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ASCA Announces 2025 List of TYR ’30 Under 30’ Coaches Award The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) on Friday released its annual list of the TYR “30 Under 30” Coaches Award. The award honors, “honors exceptional young coaches who represent the future of the swimming profession.” Via TYR’s ...

Commentary by Jeff Commings Most competitive swimmers believe they are invincible. If they can survive a 10,000-meter workout during the holiday break or do a 2,000-meter butterfly set and ask for more, then nothing can stop them. Unfortunately, that is not true. With the research indicating that un...

Gregg Troy Named ASCA Coach of the Year After Guiding Caeleb Dressel to Five Olympic Golds (VIDEO) A little less than two months after guiding Caeleb Dressel to an epic performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Gregg Troy has been named the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) George Haines...

For more than forty years, the American Swimming Coaches Association has presented two major awards at its Annual Awards Banquet at the ASCA World Clinic. They are among the most prestigious awards in coaching. The first award is the ASCA Coach of the Year. Presented since 1961, when famed Coach Jam...

USA Safety Plea For Change In Tokyo 2020 Swim Marathon Venue Catherine Kase, head coach to the USA Olympic Open Water Team, and the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) of which she is a member, have joined the chorus of key stakeholders calling for the 2020 Olympic swim marathon venue to be...

Women’s Sports Policy Working Group (WSPWG) Endorses American Swimming Coaches Association’s (ASCA) Position and Encourages NCAA to Revise Its Transgender Guidelines  Swimming World is publishing the following letter submitted by the WSPWG to the NCAA Board of Governors. The Women's Sports Policy Wo...

For the third year in a row, Bruce Gemmell is the American Swimming Coaches Association’s pick for coach of the year. His work in guiding Katie Ledecky to five gold medals and three world records at last month’s world championships was undoubtedly the catalyst for the selection among a great list of...

John Leonard, Executive Director of the 6000 member American Swimming Coaches Association, has labeled the IOC decision to not recognize the real winners in events affected by the drug-influenced East German swimmers as "outrageous". Mr. Leonard's statement: "The IOC, which has repeatedly presented ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 23. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of America's annual awards banquet is always a star-studded affair, at least in terms of the Who's Who of college swimming. This year's event was no exception, with some legendary names in attendance to accept several awards. Tim We...

World Swimming Coaches Association: Severing Of Ties By USA, Canada, Australia & GB Is Unnecessary & Disappointing The World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) says the actions of the National Swimming Coaches Associations of USA, Australia, Canada and Great Britain are “disappointing, unnecessary ...

Cyndi Gallagher was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame at the 2021 ASCA World Clinic last Thursday. This year, the annual clinic was hosted in Orlando, Florida from September 15th-18th, 2021. After being with the UCLA Bruins Women's Swim Team for thirty-one seasons,...

Guest commentary by John Leonard, American Swimming Coaches Association Executive Director FT. LAUDERDALE - One of the key roles that the American Swimming Coaches Association has played in American Swimming since 1958, is to warn of threats to our sport. Today, I am going to tell you about the bigg...

By Forbes Carlile Friends: The funeral of Terry Gathercole A.M was held in the small country town of West Wylong, in South Western NSW, where Terry was buried beside his father and mother. The local Anglican church was packed with townspeople honouring its famous son and with many swimming friends w...

By Seren Jones, Swimming World College Intern. Who is Mark Schubert? Built a reputation as one of America's most prestigious coaches over the past five decades. Held head coaching positions at USC, the University of Texas, and served as the US National Team Director. An eight-time Olympic coach who ...

"Business As Usual" at the USOC? An Editorial by John Leonard THE recent resignation by the leader of the USOC, Mr. Norm Blake, was a shocking and disturbing event. Mr. Blake stated that he was resigning because he--rather than the concepts of reform--was becoming the issue. The real reason for the ...

Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 29. DENNIS Pursley, who has guided the U.S. National Swimming Team to number one in the world, has been named winner of the U.S. Olympic Committee's Chair's Coaching Award . Pursley, who has guided U.S. Swimming's National Team since 1989, will receive his h...

The American Swimming Coaches Association announced former USA Swimming High Performance Manager Russell Mark has joined ASCA as its Performance and Education Advisor. Mark is widely considered one of the most respected experts of stroke technique analysis, performance trends and race data. In this ...

American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Announces Six Candidates For Board of Directors Positions The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Board of Directors Governance Committee is pleased to announce the following candidates will be running for five open positions on the ASCA Board of...

Age group coaches will have plenty to do and learn at the upcoming 2022 ASCA World Clinic in Las Vegas, September 7-11, 2022. The sessions designed specifically for age group coaches, include: Starting the Nutrition Conversation with Age Group Swimmers with nutrition expert Erica Beine A Platform .....

UCLA women’s swim coach Cyndi Gallagher, Suburban Swim Club coach Charlie Kennedy and Indiana University coach Ray Looze will be inducted to the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Hall of Fame in the class of 2021, the organization announced Thursday. Gallagher retired after the 2019 seaso...