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CSCAA Makes Wave of Impact on Capitol Hill Advocating for College Swimming: 'The March Will Go Forward' The mission was simple: Get the word out to the most influential people in the country. The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) spoke to many U.S. senators and represe...

UVA Lands First 2026 Verbal From In-State Standout Alyssa Sagle NEW COMMIT: The University of Virginia, the four-time defending national champion, has earned its first verbal commitment for its Class of 2026 recruiting cycle. It's from in-state standout Alyssa Sagle from Gainesville, Virginia, about...

Tar Heels Ready To Make Waves In The Fight Against Cancer The North Carolina swimming and diving team is preparing to make a splash this season in the pool and on the boards. But first, the program will make waves in the fight against cancer. The Tar Heels are hosting their third annual Swim Across ...

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body of the sport of swimming in the United States, today announced the 71 athletes named to the 2024-2025 National Junior Team presented by the USA Swimming Foundation. The women’s team is headlined by 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships individual gold medali...

A Distance Swimming Renaissance, and Why Today's Athletes Offer Can't-Miss Action In arguably the greatest male race for the U.S. team at the Paris Olympics, Bobby Finke defended his 1500 freestyle Olympic gold medal in stunning fashion, taking down controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang’s 12-year-o...

By Katie Wingert, Swimming World College Intern Swimming alone can be a struggle between staring at the black line and wanting to smash your incessantly beeping tempo trainer with your fins. Ideally, we swimmers would always have a team to practice with. Sometimes, though, life gets complicated. Sch...

A Look Back at Australia's Epic Olympic Relay Triumph of 2000 and an Air Guitar Concert Twenty-four years ago, the Olympic Games were in full force in Sydney, and one of the early highlights of the action was a triumph by Australia in the 400-meter freestyle relay. It was an event that featured seve...

Two Gettysburg College Swimmers Suspended for Racist Incident Two swimmers at Gettysburg College have been suspended by the university for an incident in which a racial slur was scratched onto the body of a student. The news was first reported by and confirmed to The Hanover Evening Sun and The Gett...

Canadian Coach Brad Dingey Returns Home with Pointe-Claire Aquatic Club Former Swimming Canada head coach Brad Dingey has been hired this week to head Pointe-Claire Aquatic Club, a return to his home country. Dingey has been abroad since 2022, when he was hired to be the head coach of the Singapore ...

Canadian Olympian Kelsey Wog Announces Retirement Two-time Canadian Olympic breaststroker Kelsey Wog announced her retirement from the sport this week. Wog made the announcement on Tuesday, two days shy of her 26th birthday. View this post on Instagram ...

Golden Goggles Ballot: Record-Setting Swims to Garner Race of the Year Honors (Part 1) The annual celebration of the United States’ accomplishments in international swimming will take place November 23 in Indianapolis, and even though the U.S. team at the Paris Olympics did not match its usual lofty...

Throwback Thursday: Misty Hyman and Her Epic Olympic Upset (Video) On Sept. 19-20, 2000, Misty Hyman navigated a three-race journey that landed her Olympic glory. Twenty-four years later, we take a look at Hyman's epic upset of Susie O'Neill in the final of the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Olympi...

Australian SC Championships: Backstroking Golden Girl Kaylee McKeown Returns To Racing In Adelaide En-Route To Budapest Backstroking golden girl Kaylee McKeown will headline 13 members of Australia’s Paris Olympic team when they return to racing at this month’s Australian Short Course Championships....

In many of my previous articles, I have emphasized the importance of change. You are never going to improve by constantly doing the same things all the time. It is so important to reflect on your past season and think about the things that went great, as well as the things that could have been done ...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. We're several weeks into the college academic calendar, which for many swimming and diving programs means practice has started in full force. For student-athletes, particularly freshman, adjusting to the rigors of college athletics and academics can be a ...

European Short-Course Champion Luc Kroon Announces Retirement Luc Kroon, winner of the 400 free at the 2021 European Short-Course Championships, has announced his retirement. The Netherlands athlete made the decision after sustaining an injury last week which would keep him out of the water until Ja...

Jessica Long Among Four Paralympians Disciplined for Social Media Disparagement Jessica Long and three other stars of the U.S. Paralympic swimming program were disciplined for their use of social media during the Paris Paralympics. Long, Gia Pergolini, Julia Gaffney and Anastasia Pagonis were punish...

All Go For Glasgow Following Multi-Million Dollar Rescue Mission For 2026 Commonwealth Games A multi-million-dollar injection of funds negotiated by Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) has given 2014 hosts Glasgow the green light to host “the lost Games" of 2026 - saving the multi-sport event from o....

Passages: Robertas Zulpa, 1980 Olympic Gold Medalist, 64 Robertas Zulpa, the 1980 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 200 breaststroke, died on Aug. 30. He was 64 years old. Zulpa was born in Vilnius is what is now Lithuania but represented the Soviet Union. He won gold in the men’s 200 breast at the...

Social Kick Podcast: Regan Smith Shares Insights on Five-Medal Olympic Haul (Video Interview) A month has elapsed since Regan Smith collected five medals at the Olympic Games in Paris, a haul that lifted her career total to eight pieces of hardware from the biggest event in her sport. The veteran wa...