her best swim of the meet may have been her last, the 100 freestyle. Going into the meet, Douglass already held the world recor...

American Women's Freestyle Relays Should Obliterate World Records at Short Course Worlds The United States has assembled its team traveling to the Short Course World Championships in Beijing, with the most but not all big-name American swimmers securing their spots at the biennial global meet. The c...

ISL Announces United States Coaching Staff for All-Star Match The International Swimming League (ISL) has today announced the coaches of the United States Team, the second of the four teams that will contest the ISL All-Star Match at the London Aquatics Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Satu...

Ilya Kharun Wasted No Time Making His Mark as American Athlete; Time to Wear Team USA Colors Officially, Ilya Kharun became eligible to represent the United States in international competition on October 26 - a mere week ago. That date signified one year since the 21-year-old Kharun took the necessa...

Jack Alexy, Luke Hobson Leading Elite U.S. Men's Free Relays to Short Course Worlds The United States has assembled its team traveling to the Short Course World Championships in Beijing, with the most but not all big-name American swimmers securing their spots at the biennial global meet. The combin...

Caeleb Dressel Uses Swimsuit, Monkey Suit to Put Together Memorable Trials Meet as He Turns To Worlds On the first full night of the meet, Caeleb Dressel was giving high-fives, talking to kids up in the stands. "Hey, they were chirping at me first," Dressel said jokingly. The last night of the meet ...

When Kate Douglas Dives in World Records Are on Notice - That is What Makes a Generational Superstar Kate Douglass has become must-see TV. Every time she dives in the water, it seems like something incredible is going to happen. There are not many swimmers that give that feeling for a several-year s...

U.S. Short-Course Trials: Kate Douglass Blasts 100 Free WR Kate Douglass had an idea that a world record might be possible Saturday night in the 100 freestyle. When the five-time Olympic medalist gets that notion, it’s time for everyone else to watch out. Douglass knew she’d need to attack the front...

Jack Alexy Destroys World Record in 100 Freestyle at U.S. Short Course Trials Four weeks after Russia’s Egor Kornev equaled the world record in the short-course version of the 100-meter freestyle during World Cup competition, the global standard in the event was dropped on Friday night at the FMC Na...

U.S. Short Course Trials, Day Three Women's Finals: Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh Just Miss World Records; Liberty Clark Posts American Record Thursday evening's finals at the U.S. Short Course World Championship Trials began with a stunning performance from Claire Curzan, who took down veterans Kat...

Claire Curzan Drops World Record in 100 Backstroke Upset Over Katharine Berkoff and Regan Smith The women's 100 backstroke final at the U.S. Short Course World Championship finals featured the woman who holds the world record in both short course and long course plus another who has collected medals...

U.S. Short Course Trials, Day Three Men's Finals: Jack Alexy Rips World Record; Luca Urlando and Van Mathias Pop American Marks The world-record siren could blare again during Night Three men's competition at the U.S. World Short Course Championships Trials in Westmont, Illinois. One night after he ...

U.S. Short Course Trials: Van Mathias Still Wondering 'Does the Van Makes the Mustache or the Mustache Makes the Van?" When Van Mathias was warming up, fans were shouting toward him. More wanted to talk about his mustache than his swimming. But since Mathias grew his mustache, he has become one of t...