Read moreCyndi Gallagher Inducted into ASCA Hall of Fame (VIDEO)25 September 2021Cyndi Gallagher was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame at the 2021 ASCA World Clinic last Thursday. This year, the annual clinic was hosted in Orlando, Florida from September 15th-18th, 2021. After being with the UCLA Bruins Women's Swim Team for thirty-one seasons,...
Read morePEM Surface Creations: A Champion in Supporting the International Swimming League14 October 2019PEM is proud to provide a safe and elite flooring solution for the International Swim League October kicks off the competition season for the 2019 International Swim League (ISL), the world’s first team oriented professional swimming league. To ensure the safety and success of these top competitors,...
Read more31Adam Peaty to FINA: "I Don't Care, Ban Me If You've Got To," In Support of International Swim League20 December 2018Great Britain's Adam Peaty has been very vocal about his support for the International Swim League (ISL), even with the likes of FINA, the world governing body of the sport of swimming, threatening to ban him and other athletes who decided to take part in a non-sanctioned event. But according to BBC...
Read more3Adam Peaty to Lead London Team in International Swim League06 March 2019Olympic & five time World Champion Adam Peaty OBE, 24, one of Britain’s greatest ever swimmers, has today announced his official role as an Ambassador for the International Swimming League. Signing the ambassador agreement with Konstantin Grigorishin, the Head Advisor of the International Swimming L...
Read moreStaying Close to Home, Kelsey Wog Grows into a Canadian Contender18 March 2020Not many people knew the name Kelsey Wog in December 2016, when the 18-year-old Canadian returned from the FINA World Short-Course Championships with a silver medal. In retrospect, Wog’s swim at the meet in Windsor, Ontario, looks like the start of a four-year ascend. And as the calendar turns to (w...
Read moreCali Condors & SwimOutlet Partner for the Upcoming 2021 ISL Season26 August 2021Condors to provide Live Look-Ins & Social Takeovers during all of their Regular Season Competitions on @SwimOutlet SwimOutlet, the web’s most popular swim shop, has partnered up with the 2020 International Swimming League (ISL) champions Cali Condors for a third successive season on a range of digit...
Read more11FINA Issues Statement on International Swimming League20 December 2018Following meetings in London this week involving the International Swimming League (ISL), FINA is pleased to correct a number of inaccuracies and to clarify its position in several key areas: FINA welcomes comments by all athletes with regard to the constant improvement in the quality of FINA events...
Read more3Adam Peaty's Vision for the Future of Swimming12 December 2018By David Rieder. Adam Peaty isn’t at the Short Course World Championships, going on this week in China. Last month, when he announced his commitment to the now-cancelled Energy for Swim, he declared that he would skip Short Course Worlds. And even now, he has no regrets about his decision. “It’s onl...
Read moreWith Olympics on Horizon, Swimming Opening Doors for Tomas Peribonio17 August 2020With Olympics on Horizon, Swimming Opening Doors for Tomas Peribonio Tomas Peribonio took the lessons of the last year, the enjoyable and the arduous, in stride. There was last summer’s daring double of the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the Pan American Games in Lima, an exhaustin...
Read more3Tom Shields, Michael Andrew, Katinka Hosszu Sue FINA for Antitrust Violations07 December 2018A trio of elite swimmers have filed a lawsuit against FINA in U.S. district court for its threat to sanction any athletes that competed in an International Swim League event. U.S. Olympic gold medalist Tom Shields, U.S. National champion Michael Andrew and Hungarian Olympic gold medalist Katinka Hos...
Read moreSwim Poll of the Week: Which New Format Are You Most Looking Forward to?09 May 2019This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, May 9, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Which new format are you most looking forward to? The International Swimming League or the FINA Champions Series? We asked and you answered with… Her...
Read moreSwim Poll of the Week: Will the International Swimming League Still Exist Next Year?06 June 2019This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, June 6, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Will the International Swimming League still exist next year? We asked and you answered with… Here are the answers: Yes (73%) No (27%)
Read moreCommentary: How to Organize Swimming for Professional Athletes' Best Future24 December 2018Commentary on Professional Athletes by John Leonard, ASCA USA Swimming reorganized itself into a “governance board” model in 2018. I believe that is the model of the future for a part of our sport…the part that serves many hundreds of thousands of developmental athletes. Is it the Best for the hundr...
Read more1Ryan Murphy Confirms Participation at Energy For Swim08 November 20182016 Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Ryan Murphy announced via his Facebook page his intention to swim at the Energy for Swim competition to be held in Italy December 20 and 21. The event will be held one week after the World Short Course Championships, which Murphy will be in attendan...