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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...

Mother's Day Celebration: An Ode to Swim Moms (Includes Team USA Videos) Here's an ode to Swim Moms, among the unsung heroes of the world. It's race day. The team cheer was energizing, yet you still feel like something is missing. You scan the densely packed stands: it is full of familiar faces, tho...

SEWELL, NJ., March 11. THE Garden State does not hold a statewide high school swim championship meet. Rather, state champions are determined by a dual-meet playoff system which took place during February, and ended with the finals on February 24 at various locations. State Champions are: Girls: Publ...

Champion's Mojo Podcast (Bob Bowman) In the latest edition of the Champion's Mojo Podcast, which has partnered with Swimming World to share the insights of some of the sport's leading figures, coach Bob Bowman lends his thoughts on a variety of topics. The man who molded Michael Phelps into the grea...

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...

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...

Coaching Corner: Q&A With Crow Canyon Head Man Ethan Hall California son Ethan Hall left the Golden State to experience the aquatic environment in North Carolina. Two years later, he was back winning conference championships, the hand of a 12-time Olympic medalist and directing Crow Canyon swimmers ...

BELMONT SHORES, CA., May 11 -- Back in the heyday of the Mission Viejo-Florida Aquatics cross-continent rivalry during the 1970s and '80s, FAST stars David McCagg and David Larson would sport t-shirts showing an oversized gator torching a Spanish-style building with the words "Burn Down the Miss...

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...

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 29. GRANT Hackett obliterated the 1,500 meters world record he had targeted for so long as Australia deposed the United States as number one nation on the final day of the world swimming championships on Sunday. Defending champion Hackett demolished the world mark fellow Austral...

Improving with Age, Natalie Coughlin is Making Her Mark with Gaderian Wines Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Natalie Coughlin is now enjoying the sweet taste of success as cofounder of Gaderian Wines in Napa Valley, Calif. There’s a fine line that Natalie Coughlin walks, one that she re...

Natalie Coughlin has given birth to her first child, a baby girl named Zennie Mae Hall, with husband Ethan Hall. The Olympic gold medalist announced her pregnancy publicly back in June. Coughlin's long list of accomplishments includes being the first woman to swim under 1:00 in the long course 100 b...

Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick FEDERAL WAY - Abbey Weitzeil has transformed from being a sprinter to watch into the fastest American swimmer in history, all in a span of about six months. When she broke the American record in the 100-yard freestyle Saturday night, she put herself into the history boo...

Momma On A Mission Dana Vollmer is many things: Olympic gold medalist, former world record holder in the women's 100 fly, wife, mom, daughter, swimming enthusiast--and after retiring from the sport after the London Olympics and giving birth to a son, Arlen, in March 2015, the 28-year-old is back in ...

The Stars Came Out: International Swimming Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony A Gala Event To the left. To the right. In front and behind. Anywhere the head turned. A look around the Grand Ballroom at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa on Saturday night was to cast eyes on greatness. The evening wa...

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 .....

This morning's leader Olivia Smoliga was first to the wall in 59.16, a new personal best and the fifth best in the world this year in the 100 backstroke. SwimMAC's Kathleen Baker led the second semifinal at the halfway mark and came home second in 59.36. Cal's Amy Bilquist won the first semifinal as...

By Brie Harnden, Swimming World College Intern. Katie Ledecky has been a keystone of USA Swimming for six years now, a journey that started with her stunning performance in the 800 freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Ledecky has evolved into one of the most widely-recognized icons of Team...

By Phillip Whitten LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov. 13. IN a surprise announcement today, FINA, swimming's international governing body, announced it would award gold medals to the USA women's 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay team that was disqualified at the World Championships in Fukuoka last July...

Missy Franklin on Evolution of Women's 100 Backstroke World Record to 57.13: 'That's Sick!' The evolution of the women's 100 backstroke has been simply astonishing the past two-plus decades. With some of the greatest swimmers in U.S. history swimming the event - and having to battle it out head-to-h...