Synchro

On the same day that synchronized swimming pioneer Joy Cushman died at 98, another pioneer in the sport also died. Dawn Bean, who along with Cushman were instrumental in the development of synchronized swimming as an international sport, died at 94. Bean, who was inducted into the International Swim...

Joy Cushman, International Swimming Hall of Fame honoree, died on Wednesday. She was 98. She was a member of United States Synchronized Swimming, and represented the group on the United States Olympic Committee's Executive Board from 1956-75. She was the USSS Chairperson from 1958-63 and was the FIN...

Russian synchronized swimmer, Elvira Khasyanova - now living in the United States, was a member of the Russian National Team from 1999 through 2011. She participated in three Olympic Games, winning gold medals in the team competition in 2004 in Athens, 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London.  She won th...

Artistic Swimming: Ancient Roman Spectacle to Modern Olympic Sport By Vicki Valosik Most people think of synchronized swimming, which gained Olympic status in 1984 and was renamed “artistic swimming” in 2017, as a newcomer sport dating back only as far as Esther Williams' mid-century movies. But the...

Bolstered by an improved financial picture with increased fundraising potential, Stanford will continue 11 varsity sports that had been slated for discontinuation at the end of this academic year, including synchronized swimming. Stanford leaders announced that while the structural financial challen...

In the closing event in artistic swimming at the European Championships, Ukraine came closer to Russia in the gold medal race (6-4) as they won the Highlights Routine. Belarus finished second and host Hungary claimed its first-ever medal in artistic swimming, a bronze. With eight podium finishes in...

The Russian duet of Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko continued to dominate artistic swimming, earning one perfect mark for the free routine at the European Championships. Another Russian gold came in the mixed duet while Ukraine won the team free and Israel claimed a historic first-eve...

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Monday released its 2019 Impact Report, formerly its annual report, detailing the organization’s financials. The report was accompanied by a letter from USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and a sport-specific breakdown of expenditures, the Sport Bene...

USA Artistic Swimming Foundation and USA Artistic Swimming are pleased to announce the launch of our new Annual Giving Campaign complete with dynamic new giving levels and exciting gifts for donors at all levels. We are launching this new campaign in conjunction with our participation in Giving Game...

Stanford University announced it will discontinue 11 varsity sports after the 2020-21 school year with synchronized swimming being one of the aquatic sports victimized by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an open letter sent out by the university, the university will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, f...

The USA Artistic Swimming Foundation is ready to start a new grant cycle to support your projects and programs designed to grow the sport!  Interested parties have until July 15, 2020 to go online, fill out the form, and tell the Foundation why their grant proposal is a real need and a great idea fo...

FINA, the international federation, has postponed Olympic qualifiers in diving and synchronised swimming due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and related containment measures. The FINA statement in full: FINA informed today all 209 National Member Federations that its COVID-19 Taskforce, in co...

In a little more than a year, the organization formerly known as USA Synchronized Swimming or USA Synchro for short has transformed itself. Under the leadership of their board of directors they have hired a new Chief Executive Officer, arguably the best coaching staff in the world, revitalized event...

The United States Synchronized Swimming Foundation mission is to fund the future of synchronized swimming! With that in mind, we are pleased to be able to be able to award grants to support, sustain and grow the sport of synchronized swimming. Last year, 43 teams received an average grant of $750. T...

The US Synchronized Swimming Foundation accepts grant applications each year to help fund programs and opportunities that promote the growth of synchronized swimming in the U.S. This grant cycle is for programs that run between September 1, 2019, and July 31, 2020.  The deadline for grant applicatio...

USA Synchro, the national governing body for synchronized swimming, announces an exciting partnership with TeachAids, a nonprofit leader in global education innovation. Together, the two organizations hope to promote athlete safety through TeachAids’ CrashCourse concussion education. [caption id="at...

The team of Ukraine largely dominated the 2019 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series Super Final, held in Budapest (HUN) from June 14-16, by earning seven gold medals out of the 10 titles at stake. The remaining victories went to Russia (two) and Spain (one). Ukrainian star Marta Fiedina was the best ...

The sport of synchronized swimming had been around since the early 20th century when Annette Kellerman and Katherine Curtis were the first performers of the growing sport, but it did not come to the Soviet Union until decades later. When Olga Sedakova was about nine-years-old, she and her twin siste...

Action in the pool was intense this weekend, with two legs of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in Quebec City (CAN), from May 30-Junie 1, and in Barcelona (ESP), from May 31-June 2. They were respectively the seventh and eighth event of the circuit, before the Super Final of the competition, ...

The sixth leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 came to an end on Sunday evening (May 26) in Greenboro, USA, as Japan's Olympic star Yukiko Inui and Canada's discipline sensation Jacqueline Simoneau displayed constant and excellent results in the the solo technical and solo free events...