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Daniel Roy has been in competition with newly crowned National title winner Reece Whitley for several years now, so it was no surprise that the two held a tight race on night two to finish first and second at the 2019 Phillips 66 U.S. National Championships. Later that night, when he met with the me...

2021 Trials: Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. Since Josh Prenot broke the American rec...

US Olympic Trials: Matt Fallon Turns On After Burners to Snag Top Seed in 200 Breast Semis Ahead of Fink, Cordes, Licon The men's 200 breast was billed as one of the most wide open races of Olympic Trials, with any number of five to six guys capable of making a statement and getting on the Olympic t...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Matt Fallon Sets AR 2:06.54 to Join Josh Matheny in 200 Breast Top 2 For years, the old guard in men’s breaststroke has held sway. Many have improved, some have faltered, but by and large, they’ve held off the advancing front. Wednesday night in Indianapolis, the young guns took...

Cody Miller edged out Nic Fink by half a second this morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Bloomington to claim tonight's center lane, but tonight, there was no competition. Surging to a 2:08.98 finish, Cody Miller achieved a personal best and decisive win. Will Licon slashed his time from this morn...

By Andy Ross The USA Swimming Phillips 66 Nationals will be this week July 25-29 in Irvine, California and will serve as a selection meet for a number of big international meets. The main meet it is selecting for is the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo, Japan, which are about three weeks away. The...

Teen Upstart Matt Fallon Leads 200 Breaststroke Prelims As Will Licon and Nic Fink Seek Redemption Redemption has emerged as the theme of the 200-meter breaststroke at the United States Olympic Trials. For Will Licon, he is seeking to atone for what unfolded at the 2016 Trials. For Nic Fink, he is t...

Check out quotes and audio interviews from athletes who posted impressive performances during the fourth day of the 2017 FINA World Junior Championships in Indianapolis. "I knew if I stayed with them, I could come back faster than all of them. If I stayed with them that first 100 and I came back on ...

This was a huge week of competitions across the United States as national and international swimmers continue to prepare for this summer’s big long course meets. Check out a recap of all the records that were broken along with the biggest stories of the week below in the week that was! The Week That...

As the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series in Bloomington headed into its final session this evening, there was still much work to be done. Boasting one of the most competitive finals heat sheets of the weekend, the Sunday night session hardly looked like the conclusion to a grueling four-day weekend. Instead,...

The Longhorn Elite Classic reached its final day of competition from Austin with some of the best from Texas, Stanford, Cal and Texas A&M getting in some last minute race preparation 22 days ahead of the start of the delayed Olympic Trials in Omaha. On the final day of prelims, Madisyn Cox swam the ...

By David Rieder. Daniel Roy stands a not-that-imposing 5 feet 8 inches, and he doesn’t dictate the race right off the gun in his signature event, the 200 breast. But once he gets going, well, he can move. He did not distinguish himself through the first half of his 200 breast final Friday night at J...

Reece Whitley touched the wall, looked up at his time and exploded with exciting emotion. With all eyes on the 6 foot, 9 inch breaststroker for the past few years, the Cal swimmer was able to let go of all of the pressure and expectations that come from being the top high school swimmer in the count...

By Tucker Rivera, Swimming World College Intern. Hello, and welcome back to “Should World Records be Faster?” Last week, we talked about the progression of world records since the mid-nineties and made predictions about what we can expect to see at the 2028 L.A. Olympic Games. This week, however, we...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. As the summer begins to heat up and taper season edges closer and closer, many American swimmers will be setting their sights on the 2018 Summer National Championships, which will serve as the qualifying meet for the Pan Pacific Championships later i...

By David Rieder. How had they never raced before? They were the two most talented teenage 200 breaststrokers in the country, and somehow, Reece Whitley and Daniel Roy had never gone head-to-head in that event. At U.S. Nationals in July, they had been in separate preliminary heats before Roy qualifie...

Isabelle Stadden Swims 2:07 200 Back in Longhorn Elite Prelims The 2021 Longhorn Elite Classic continued Friday morning from Austin as the countdown to US Olympic Trials in Omaha reaches 23 days. The intensity is ramping up and many swimmers are getting Trials fever as this is the last meet before e...

No. 16 Stanford remained unbeaten in conference play, producing a 190-109 victory over No. 18 USC Saturday afternoon in its lone road dual meet of the season. From Stanford: The Cardinal (4-0, 3-0 Pac-12), which was coming off a homestand sweep of Arizona State and Arizona two weeks ago, captured 11...

The Cal men’s swimming and diving team defeated rival Stanford 167.5-130.5 on Friday afternoon. Cal’s Daniel Carr, Reece Whitley, Bryce Mefford and Bjorn Seeliger won the 200 medley relay in 1:24.38 to start off the meet. The Golden Bears then went 1-2 in the 1,000 freestyle as Zach Yeadon won in 8:...

Max McHugh Upsets Reece Whitley in 200 Distance to Sweep NCAA Breaststroke Titles Minnesota's Max McHugh took down Cal's Reece Whitley in the finals of the 200 breaststroke at the NCAAs in Greensboro when a lot of people were expecting Whitley to challenge the American record of 1:47.91 set by Will ...