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By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern Swimming is a detail-obsessed sport: It’s all about precise qualifying times, strict training schedules, stroke descriptors, a lot of counting and hundredths of a second to crack the podium.  How many of you feel confident you know the history of swimming...

Guest Editorial: Steps Away from Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale Honors Swimming’s Greatest Fraud By Daniel Slosberg If the City of Fort Lauderdale’s International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) ever completes construction of its new home, visitors will be able to learn about the sport’s greatest champ...

The distance from the coastlines of Havana, Cuba to shores of Key West, Florida stretch more than 111 miles.  The long trek through dangerous waters was a swim that Diana Nyad always dreamed of completing. Nyad had already completed swims from Bahamas to Florida, and had even swum around the entire ...

Diana Nyad to be Honored by City of Fort Lauderdale with Historic Marker The City of Fort Lauderdale will host a ceremony on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at Las Olas Oceanside Park to unveil a Florida State Historic Marker honoring world-renowned endurance swimmer Diana Nyad.  The cerem...

The World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA) Advisory Board has announced that it will not ratify Diana Nyad's 2013 swim from Cuba to Florida. Nyad swam from Cuba to the Florida Keys and was the allegedly first to do so without a shark cage. In 2013, according to WOWSA, Nyad "sought ratificatio...

The screening of the life story of open water swimmer Diana Nyad had a positive, uplifting showing. Nyad, who had several ocean swims of considerable distances - and became the third person to swim from Cuba to Florida - is being played by four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening in the film "Nyad," b...

Open Water History: 105 Years of Swimming Around Manhattan Swimming around the center of New York City (45.9km/28.5 miles) has long been a tradition for many swimmers, with hotly contested races between top swimmers also part of history. The challenge consists of strong tides, the flows of three riv...

KEY WEST - Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad is staging a theatrical presentation this end about her 111-mile swim from Cuba to Key West, on the island where she completed the near-impossible athletic feat. "Onward! The Diana Nyad Story" is playing at The Studios of Key West, near the spot where she achie...

By Kelley Baylis, Swimming World College Intern As the month of January winds down, so does the most difficult time of training in the season. NEWMAC championships are approaching, which means taper is on its way. During the hardest month of the swim season, there were many tough practices where I a...

Diana Nyad: 'Celebrate Transgender Athletes' But Need Level Playing Field Diana Nyad, the 72-year-old long-distance open water swimmer who attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida on five occasions before finally making it on her final attempt, has weighed in on the controversy involving whether trans...

By Rebecca Noblett Diana Nyad won't be the only swimmer on TV next month after the announcement of a new character on BBC America's hit drama Orphan Black. In the show, Tatiana Maslany plays a young woman who finds out she is a clone, with Maslany playing all the clones to perfection. Entertainment ...

Tuesday marked the launch of the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, an association seeking to “protect girls and women’s sports and accommodate transgender athletes.” The six-member working group is led by a pair of Olympic swimmers in Donna de Varona and Nancy Hogshead-Makar, both with long histo...

FINIS, Inc., a worldwide leader in technical swimming development, is proud to announce a new partnership with famous long-distance swimmer, Diana Nyad. Nyad gained major national and international notoriety when she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cag...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, June 2. AFTER significant public pressure from a group of sexual abuse victims organized by the Women's Sports Foundation, USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus has elected to withdraw his name from induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. “After sign...

From World T.E.A.M. Sports: Marathon swimmer, Diana Nyad, will return to the water on Saturday, Oct. 5 for the annual Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim, a 1.5 mile endurance race, beginning on Alcatraz Island and finishing at San Francisco's Aquatic Park. Nyad's 102.5 mile, non-stop swim between the Bahamas a...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The Week That Was featured a Katie Ledecky swim, Claire Curzan taking down an American Record, the NCAA not accepting USA Swimming guidelines, and more. The Week That Was #1: Katie Ledecky Swims Faster 800 Freestyle Than Gold Time From Tokyo; Dressel Beats An...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, May 29. WITHIN the past few days, a protest letter of former sex abuse victims in the sport of swimming has lodged a protest to the International Swimming Hall of Fame due to the imminent induction of USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus into the Class of 2014. ISH...

HOLLYWOOD, California, March 4. DIANA Nyad, who captured the hearts and minds of the American public with her swim from Cuba to Florida last year, has been selected as part of the cast of season 18 of “Dancing With The Stars,” as announced on Good Morning America this morning. Nyad joins a group tha...

By: Samantha Dammann, Swimming World College Intern. Contrary to popular belief, not all popular swimming books are biographies about modern Olympians. Many swimming related books feature events and people who have conquered waves and waters across the world. Read about Lynne Cox’s daring open water...

By Allison Peters, Swimming World College Intern The season is coming to a close, and as any good swim fan would know, this is the time records are broken and season-long dreams come true. The Middle Atlantic Conference, which is comprised of Lycoming, Widener, Misericordia, Arcadia, Wilkes, Albrigh...