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Trans Tahoe Relay 2025 Results & Recap: Top Teams, Rivalries, and What’s Next July 21, 2025 Race‑Day Overview At sunrise on July 19, more than 230 relay teams and solo swimmers dove into Lake Tahoe’s 64+ °F water at Sand Harbor, Nevada, to begin the 11‑mile crossing to Skylandia Beach, California. ...

Friday FunDay: 5 Unique Swimming Relays to Make Practice Fun Are you tired of the endless back and forth of swimming during practice? Craving the thrill of competition that's more about teamwork than swimming the fastest time? Luckily, you can dive into the exciting world of fun swimming relays! For...

Los Angeles Olympic Qualification Procedures Present New Obstacles for American Swimmers Around the world, the qualification process for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles will look different than in previous years. Swimmers aiming to qualify for the newly-added 50-meter stroke events will have t...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Wednesday, February 27, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: What is the most exciting relay to watch? We asked and you answered with… Here are the answers: 400 Medley (52%) 400 Free (40%) 800 Free (8...

Non-traditional Swim Events That Could Add a Little Fun to the Meet Lineup As swimmers, we all wish the 100 IM and 50s of strokes would last forever. How cool would it be if our sport offered non-traditional events in fun-filled meets, like the 50 underwater, 100 doggy paddle, or the 200 kick with f...

Relays Rule: Why These Team Events Elevate Excitement In the Sport By Josie Wise, Swimming World Intern From the famous 4x100 freestyle relay with Jason Lezak in Beijing all the way to a tiny high school showdown, relay swims are capable of getting an entire natatorium of people screaming at the top...

The Thrill of Relays: Exploring the Enjoyment of Racing with Teammates Picture this: You step onto the blocks to be the anchor leg of a relay. Your teammates are cheering. Your coach is cheering. The spectators are cheering. You feel the adrenaline pumping in your veins, and the only thing on your m...

NCAA Championships: Freestyle Relays See Fastest Swimmers Trending Toward Second Leg When swimmers and swim fans think about freestyle relays, at least at the Olympics or in a historical sense, it the fastest swimmers are generally on the anchor. Swimmers picture this spot at the Olympics just like ...

The records continued to fall at the 2017 FINA World Masters Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Five new world records were set throughout the day of relays, with several championship records falling as well. Take a look at all the records that were broken at the meet below. 320-359 Age Group The G...

Update to Olympic Relay Qualification: Times From 2023 and 2024 Worlds Will Count for Paris World Aquatics has updated the qualification procedures for swimming at the 2024 Olympic Games, and a widely-criticized element of relay qualification has been changed. Swimming's governing body, known as FIN...

The Cal team of Robin Neumann, Katie McLaughlin, Amy Bilquist, and Abbey Weitzeil did the unthinkable Saturday night and took down the 2017 NCAA record in the 400 free relay set by Stanford’s dream team of Olympians Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel and Lia Neal as well as national champion Janet Hu. Com...

It was announced on Tuesday that USA Swimming, the National Governing Body for swimming, has developed a relay incentive program for the teams selected for the 2023 World Aquatics Championships (Fukuoka, Japan) and the 2024 Olympic Games (Paris, France). The focus for this incentive program will be ...

Relays: The Fun and Fast Nature of Uniting As a Team By Annika Hobson, Swimming World College Intern In an individual-based sport, relays bring swimmers together for fun and fast races. Relays score big at meets, so the crowd and the teams in attendance get rowdy and excited to cheer for their teams...

Irish Swimmers Crack 55 National Swim Records At European and Irish Championships In Past Two Weeks Not often a country can emerge from International and domestic championships help over two weeks sporting 55 new national records. Irish eyes are smiling at just that on the cusp of Christmas 2019 as ...

By McKenna Ehrmantraut, Swimming World College Intern.  As the school year begins to wind down, most people are packing up to go to the beach - but not swimmers! They are getting ready for endless double practices, knee skin tan lines and nap time. While sun burns and sore muscles are inevitable, mi...

The University of Utah swimming and diving teams will compete against BYU this Friday, Sept. 22 in the Ute Natatorium. The exhibition meet will consist of relays and is set to begin at 5 p.m. All events will be non-scored. This meet will not count towards the Deseret Duel, which will take place o...