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By Katie Wingert, Swimming World College Intern.  For Coach Rusty Owens, age is but a number, and work is a passion that ignites. This summer marks his sixtieth year of teaching Central Pennsylvania children to swim—both for safety and for speed. Owens, the 2010 recipient of the International Swimmi...

Commentary by Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16. WHEN the nominees for the ESPY Awards, ESPN’s way of honoring the best sports athletes and moments of the past 17 months, I was shocked that swimming and other aquatic sports were not listed in the nominations. Judging by the reactions from the ...

By Rebecca Noblett ATHENS, Georgia. February 21. TEXAS A&M took first in all four women's events on a night that saw four new SEC records and a new American and NCAA record in the 100 breast from A&M's Breeja Larson. Georgia's women still lead on points with 1098, but Texas A&M made a good dent in t...

University of Tennessee broke their own record in the 200 yard medley relay at the SEC Championships. Craig Gilliam led off with a 21.37 in the backstroke, then Jeremy Linn followed with a 23.55 in the breaststroke. Jeff Elder and Adam Engle held off Auburn and Georgia. The Vols raced to a 1:25.76, ...

(from the August issue of SWIMMING WORLD Magazine) By Phillip Whitten Arguably the most anxiety- and tension-ridden meet in all of swimming, the U.S. Olympic Trials is the one and only opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. Do it here, at this quadrennial test of body and spirit, and you’...

By Phillip Whitten University of Virginia sophomore Ed Moses swam the second fastest 200 yard breaststroke in history at the ACC Championships last weekend, though you won't find his performance in the official meet results. Disqualified in the prelims of the 200 breast (he did a 1:57+), Moses swam ...

The top 2 finishers in each event earn a spot on the 1998 World Championship Team. The 3rd and 4th finishers in the 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle will earn a trip to the World Championships as relay members. The 5th and 6th swimmers in the 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle are virtually guarante...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Six 1998 world champions, including Amy Van Dyken, Bill Pilzcuk, Jenny Thompson, Lenny Krayzelburg, Lea Maurer and Kurt Grote, headline the Team USA swimming roster for this summer's Goodwill Games. The team also includes 11 Olympic gold medalists: Van Dyken, Thompson, Maurer,...

Paving the Way Success (or failure) of a taper depends largely upon the previous quality of work. Coaches of three USA Swimming club teams share how they taper their age group and senior swimmers. The excuse "I missed my taper" is one that frequently gets thrown around on the pool deck, coaching leg...

By Phillip Whitten COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, March 23. BOTH Texas and Stanford continued to swim well on this, the second morning of prelims at the men's NCAA Division I Swimming Championships in College Station, Texas. But Stanford's disqualification in the very first event of the day, the 20...

3-time 1996 Olympic gold medalist Josh Davis will be one of many big-name swimmers competing at the 1996 U.S. Open Championships on December 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas. Other prominent swimmers featured: 1996 Olympic gold medalists: Brooke Bennett, Brad Bridgewater, Kristine Quance, Tom Dolan, and Cr...

Event 3: Women's 100 Fly Final After a battle that came down to the last stroke and had the crowd on its feet, Jenny Thompson beat out Stanford teammate Dara Torres to take the 100 fly in 57.79. Torres was second in 57.86; both were slower than the 57.58 American record Torres had set in prelims...

MEN'S 2002 PACIFIC-10 SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS HOST: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- BERKELEY HELD AT: BELMONT PLAZA POOL-LONG BEACH, CA MARCH 7-9, 2002 MARCH 8, 2002 EVENT: 8 MEN's 400 YARDS INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY NCAA 3:38.18 TOM DOLAN MICHIGAN 1995 PAC-10 3:40.98 ERIK VENDT USC 2001 PAC 10 ...

Visit our 2015 Irish Open event landing page for video interviews and on-demand race footage from Dublin! Though the members of the National Club Swimming Association’s (NCSA) squad that attended the Irish Open were initially not happy about having to do a workout at the end of Sunday’s session to c...

Buoyed by victories in three events, Stanford took an early lead over defending champion Auburn on the first day of the 75th Annual Men's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the Martin Aquatics Center in Auburn, Alabama. Stanford scored 183 points to Auburn's 154 in the first of three ...

University of Tennessee won its first Dallas Morning News Swimming and Diving Classic title at the Perkins Natatorium on the SMU campus. The 2nd ranked Volunteers tallied 332 points to run away with the championship. Stanford was second (290 points), Michigan third (284), Texas fourth (277), SMU fif...

Everyone was surprised when Kristy Kowal won the 100m breaststroke at the World Championships in Perth - including Kristy. Everyone, that is, except American record holder Jeremy Linn. Before the race, Linn told Swimming World that Kowal, with whom he trained as a youngster, would win.

BURLINGAME, Calif. - United States Swimming will name its 1997 Swimmer of the Year and the 1997 Phillips Performance Award at the United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Burlingame, Calif., Saturday. Eight candidates will vie for the Swimmer of the Year Award, including all U.S. National Champion...

Rusty Owens, an International Swimming Hall of Fame member who coached for more than 60 years and worked with two Olympians, died Sunday at age 84. Owens carved out a legendary career in his native central Pennsylvania, where he worked with Olympians Anita Nall (who won silver and bronze in breastst...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 23. WHEN he was UCLA's men's hoops coach a few moons ago, current Georgia head man Jim Herrick characterized a particularly important upcoming game as follows: "It's gonna be another ball burner." That same phrase could well be applied to the women's team rac...