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Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky was named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year on Tuesday according to a report by NBC Washington. Ledecky is the eighth female swimmer to win the award and the first swimmer to take the honor since 1996, when Amy Van Dyken was named athlete of the year...

PARIS - It's another first for the amazing Katie Ledecky.  Swimming World's World Swimmer of the Year was named L'Equipe's Female Athlete of the Year.  She also became the first swimmer to win the respected French newspaper's top athletic honor. Although she received the award during a taped ceremon...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, February 26. MISSY Franklin will represent aquatic sports next month at the prestigious Laureus Sports Awards, nominated in the Sportswoman of the Year category. Three swimmers will compete for the World Sportsperson of the Year With a Disability award after strong performanc...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23. AMERICAN teenager Missy Franklin, the first woman swimmer in history to win six gold medals at a single World Championships, at the age of just 18, is the latest global sports star to confirm attendance at the Laureus World Sports Awards, the premier honours event on the inte...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 26. MISSY Franklin capped off an incredible week by accepting the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award during a star-studded ceremony in Malaysia tonight. “Oh my gosh,” said the nine-time world champion upon accepting the award. “I don’t know what I’m doing here....

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 4. WE had a few records broken, some new records that are set to be broken and a star swimmer recognized for her record-setting performances. Let’s not waste any more time shall we? We start our countdown of the top five swimming headlines of the week at number five. Last we...

The Danish Swim Federation has come out in defense Olympic gold medalist Pernille Blume after a Russian group known as "Fancy Bear" released private medical information from the World Anti-Doping Agency database. Danish Swimming director Pia Holmen condemned the hack and the leak and called for tigh...

Katie Ledecky finds herself on another list for a prestigious award in 2015, this time for the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Team USA Awards. She’s the only swimmer on the list, but the American women’s water polo squad is also nominated to give aquatic sports two chances for big wins. Ledecky is one of ...

Seiko Hashimoto has been appointed as head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, replacing Yoshiro Mori who resigned last week amid an uproar over sexist remarks. Hashimoto - who represented Japan at three Summer Games and four Winter Olympics - had been serving as the Olympic minister in the cabi...

By David Rieder For those of you who may have spent the past month living under a rock, Katie Ledecky did a pretty decent job at the World Championships in Kazan. She won gold medals in the 200, 400, 800, and 1500 freestyle events – the first man or woman to ever achieve that feat – while setting wo...

Commentary by Jamie Kolar, Swimming World College Intern. February is home to National Girls and Women in Sports Day. This is a day set apart to celebrate being a lady who is involved in any type of athletics, which typically leads to girls everywhere taking to social media to post pictures about ho...

National Junior Team member Carson Foster was recently featured in an original mini-series "Heroes of the Future" by the Olympic Channel for being one of the stars to watch in the next few years. Foster, 16, had himself a solid summer with three gold medals at the Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Champio...

Jenny Thompson added to her impressive list of accolades with one of the year's most prestigious awards as she was named the USOC SportsWoman of the Year today. Thompson is the seventh swimmer in history to win this honor, following in the steps of swimming greats Shirley Babashoff (1974), Kathy Hed...

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 31. THE college swimming and diving season is now over in the United States, and the final championship meet provided some major drama in the pool. Elsewhere in the U.S., teenagers were breaking big records to make statements before they step onto college campuses next fall....