Coronavirus

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, February 17, 2022. Sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last swim poll, we wanted to know: Have you had the corona virus? Since the coronavirus pandemic started in early 2020, water sports alike have felt the after-effects. After-eff...

More College Swimming Cancellations: Michigan-Indiana (January 8) Called Off After four college dual meets were cancelled Tuesday because of COVID-19 concerns, a high-profile showdown in the Big Ten is now off. The University of Michigan announced Wednesday afternoon that its home meet against India...

Is College Swimming Championship Season in Jeopardy as COVID Cases Rise? After 2021 concluded with a Short Course World Championships marred by COVID-19, the new year has already seen the surging pandemic affect numerous competitions. Thanks to the more contagious Omicron variant that has made COVID...

FINA Confirms 37 Positive COVID Tests, Including 15 Athletes, at Short Course Worlds At the conclusion of a Short Course World Championships where COVID-19 was a major factor, with numerous big-name athletes ruled out of their events because of either a positive test or a close contact, FINA reveale...

COVID Continues to Cast Shadow Over Short Course World Championships First, an Olympic gold medalist was pulled from his best event at Short Course Worlds, and the next day, two American medal contenders were ruled out for the meet. South Africans including Olympic gold medalist Tatjana Schoenmaker ...

Louisville Cancels Home Meet Against Notre Dame and Miami Due to COVID-19 Cases The Louisville Cardinals were scheduled to host Notre Dame and the Miami women's team Friday afternoon, but the meet is off due to issues with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The team announced that the meet was cancel...

How to Measure the Changes On Deck Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic by Violet Johnston and Michael Kidd As the swimming community turns it gazes to Japan, we wanted to take a moment to look back at the past 18 months and measure COVID-19’s impact on the foundations of our sport. Recognizing that this...

Olympics Qualifiers Must Sign Waiver Acknowledging COVID Risks; IOC Freed of Responsibility A health and safety waiver for athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer includes an acknowledgement of the risk of COVID-19. The waivers included updated language that refers specifically...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. As the COVID-19 virus continues to spike in Japan, citizens are calling for the Olympic Games to be cancelled as to not cause further damage to the country's health. Olympic champion and world record holder Sarah Sjostrom, who was injured earlier this year, i...

Late last week, after conducting interviews, digging in on statistics and pounding away at my keyboard, I was ready to publish a piece on how LIU women’s water polo—despite only eight available players, including two goalies—was primed for a run at the 2021 Metro Atlantic Athletics Conference (MAAC)...

Already in the Club, Can Caeleb Dressel Lead Assault on Sub-47s for 100 Freestyle? By Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern Year after year, new training methods and the continuous will to improve allow swimmers’ times to drop, seemingly without end. Once a barrier is broken, we immediately begin to en...

BROOKLYN, NY. It took more than a year—due to COVID-19—but the women’s water polo team of Long Island University  finally got to swim in its home waters. Originally scheduled to open at home on March 21, 2020, when the Sharks (4-0; 4-0 MAAC) tipped off last night against Metro Atlantic Athletic Conf...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday April 22, 2021, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Do you agree with the Tokyo Olympics being shut off to overseas spectators? The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead without overseas spectator...

Swimming Canada released a statement Wednesday that reiterated its confidence that it can hold Olympic and Paralympic Trials at the end of May as planned, even if Ontario is in lockdown situations. The organization backed its procedures to hold Trials, which are invite-only, from May 24-28 at the To...

The Patriot League on Wednesday announced that its men’s and women’s swimming and diving championships have been cancelled. The meet was originally scheduled for April 21-24 at Bucknell University. In lieu of one meet, the Patrio League is dividing championships into the “Patriot League Challenge” w...

An outbreak of COVID-19 has caused the cancellation of the last month of the UC Santa Barbara women’s water polo season. The university announced the decision Monday. The Gauchos had three matches scheduled for April, including games outside the two-week window for quarantines, but the plug was pull...

Long-Term COVID Symptoms Can Have Effect on Swimmers More than 678 million doses of the Coronavirus vaccine have been distributed worldwide. While some mark this as a waning of the pandemic at long last, others will continue to deal with the virus’ effects well into the future.  Roughly 30 to 40 per...

Grant House and his fellow redshirted members of the Arizona State swim team posted fast times this week at their de facto postseason meet, the Spring Speedo Sectionals hosted by Phoenix Swim Club. The meet, which ran March 19-22, served as Arizona State’s answer to NCAAs. The school decided last su...

Finding Motivation in this Uncertain and Stressful Environment By Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern As another swim season comes to a close, many teams are barred from traditional championship meets. Hours or days of crowded spaces are ideally avoided while a disease continues to affect the world. ...

Why We Need to Measure Success Differently This Year In a time like today, it can seem difficult to view things as a success. With consistent setbacks and things pulling us in every direction, it can be hard to succeed. The swimming community and every individual in it has been affected. For a lot o...