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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...

CLOVIS, Calif., Aug. 18. BELOW are up-to-date running summaries of prelims on Day 5 of the USA Swimming Nationals. These results will be updated as events are completed. Note: There have been electronic timing glitches here. One simmer in heat one of the men's 50 free was timed in 19.83 seconds;...

ROCHESTER, MI., Nov. 17. WHAT a difference a year -- and a thousnd miles -- makes. Last season as a sophomore at Webster High in suburban Webster, NY, sprinter Kara Lynn Joyce had a pretty good year, ranking eighth nationally in the 50 free (23.43) and 19th in the 100 (51.45). Not bad for a 10th-gra...

By Kari Lydersen Men's 100 Fly Ian Crocker, just 17, won the 100 fly in a new Olympic Trials record of 52.78, breaking his own 52.82 record from the prelims. Matt Biondi previously held the mark with a 53.09 from 1988. Crocker, swimming for the Portland Porpoises, was third at the 50 in 24.81 an...

AUBURN, Ala., Dec. 2. U.S. OLYMPIC champions Megan Quann and Ed Moses completed sweeps of the breaststroke events, winning the 200 meter distance tonight, the final night of the US Open Championships, held at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center at Auburn University. Quann took the women's event i...

Event 17: Women's 100 Free Dara Torres qualified first for semi-finals in the 100 free in 54.62. Torres, who set an American record in the 100 fly earlier in this meet, was out under American record pace in 26.07. The 33-year-old Stanford swimmer came back from a disappointing 200 free two days ...

By Kari Lydersen Jenny Thompson broke her own American record to win the 100 free final in 54.07. The second best time in the world this year, it broke her 54.27 mark set in July. Dara Torres, who was also second to Thompson in the 100 fly, qualified for another Olympic event with a 54.62 second pla...

The Bolles School's Janelle Atkinson electrified the crowd at the Florida 4A Girls Swimming Championships on November 18, when she came within a whisker of breaking Janet Evans' "unbreakable" national high school record in the 500 yard freestyle. Atkinson, 17, clocked 4:37.91 for the 20-lap race, se...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, Texas, March 9. THERE are some fast women in Texas. Swimmin' wimmin, that is. On the final night of the American Short Course Championships, held at the University of Texas, the women's events stole the show, with veteran Lindsay Benko and youngsters Christina Swin...

By Phillip Whitten ORLANDO,Florida. CHRISTINA Swindle, a sophomore at Gulliver Prep, broke two of the most hallowed national high school records in the books in Orlando on Saturday at the Florida Class A State High School Swimming and Diving Championships. The just-turned 16-year-old clocked 22.62 (...

By Josh Jeffrey FT. LAUDERDALE, Nov. 16. CHRISTINA Swindle, Swimming World's reigning 'Female High School Swimmer of the Year' set the ISHOF swimming complex on fire last night at Florida's District 1A State High School Swimming and Diving Championships. Swindle, a junior at Miami...

AUSTIN, Tx., March 8. SWIM Atlanta's Amanda Weir must enjoy foreign travel, because she's quickly becoming an excellent prospect to tour a very prominentand very ancient European capital that begins with the first letter of the alphabet in just two more years. Athens, of course, site of the ...

By Kari Lydersen Women's 50 Free: Dara Torres won her first gold of the meet, completing her stellar comeback, with a 24.90 victory in the 50 free. The time set a new Trials record, breaking her own mark of 24.93 from the semi-finals. "I'm upset with my time but I'm glad I won," said Tor...

Every year Swimming World highlights the top Male and Female High School Swimmer of the Year in the August issue. In anticipation of the release of the August issue we at Swimming World would like to take a look back at previous winners. 2014 Winners: Katie Ledecky & Caeleb Dressel Not only is Katie...

By Josh Jeffrey NOV. 13. FLORIDA'S high school swimmers issued a challenge to the rest of the country last weekend with fast times at the Florida district qualifying meets. Though many swimmers did not taper for these in lieu of next weekend's state meets, there was no dearth of swift swimmi...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, March 27. WITH the absence of three of the USA’s biggest Olympic stars and the retirement of half a dozen more, the stage is set for a changing of the guard at the 2001 USA Swimming Spring National Championships, in Austin, Texas, March 27 - April 1. The meet will also ser...

By Mary Wagner (courtesy USA Swimming) EAST MEADOW, N.Y., Dec. 1. AS the final night of the 2001 U.S. Open unfolded, multiple event winners emerged and meet records became a thing of the past. And setting one of those records was Tom Malchow, who won what was perhaps the marquee matchup of the meet ...

By Kari Lydersen Event 16: Men's 200 Breast Final In perhaps the most exciting race of the meet, Kyle Salyards came from third at the 150 to win the 200 breast in a breathtaking race with only .32 separating first from fourth. Salyards, 19 and representing Tempe Rio, touched in 2:13.21, ahead of...

By Kari Lydersen Photos by Michael Collins Dara Torres qualified first in the 50 free with a 25.23. Torres, 33 and swimming for Stanford, set the American record in the event with a 24.73 in June. Torres previously was second in the 100 fly, setting an American record in prelims, and second in the 1...

By Phillip Whitten CLOVIS, Calif. Aug. 18. TEEN sensation Michael Phelps, late bloomer Gabrielle Rose and triple Olympic gold medalist Gary Hall, Jr. all scored impressive victories tonight, the final night of competition of the USA Swimming National Championships in Clovis, Calif. Phelps, who becam...