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By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. As swimmers, we have all experienced a moment in our careers when we missed a personal best, a medal, or the opportunity to qualify for a big meet by merely hundredths of a second. But what if that big meet is the Olympic Games? Melissa Rodriguez,...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Technology has drastically changed sports throughout the last decades, and swimming is no exception. A newer trend that coaches have added to the training regimen is practicing in a swim flume as an alternative to improve performance. The most pop...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. As younger swimmers, most of us had a blast while attending summer swim camps. You make new friends and get to splash around under the sun while learning about the sport you love. But when we grow up as high school or college swimmers, we tend to ...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Swimmers face tougher challenges in open water swimming than in the pool. They deal with extreme water temperatures, uncertain weather and powerful currents. Nowadays, they face a new challenge: a polluted ocean. Global warming has evolved through...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are,” said former US President Theodore Roosevelt. Some swimmers are luckier than others, growing up with resources at their fingertips. They have several teams and facilities from which to choose, w...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Regular competitive swimmers fall into one of two camps: the ones who refuse to swim in the ocean, and the ones who love it. Throughout open water swimming history, several individuals have accomplished what many would think impossible - just for ...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. International college swimmers beware; are you trying to pursue the "American Swimming Dream"? Here's a fair warning - college athletic programs can get cut unexpectedly. While most international students choose to attend school in the U.S. due to...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Nowadays, taking care of the environment has become a trend. During a UN General Assembly high-level meeting, sources shared that in eleven years, the damage we have caused to our Earth is going to be irreversible if we don't take drastic action. ...

This summer, Swimming World had the pleasure of working with a gifted group of 21 journalism interns who submitted stories every two weeks and delved into feature writing, race analysis, training studies and event coverage. A large percentage of Swimming World’s most-read online content was written ...