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‘SPLASHForward in the Water’ - A virtual event with Olympians Elizabeth Beisel, Megan (Quann) Jendrick, and Rebecca Soni, Saturday, May 1st at 10 am PST Written by Susan Pappalardo Water memories. Since you are reading this, you have them. Playing in the water with friends at the local pool, watchin...

BYU announced Wednesday that head swimming and diving coach John Brooks' contract would not be renewed, despite Brooks leading the team to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title in 2021. Brooks was hired in 2012. He’s won four MPSF titles, this year’s triumph being the first since 2016. This t...

Divers Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon met at a young age. They quickly discovered that it wasn’t just their names that went together (I mean how can you beat Cook-Bacon?). They became friends despite living in different parts of the country and kept that friendship going while competing against each o...

Veteran swim coach Jeff Julian announced via his blog on Tuesday that his most recent scans came back cancer-free after a six-month battle with adenocarcinoma. Julian announced last September that he had been diagnosed again with cancer. He successfully fought the disease in 2015 and geared up, with...

Arkansas freestyler Peyton Palsha last week announced she will transfer to the University of Georgia for her fifth and final year of eligibility. Palsha spent four years at Arkansas, qualifying for the NCAA Championships this season and turning in several lifetime bests. An agriculture major, she’s ...

Gretchen Walsh has been one of the top high school swimmers in the country for the past four years. Her final meet for Harpeth Hall High School will be at this weekend’s Tennessee state championships. Walsh is the favorite to win the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events as she hopes to lead Harpeth Hal...

What Would it Mean if Ryan Lochte Made Another Olympic Team? By any measure, Ryan Lochte is one of the greatest swimmers in history, a part of any reasonable list of the top 10 male performers ever. His already impressive résumé—12 Olympic medals, six of them gold, plus 18 long course world titles—w...

Shy of an opening relay DQ, it took until Day 4 of the Atlantic 10 Championships for a men’s swimming race that didn’t feature a George Washington swimmer in the top two. It was that dominant of a performance from the Colonials on the way to their fourth title. A much more balanced women’s meet prod...

David Abrahams set an American Para Swimming record in the SB-13 100-meter breaststroke this week at the Para Swimming World Series. Abrahams went 1:04.14 in prelims to break the record, then sped up in finals to go 1:04.07. The world record for SB13 was set in 2013 by Oleksii Fedyna at 1:03.58. Abr...

Indiana University on Thursday announced the hiring of Eric Best as a volunteer assistant diving coach. Best spent 20 seasons at Michigan State as the head men’s and women’s diving coach, leading perennially one of the conference’s best programs. Best mentored numerous NCAA qualifiers and U.S. Olymp...

Wisconsin on Friday announced that Erik Posegay has been elevated to associate head coach on Yuri Suguiyama’s staff. Posegay is in his third year on the Badgers’ staff. He was previously an assistant for two seasons at Penn State. Before that, Bob Bowman had hired him for a five-year stint at North ...

Lilly King, the Killer Instinct Competitor and the Goofball (From April’s Swimming World Magazine) Five years after her public introduction to the world at the Rio Olympics, little has changed about Lilly King. She will still speak her mind, she will still tell you how she really feels, and she’s st...

Garrett McCaffrey has stepped down as head coach of the Phoenix Swim Club (PSC). He announced his departure on Wednesday, April 14 via an email to the club membership after a meeting by the Board of Directors.  An official notification went out hours later from club management. McCaffrey has been wi...

TYR Sport on Thursday announced the signing of Michael Andrew, adding the world champion American swimmer to its ranks of athletes. “We are thrilled to partner with Michael Andrew on his road to Tokyo,” Matt DiLorenzo, CEO of TYR Sport, said in a press release. “Michael is an incredibly talented and...

Texas A&M’s Shaine Casas and Alabama’s Rhyan White were named the SEC Swimmers of the Year Wednesday in the postseason All-SEC Awards. Seven schools split the 12 swimmer and coaching honors, including six different schools on the men’s side. Leading the way was A&M with three – Casas, Female Diver o...

As Evan Austin mounted a charge for what he hoped would be a third Paralympics, he recognized that he needed a change. It was the fall of 2019, and Austin was fresh off arguably his greatest accomplishment in the pool, a gold medal in the 50-meter butterfly at the 2019 World Championships. A veteran...

Indiana sent plenty of swimmers of the NCAA Championships this year. But only Max Scott ended up at the men’s basketball Final Four. Scott, a sophomore on the men’s swim team, was selected by the school to sing the national anthem before Baylor and Houston tipped off the men’s Final Four in Indianap...

St. Xavier High School head swimming and diving coach Tim Beerman has resigned from his role, according to reports Tuesday. The decision was first reported by ABC affiliate WCPO in Cincinnati. According to St. Xavier Athletic Director Brian Reinhart, Beerman told him that, “after prayer and discernm...

Lance Asti has stepped down as the associated head coach of the Tennessee swimming and diving program, the university announced Tuesday. Asti spent nine seasons with the Volunteers. He is moving on to “pursue outside professional interests.” His resignation is effective April 30. Asti’s work has bee...

Prior to a weekend where she vaulted up the all-time rankings in her signature event, Claire Curzan was simply excited to face off against fellow teenage talent Torri Huske as part of her preparation for a run at her first Olympic team. This was not a focus meet or a taper meet, but the competition ...