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ISL Day One Recap: King, Smoliga, Margalis Break American Records as Condors Lead Live swimming is here! The International Swimming League kicked off its six-week long season Friday morning with defending champs Energy Standard facing off against three American teams in the LA Current, Cali Condors ...

Normalcy! Analyzing What Happened at the US Open and ISL Semifinals Last Weekend In a year that has been anything but ordinary, the sensory overload sensation of trying to follow multiple meets at once was welcomed this past weekend when the International Swimming League semifinals and the US Open e...

The first season of the International Swimming League (ISL) yielded three world records, a rapid and historic start to the league’s life. But 2020 has been fallow on the records front, not a surprise given the lack of meets this season and the rampant training disruptions forced by COVID-19. But as ...

ISL Grand Final, Day 1, Session 2: Cali Condors Out Front Behind a world record from Caeleb Dressel and the usual depth of scoring on the women's side to complement a wins by Lilly King and Beata Nelson, the Cali Condors are out front early in their quest to stay unbeaten and claim the ISL Grand Fin...

The International Swimming League has tweeted a short teaser of Season 2 to alert fans that "2020 is going to be a huge year for ISL. New clubs, new cities ! Stay tuned." https://twitter.com/iswimleague/status/1229848138506285056 Season 1 Ahead of announcements on the new teams, colours, changes to ...

The International Swimming League unveiled its schedule for the upcoming season in Budapest which will get underway October 16. There will be ten teams participating this year, up from eight in the inaugural season in 2019. Energy Standard is the defending champion after taking the inaugural title i...

ISL Grand Final, Day 2 Session 2 Live: Condors Soaring; Energy Not Out Of It After Caeleb Dressel's monster world record in the 100 IM where he jackpotted the entire field and the Condors took all 37 points, and Olivia Smoliga's near world record in the 100 back, the Condors are soaring to their fir...

ISL Playoff Match 2: Anastasia Gorbenko, Tom Shields Rally LA Current to Win Relays, as we saw in the first playoff match of the International Swimming League’s third season, can change matches. Skins races were designed by the league’s architects to do just that. The L.A. Current knew that and used...

ISL Vegas Final: Who will take the first ever ISL championship? It is finally here. The first ever International Swimming League (ISL) Vegas championship will be this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. It sort of feels like the end of a season cycle with all of the swimmers in the International Swimming ...

2020 ISL season rosters for the four American teams - DC Trident, the Cali Condors, the LA Current and the New York Breakers - released Wednesday. ISL 2020: DC Trident DC Trident has added some new faces for the upcoming second season of the International Swimming League (ISL). The season is focused...

Leah Smith had a good idea, before the rosters for the second International Swimming League season were formally announced, that the Tokyo Frog Kings would sneak up on people. If she had any doubts upon entering the Budapest bubble, they were dispelled pretty quickly into a practice session, when th...

The pleasant surprise on the broadcast of the International Swimming League’s Match 10 was notable as Dylan Carter advanced in each echelon of the skins race for the LA Current Tuesday. In his usually modest way, Carter may have been a little surprised, too. But that didn’t mean what the Trinidad & ...

Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Murphy Chasing ‘Race Shape’ as 2020 ISL Season Dawns The restlessness started to set in for Caeleb Dressel in late August. He’d been training somewhat regularly throughout the summer, with only slight intrusions from the COVID-19 pandemic on his training with Gregg Troy at the U...

Team Tactics Can Save Triple-Point Skins The logic of putting Cate Campbell and Emma McKeon alongside Ranomi Kromowidjojo in the Dallas Match Skins knockout is easy to follow: if the pace of Cate and Emma left no room for Ranomi to take her foot off the gas in the rounds and yet the dashing Dutch di...

The International Swimming League's two newest teams get underway in ISL Match 3, with the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans each hitting the water for the first time. They're joined by two teams looking to make up ground after difficult starts. The LA Current finished third against a difficult fi...

Words fail for what Caeleb Dressel did in the 100 individual medley in ISL Semifinal 2 Monday. About the time that Dressel hit the 50-meter wall, the other seven swimmers – all elite, mind you – a body length back, you got the sense that something special was in store. When Dressel hit the wall and ...

Three-time Olympian Allison Schmitt of the United States will officially join the Cali Condors roster for Budapest this season, as she will make her ISL debut in replacing Mallory Comerford. The International Swimming League published its final rosters for the core four American teams: LA Current, C...

ISL Match Ten Day 1 Notes: Beata Nelson & Hali Flickinger's Versatility Gives Condors Breathing Room Match Results ISL Match Ten Team Scores: Cali Condors 285 LA Current 238 London Roar 212 Aqua Centurions 142 Even when the Cali Condors are down one of their top swimmers in Melanie Margalis, who is ...

Tom Shields’ quest to return to the Olympics got a big boost Friday with a lifetime best in the 200-yard butterfly. Shields, swimming exhibition with the University of California at the UC-San Diego Invitational, laid down a 1:38.80 in the 200 fly, his fastest time over that course and distance. The...

 ISL Wins Report: Nicholas Santos is Mr. 8-for-8 in 50 Butterfly It’s a very narrow path that Nicholas Santos and his Team Iron mates tread in the International Swimming League season. For six of the league’s franchises, four matches were sufficient to book a spot in the semifinals. Team Iron and DC...