Read more77You Know You're a Swimmer When...12 Quirks That Come With the Sport05 February 2025You Know You're a Swimmer When...12 Quirks That Come With the Sport By Rachel Helm To most people, swimming is seen as just a sport or having a little splash in the pool. However, to a competitive swimmer, it becomes a lifestyle. Here are 12 quirks of competitive swimming that we all can relate to. ...
Read more108The 29 Confessions of a Distance Swimmer05 February 2025The 29 Confessions of a Distance Swimmer - From the Archives By Chandler Brandes "I didn't choose the distance life. The distance life chose me." Well, not quite. Distance swimmers are all born the same way: we swam the 500 for the first time around age nine or 10 and didn't do too badly, so our coa...
Read moreSurviving Taper: A Guide to Thriving During the Most Exciting Time of the Season03 February 2025Surviving Taper: A Guide to Thriving During the Most Exciting Time of the Season It’s that time of year again. Practices gradually become shorter, the yards start to decrease, and the energy is at an all-time high. It’s taper time. For swimmers, tapering marks the beginning of championship season - ...
Read more2FireAid Concert & "The Swim Guy" Team Up to Help LA Swimming Community31 January 2025The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have caused a lot of damage, leaving families and communities struggling. Over 400 swimmers lost their gear, like swimsuits, goggles, and other important equipment needed for training and competitions. [caption id="attachment_604050" align="aligncenter" width="386...
Read moreLessons Learned From the Injured Swimmer17 January 2025Lessons Learned From the Injured Swimmer And there I was again, sitting on the side of the pool deck with my college’s athletic trainer, watching my teammates practice. All I wanted to do was get back in the water, but my body had other plans. With every day that passed, it felt like I was falling f...
Read moreBased on the TikTok Trend: We Listen and We Don't Judge ... Swimmer Edition!15 January 2025Based on the TikTok Trend: We Listen and We Don't Judge ... Swimmer Edition! What are some common swimmer habits that may or may not be slightly judge worthy? I am sure many of us have seen the recent TikTok trend called, “we listen, and we don’t judge.” This trend usually includes two or more peopl...
Read more23 Key Features of a Successful Coach-Athlete Relationship15 January 20253 Key Features of a Successful Coach-Athlete Relationship As swimmers, our coaches are our backbone. They teach us the ways of the water and how to move through it as quickly as we can. They are there to give us high-fives when we have a good race, and they are a shoulder to cry on when we have a ba...
Read moreWhat is the Hardest Event in Swimming? (VOTE HERE!)11 January 2025What is the Hardest Event in Swimming (VOTE HERE!) On the deck or on the team van, the question of which is the hardest event in swimming has been debated. Opinions vary on the topic and athletes who contest a specific event have a tendency to pick their own as the No. 1 choice. Does the grinding na...
Read morePeerless Distilling Celebrates Connection to Swimming Community; Honors UVA Coach Todd DeSorbo and Supports Swim Across America06 January 2025Peerless Distilling Celebrates Close Connection to Swimming Community with UVA Coach Todd DeSorbo An Olympic coach, a world record holder and a swim team captain walk into a distillery. It’s not the setup to an (admittedly high-brow) joke. It is the premise for the kind of swim community story that ...
Read more6 Ways Swim Parents and Coaches Can Work Together06 January 2025Six Ways Swim Parents and Coaches Can Work Together In A Beneficial Manner The coach-parent relationship is critical as athletes work toward improving and achieving their goals. In many cases, this relationship is smooth and proves beneficial. Unfortunately, there are times when parents do not give ...
Read more212 Signs You’re a True Swim Team Kid: Being Part of a Special Sporting Community05 January 202512 Signs You’re a True Swim Team Kid: Being Part of a Special Sporting Community Swimming is an all-consuming sport, and once you start participating, you are most likely never to stop. If you begin as an age-grouper on a swim team, you will find that your life revolves around the sport, making it m...
Read moreHow 'Fun, Fitness and Competition' Allowed One Virginia Swim Club to Do More with Less04 January 2025How 'Fun, Fitness and Competition' Allowed One Virginia Summer Swim Club to Do More with Less The nation’s tens of thousands of summer leagues continue to be an entry point for many first-time swimmers regardless of whether they advance to more competitive levels or not. In such settings, millions o...
Read more3Before the Beep: How the Walsh Sisters - Alex and Gretchen - Prepare for Race Day03 January 2025Before the Beep: How the Walsh Sisters - Alex and Gretchen - Prepare for Race Day Sisters Alex and Gretchen Walsh have made their mark on the sport of swimming: Olympic medals, NCAA championships and remarkable versatility have made them two of the best in the world. How do they prepare on race day?...
Read moreGolden Goals: Setting New Year's Swimming Resolutions for 202501 January 2025Golden Goals: Setting New Year's Swimming Resolutions for 2025 After 12 months of hard work in the pool, 2024 has finally come to a close. Whether it’s been a successful year or not, the end of the year often represents a time to reflect. Research from the University of Oregon suggests that setting ...
Read more1248 Surefire Ways To Tell You're A Swimmer29 December 202448 Surefire Ways To Tell You're A Swimmer It takes a special breed of human to do what we do every day. Swimming for as long as we have, it’s fair to say we’ve seen a lot of interesting things in our career. Staring at a black line on the bottom of the pool is fun, right? With goggles and a cap as o...
Read more375 Difficult Decisions Swimmers Will Be Expected to Make28 December 2024Decisions, Decisions! By Jennifer Yoo, Swimming World College Intern. Life is full of difficult decisions. There is an inexplicable pressure to make the right one, and each decision determines a different outcome that ultimately leads to even more choices. However, whether the choice was right or wr...
Read more7314 Ways To Tell You Come From a Swimming Family27 December 202414 Ways To Tell You Come From a Swimming Family By J.P. Mortenson Due to the sport's all-consuming nature, swimming inevitably becomes a family affair. And once your family becomes a swimming family, the sport will affect your home life in more ways than you could have ever imagined! Here are 15 way...
Read more13An Explanation Of How Tech Suits Benefit Swimmers22 December 2024An Explanation Of How Tech Suits Benefit Swimmers When it comes time to race, many swimmers, especially those racing in high-level competitions, wear specialized knee-length swimsuits known as tech suits. They're everywhere in the swimming world. But how do tech suits work? And do they actually make...
Read moreBased on the TikTok Trend: We're Swimmers, Of Course We ... (Fill in the Blank)!20 December 2024Based on the TikTok Trend: We're Swimmers, Of Course We ... (Fill in the Blank)! Many of us have seen the TikTok trend, “We’re girls, of course we ALWAYS have a hair tie around our wrist!” Why not transition this trend to make it swimming-related? Read along for 10 relatable, “we’re swimmers…” phras...
Read more61The 7 Sins of Swimming19 December 2024The 7 Sins of Swimming (From the Archive - Originally Published 2017) By Chandler Brandes There is no such thing as a perfect swimmer. As swimmers, we sometimes (although rarely) make mistakes. We may DQ, forget our heat and lane, or even accidentally-on-purpose rip our cap at the exact moment a har...