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During the 2016 Canadian Swimming Congress, the Canadian Swim Coaches and Teachers Association (CSCTA) inducted Clifford Barry, Paul Meronen and the late Dr. Jeno Tihanyi into its Hall of Fame. Barry never swam competitively but played water polo for Canada in two Olympic Games, in 1972 and 1976. An...

Maximum Velocity The articles of the previous two months (July and August) addressed the technique misconceptions of hull length and hull speed. Examination of these boat-design concepts indicates that they are not applicable to human swimming. This month’s article examines the related misconception...

Former University of Nebraska Cornhusker assistant Jan Bidrman has accepted the head coaching position with the Canadian National Team at the University of Calgary. The position was left vacant by Deryk Snelling who returned to Great Britain. Bidrman coached world record holder and 1996 Olympic gold...

Deryk Snelling, legendary Canadian swimming coach, has died at age 87. His daughter announced his death on his Facebook page on Wednesday. "This is Leslie Snelling Scabar. I just wanted to let my dad's Facebook community know that he recently passed away at home from pneumonia and congestive heart f...

By Craig Lord SHEFFIELD, England. July 26. DARREN Mew leapt 28 places to ninth on the world rankings to qualify for his first Olympic Games at Ponds Forge pool in Sheffield, England, his 1min 01.78sec and three British records elsewhere were symptomatic of the new dawn of which Deryk Snelling, natio...

CALGARY, Canada, September 20. CANADIAN Swim Coaches & Teachers Association launched its Hall of Fame Friday in Calgary as part of the 2014 Canadian Swimming Congress. Deryk Snelling, along with the late Howard Firby and Nick Thierry, form the inaugural class of the CSCTA Coaching Hall of Fame. “Our...

What We Learned From Kazan Russia 2015 This year's World Championships had both breakout performances as well as subpar showings, but the main lesson learned from this year's World Championships in Kazan is that what really matters is next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Swimming World's Jeff Com...

Crosswim Training In an effort to sidestep swimmer burnout, Jonny Tunstall—1996 200 breaststroke British national champion, Arizona State University men’s swimming alumnus and associate head coach at Sun Devil Masters in Tempe, Ariz.—created an hour-long workout that combines high-intensity interval...

ASCA Educates The World While information zings around the world at a click of a computer mouse, learning practical methodology in coaching swimming requires a personal touch. Twenty-two times this year, an ASCA staff member, or their designee, folds their shirts, squeezes their running shoes in a b...

Learn How To Swim Drowning is the number one cause for death in children under five, which has led people worldwide to acknowledge a growing need for swim schools. Swimming World Magazine takes a look at the business side of running a swim school and explores the importance of its curriculum. Author...

A Championship Sendoff In Sergio Lopez's last season as head coach of the Bolles School, his boys' team responded by winning the school's sixth Swimming World Magazine boys' national high school team title. Few knew going into the state meet back in November that it would be Lopez's last meet coachi...