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Defensive Pessimism: How Negative Thinking Can Have a Positive Impact The most common approach heading into a big competition is to think positively–visualize the best-case scenario, focus on improving times or beating opponents, and avoid worrying about negative outcomes. For years, athletes and co...

Has Age Group Swimming Gotten Too Competitive? As the years go on, swimming keeps getting faster. Like most sports, it evolves as athletes find new ways to become stronger, quicker, and more skilled. For many swimmers, summer league is a starting point: a fun, low-pressure environment that sparks a ...

9 Types of Competitors Found On Deck At Swim Meets By Jennifer Yoo This is it. This is where it all pays off: the early morning practices, sets with long yardage, and hours upon hours of staring at a black line on the bottom of the pool. For every swimmer, the routine weekend swim meets are where th...

By Joe Buchanan, Swimming World College Intern. Choosing goggles can be intimidating for any new swimmer. Many swimmers settle for whatever goggles they can find within their price range at their local sports store without doing any research into what would work best for them. While all swimming gog...

3 Helpful Ways To Overcome a Missed Cut Time By Reagan Reetz, Swimming World College Intern Many swimmers set goals with a particular meet in mind. Whether it’s Olympic Trials or a state age group championship, the deciding factor for attending those meets can be a single hundredth of a second.  The...

Challenging 9 Swimming Myths That Have Run Rampant By Gigi Picard, Swimming World College Intern For whatever reason, myths just pop to the surface when non-competitive swimmers comment on swimmers and swimming in general. I know I’ve encountered some wild theories like swimmers shouldn’t go on land...

10 Beach Norms Swimmers Know all too Well By Maggie Lasto, Swimming World College Intern. Few people experience the summer like a swimmer. They are practically mermaids, after all. They can breathe on land but their fish tail always seems to draw them back to the water. All joking aside, going to th...

Commentary by Eamonn Keenan, Swimming World College Intern. Imagine that you’re a 10-year-old swimmer and have just made your first state cut. You’ve been swimming for about three years now and have continued to drop time at each competition. You go to the state meet and swim one or two races - you ...

By Grace Hoffmann, Swimming World College Intern As recruiting season picks up, the nation's top divers and swimmers choose their dream school to continue their athletic career. Some of these athletes continue their careers with a familiar face by their side, a teammate from the the club or a fellow...

Athlete Mentality: Injuries and The Competitive Spirit Athletes are an example of a warrior mindset in our current society. They embody competition, and the desire to be better than everyone around them. To be among the best of the best, elite athletes must be driven by that mentality, often to extr...

13 Popular Superstitions That Swimmers Bring to the Pool By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern On my college swim and dive team, I was voted Most Superstitious. Part of it involves three words: Peanut. Butter. Bites. I am infamous for having peanut butter bites on hand at swim meets. Before e...

By Ryan Gibbons The course of a swim season is remarkably familiar: a few weeks of drills is followed by a long period of intense training, culminating in a few weeks of taper and a championship meet. Yet many swimmers overlook a major aspect of this season: large, in-season invitationals. Many swim...

3 Things to Remember Before Your First Virtual Meet By Mauro Pacsi, Swimming World College Intern As sports slowly return to competition while the COVID-19 pandemic is still at large, many people in the swimming world have wondered, what lies ahead for the future of meets? The answer is here with US...

7 Things That Swimmers Fear Will Go Wrong on Race Day By J.P. Mortenson, Swimming World College Intern. After months and sometimes even years of training for what will hopefully be the fastest swimming of your life, race day has finally arrived. Race day is a nerve-wracking time for swimmers, as the...

Commentary by Walker Hill, Swimming World College Intern.  Student athletes are back on campus, training well, and managing midterms. Performance matters on a daily basis. The months of September and October long weeks that involved getting to know new teammates and/or coaches, acclimating to new le...

The Pros and Cons of Virtual Meets in the COVID Era Athletics in this global pandemic have certainly been unique, with mask-clad athletes and smaller to non-existent crowds. Swimming is no exception to these abnormalities, with the holding of "virtual" swim meets becoming a norm. Rather than two tea...

5 Helpful Lessons Learned From Team Travel Trips We are getting to the point in the season where many teams have traveled or are about to travel for competitions. Travel trips are exciting, especially when going to new places with teammates. They are also great for team bonding. However, travel trip...

Sibling Rivalry in the Water: How to Make the Most of the Situation It's no secret that younger siblings tend to try to copy or "take after" their older siblings. Close siblings even tend to play the same games, read the same books, and get involved in the same activities. Naturally, many swimmers a...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern. For swimmers, it's almost that special time of the year. With taper right around the corner, athletes are slowly getting their energy back, feeling better and getting more and more excited for championship season. In a few short weeks, it will be time t...

Fans and supporters will have more opportunities to see the Sun Devils at home this season as Arizona State men's and women's swimming and diving announces the 2017-18 competition schedule. "We are very excited to add powerhouse programs Texas and Indiana to our schedule and hope to make these yearl...