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The Excellent Swim Coach (From the Archive) Swimming is very much a sport of observation. Swimmers observe others' strokes underwater during practice and have a lot of time on deck during meets to watch the coach-swimmer dynamics surrounding us. I had 12 swim coaches in my 18 years of swimming. It's...

When South Africa Soared to Olympic Gold in Athens 400 Freestyle Relay In Swimming World's latest Olympic flashback, attention is paid to the 2004 breakthrough triumph of South Africa in the 400 freestyle relay. The victory arrived on August 15, 2004 at the Athens Games. As they walked to the blocks...

COLORADO SPRINGS - With a sleek modern design that features a consistent look across its multiple levels of national events, USA Swimming today unveiled a series of new logos for its championship meets. Conceptualized using actual underwater swimming photos that display the speed and power unique t....

This week gave NCAA fans one of their first big weekends of college racing, with Louisville’s Mallory Comerford putting on a show at the SMU Classic. Read about her strong performances at that meet and the biggest stories of the week below in The Week That Was! https://youtu.be/bcMlGOatARE The Week ...

Augie Busch has been named as the new head coach of the University of Arizona women's and men's swim teams. Busch had spent the previous four seasons as head coach at the University of Virginia. He previously served as an assistant at Arizona under his father Frank Busch from 2003 to 2011. Augie Bus...

USA Swimming has named two-time Olympian Lindsay Mintenko as the first female senior executive to lead the organization’s National Team Division amid a restructuring of the organization’s technical swimming staff. She has been a member of the National Team staff since 2006. “With Lindsay’s 10-plus ....

Splash into summer break with a new subscription to Swimming World Magazine beginning with the June issue. Featured on the June 2017 cover of Swimming World Magazine are several notable male barrier breakers in the sport of swimming. Subscribe now to receive the June issue and learn more about the i...

Robert White Sr., a deeply respected and highly accoladed coach of 40 years and former Indiana University swimming star, passed away on Sunday, August 5, 2018 at the age of 91. White’s lifelong commitment and service to the sport garnered a NISCA Hall of Fame Award in 1999, forever memorialized at t...

Rio Retrospect: Holy Smokes! Frank Busch, USA Swimming’s national team director, took the time to offer his take on the Rio Games—the good, the bad and the ugly--for Swimming World Magazine. USA National Team Director Frank Busch convened with the 2016 U.S. Olympic team three different times leading...

According to an article that appeared on Tuscon.com, University of Arizona head coach Augie Busch has "parted ways" with assistant coaches Cory Chitwood and Beth Botsford. Both Chitwood and Botsford were All-American swimmers at the University of Arizona. Botsford, who won two Olympic gold medals at...

For Glenn Mills, a Missed Olympic Opportunity in 1980, but a Career of Giving Back Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fourth day of the 1980 United States Olympic Trials, when a team was selected, but did not get the chance to compete at the Moscow Games. Nearly 40 years later, Glenn Mills stil...

Commentary by Jim Lutz, Head Coach for Viper Aquatics Forty years ago, Cleveland was the recipient of some pretty harsh criticism when the Cuyahoga River caught on fire and thus named, “The Mistake On The Lake” (Erie). In the following decades, the downtown area would receive a major facelift with n...

By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Magazine Staff Writer USA Swimming announced today that the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team will kickoff training camp in San Antonio, Texas at the picturesque Northside Swim Center, site of the 2015 USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships. “The Northside Swim Center ...

COLORADO SPRINGS - As part of an overall championship event rebranding announced earlier today, USA Swimming also partnered with Arena to rebrand the Arena Grand Prix as the Arena Pro Swim Series. In an effort to make the event even more mainstream, USA Swimming and Arena decided to call their premi...

Frank Busch: Leaving A Lasting Legacy Visit the Swimming World Magazine Vault to Read More. Frank Busch has spent six years as national team director for USA Swimming, but that stint will be over at the end of August, after being in charge of his fourth World Championships. As he leaves, he could no...

TUCSON, Arizona, January 20. CLOSING a story that left the swimming community in shock and speculation for the last several months, Arizona head men's and women's swimming and diving coach Eric Hansen has officially resigned from his position following an extended leave of absence that began in Octo...

Sponsored by Pentair Aquatic Systems, the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced today the recipients of the 23rd Annual Paragon Awards.  The Paragon Awards are presented annually to individuals or organizations for outstanding contributions to aquatics in six categories. This year’s ...

COLORADO SPRINGS – The USA Swimming National Select Camp has been a breeding ground for some of the country’s best elite swimmers, many of whom graduated to the USA Swimming National Team and the Olympic Team. Four athletes who participated in previous National Select Camps would win Olympic gold me...

By David Rieder. Sure, Adam Peaty made it interesting, giving the British men a four-hundredth lead over the Americans at the halfway point of the final event of the FINA World Championships, the men’s 400 medley relay. But with Caeleb Dressel and Nathan Adrian closing it out, the result was never r...

By Bill Bell FEDERAL WAY, WA., Feb. 24. THE 'CATS are champs but the only way you'd know it is by looking at the scoreboard. For the second-consecutive year Coach Frank Busch's Arizona Lady Wildcats are the "queens" of the Pac-10, winning the title they first splashed to last season here...