Synchro

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...

Russian synchronized swimmer, Elvira Khasyanova 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 the World Championships in 2001, 2003...

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...

The 2019 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series initiated in March in France. Since Paris, the best athletes in the world of Artistic Swimming have competed in Greece, Russia, Japan, and China. Tomorrow, 62 athletes representing 10 countries, will start the 6th leg of the ASWS in the beautiful Greensbo...

Russia was the first to ‘arrive’ to Tokyo among the European synchro swimmers by winning the team event at the LEN Synchronized Swimming Champions Cup in St. Petersburg. Since this feat secured an automatic Olympic berth for their duet too, the silver medallist Ukrainian pair also qualified for 2020...

This year’s top LEN artistic (synchronised) swimming event, the Champions Cup kicks off on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia, and offers Olympic synchro spot for the respective winners of the duet and team events. Host Russia is the outstanding favourite to book those Tokyo spots this weekend. At the...

The fourth leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 came to an end tonight in Tokyo, Japan, as Russian stars Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina, both Olympic and World champions, displayed their best form over the three-day competition from April 27-29. The Russian pair topped ...

Team Russia clinched nine gold medals out of ten available this weekend in Kazan, Russia, as the experienced host city staged the third leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 for the first time since the inception of the annual competition in 2017. The favourite duet composed of Olympic...

Ohio State Synchronized Swimming added a 32nd National Championship to its list of accolades Saturday in San Antonio, Texas while becoming back-to-back-to-back victors. Under the direction of Head Coach Holly-Vargo Brown and Suzanna Hyatt, the Buckeyes swept the competition in all categories, claimi...

Rio 2016 bronze medallist and soloist Yukiko Inui of Japan was the best in the individual events in Paris, France, from March 1-3, as the future host city was organising the inaugural leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019. The Japanese superstar, 29, topped the solo technical with 90.5...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Synchro recently named seven elite athletes to its senior national duets. Named to the 2019 U.S. Senior National Duet Squad are 2016 Olympian Anita Alvarez (Kenmore, N.Y.), Ruby Remati (Andover, Mass.), Lindi Schroeder (Andover, Mass.) and Abbygayle Remmers (Sugar Land,...