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Top Women's Performances of 2025: Summer McIntosh Tops List With Her First Record of the Year With the final days of 2025 approaching, it's time to look back on the year of swimming and determine the top performances in the pool. The list will emphasize long course and championship-winning performan...

Ranking the Top-20 Women's Swimmers in the World, Part IV: Legends Atop the List At the recent World Championships, swimmers competed for medals in 42 pool events, and the results clearly show the best swimmer in the world for each race. Comparing swimmers across events is a subjective task, with fa...

Kate Douglass Continued to Demonstrate Range in 2025; Emerged as Major Player in 100 Breaststroke Coming off a spectacular 2024 season, which was highlighted by a gold medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Olympic Games in Paris, Kate Douglass entered 2025 riding a wave of momentum. And over th...

Kate Douglass Becomes First Female Under 50 in 100 Freestyle (SCM) Six days after Kate Douglass broke a freestyle world record for the first time, she has taken her mark even lower by becoming the first woman to break 50 seconds in the short course meters 100 freestyle. Douglass achieved a barrier t...

Fab Five: The Athletes Who Captured World Titles in Singapore and Swept the World Cup Tour  The 2025 season has given the world of swimming incredible races, times and duels from which a handful of swimmers managed to record undefeated runs between the World Championships last summer in Singapore, a...

Tatjana Smith Ends Career with Last ‘Big Fight,’ Treasured Silver Medal Tears and smiles often coexist for Tatjana Smith in the mixed zone at events like the Olympics. Tears of joy don’t often require much explanation, beyond the beaming visage the South African breaststroker wears to accompany than...

College Swimmers Now Profiting Off Their NIL Rights? Good For Them Generations of star swimmers returned from amazing performances at Olympics with a choice: take the money they earned and capitalize on their marketability, at a premium immediately after the Games, or return for another season or mo...

World Cup Toronto - Day Three Prelims: Gretchen Walsh, Kate Douglass Preparing for Night Showdown After nearly three weeks of sensational racing in North America, the 2025 edition of the World Aquatics World Cup will conclude on Saturday night in Toronto. In addition to the meet featuring the final ...

World Cup Toronto - Day Three Finals: Five World Records Light Up Final Night (Live Recap) Who will capture the overall titles? Will additional world records go down? Which Triple Crown chases will be busted? These are just a few questions requiring answers as the 2025 edition of the World Aquatics ...

Ahead of U.S. Trials, the Top-15 Female Swimmers in the Country With the U.S. Trials for this summer's World Championships coming up in less than a week, it is time to assess the best American female swimmers. We previously discussed the top-15 men, and now we will rank the top-15 American female sw...

Versatile American Women Must Consider New Schedule on Road to Los Angeles Olympics This year's World Championships concluded with the American team of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske winning gold in the women's 400 medley relay in world-record time. It is impossible to fu...

World Cup Toronto — Day One Finals: Lani Pallister, Kaylee McKeown, Caspar Corbeau Notch Series Records The World Cup circuit is concluding this weekend in Toronto after a pair of stops in the midwestern United States. Almost all of the top performers from the Carmel, Ind., and Westmont, Ill., stops...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. This week in swimming was highlighted by six days of racing at the European Short Course Championships in Kazan, Russia, where Szebastian Szabo tied the world record in the men's 50 fly and Ilya Shymanovich pulled the same feat in the men's 50 breast, among o...

FLASH! American Women Break World Record in Women's Medley Relay in Dominant Closing Statement The four American women walked down the pool deck wrapped in an embrace with the Stars and Stripes flag draped over their shoulders, an imperfect meet at the Singapore World Championships capped off with a...

World Cup Westmont — Day One Finals: Australia Picks Up Three Victories to Begin Meet Swimmers from Down Under put up big performances to open the middle stop of the World Cup circuit in Westmont, Ill., with Lani Pallister and Sam Short opening the session with wins in their respective 400 freestyle...

The Virginia swimming and diving team swept the end-of-year major women's awards the Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) announced on Thursday (April 16). Virginia swimming coach Todd DeSorbo was named the women's head coach of the Year, while junior Paige Madden (Mobile, Ala.) was named t...

Gretchen Walsh has done some amazing things in the water with her sister Alex Walsh over the years at high school championships and national meets. They added one more, being together for an NCAA championship relay for the first time. But it is what Gretchen and Kate Douglass are doing that has help...

Virginia junior Kate Douglass was named the Honda Sport Award winner for Swimming & Diving as announced today by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 46 years to the top women athletes...

Virginia head coach Todd DeSorbo and junior Kate Douglass picked up top honors from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) on Monday (March 28). DeSorbo was named the 2022 CSCAA Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season after leading UVA to ...

U.S. Open, Day Four Finals (Women's): Summer McIntosh Blasts U.S. Open Record in 200 Fly; Kate Douglass Secures Meet Record On the final night of the U.S. Open, the last major long course competition of 2025, three women competed in and dominated events in which they previously won world titles in 2...