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Coaching Masters Swimming: A Different Sport With Many Needs to Meet (From the Archive) Commentary by Jason Tillotson When we think of swimmers and the American swimming community, we think of early morning practices, a full day of school or work then a return to the Olympic-sized ice box for an aft...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern. Within the swimming community it is often argued that competing at an elite level in long course meters, or Olympic-sized pools, requires a substantial amount of long course meters training. While some of these arguments are valid, one could argue t...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern. As we begin 2018, we inevitably look back on the accomplishments and milestones we saw this year. Big moments like Adam Peaty’s 50 breaststroke and Sarah Sjostrom’s 100 freestyle world records from the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest come ...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern. Swimmers know all too well the feeling of depletion and exhaustion after two long practices, plus dry land training, weights, stretching and more each day. Without proper nutrition a swimmer’s body can actually become weaker, while under intense tra...

The Southern Zone South Sectional Meet got underway in Orlando, Florida this evening. Despite typically playing host to mostly Florida Swimming and Florida Gold Cost teams, many teams from outside the Southern Zone are present. (Mention teams). This meet has been known for cameos from very fast coll...

Covid-19: Five Things to Focus on After a Long Break From the Pool When this article was written a few years ago, no one thought the world would be hit by the coronavirus pandemic. If swimmers had to stay out of the water, it was on a case-by-case basis, not the blanket situation that - at one point...

Commentary by Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern.  Swimming is a complicated sport. It is so pure, so natural and innate yet, at the same time, it can be tremendously complex. Swimming is nothing more than the games we all played as children on the playground. It is nothing more than “he...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern. A few months ago, I made five predictions for 2017. Among those five predictions, I predicted the Stanford women and the Cal men would win their respective NCAA championships. With that, it looks like I’m one-for-one, right? Except for the fact that...

The long anticipated college invitational season is finally here with the 2017 Purdue Invitational among the first meets to get underway. Powerhouses like University of Florida, Indiana University and Virginia Tech are in attendance in West Lafayette this weekend which allows spectators to see elite...

On the final night of the Tokyo World Cup, Bingjie Li became the second ever female junior swimmer to break 4:00 in the 400 SCM freestyle. The previous record, formerly belonging to Chinese national teammate Jianjiahe Wang, was 3:59.69, set at the Beijing stop in the 2017 FINA World Cup series. Li's...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern.  Swimming probably has the most high-level comebacks out of any sport and we all know very well the incredible comeback stories of Michael Phelps, Katie Hoff, Brendan Hansen and now Dana Vollmer, though few people may know or remember the lesser tol...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern. It is an unfortunate reality that, in the United States, only a few swimming names are known across the nation. Beyond Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky, I seriously doubt many outside the swimming community could name mo...

Night two of the Southern Zone South Sectional Championships began this evening in Orlando, Florida. The preliminaries went off early this morning, with the top-32 swimmers qualifying for tonight’s finals. The 800-meter freestyle relays were the only events swum as timed finals this evening. Tonight...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern We all know how devastating of a blow the international swimming world took after the ban on polyurethane “super” suits. In 2009 alone, 147 world records were broken in super-suits (43 of those records were written at the 2009 LC World Championships)...

By Jason Tillotson.  The Big 12 conference showed some seriously fast swimming this weekend. TCU men saw the Mustangs out of SMU while the lady Horned Frogs hosted the first Big 12 showdown of the year by inviting Kansas to Fort Worth. WVU took on the beasts from the Big East, Seton Hall and Xavier ...

World Cup mainstays like Katinka Hosszu, Sarah Sjostrom, Chad Le Clos and Park Tae Hwan make appearances on the first night of the Tokyo Stop of the 2017 FINA World Cup circuit. Check below for live coverage of day two finals session. Tonight’s event’s include: 100m Men's Breaststroke 50m Women's Bu...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern.  Zane Grothe may be on his way to filling the void the American men currently have in the 400m and 1500m freestyle. The only factor in deciding if Grothe is responsible for a revival of the distance events is if he can translate his record-breaking ...

By Jason Tillotson.  This week is set for some exciting Big 12 action as every team, except the Texas men and women, is hosting a meet. This week will hold the first Big 12 head-to-head dual of the season with TCU's women's squad taking on Kansas. Outside of Fort Worth, Texas West Virginia Universit...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern. The World Swimming Championships this past month was filled with excitement, surprises and insanely fast swimming. It was also the meet where we saw, for the first time in long time, someone get out of a race without finishing it. That person was Ca...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern Since 2010, the Arizona State University Men’s Swimming and Diving team hadn’t placed higher than fifth at the Pac-12 conference championship meet. That is, until this past weekend, when the Sun Devils placed fourth, ahead of in-state rival Arizona. ...