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Abbey Weitzeil and Michael Jensen announced their engagement on Wednesday evening. The Cal power couple posted on Instagram. "A crazy little thing called forever," Abbey Weitzeil posted on Instagram. "We’re engaged, love you babe," Michael Jensen wrote. Both posts were flooded with comments from the...

Michael Phelps continues his post-swimming passion of golf whenever he can. It is a hobby that keeps his competitive juices flowing. Phelps discussed the similarities between his swimming career and his golfing career with golf.com in a recent article. “The more I just do, the more I’m able to learn...

USA Swimming has announced a few changes to the 2022 FINA Short Course World Championships roster. Two swimmers have been added to the roster altogether with Trenton Julian being added in the 200 butterfly and Jake Magahey added to the roster in the 400 freestyle. It will be Magahey's senior-level i...

By McKenna Ehrmantraut, Swimming World College Intern. As the summer winds down and the school books come out, college swimmers are preparing for another eventful season full of grueling practices and best times. While the coaches are preparing tough sets, team captains are looking for ways to help ...

Katie Ledecky, Bobby Finke Honored as USA Swimming Athletes of the Year at Golden Goggles USA Swimming honored its top athletes and performances of 2022 at its annual Golden Goggles event Monday evening at the Marriott Marquis in New York, and for the eighth time, Katie Ledecky was the recipient of ...

Golden Goggles: The Ballot for 2022’s Top American Swimmers Coming off a World Championships where the United States captured 45 medals in the pool, the most of any major international competition ever, USA Swimming has announced its nominees for this year’s Golden Goggles, with awards scheduled to ...

Bobby Finke on Developing Closing Speed: 'It Took a While to Master That Balance' Bobby Finke has made the late surge in a distance race his signature move. It won him Olympic gold — twice — and has made him one of the top distance swimmers in history. But it didn’t just come naturally to him. He ha...

Reece Whitley on Resurgence After Reflection: 'Fresh Perspective Changed My Outlook' Reece Whitley was at a crossroads. After helping Cal win the NCAA championship as a senior, there were plenty of options, ranging from coming back for a fifth year because of the pandemic, to turning pro, to retirin...

Alex Shackell Emerging as Elite Butterfly Talent, Sights on Home Olympic Trials in 2024 In two years since moving to Carmel, Ind., a trip downtown to the IUPUI Natatorium has become a very routine experience for Alex Shackell. Most club and high school swimmers in the Indianapolis area are accustome...

6 Important Things Learned During a Swimming Career I’ve been what you would call a swammer for about a month now. While I probably will pull a Brett Favre at some point and make my return to the pool as a Masters swimmer, at the moment I’m branching out and trying other things. Currently, it's weig...

Drew Kibler Rekindles Racing Intensity at FINA World Cup Drew Kibler is a racer. But like any aspect of swimming, racing needs to be practiced. Kibler learned that lesson the hard way at the 2022 FINA World Cup stop in Toronto, and it helped him turn things around at the Indianapolis stop - his home...

American Women 200 Butterfly Juggernaut: Can Anyone Beat Hali Flickinger and Regan Smith? Five years ago at the FINA World Championships, as the United States won a then-record 38 medals in the pool with 18 golds, only two races went without an American finalist. In the men's 1500 freestyle, a 17-ye...

With Injury Redshirt in Past, Jack Hoagland Sees Future at Hand After what had been a nightmarish year, Jack Hoagland saw a glimmer of hope yet had to will himself to turn away from it. The 2021 ACC Championships Men’s Swimmer of the Meet did not have the junior year at Notre Dame he wanted, to say ...

Caeleb Dressel Appears at NFL Game While Dealing With Toe Injury Seven-time Olympic gold medalist and 15-time world champion Caeleb Dressel made an appearance at an NFL game between the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts Sunday in Foxborough, Mass., in support of sponsor NOBULL, and Instagr...

What a week it was for Beata Nelson. After a dominating performance at the 2022 FINA World Cup, winning the women's overall title on Saturday night in Indianapolis, Nelson announced her engagement to Michael Milinovich on Monday. "Forever sounds great. What a weekend," Beata Nelson posted on Instagr...

Abbey Weitzeil is back in the water and refreshed. After missing the U.S. team for the first time in years, she decided to take the summer off. The two-time Olympian and American record-holder returned to the 2022 FINA World Cup stop in Indianapolis. “It refreshed me a lot. I haven’t had a summer of...

Bella Sims, Katie Grimes Lead Promising Weekend for Future of U.S. Women's Team It was a really good weekend to be a fan of U.S. women's swimming. Not a lot of landscape-shuffling swims take place in November, but at meets across the country, swimmers lauded for their potential inched further toward...

FINA World Cup: Katie Ledecky to Challenge Siobhan Haughey Triple Crown in 200 Free Katie Ledecky, fresh off a world record in the 1,500 free, looks set to challenge Siobhan Haughey’s hold on the 200 free after the two were separated by just .05 seconds in prelims at the final FINA World Cup stop in...

At 23, Alabama’s Kensey McMahon Thrilled for Team USA Pool Debut Kensey McMahon got the call before she saw the email. The reply went out about as quick as humanly possible. McMahon’s coach at the University of Alabama, Margo Geer, had seen the email inviting McMahon to be part of Team USA for the 2...

Three-time Olympian Elizabeth Beisel Announces Engagement to Jack Nichting Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel announced her engagement to Jack Nichting on Wednesday. Beisel made the announcement with photos on social media with the caption: "Yes." Beisel and Nichting met on the set of the show "Surviv...