2017 USA Swimming AT&T Winter Nationals - (Tag)

Last year, Clark Smith said the American Record was soft after he broke Peter Vanderkaay's 11-year-old American Record with a 4:08.42 at the NCAA Championships. Tonight, Zane Grothe swimming post grad at Indiana University smashed the American Record with a 4:07.25 for the fastest swim ever in the e...

Zane Grothe delivered his best Katie Ledecky impersonation during finals of the men's 1,650-yard freestyle at the 2017 USA Swimming AT&t Winter Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. Grothe immediately jumped to an early lead, continuing to build his distance not only between himself and the other swimmers, b...

Chase Kalisz added a second Winter Nationals title in the 400 IM Friday evening, after already winning the 200 IM Thursday. But his time was almost six seconds short of his own American record, set earlier this year at the NCAA championships. After the race, Kalisz explained in an interview with Swi...

Kelsi Worrell picked up a Winter National title in the women's 100 fly Friday night, posting the third-fastest time ever in the women's 100 fly -- behind two of her own quicker efforts. Afterwards, she explained why she could not have expected anymore. In October, Worrell got married to Thomas Dahli...

By David Rieder. She’s a professional swimmer now, and what pays the bills for professional swimmers is long course success, but Olivia Smoliga still has a soft spot for short course racing. “I don’t want less emphasis on short course!” she said after winning the 50 free and 100 back at U.S. Winter ...

USA Swimming released the psych shed for next week's 2017 AT&T Winter National Championships in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday. The short-course meet begins Nov. 29. Click here for the entire psych sheet for winter nationals. Some of the biggest big-name battles look to be on the women's side. Louisvi...

By David Rieder. Three years ago, Zane Grothe asked himself: Why would he keep swimming? After finishing his solid NCAA career at Auburn in 2014, Grothe trained for one more year and got no faster. So in March of 2015, he took a chance and moved to Bloomington, Ind., figuring he’d train at Indiana U...

By David Rieder. Remember that 1650 free from last year’s NCAA championships, considered one of the great collegiate races ever? Four men—Clark Smith, Felix Auboeck, Akram Mahmoud and Jordan Wilimovsky—all swam faster than anyone ever had before, with Smith touching first in 14:22.41. Well, less tha...

It was a close race between two Kentucky Wildcats, but Ali Galyer ran away with the women's 200 backstroke title at the 2017 AT&T Winter National Championships. The sophomore finished in a time of 1:51.15, less than one second ahead of teammate Bridgette Alexander.  Galyer praises her teammates at K...

Ashley Neidigh was the U.S. Winter National champion in the women's 500 free Thursday night, and she dropped some five seconds off her lifetime best to finish in 4:34.47. Neidigh, who did not score in the 500 free at the NCAA championships last year, has flourished as a post-grad swimmer at Indiana ...

It was a close race before two former Cal Bears in the men's 200 backstroke final at the 2017 AT&T Winter Nationals. World record holder Ryan Murphy won in 1:38.32 and Jacob Pebley followed closely in 1:38.66. Pebley, a 2016 Olympian, discusses his race strategy, his current training, and focusing o...

Nathan Adrian claimed the men's 50 free title at the 2017 AT&T Winter Nationals in a time of 18.77. He was the only swimmer under the 19-second barrier and was slightly off his best time from 2011. The five-time Olympic gold medalist talks about how this meet breaks up the monotony of fall training ...

By David Rieder. It was hard to miss Louisville this week at U.S. Winter Nationals in Columbus, with 40 swimmers representing the college team and another three postgrads swimming for Cardinal Aquatics. And they brought with them some bling. All meet long, the Cardinals awarded a chain to standout s...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to Zane Grothe for his record breaking swim in the 1650 free at U.S Winter Nationals in Columbus, Ohio, this past weekend. https://youtu.be/NGDXkgFAuUw Unless you were living under a rock, you likely heard about Grothe’s dramatic entr...

In his first full season away from college swimming, life has changed for Ryan Murphy. He won the 100 back Friday at Winter Nationals in Columbus, but he explained why it was weird to be at Nationals at all instead of being at a mid-season college meet. Murphy explained what the focus of his trainin...

Zane Grothe continued to flex his distance dominance by demolishing the American Record in the 1,650 free on the fourth and final night of the 2017 USA Swimming AT&T Winter Nationals. Grothe's time lowered the American Record by over four seconds. In addition to Grothe's American Record, new Champio...

The second full night of competition featured an American Record from Zane Grothe in the 500 (4:07.25) to become the first swimmer ever to break 4:08 in the event. He broke Clark Smith's record from last year's NCAA's at 4:08.42. Another big swim on the night was fellow IU post grad swimmer Ashley N...

Short-course national titles will be on the line for many of the United States’ top swimmers next week at USA Swimming’s Winter National Championships, set for Nov. 29-Dec. 2 at Ohio State University’s McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The meet opens Wednesday, Nov. 29 with a relay-only session at 6 p.m. ....

Action got underway last night in Columbus, Ohio with just relays being contested as the 2017 AT&T Winter Nationals commenced. The University of Louisville proved they came to Columbus ready to race as they were able to win three out of the four total races on night one. In the women's 4x50 medley r...

In a close women's 1650 freestyle battle, Erica Sullivan took second with a time of 15:40.42 at the 2017 AT&T Winter Nationals. The 17-year-old, who swims for Sandpipers of Nevada, entered the meet with 15:47.39, knocking off seven seconds from her personal best. Sullivan, whose swim tonight moves h...