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The final morning of the 2018 Speedo Junior Nationals from Irvine, California set up an exciting finish between the Mason Manta Rays and the Terrapins Swim Team as the two teams are tied atop the men's leaderboard after four days. Jake Foster and Andrei Minakov are top seeds for each team in their r...

Pac-12 Conference Men's Champs, Day Four Finals: With 17 Wins in 18 Events, Cal Captures Team Title Day Four Finals, Houston Texas From the opening day of the meet through its conclusion, Cal looked sensational in collecting its latest Pac-12 Conference championship. From senior Ryan Hoffer to fresh...

Alexei Sancov entered his freshman year at USC as a top recruit. Already an Olympian for Moldova and a former Junior World record holder, he seemed set to take the college swimming world by storm. After moving to the United States with his parents as a 16-year-old, he taught himself English and bega...

Florida junior Kieran Smith won his first NCAA title on Friday night at the 2021 NCAA Division I men's swimming and diving championships in Greensboro with a 1:30.10 in the 200 freestyle, running down Texas junior Drew Kibler (1:30.39) in the process. Kibler set the pace early, turning at 43.29 as h...

The 2018 Speedo Sectionals stop in Austin, Texas for the Southern Zone Championships concluded this evening after finals of the 200-yard IM, 1650-yard freestyle, 50-yard freestyle, and 400-yard medley relay. The University of Denver Hilltoppers' depth in their men's team gave them the team title wit...

This week gave the rest of the swimming world the first glimpse of what the US National Team will look like over the next four years at the 2017 Phillips 66 U.S. National Championships. Take a look at the recap of that meet and the other major stories from this week in The Week That Was! https://you...

The Mare Nostrum tour kicks off this weekend in Monaco on May 29 and 30 as this meet will see many of the world's best swimmers in action eight weeks out from the Olympic Games in Japan. Olympic champs from 2016 Katinka Hosszu and Pernille Blume will be in action while Rio silver medalists and Londo...

No. 16 Stanford remained unbeaten in conference play, producing a 190-109 victory over No. 18 USC Saturday afternoon in its lone road dual meet of the season. From Stanford: The Cardinal (4-0, 3-0 Pac-12), which was coming off a homestand sweep of Arizona State and Arizona two weeks ago, captured 11...

Pac-12 Conference Men's Champs: Cal Surges to 89-Point Lead Behind Swift Medley Relay Day Three Finals, Houston Texas As expected, it took only one event for Cal to leap into the top spot of the team standings on the third night of the Pac-12 Conference Men's Championships. While the Bears have been...

Art Adamson Invitational: Brooks Curry Shows More Speed; USC Wraps Up Dominant Meet Just a few months removed from earning a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, LSU’s Brooks Curry has put together a strong start to the collegiate campaign. On Friday night, while racing at the Art Adamson Invit...

Pac-12 Conference Men's Champs, Day Three Prelims: Reece Whitley Cruises to Top Seed in 100 Breaststroke Day Three Prelims, Houston Texas Trailing in the team standings during the first two days due to its weakness in diving, which has been completed, Cal should take over first place during the nigh...

USC swimmers Calypso Sheridan, Alexei Sancov and Sean Wang each posted a pair of wins during USC swimming and diving's victory over the Wildcats on Friday (Nov. 5) in Tucson, Ariz. The men won 198-102, while the USC women won the dual 191-109. Both squads advance to 2-0 on the season after defeating...

The penultimate morning of the 2018 Speedo Junior Nationals from Irvine, California featured three prelim events with the heats of the 200 free, 200 breast and 100 back going off. Alexei Sancov and Will Grant got within a second of the meet records held by some pretty good swimmers in Caeleb Dressel...

The final session of the 2018 Speedo Junior National Championships from Irvine, California will close with the 200 IM, 50 free, men's 800 and women's 1500 free finals, as well as both 4x100 medley relays. Jake Foster, Grace Sheble, Andrei Minakov and Christiana Regenauer are the top seeds for tonigh...

The second full morning of the 2018 Speedo Junior Nationals from Irvine, California had some records under threat with Carson Foster challenging Alex Katz's meet record in the 200 back and Andrei Minakov challenging Vlad Morozov's meet record in the 100 free. Heat Sheets Live Results Stream Women's ...

NEW COMMIT: World Junior Record holder Alexei Sancov has verbally committed to swim for the University of Southern California. In his announcement made on Instagram Sancov wrote, "I am incredibly excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim for the University of Southern California. I am looking...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. The entry lists for the 2017 California High School (CIF) State Championships have been released, after the ...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. The Nassau County Aquatic Center could be anywhere. The facility holds a 10-lane, 50-meter competition pool and a diving tower, and it smells strongly of chlorine. A recently-built outdoor long course pool turned out to be a big attraction for swimmers during a mostly...

This week saw two more long course world records come down as the major international competitions of the summer commence! Read about the two newest swims on the books and the rest of the biggest stories of the past seven days in the week that was! The Week That Was #5 - Clark Kent Breaks 23-Year-Ol...

The Pac-12 Conference office announced today that Alexei Sancov of USC was named Pac-12 Men's Swimmer of the Week and Utah’s Tony Chen was voted Pac-12 Men’s Diver of the Week. MORE PAC-12 CONFERENCE COVERAGE PAC-12 CONFERENCE MEN’S SWIMMER OF THE WEEK: Alexei Sancov, So., USC (Walnut Creek, Calif.)...