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The 2020 edition of the Golden Goggle Awards will be held virtually on Thursday, Nov. 19 with free admission for all. The event will be streamed by USA Swimming. The USA Swimming Foundation will have a silent auction and virtual table sales. Among the planned program is a salute to front-line health...

Para swimmer Jamal Hill, the founder of Swim Up Hill, and Janet Evans headlined the organization’s first annual event, a virtual happening that brought together more than 40 aquatic community leaders in the Los Angeles area. The theme of the first event was “Building a More Inclusive Waterscape.” Hi...

USA Swimming Monday announced that Katie Meili and Kathy Fish have been elected to the organization’s Board of Directors at its first virtual convention. Fish is an at-large director on the 15-member board. Meili is an athlete representative, replacing Davis Tarwater in that role. Both will serve fo...

The Pac-12 Conference announced Thursday night that it will resume the football, basketball and winter sports seasons, with swimming & diving to commence “consistent with the NCAA season dates for those sports.” The Pac-12 had postponed the fall season and delayed the winter season through Jan. 1, 2...

Jeff Julian, a veteran swim coach currently with Rose Bowl Aquatics and the ISL’s Cali Condors, announced this week via his blog that he’s been hospitalized with adenocarcinoma. Julian first battled cancer in 2015, overcoming long odds to survive Stage 4 lung cancer. He’s broadcast his battle public...

Catherine Breed completed a crossing of Monterey Bay this week in less than 13 hours, setting a record for the open-water course. Breed’s swim started Monday night at Twin Lakes State Beach in Santa Cruz. Through water temperatures in the 50s and schools of jellyfish, Breed arrived at San Carlos Bea...

Switching Things Up: The Best Cure for an Event Funk By Mark McCluskey In life, you might feel stuck in the daily grind and are searching for a way out. In swimming, you can also feel stuck in your training with little insight on how to progress and improve. One of the hardest things for a swimmer t...

William & Mary’s statement announcing that it would cut swimming and diving included large, verbatim passages lifted from an earlier statement regarding athletics cuts made by Stanford. The similarities were first reported by SwimSwam, which received an admission from William & Mary athletic directo...

The Hope Floats Foundation and the family of the late Fitz Alexander Campbell Thomas have launched the Fitz Scholars Fund to expand access to potentially life-saving swimming instruction. The fund is named after Fitz Thomas, a 16-year-old who drowned in the Potomac River in Leesburg, Va., on June 4....

Rich Suhs checked the chlorine levels in the two pools at the Eastern Shore Aquatic Center Tuesday, preparing for a loss of power as Hurricane Sally roared toward Daphne, Alabama. The next time he visited the facility he’s owned for 11 years, he was greeted by an aluminum roof shredded to pieces, co...

4 Myths About Swimming By Natalia Kaczor “What sport do you play?” “I swim.” “Oh that’s fun; I swim in my pool all the time!” We have all been in a similar situation before. The frustration that builds up when hearing this is evident on our faces. Should we be offended, or just laugh it off? Swimmin...

The Golden Years of High School Swimming: Santa Clara and Mission Viejo (from September's Swimming World Magazine) Public schools Santa Clara and Mission Viejo built high school swimming dynasties from the 1960s through the early 1980s. Not only did they dominate high school swimming, but unlike tod...

Texas A&M swimmer Raena Eldridge and Kentucky’s Asia Seidt were announced Thursday among the top 30 honorees for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Texas diver Alison Gibson and Washington & Lee swimmer Emily Hageboeck also made the cut of the final 30, selected from a list of 605 school nominees and...

arena USA announced today that they have signed an official endorsement deal with USA sprinter, Natalie Hinds. “I am beyond excited to partner with Arena to continue my professional swimming career” says Natalie about her new partnership. “Not only do I feel supported by an amazing new family, but I...

Gary Hall Sr. won medals at three consecutive Olympic games, an unprecedented feat for the 1970s. But as he told Olympic.org this week, that didn’t even make him the most decorated member of his apartment. That’s what happens when you room with Mark Spitz. Hall Sr. and Spitz both attended Indiana Un...

8 Confessions of a Parent Officiating Their Child’s Race By Courtney Bartholomew When I was little I remember my dad telling me he was going to become an official for USA Swimming. I was excited to have him on deck because he would be able to cheer for me and DQ other kids swimming in my races. Howe...

Ryan Lochte appears this week on In Depth with Graham Bensinger, discussing a range of topics in and out of the pool. Among the subjects discussed with Bensinger are his previous television appearances, including a stint on Alex Rodriguez’s CNBC reality show, Back in the Game, that Lochte said didn’...

Your favorite Olympians, Paralympians, Olympic Legends and Sports Professionals provide insights to swimmers- this week on life balance, Paralympic inclusion and mental strength. Swimming World and CG Sports Management have teamed together to create an exclusive weekly social media series on Swi...

In a letter to members Tuesday, USA Swimming announced that effective Oct. 1, it will allow local swimming committees (LSCs) to resume sanctioning meets. The USA Swimming Board of Directors voted Monday to allow two stipulations to lapse as of Sept. 30: The geographic restrictions on meet sanctionin...

Long-time California coach Todd Conrad announced Monday that he is leaving his job coaching the girls team at Tesoro High School to relocate to Pennsylvania. He’ll take over as the head age-group coach with Upper Main Line YMCA. Conrad spent eight seasons at Tesoro and was the Orange County high sch...