Swimming World Magazine

Sign your favorite swimmer up for a 1-Year (12 issue) subscription to Swimming World Magazine! It is the perfect GIFT IDEA for all competitive swimmers and families looking for the tools and motivation to take them to the next level. After you purchase a gift subscription, you will get an e-...

Up & Comers: SOLO Aquatics' Ryan Hogan By Shoshanna Rutemiller Sponsored By Ryan Hogan, 16, of SOLO Aquatics in New England was selected to participate in the 2019 National Select Camp after dropping seven seconds in his 400 meter IM this summer to 4:27.80. The New Hampshire swimmer also ...

GoldMinds: What Makes Good Coaches Great? By Wayne Goldsmith Coaches change lives. They can inspire ordinary people to achieve remarkable and extraordinary things. What is a GREAT coach? What qualities and attributes do they possess that make them GREAT? Can all coaches learn to be GREAT...or i...

Dryside Training: Holiday Training By J.R. Rosania Demonstrated By Noriko Inada It’s December, and the holidays are upon us. Countless parties and special dinners lie ahead. Cookies, cakes and pies seem to multiply during this time. In many cases, our swimming and exercise routines seem to suff...

How They Train: University of Toronto's Kylie Masse By Michael J. Stott At 23, Kylie Masse continues her coming-of-age tale. “Kylie’s progress to the top of the world has not been textbook,” says her coach, Byron MacDonald. “At age 16, when most developing world-class women are making their mar...

Q&A with University of Toronto Coach Byron MacDonald By Michael J. Stott Byron MacDonald, a top-10 world-ranked butterflyer and Canadian Olympian, has made a living in Canada coaching University of Toronto athletes such as Kylie Masse and others to national and international prominence. Coach B...

Swimming Technique Concepts: The Vertical Jump Test For Event Selection" By Dr. Rod Havriluk The youngest competitive swimmers (under age 10) are often trained with a similar regimen regardless of their potential in specific events. As swimmers age to become preteens, training often segregates ...

Lessons with the Legends: Diving Coach Xu Yiming By Michael J. Stott Well known to diving cognoscenti and international diving coaches—and revered at home—diving coach Xu Yiming has been a seminal figure in his native China since the early 1970s. “He led Chinese diving from a somewhat com...

Takeoff to Tokyo: When Backstroke Went Rogue By John Lohn It’s been more than 30 years since the underwater dolphin kick altered the landscape of the backstroke event, and never more so than at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul did it play a greater role. Call it a game of hide and seek, an...

A Voice For The Sport: The 10 Most Impactful People of 2019 Our sport is graced with great people. Some are public figures, others work behind the scenes. As appropriate for this time of year, we want to recognize 10 people (in random order) who are making an impact in aquatics. Thanks to the ...

The Top Performances of 2019 By David Rieder This year’s list of top performances in swimming comes exclusively from the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, where world records went down, the world’s best swimmers established themselves with signature performances, and teenagers took down...

The 2019 Swimmers of the Year by John Lohn, Dan D’Addona, Craig Lord and David Rieder World & American: Regan Smith & Caeleb Dressel European: Katinka Hosszu & Adam Peaty Pacific Rim: Ariarne Titmus & Daiya Seto African: Tatjana Schoenmaker & Chad le Clos REGAN SMITH Fem...

The holiday season is here! Find gifts for all of the people on your list who love the water! With the annual Swimming World Holiday Gift Guide you can find the coolest swimming tech gadgets, swimming t-shirts, training gear, swimwear, and more! You will find something for that swimmer or coach in y...

The holiday season is approaching, and you will probably find yourself to be either ahead of the game or overwhelmed by the thought of seasonal preparations. The annual Swimming World Holiday Gift Guide is here! You can find the coolest swimming tech gadgets, swimming t-shirts, training gear, swimwe...

How They Train: Johns Hopkins' Blue Jay Noah Corbitt By Michael J. Stott As a two-time high school state champion in the 200 yard freestyle (1:41.65/1:41.45) and once in the 100 free (46.70), Noah Corbitt was the No. 1 2018 recruit from The Palmetto State (South Carolina). As a freshman t...

Q&A with Coach Scott Armstrong Head Coach Men’s & Women’s Swimming Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland By Michael J. Stott After coaching Stanford distance and individual medley athletes to considerable NCAA success, Scott Armstrong has returned to his Johns Hopkins roots and is g...

Seton Swimming's Sample For Success By Michael J. Stott Nineteen years ago when Jim Koehr got involved with the Seton School (Manassas, Va.), basketball was the school’s most successful and popular sport. No longer. Since 1995, Conquistador swimmers have secured four boys’ and four girls’...

Up & Comers: Fox Valley Swim Team's McKenna Stone By Shoshanna Rutemiller Sixteen-year-old McKenna Stone of Fox Valley Swim Team (Naperville and Aurora, Ill.) understands the hard work and dedication it takes to become a successful swimmer. At age 12, after completing her first select cam...

Takeoff to Tokyo: The 2000 Olympics' "Sydney 6" By John Lohn With the 32nd Olympiad slated for next summer in Japan, Swimming World will tip its cap to history. Through its “Takeoff to Tokyo” series, the magazine will examine some of the most significant moments in Olympic lore. In another...

A Voice For the Sport: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF SWIMMING By Craig Lord Remember, remember the 9th of November and the bonfire of falsehoods exposed with the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago this month. On pages 20-22, we recall the “Sporting Crime of the 20th Century” and those as...