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By Giulia Filocca, Swimming World Magazine Intern. College Swimming The NCAA is often hailed as the stepping-stone to sporting success. In fact, one statistic finds that 40 percent of swimming medalists at the 2004 Athens Olympics competed at NCAA institutions. Does this mean that we can attribute T...

The second week in January was a big one, with the TYR Pro Swim Series kicking off the new year in Austin, Texas, and plenty of swimming's stars making their 2018 racing debuts. Check out the biggest swims from the meet and the other notable stories of the week in The Week That Was. The Week That Wa...

Women's 400 IM Katinka Hosszu cruised to an easy win in the 400 IM to start the second night of the Beijing World Cup with a 4:25.68. She won the final comfortably ahead of China's Zhou Min (4:37.02) and Li Tianyao (4:40.22). Hosszu was the only non Chinese swimmer in the final. Hosszu was well off ...

Commentary by Eamonn Keenan, Swimming World College Intern. Leading up to the 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship, swimming fans all over the world were anticipating one of the tightest team races in history and some broken barriers. Who will win, Texas or Cal? Can Caeleb Dre...

Coaching phenomenon Ray Looze was recently inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony was part of the annual ASCA World Clinic held this year in Orlando, Florida. Looze is most known for his role as head coach of Indiana University in Bloomington, In...

By Andy Ross. Last week, Swimming World dropped the pre-season rankings for the top 25 best NCAA women's swimmers for the upcoming 2018-19 season. This week, we are dropping the men's list. Unlike the women's meet in 2018, the men's meet came down to the final day with Texas winning its fourth strai...

During the 2021 USA Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, each athlete signed a drum to signify becoming an official member of the Tokyo Olympic Team. While watching this monumental moment, some may have just considered this a right of passage. But Swimming World was curious to investigate:  H...

Veterans Re-Emerge Ahead of the 2023 U.S. World Championships Trials Although USA Swimming is flooded with young talent, veterans always seem to emerge in the biggest moments. Over the last several months, a group of star-studded veteran swimmers have put together impactful races all over the countr...

5 Men's Events to Watch at the 2021 United States Olympic Trials After more than a year of uncertainty, the United States Olympic Trials are sett to take place next month. With Wave II about three weeks away, most top swimmers have finished their final preparation meets and have their eyes targeting...

Men's Swimmer of the Week Blake Pieroni, Indiana, Senior Placed first in the 50 (19.60), 100 (42.94) and 200-freestyle (1:33.88) events as well as contributed to a first-place 400-freestyle relay (2:54.83) finish Recorded NCAA B Standard qualifying times in all three individual events Earns his 10th...

At the last World Championships, Duncan Scott uncorked one of the most stunning relay performances in recent memory as he anchored the British men’s 400 medley relay past Nathan Adrian and the United States to win a gold medal, his 46.14 anchor split the second-fastest in history. But heading into t...

Lilly King and Blake Pieroni turned in victories at the first two days of the Speedo Sectionals meet at the IUPUI Natatorium this week in a potential preview of the U.S. Olympic Trials. Pieroni outdueled Zach Apple in the 200 freestyle Friday night, his time of 1:48.37 well ahead of Apple’s 1:49.81 ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 10. AS part of our 11-day series highlighting the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association’s release of the 2013-14 All-America lists, Swimming World will also be looking at the history of each event that is part of the high school schedule. Today, we're looking at th...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Forty of the United States’ top up-and-coming swimmers will represent the Team USA at this month’s 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, set for Aug. 23-27 in Fiji. Headlining the U.S. roster, which was determined based on the results of the 2018 Phillips 66 National Champ...

The No. 4 Hoosier men (7-0) recorded the team's 20th-straight dual meet victory, taking down No. 8 Michigan, 170.5-129.5. The win for the IU men's team at Michigan is the first since the 1980-81 season. Indiana's Blake Pieroni led the way for the Hoosier men, winning three individual events. The sen...

The final event of the 2019 FINA World Championships will be the men's 4x100 medley relay. The United States has won six of the last eight World titles in this event, and the years they did not win were because of disqualifications. The United States hasn't actually touched second at the Worlds sinc...

USA Swimming will host a virtual award show on Thursday, Jan. 28 honoring top finishers at the 2020 18 & Under Winter Championships. The Winter Championships were held as satellite meets in December, a decentralized plan to replace the usual Speedo Winter Junior Championships in a more COVID-19-safe...

Roster Crunch: Will Anyone Miss the Cut for the Olympic Team? Just two days of finals (and six total individual finals) remain at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, and there's still a lot of uncertainty about who will make it onto the Olympic team for Tokyo. Only 26 women and 26 men can actually be ...

Just one evening remains of the men's ACC Championships, and before that final session of racing Swimming World’s David Rieder previewed what is to come in Greensboro, N.C. He also shared his thoughts on all of the fast swims from the weekend at the Big-12, Big-10 and Pac-12 championships, highlight...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Officially On Road to Tokyo, Caeleb Dressel Powers to 100 Free Win; Connects With Crowd This week, the CHI Health Center can be considered the office of Caeleb Dressel. The venue for the United States Olympic Trials is where the 24-year-old is doing his work ahead of next month’...