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Swimming World Interviews of the Year - United States 2019 has been a great year for the sport of swimming. With less than a year to go until the 2020 Olympic Trials and Olympic Games, we decided to take a trip down memory lane to commemorate the 15 best interviews of the year 2019 from pools across...

SEDONA, AZ - Natalie Coughlin, a 15-year-old sophomore at Carondelet High School of Concord, CA, sent high school swimming to new levels with record-breaking performances in the 200 yard individual medley and 100 yard backstroke. At the CIF/North Coast Section Championships in Novato last May, Cough...

Natalie Coughlin's nude pictures from the ESPN The Magazine Body Issue are now publicly available. We've made sure to show a close crop of one of the images. The 12-time Olympic gold medalist and current American Record Holder in the 50 meter backstroke was featured as one of 24 athletes in the annu...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! A Good Indicator of Future Success: 60% of Swimming World's Male and Female High School Swimmers of the Year Go On To The Olympics By Andy Ross Since Swimming World first honored its Male and Fem.....

By Sydney Mason, Swimming World College Intern. Many Swimming World readers grew up idolizing the great swimmers of the Athens, Beijing and London Olympic Games. However, a large number of these athletes have retired and are out of the spotlight. What happens to them after retirement? Do they hit th...

With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics supposed to have opened, Swimming World takes a look back at the "Call Me Maybe" video that dazzled ahead of the 2012 London Games. “Hey, I just met you … and this is crazy … but here’s my number, so call me maybe” “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen is still a popular s...

An Appreciation Of 10 Of the Greatest Performances In NCAA History We know what’s coming. It happens every year. Between Knoxville (women) and Minneapolis (men), the sites of this year’s NCAA Division I Championships, there will be no shortage of spectacular performances. Almost surely, American and...

By Phillip Whitten EAST MEADOW, N.Y., March 15. SIX teams are very much in the hunt for a national title after the first day of competition at the Women's Division I NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, being held at the Nassau Aquatic Center on Long Island, New York. The surprise leader afte...

By Julia Cunningham, Swimming World College Intern Swimming is an expensive sport. If you want to be good, you have to own the latest suit technology, you have to constantly replace broken goggles, you have to travel to get to meets. There is no denying that all of those costs are worth it once you ...

By Benny Liang and Lander Eicholzer, Swimming World College Interns. The college swimming season is already upon us. After the bright lights of Rio, many of the world's best swimmers are returning to the short course yards format for their respective colleges and universities. Here are ten women to ...

CSCAA Names 100 Greatest Women's Swimmers & Divers A total of 642 titles. That is the number of individual NCAA and NAIA championships won by members of the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association’s (CSCAA) 100 Greatest Swimmers & Divers of the past century. The selections were made as a part ...

Cupping Therapy During this stall in competitive action, Swimming World will occasionally take a look back at epic races, interviews and phenomenons in the sport. Today, we look back at the recovery technique known as cupping, which attracted considerable attention ahead of and at the 2016 Olympic G...

By Andrew Ross, Swimming World College Intern I’ve always wondered what and how swimmers would be rated if there was a swimming video game. ESPN has been doing NBA rankings the last four years where they rate all the players on a scale of 1-10 and rank their score to get an accurate depiction of who...

Michael Phelps is the most decorated swimmer in the sport's history and has more Olympic medals than any human in history with 28, ahead of Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina who has 18 across three Olympics from 1956-1964. Although what Phelps has done was unprecedented, he wants kids to believe that t...

AUSTIN, TX. MULTI-talented Neil Walker put on a virtuoso display at the Texas Senior Circuit Championships in Austin, July 13-16, winning three events with world class performances. The University of Texas grad first won the 100 meter backstroke in 55.77, followed with a 22.47 for the 50m free, and ...

By Diana Pimer, Swimming World Staff Writer Originally posted July 20, 2015 By now, most of us have seen and admired ESPN’s “Body Issue” with swimming’s leading lady gracing the pages. If you haven’t seen the special edition featuring Natalie Coughlin and numerous other athletes, it is worth a look....

Katie McLaughlin raised her fist and let out some emotion when she finished third in the 100 fly at the NCAA championships. Her swim (49.97) broke the Cal school record set by Natalie Coughlin and was part of a double in which McLaughlin earned All-American honors in both events. She had done the .....

By Devin Javens, Swimming World College Intern. The small presence of female head coaches in college swimming is extremely apparent, let alone the lack of representation in top tier NCAA Division I programs. While searching for these women, Teri McKeever and Carol Capitani are among the few who app...

IN the final meet of her high school career, Cardondolet High School senior, Natalie Coughlin, set two national independent school marks this weekend at the North Coast Sectional CIF meet. California does not have a state championship A potential Olympian who has been struggling with shoulder proble...

Kelsi Dahlia was the outstanding athlete at the 22nd Swimmeeting Südtirol, a green event in Bolzano since 2010. On her first start in Bolzano, the Olympic relay champion in Rio has won four races and set three of the five meeting records cheered by the audience on Saturday and Sunday. Four wins over...