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USA Swimming Announces Formation of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council and Black Leadership in Aquatics Coalition USA Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in the United States, is proud to announce the formation of two diverse leadership groups developed as part of a long-term actio...

By Gerry Rodrigues and Phil Whitten LOS ANGELES, July 16. Outstanding performances are anticipated here on the final evening of the Janet Evans Invitational,at the MacDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium on the campus of the University of Southern California. In prelims, several impressive performances...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 11. 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...

1992 U.S. Olympic sweetheart Anita Nall, 22, training with her former coach, Murray Stephens at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club this summer to decide whether to make a serious comeback. Russians Evgeny Sadovyi, a triple gold medalist in Barcelona, and Denis Pankratov, Swimming World's male "World S...

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., June 25. THE visiting Japanese Olympic team completed its domination of the competition at the Mission Viejo 2000 Swim Meet of Champions by winning all six women's events and three of the six men's events on the final day of competition. Junko Onshi cracked a minute in...

By Phillip Whitten U.S. Olympic hopefuls Dara Torres, 32, and Byron Davis, 29, have switched clubs as they prepare for the U.S. Olympic Trials. Torres, who won relay gold medals on the 1984 and '92 teams, will be training with and representing the Santa Clara Swim Club. She had been training at the ...

PHOENIX, June 28. TWO of the USA's most celebrated swim stars of recent years became proud parents earlier this month. On June 16, Angel and Mike Martino welcomed their second child into the world. Mark Kirtley Martino made his debut at a hefty 8 pounds 9 ounces, and measured 20-1/2 inches long....

(from the August issue of SWIMMING WORLD Magazine) By Phillip Whitten Arguably the most anxiety- and tension-ridden meet in all of swimming, the U.S. Olympic Trials is the one and only opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. Do it here, at this quadrennial test of body and spirit, and you’...

By Kari Lydersen 17-year-old Ian Crocker set a new Olympic Trials record with a 52.82 in the 100 fly, breaking Matt Biondi's 1988 mark of 53.09. Crocker was just .06 shy of Neil Walker's American record. Walker, the second qualifier in the 50 free this morning, didn't swim the event. Bry...

Taking a giant step to fulfill the Olympic dream that eluded him in 1996, Chad Carvin set an American record in winning the 400 meter freestyle at the World Cup meet held at the University of Maryland in College Park. Carvin, of Laguna Hills, Calif., clocked 3:42.16 for the quarter mile, eclipsing J...

Two years ago, Byron Davis came within a whisker of making the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team. Leading the 100m butterfly for almost the entire race at Trials, he faded the last 10 meters to finish 4th. Since then, Davis, 27, has been coaching, writing for Swimming World, conducting swim clinics for kids an...

Byron Davis, 26, who just missed making the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team, has unretired and is back in the water training for the 2000 Olympic Games under Coach Mark Schubert at the Trojan Swim Club.

In a press conference on March 30 attended by many members of the U.S. National Team including Josh Davis, Brooke Bennett, Karen Campbell, Jason Lezak, BJ Bedford, Bradley Schumacher, Richelle Fox, Byron Davis and others, USA Swimming and Ultimate Technique™ and Girl Power Swim Clinics™ presented by...

IRVINE, CA, June 5. Lenny Krayzelburg, Jenny Thompson and Kristine Quance-Julian turned in stellar performances at the 2000 Speedo Grand Challenge Swimming Invitational, held June 2-4 at the Heritage Aquatics Complex in Irvine, Calif. Krayzelburg won both backstrokes, stroking 55.22 in the 100 meter...

By Gerry Rodrigues and Phil Whitten LOS ANGELES, July 15. WOMEN'S 200m FREESTYLE; CLAUDIA IS BACK1 COSTA Rica's Claudia Poll, the defending Olympic champion, pulled away from Jenny Thompson, the early leader, to win the women's 200 free in 1:58.08--the second fastest time in the world th...