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Breaststroke Breakthroughs? Where U.S. Team Has Openings Entering Nationals The United States has never lost a women's medley relay when Lilly King has handled the breaststroke leg, with two Olympic gold medals and four world titles to show for it. Three of those wins came in world-record time, incl...

World Juniors Team Member Luke Ellis Verbally Commits to Indiana for 2025 NEW COMMIT: Indiana University has secured its first public verbal pledge for Fall 2025 from Olympic Trials qualifier Luke Ellis of Las Vegas, Nevada. He currently owns the fastest mile time in his class, and owns top-5 times ...

6 American Male Swimmers Who Could Break Out in Time For 2028 Olympic Games No swimmer younger than 18 years old had qualified to represent the United States on the Olympic level for five consecutive cycles until Thomas Heilman did so in 2024, winning the 200 butterfly and taking second in the 100 f...

U.S. Nationals, Day 1: Bobby Finke, David Johnston Get Paris Gang Back Together in 1,500 Last summer, Bobby Finke carried the entire foundering U.S. men’s Olympic team on his broad shoulders with his world record gold in the 1,500 freestyle to finish the Paris Games. Tuesday night, Finke started U.S...

Luke Ellis, Luka Mijatovic Take Home Mile NAGs at California Speedo Sectionals Luke Ellis and Luka Mijatovic each lowered national age-group records this week at the California Winter Speedo Sectionals hosted by Golden West Swim Club. Ellis won the final of the 1,650 free on Thursday night in 14:29....

U.S. Men’s Swimming Tiers, Part 2: The Rosters of Today and Tomorrow The U.S. men’s swimming program is hitting a natural calendar reset. Six World Championships have been sandwiched between the last two Olympics in a pandemic-condensed cycle between Tokyo and Paris, a busy 40 or so months. The NCAA...

The 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships continued with the Day 2 prelims from Down Under. The events for the session include the men's and women's 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 400 IM. Live Results Day 1 Finals Junior Pan Pacs: Women's 100 Free Australia's Milla Jansen took the top seed in t...

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming, today announced its roster for the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, to be held August 21-24 in Canberra, Australia. Athletes qualified based on results from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, presented by Lilly. “....

Junior Pan Pacs, Day One Finals: Leah Shackley Doubles as Team USA Storms to Seven Titles; Meet Record for Luke Ellis (Full Results) It was a big first night of finals for the United States at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships, highlighted by a pair of gold medals from Leah Shackley. Racing at th...

Katie Grimes Swims 15:26.17 to Become Fifth-Fastest Swimmer Ever in 1650 Free at Juniors West After becoming the fifth woman in history to break 4:30 in the 500 freestyle and then moving to fourth all-time in the 400 IM, 16-year-old Katie Grimes dominated the 1650 free at Junior Nationals West while...

Thomas Heilman, Maximus Williamson Headline Strong Fields for U.S. Winter Junior Nationals (Psych Sheets) Many of the top teenage swimmers in the United States will race in short course yards this week as USA Swimming holds its always-well-attended Junior Nationals, with the meet split between two s...