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TYR Pro Series (Greensboro) - Day 4 Finals The sprints might have more scintillating finishes. Some events have better rivalries. But when it comes to the 800-meter freestyle, it can be argued that Katie Ledecky’s prowess is the finest artistry in the sport. Want to debate that statement? Ok. Start ...

TYR Pro Swim Series (Greensboro) The gold medal captured by Katie Ledecky in the 800 freestyle at last summer's World Championships would suffice for most athletes. However, the American star's trip to Gwangju was anything but was what was envisioned a year shy of the next Olympic Games. That win fo...

Heavy demand for tickets to the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming in Omaha has led event organizers to release single day tickets earlier than ever before. A complete sellout of the Olympic Swimming Trials, which will be held at CHI Health Center Omaha June 21-28 event, is expected to wat...

TYR Pro Swim Series (Greensboro) With the Olympic year just around the corner, Simone Manuel used the first stop on this year's Pro Swim Series to deliver a strong performance, as the reigning world champion in both sprint-freestyle events blew away the field in the 100 freestyle. After posting the ...

For the first time in her professional career, Hali Flickinger is swimming for a new club. After training with the Athens Bulldog Swim Club since graduating from Georgia in 2016, Flickinger has moved west, joining the post-grad program at Arizona State with coach Bob Bowman and will be training alon...

The 2019-20 TYR Pro Swim Series in Greensboro, North Carolina started Wednesday night with the heats of the 1500 free as Ashley Twichell won the women's race at 16:11.19 and Zane Grothe won the men's race at 15:18.71. Women's 1500 Free Twichell is racing in her first pool meet since the 2019 World C...

Catherine Kase, nee Vogt, of the University of Southern California and Trojan Swim Club, has been named the open water head coach for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team. USA Swimming today announced that Kase will lead a team of three Americans competing in the Olympic 10km Marathon, so far schedul...

Ashley Twichell, one of three swimmers to have already secured spots on the 2020 United States Olympic Team. The year 2020 is a significant one in the sport of swimming for obvious reasons. It is the light at the end of a long tunnel that is - for many swimmers - four years in the making. 2020 marks...

Psych sheets for first stop of TYR Pro Swim Series for 2019-20 season The psych sheets for the first stop of the 2019-20 TYR Pro Swim Series have been released as some of USA Swimming's best athletes will be in attendance this weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina. The meet will begin November 6 (We...

Andrew Gemmell's Red Flag To FINA: Athlete Safety In Focus It is "only a matter of time until we have another tragedy that will do more to diminish the stature of the sport than any amount of 'complaining' might do" if FINA's leadership fails to step in and stop open water events going ahead in cond...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Marathon Goes North for runners and walkers - swimmers deserve the same safety protections: time to Go North, move the swim 500 miles upstream Commentary: The Coordination Committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is meeting in Tokyo this week. If they have a scintilla of interes...

NCAA Revolution Ahoy The NCAA today cleared the way for college athletes to begin profiting from their sports careers and any profile built from their success and fame. In a landmark decision that will dramatically alter college sports and its economics, and with them one of the bedrocks of the grea...

Fran Crippen Commemoration Day Editorial-Commentary Today marks the saddest day on the world-class swimming calendar: it is the ninth anniversary of the death of Fran Crippen, the first swimmer to lose his life on the watch of FINA and USA Swimming. Tragedy upon tragedy, it is also a day on which we...

14-year-old Keaton Jones of Swim Neptune in Arizona recently broke the 13-14 national age group record in the 200 backstroke in long course meters as he inched closer to the 2:00 barrier with a 2:00.28, breaking the NAG record that was actually broken this year by Josh Zuchowski at 2:00.97. [caption...

Nancy Hogshead-Makar Honoured for 'tireless' work in the protection and support of girls and women in sport Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the 1984 Olympic 100m freestyle champion, head of Champion Women and long-time advocate for safe sport, has been honoured with the biennial Play the Game Award. On the cl...

By Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas. Director of High Performance and Recruitment/ Development, USA Pentathlon The USA Pentathlon elite Junior/Senior level athlete recruitment program focuses on athletes who are in high school, college or post-grads and have fast swimming and running times with talent for ot...

An unnamed sexual assault victim has filed a lawsuit against USA Swimming for negligence that allowed Stockton Swim Club to "become a sexual hunting ground for the team’s head coach," according to The Gazette. The trial will take place this week in California. The girl’s lawyers, led by San Jose...

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee today announced the 30 finalists for the 2019 Team USA Awards. Four swimmers were announced as finalists for four of the six awards: Female Olympic Athlete of the Year (Simone Manuel), Male Olympic Athlete of the Year (Caeleb Dressel), Female Paralymp...

Two-time US Olympian Conor Dwyer was suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for testing positive for an anabolic agent in out-of-competition tests collected on November 15, November 27, and December 20, 2018. The decision came from an independent three-member panel of the American...

Caeleb The Condor: Dressel Excited For League Debut For Cali Condors Caeleb Dressel, the American billboard sprinter setting a pioneering pace in the pool, is set to make his International Swimming League debut in Naples, Italy, this weekend. A spearhead for the Cali Condors, led by his coach Greg T...