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Now Honored With Medal of Freedom, Katie Ledecky Represents Complete All-American Status Before Katie Ledecky, no Olympic swimmer had ever been honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. The 27-year-old received the honor Friday in Washington, a ...

Luke Waldrep Follows Sister's Footsteps, Commits to Auburn NEW COMMIT: Auburn University has added a new verbal commitment for Fall 2025 from Olympic Trials qualifier Luke Waldrep of Chattanooga, Tennessee. His older sister, Ellie Waldrep, a three-time NCAA qualifier for the Tigers who is graduating...

Cal Adds Italian Butterflyer Matteo Palmisani To Loaded Class of 2025 NEW COMMIT: The University of California, Berkeley has received a verbal commitment for Fall 2025 from Matteo Palmisani, who's originally from Malgrate, Italy, but currently resides in Southlake, Texas. He will join Ryan Erisman, ...

Australia’s Historic Manly Swimming Club Celebrates 100 Years of Olympic Dreams – To Paris And Back From 1924 to 2024. Manly Swimming Club, one of Australia’s oldest and most distinguished swimming clubs, will this Saturday night host a sell-out Gala Dinner to celebrate 100 Years of Olympic...

Acalanes High School Swimmers Denied Entry Into CIF Championships After Technical Error Thirteen swimmers were unable to race this weekend at the CIF-North Coast Section Championships after their coach had an issue submitting entries to the meet's online database. According to multiple Northern Cali...

Flavor Flav Pledges Support to US Women's Water Polo team Hip hop artist Flavor Flav has pledged his support for the U.S. Women's Water Polo Team. "The US Women's Waterpolo team has won the GOLD MEDAL THREE OLYMPICS IN A ROW," Flav wrote on X. "These women should not have to be working 2-3 side jobs...

Dylan Gravley Caps Open Water Nationals with 5K Men’s Title Dylan Gravley finished up the 2024 Open Water Nationals by winning the men’s 5-kilometer swim in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday. Gravely, the Las Vegas native and Sandpipers of Nevada alum competing for Sun Devil Swimming, clocked in at 54 minutes,...

Aaron Shackell Heading to Texas to Continue College Swimming Career He spent the first few months of his college career at Cal before returning home to prioritize training for the upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials. Now, Aaron Shackell will head to a new destination for the remainder of his college career...

Four-Time South Carolina State Champion Matt Fortson Sends Verbal to Army NEW COMMIT: Futures qualifier Matt Fortson out of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, has verbally committed to Army West Point beginning in Fall 2025. He will join Lewis Esterly as a member of the Black Knights' Class of 2029. Re...

By Makena Markert, Swimming World College Intern. Have you ever felt like you were doing everything you possibly could to get better and weren’t seeing results? Consider trying these five things that require absolutely no talent. If you incorporate them into your life, you just might see the improve...

Teammates Brinkleigh Hansen, Cobe Hehenberger Win Open Water Nationals Junior Titles  Saint Petersburg Aquatics teammates Brinkleigh Hansen and Cobe Hehenberger won junior titles at the 2024 Open Water Nationals on Saturday. Hansen clocked in at 1 hour, 43 seconds to win the junior girls 5-kilometer...

The 2024 CSCAA Annual Meetings & Convention will be held May 5-8, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Hyatt Regency Indianapolis stands as an exemplary host for conventions, offering a seamless blend of modern sophistication and functional design. Located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, i...

Teagan O'Dell Falls Just Short of National High School Record at CIF-SS Championships One of the top high school swimmers in the country nearly knocked off a national high school record Saturday when Teagan O'Dell of Santa Margarita Catholic High School came up just shy of her own record in the 200 ...

Arizona Parts Ways with Head Coach Augie Busch The University of Arizona announced late Friday that Augie Busch will not return as head coach next season. Busch was hired as head coach in 2017. He had been an assistant coach in Tucson from 2003-11 before head coaching stints at the University of Hou...

Great Races: When Tom Jager and Matt Biondi Took the 50 Freestyle Into Sub-22 Range Their duels produced one of the greatest rivalries the sport has seen, so it was only a matter of time before our Great Races Series featured one of the battles between Matt Biondi and Tom Jager. Together, Biondi and...

Katie Grimes Wins Third Straight 10K to Start U.S. Open Water Nationals Olympian Katie Grimes won her third straight title in the women’s 10-kilometer swim on Friday to begin U.S. Open Water Nationals. France’s Axel Reymond won the men’s event in a photo finish with American Paris Olympic qualifier ...

Florian Wellbrock Prepares For Paris Title Defence With 10k Victory At Open Spanish Championships Florian Wellbrock continued his preparation for his Olympic title defence with victory in the 10k at the Open Spanish Championships in Seville. The two-time world 10k champion clocked 1: 50:13.5secs as ...

It’s on! Competition for the 2024 NCAA Women’s Championship opens May 9, with all matches to be held at Spieker Aquatics Center at the University of California, Berkeley. On Monday all nine spots for NCAAs were confirmed after months of fierce competition.  Six berths were decided by last weekend’s ...

Katie Ledecky Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom; Will Continue Swimming Through 2028 While Katie Ledecky has achieved the highest level of competition possible in the pool as an Olympic champion - several times - she also has received the highest honor an athlete can receive outside the pool. O...

National Geographic: Swimming the Best Form of Exercise Swimming is more than a way to race, but a way to exercise. The water provides cardio with natural water resistance that builds and tones muscle and burns calories, all giving a boost to health in everything from the heart to mental health. Nat...