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Luca Urlando Continues Hot Start in Georgia Sweep of Florida State Luca Urlando has continued his fine form to start the 2024-25 season, the Georgia swimmer dropping the third-best 200 fly time of his career in helping Georgia to a pair of wins over Florida State. Urlando improved on last week’s A c...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here The Swimming World August 2021 Issue Presents The Top High School Recruits By Chandler Brandes Swimming World takes a look at the swimmers it cons...

Day 1 of the 2019 Speedo Sectionals Minneapolis brewed up a competitive storm. The meet will take place at the University of Minnesota's Jean K. Freeman Aquatics Center on July 18th-21st. There was a dash of brotherly love, a spice of age-experience, and a whole batch of fast swims from Wisconsin Aq...

Day Three has matched the outside's temperature and brought the heat in today's races at the 2019 Speedo Sectionals in Minneapolis. The McHugh brothers stole the spectators hearts again and went 1-2 in the Mens 200 Breaststroke. University of Minnesota's Tevyn Waddell won both the 200m Backstroke an...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. A year on from the 2019 World Championships, the possib...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Katie Ledecky Tops 800 Free with Paige Madden Second The math isn’t all that complicated. The record for most Olympic swimming medals by an American woman is 12, shared jointly by Natalie Coughlin, Dara Torres and Jenny Thompson. Katie Ledecky has 10 career Olympic medals. She h...

Georgia Fall Invitational: Bella Sims Rips College-Best 4:31.06 in 500 Bella Sims’ sophomore season at the University of Florida is off to a flying start. Sims opened the Georgia Fall Invitational on Wednesday night with a time of 4:31.06 in the 500 freestyle. That’s the second-fastest swim of Sims’...

The fourth and final day of the 2019 Speedo Sectionals in Minneapolis experienced the extremes and everything in between. This evening we saw the distance swimmers conquer the 1500, then the sprint swimmers power through the 50. The 200 Individual Medley put the all-around swimmers to the test, and ...

SEC Championships Prelims Day 2: Josh Liendo, Jordan Crooks Bring Heat in 50 It took until the end of the first morning session of the 2023 SEC Championships for things to really get cooking. The men’s sprinters made sure of that. Nathan Adrian’s Student Recreation Aquatic Center had held since he 2...

SEC Championships, Night 2: Florida Starts with Two More Relay Titles The University of Florida went 4-for-4 in relays on the opening night of the SEC Championships Tuesday. Make it 6-for-6 Wednesday. Both of the Gators’ 200 free relays claimed titles on the second night at Auburn University, helpin...

2023 SEC Championships, Night 2: Maggie MacNeil 20.44 Leads LSU to 200 FR win The second night session of the 2023 SEC Championships presents an oddity, a rare thirst for new blood. Of the six individual swimming events on the first full night of the meet, only one champion is held over from last ye...

2019 World Juniors team member Rachel Stege verbally committed to the University of Georgia on Sunday night as she will join the Bulldogs' class of 2025. Stege is currently in her junior year at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois, most notably the same high school that 2016 Olympian K...

The Toyota US Open, which is set to begin next week November 12 – 14, will be split across nine different sites in order to lessen travel for swimmers and coaches and participate safely in a less crowded environment while still racing in a competitive format. The psych sheets for Indianapolis and Be...

Arizona State Men, Georgia Women Split Opening Duals; Ilya Kharun Sets 100 Fly Record Arizona State’s men’s team and Georgia’s women picked up wins in a set of meets Friday and Saturday in Tempe. Friday brought a long-course meet, the Sun Devils winning the men’s competition 89.5-49.5 and the Bulldo...

SEC Championships, Night 3 Finals: Tennessee Sets NCAA Record in Men’s 200 Free Relay at 1:12.80 A near miss in the 200 medley relay Tuesday night at the SEC Championships wasn’t enough for Tennessee. So the Volunteers made up for it on Wednesday, in a massive way. The Volunteers bludgeoned the 2023...

Luca Urlando Marks Return with Near-Best Times as Georgia Sweeps Luca Urlando had an eventful summer, earning a spot at his first Olympics for the United States. After two years away from the University of Georgia due to injuries and preparing for Paris, Urlando is back to very close to his best. Ur...

Erika Pelaez, Leah Shackley Shine as NC State Leads Georgia Fab freshmen Erika Pelaez and Leah Shackley won two individual events each on the first day of Georgia’s Swimapalooza, which NC State leads at the halfway point. The Wolfpack women’s team holds a 119-67 edge over the Bulldogs, while the NC ...

By Olivia McKelvey, Swimming World College Intern. The 2019 NCSA Junior National Championships hosted at the Orlando YMCA in Florida have officially begun. On the first day of competition the line up consists of the women's and men's 1000 free, the women's and men's 100 IM, and the women's and men's...