USA

Report: Allegations of Verbal Abuse, Bullying Levied at Cal Coach Teri McKeever University of California swim coach Teri McKeever has been accused of verbal abuse and bullying that has led to athletes contemplating and even attempting suicide, an investigation by the Orange County Register has found...

Sierra Schmidt to be Part of NBC Show ‘Dancing With Myself’ Swimmer Sierra Schmidt revealed Wednesday that she has been cast as a contestant on the new NBC dancing show, ‘Dancing with Myself.’ Schmidt made the announcement on social media. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sierra ...

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body of swimming in the United States, today announced the names of 60 athletes who will represent the U.S. internationally this summer at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, which take place August 24-27 in Honolulu, Hawaii; or the 2022 Mel Zajac Jr. Inte...

U.S Men’s Relays Look Strong for World Championships Last year, the two U.S. men’s relays captured Olympic gold medals, with the 400 freestyle relay squad pulling away to win by more than a second before the 400 medley relay quartet capped off the Games by breaking a 12-year-old world record. But in...

9 Test Sets Swimmers Love or Hate: Which is Your Nightmare? It’s no secret that the swimming community holds an incredible diversity of talent – sprinters and distance swimmers, IMers and freestylers, backstrokers and breaststrokers. It’s also no secret that tensions between these groups can sometim...

Olympic Gold Medalist Bowe Becker Announces Retirement Bowe Becker, an Olympic gold medalist from the 400 freestyle relay in Tokyo, announced his retirement from the sport on Wednesday. Becker made the announcement on social media. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bowe Becker (@b...

Passages: Dick Fadgen, NCAA Champion and Long-Time Swim Coach, 86 Richard Dennis “Dick” Fadgen, an NCAA champion and American record-holder before a long coaching career, died on May 7 at age 86. Born in Rhode Island, Fadgen made a long career in the South, as a distinguished swimmer at NC State, th...

Mallory Comerford left the Olympic Trials stunned, but a year later, at the International Team Trials, she left in tears … happy tears. After the most difficult year of her career, including a disappointing finish at the Olympic Trials, Comerford proved her resurgence in Greensboro, making Team USA ...

‘The Only Thing I Saw Was a Swimmer:’ Michael Phelps on Identity and Mental Health Michael Phelps has long been an advocate for athletes’ mental health and for athletes sharing their emotional and psychological struggles. In an interview with the WHOOP Podcast, the most decorated Olympian in history...

How the U.S. Women’s Relays Stack Up for World Championships Following the U.S. International Team Trials, the U.S. women are set up to win a lot of medals at the FINA World Championships next month in Budapest. Consider this list of swimmers: Katie Ledecky, Lilly King, Kate Douglass, Claire Curzan,...

World Junior Champion Maxime Rooney Announces Retirement USA National Team member Maxime Rooney, an NCAA star and a World Junior Championships gold medalist, announced his retirement Saturday. Rooney made the announcement via social medial. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maxime...

Hali Flickinger Checks Career Goal By Making Team USA Relay Hali Flickinger made a stunning change to her lineup last year, adding a grueling race like the 400 IM in her mid-20s. It worked as she made the Olympic team in the event, along with her signature 200 butterfly, and earned the bronze medal ...

Rachel Zilinskas, Former Georgia All-American, Enjoying Second Career in Triathlon Filling the hole left by swimming was a complex challenge for Rachel Zilinskas when she left the University of Georgia. The void was obvious for the All-American swimmer. Since she was a child, first at Germantown Aca...

Nearly 600 U.S. Olympians and Paralympians were honored at the White House by President Joe Biden on Wednesday. Katie Ledecky, Natalie Hinds, Allison Schmitt, Lilly King, Michael Andrew and several swimmers were among the group of athletes on the south lawn of the White House. “Quick trip to my home...

Katie Ledecky Not Swimming 200 Freestyle at World Championships At last week's U.S. International Team Trials in Greensboro, N.C., Katie Ledecky posted four dominant victories. She swam her fastest time in four years in the 800 freestyle, and then she added first-place results in the 200 free, 400 f...

Alex Walsh Raises the Bar Again, Becomes World Title Favorite in 200 IM In the 2021 Olympic Trials final of the 200 IM, Alex Walsh used brilliant backstroke and breaststroke splits to surge into the lead, and that put her 50 away from qualifying for her first Olympic team. Then she faded hard, and t...

Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin Finalists for U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame Swimmers Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin are among the finalists announced Monday for the Class of 2022 of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame. The swimming duo are among 15 Olympic finalists for the hon...

Leah Hayes ‘Honored’ as She Qualifies for Worlds, Breaks Katie Hoff’s National Age Group Record Leah Hayes walked out for the 400 IM final at the U.S. International Team Trials as the top seed, and the 16-year-old was staring at the biggest moment of her swimming career so far. To her right in lane ...

‘My Body is Done’: Caeleb Dressel Opens Up on Tokyo Struggles As one of the American stars of the Tokyo Olympics, Caeleb Dressel lived under a microscope. The pressure of expectations – his own high hopes and the external ones lumped upon him –weighed heavily upon the American sprinter. The five-tim...

Caeleb Dressel, Bobby Finke, Katie Ledecky Share Thoughts on Trials, Joke About Training (VIDEO) A trio of University of Florida-based Olympic gold medalists, Caeleb Dressel, Bobby Finke and Katie Ledecky, all earned one final win Saturday evening at the U.S. International Team Trials in Greensboro....