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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, February 22. IN what will likely be one of the closest finishes in the 114 years of the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships, Loyola Blakefield defeated defending champion Peddie School for the boys’ team title by 7.5 points. Germantown, on the other ...

Australia's Tamsin Cook clipped the meet record in the women's 400-meter free at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. Cook clocked a 4:06.17 for the gold, edging the 4:06.30 set by Elena Sokolova back in 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico. That time vaulted Cook from 19th in the world to 12th in the ove...

For years, Sierra Schmidt has entertained the crowd at the pool. It wasn't her swimming - at least not only her swimming. The former Michigan All-American and five-time Team USA member was swimming's "Dancing Queen" regularly going through lengthy dance routines to get herself ready for her distance...

In true form, Katie Ledecky manhandled the competition in the 400 free, clocking in at 3:59.95 to post one of the fastest times in the world this year. Surging several body lengths ahead of her closest competitor, Madisyn Cox (4:10.91), Ledecky dropped a time merely three and a half seconds off her ...

The Pre-Race Rituals Witnessed at the U.S. Olympic Trials By Annika Hobson, Swimming World College Intern While watching the United States’ Olympic Trials, I observed that most of the athletes have specific pre-race rituals. Pre-race rituals are beneficial as they allow a swimmer to collect themselv...

The 2017 NCSA Junior Nationals kicked off tonight in Orlando, Florida. The night consisted of the short course distance events and the 200 freestyle and medley relays. Sierra Schmidt, representing Club Wolverine, kicked off the meet with a commanding win in the women's 1000. Her time of 9:35.06 was ...

Denmark’s Lotte Friis will not be moving with Bob Bowman and Michael Phelps to Arizona in the year before the 2016 Olympics, saying she will remain with the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Friis told reporters at the FINA world championships that she has been training with Erik Posegay, NBAC’s new hea...

Ranking the Top NCAA Division I Women's Swimmers For 2020-21 From 1-25 As a new college season approaches (hopefully), Swimming World wanted to unveil its preseason top 25 Division I women's swimmers ahead of the 2020-21 campaign. This season is unlike any other we have ever had, as many questions s...

4:01 400 Free Qualifies Katie Ledecky for Olympics, But She's Still Underdog for Tokyo On the other side of the world, 20-year-old Australian Ariarne Titmus had set the standard, her 3:56.90 400 freestyle at Australia's Olympic Trials that came within a half-second of Katie Ledecky's world record. M...

Photo Courtesy: Heidi Torregroza By Swimming World intern Brad Klein PISCATAWAY - At the 24th annual CeraVe Invitational, several clubs highlighted the winners circle from New Jersey, Maryland and elsewhere in New England. For all of these clubs, CeraVe is their first long meet since Christmas break...

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 14. RACING a member of the USA Swimming national team might be daunting for most teenagers at a run-of-the-mill in-season meet, but not Sierra Schmidt. The 15-year-old swam well at the CeraVe Invitational last weekend, often racing in the lane next to multiple event w...

Swimming World is producing the live webcast of the 2015 CeraVe Invitational. Click here to watch the live stream, view video interviews and watch races on-demand! PISCATAWAY - The second night of senior finals at the CeraVe Invitational featured an exciting finish in the women's 400 IM, as the top ...

Women's 1500 Free (Ally McHugh) Ally McHugh has had spectacular meet at the 2019 Phillips 66 National Championships. The Penn State graduate has been a powerhouse in multiple events. Taking home yet another gold medal, this is not McHugh's first, nor second, but third national championship title. At...

By Kelly Lennon, Swimming World College Intern My first YMCA Nationals, I was lining up for the 500 when I saw a girl absolutely JAMMING out behind the blocks. Her headphones had this colorful string wrapped around it and she was moving completely freely and wildly, making her impossible to miss. I ...

Photo Courtesy: David Farr MAUI, Hawaii, August 29. There's a high probability that USA's Connor Green will take down the meet record in the men's 200-meter backstroke tonight after he cruised through prelims at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships. LIVE STREAM LIVE RESULTS PSYCH SHEET Women's 400 f...

Photo Courtesy: Kristin Karkoska PISCATAWAY - This weekend's CeraVe Invitational on the campus of Rutgers University will once again feature young up-and-coming talent on the brink of national success racing in the long course meters meet, and once again SwimmingWorld.TV will produce the live webcas...

The fifth edition of the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships will be held in Singapore (SIN) from August 25-30, 2015 with almost 700 young athletes from 87 National Federations taking part in the event. Swimmers aged between 14-18 (girls between 14-17, boys between 15-18) are set to compet...

The psych sheets for the 2020 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships have been finalized with the line set at 37 & 38. The meet will be held two weeks from today at the University of Georgia. Stanford is the three-time defending champion but will have its hands full with Virginia ...

2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Championships: Paige Madden Top Seed in 500 Free The 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships continue with the first preliminary session of the meet. The events on tap for the morning are prelims for the 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free and 1-meter diving. ...

In a race that was dubbed fairly pedestrian this morning after it took a 4:40 to make the A-Final of the 500 freestyle at NCAAs and a 4:43 to get a second swim, it was a 1-2-3 sweep by three of the toughest women in the entire NCAA championships with Virginia's Paige Madden leading from the outset a...