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'Duel We Missed' Captures Best Feature Film Award at Paladino d'Oro Sport Film Festival As the year nears its end, "The Duel We Missed" has picked up a major film award. The documentary, which highlights the missed opportunity for a 1500-meter freestyle showdown between American Brian Goodell and th...

Brian Goodell vs. Vladimir Salnikov: 'The Duel We Missed' Documentary Receiving Academy Award Consideration Documentary films, at their core, take a deep dive into a specific topic. They are detailed. They offer emotion. They introduce engaging characters and storylines. They take the viewer behind ...

Several years ago, Dave Bartlett and Brenda Borgh Bartlett wrote this wonderful article on the men's 400-meter freestyle from the 1976 United States Olympic Trials. The epic race featured some of the greats of the sport. Great Races: 1976 US Olympic Trials Men’s 400-Meter Freestyle (From the Archive...

Mark Schubert Steps Down as Head Coach at Mission Viejo Nadadores Mark Schubert has been through the drill nearly a dozen times, perhaps more than any coach in swimming history. When an Olympic cycle culminates, there’s a rest and a re-evaluation before committing to the next four years. There’s a r...

The Golden Years of High School Swimming: Santa Clara and Mission Viejo (from September's Swimming World Magazine) Public schools Santa Clara and Mission Viejo built high school swimming dynasties from the 1960s through the early 1980s. Not only did they dominate high school swimming, but unlike tod...

The Greatest Team in History: How the U.S. Dominated the 1976 Olympic Games The 1927 New York Yankees. The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. The 1972 Miami Dolphins. The 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens. Each of these teams, defined by championship seasons and star-studded rosters, can make a claim for being its spo...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the third day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Vladimir Salnikov became the first man to race under 15 minutes for the first of his two Olympic titles over 1500m freestyle against a backdrop of politics and boycott, life-changing ch...

Mark Schubert has accepted the position as the Associate Head Coach of the Mission Viejo Nadadores. For Schubert, his career will be coming full-circle as he returns to the post he thrived in for 13 years in the 1970s and 1980s. "My job description will be running the club. Bill and I have a great r...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern.  Zane Grothe may be on his way to filling the void the American men currently have in the 400m and 1500m freestyle. The only factor in deciding if Grothe is responsible for a revival of the distance events is if he can translate his record-breaking ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 22. KNOXVILLE'S Webb School senior, Davis Tarwater, splashed to a state-record and nation-leading 48 flat 100 butterfly to highlight the Tennessee state prep meet here this weekend. Tarwater also went a state-record 4:22.20 to win the 500 free (shades of Mark Sptiz when he...

A Look At the Most Iconic Pool Moments From the Olympic Games In the summer of 2019, one year prior to the original date of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Swimming World designed a series that would pay homage to the history of the sport on its biggest stage. Dubbed Takeoff to Tokyo, the series would f...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan, July 22. THORPEMANIA spilled over on to the poolside at the World Championships in Fukuoka tonight as Ian Thorpe was greeted by hundreds of screaming Japanese girls after lowering the world record in the 400 meter freestyle to 3:40.17 and going on to b...

A Voice for the Sport Thomas Wolfe titled his famous book, “You Can’t Go Home Again.” My guess is that Mark Schubert and Michele Mitchell either did not read the book or never believed in its title. They both have returned to their roots in Mission Viejo, Calif. Schubert returns for his second stint...

Yesterday, Thursday, October 13th, the Mission Viejo city council unanimously approved an approximate $10 million in contracts to renovate the Marguerite Aquatics Center. The city council originally approved a motion to fully renovate the facilities in June 2015, which was then presented with a pric...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, May 7. EL TORO High senior Kaitlin Sandeno has done it all in her rather abbreviated but highly productive swimming career. She's been an Olympian, finaled in the "Big Show" and won Olympic bronze, set innumerable records and won innumerable races. But the future Trojan has yet to s...

For the 40th time since what could’ve been the peak of his swimming career, the last week of July passed by Brian Goodell without much of a thought. That it’s such a round anniversary since the American distance star didn’t get a chance to defend his Olympic gold medals at the 1980 Olympics thanks t...

An Invitation To An Olympic Master Class From Legendary Gold Medal Coach Laurie Lawrence There is always a sense of excitement, anticipation and a certain smell whenever you roll through the doors of a Laurie Lawrence Swim School. It’s a name synonymous with Olympic gold in Australia and saving kids...

By David Rieder. More than 30 years ago, Jennifer Hooker was fresh off swimming at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal when she moved west to train with Mark Schubert and the Mission Viejo Nadadores. Three decades later, her son, Michael Brinegar, followed the same pathway, from Indiana out to Southern Ca...

CAMBRIDGE, MA., Feb. 28. DEFENDING men's Eastern League champ Harvard leads after the first day of this season's championship meet at the Crimson's Blodgett Pool. Coach Tim Murphy's Harvard squad racked up 461 points to 421 for second-place Princeton, coached by former USC All-Americ...