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Passages: Judy McGowan, ISHOF Artistic Swimmer Inductee Judy McGowan, a long-time synchronized and artistic swimming competitor, coach and official, died on March 10. McGowan was a massive figure in American synchronized swimming for a half-century, including as Founding President of U.S. Synchroniz...

The 2017 Synchro America Open presented by Le Rêve - The Dream, part of the inaugural FINA Synchronized Swimming World Series, concluded Saturday with Olympic-caliber routines by numerous medalists. Team USA's Bill May (Cicero, N.Y./Las Vegas) and Kanako Spendlove (Las Vegas) scored 90.1000 points i...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World contributor Paola Tirados, born in the Canary Islands in 1980, was a member of Spain's synchronized swimming team at three Olympics Games (2000, 2004, 2008) and won a team silver medal in 2008. She enjoyed a highly decorative competitive career, winning 10 World Champio...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor. Let’s say you’re an athlete who claims to LOVE your sport. You work hard, you put in the time and you have the talent to earn the hardware. But do you have the talent to compete at the Olympics? Have you worked hard enough to win a medal at a World Champion...

by Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor.  U.S. National Team coach Lolli Montico can thank her mom’s inattention to detail for her career in synchronized swimming. Born in Rome, Montico grew up in the water. She was already swimming competitively, winning trophies as the fastest swimmer in her age...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced that Russian synchronized swimmer Anastasia Davydova will join 17 others as honorees who will enter the International Swimming Hall of Fame as the Class of 2017. Davydova is the fourteenth member of the class to be named for ceremonies to be ...

FINA's leadership is debating a proposal to impose a three-month moratorium on all major events under its jurisdiction, including all Olympic test events in open water, synchro, diving  and water polo, for men and women as well as the bulk of the 2020 Diving World Series, the Synchro World Series an...

This year's Synchro America Open presented by Le Rêve - The Dream, the only international synchronized swimming event held in the U.S., will have a decidedly Olympic flavor once competition begins June 22 at the Nassau County Aquatic Center. The event, part of the inaugural FINA Synchronized Swimmin...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor Spider-Man speeds along the side of the pool as the crowd begins to cheer. “You got this!” someone yells. Steven Aguirre, aka Spider-Man, stops and squats into position. Soon after his theme song begins, he bounces up and appears to shoot invisible webbing b...

ORO VALLEY, Ariz. – USA Synchro announced the athletes named to the 13-15 and 12 & Under National Teams following the recent U.S. National Synchronized Swimming Championships. The swimmers were selected after several team trials. There will be two 13-15 national teams and one 12 & Under team. The at...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor. Emma Baranski could not ask for a better ending to her collegiate career. The Ohio State senior captain was competing in her final meet, the U.S. Collegiate Synchronized Swimming Championships, last month in OSU's McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. She looked up at...

 2017 Athletes of the Year Each January, Swimming World celebrates the accomplishments of the non-swimming aquatic sports by naming the Athletes of the Year. The sports of diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and paralympic swimming each accomplished great feats in 2017. While most of the athl...

By Dax Lowery Sara Lowe, now in her fifth season as head coach of the Stanford University synchronized swimming team, hopes to lead the Cardinal to another title as the U.S. Collegiate Championships get set to begin in Columbus, Ohio, this week. Lowe, who guided Stanford to its eighth collegiate tit...

The free routine final of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games was highlighted by a near perfect routine by the Russian synchronized swimming team of Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, 2012 Olympic defending champions. The Russian pair posted a final score of 194.9910, while the silver medals were pick...

Team USA’s Anita Alvarez (Kenmore, N.Y.) and Mariya Koroleva (Concord, Calif.) have punched their ticket for the Rio Olympic Games this summer, qualifying in duet.  The pair will be the only synchronized swimming representatives for the United States as USA failed to qualify for the team event. The ...

Team Russia clinched nine gold medals out of ten available this weekend in Kazan, Russia, as the experienced host city staged the third leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 for the first time since the inception of the annual competition in 2017. The favourite duet composed of Olympic...

The fourth leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 came to an end tonight in Tokyo, Japan, as Russian stars Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina, both Olympic and World champions, displayed their best form over the three-day competition from April 27-29. The Russian pair topped ...

This year’s top LEN artistic (synchronised) swimming event, the Champions Cup kicks off on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia, and offers Olympic synchro spot for the respective winners of the duet and team events. Host Russia is the outstanding favourite to book those Tokyo spots this weekend. At the...

The team of Ukraine largely dominated the 2019 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series Super Final, held in Budapest (HUN) from June 14-16, by earning seven gold medals out of the 10 titles at stake. The remaining victories went to Russia (two) and Spain (one). Ukrainian star Marta Fiedina was the best ...

By Dax Lowery, Swimming World contributor Sue Johnson’s love of math, synchro and golf has given her the world. As the Scoring Chair at seven Olympic Games and a longtime volunteer for the United States Golf Association, Johnson has traveled just about everywhere to offer her scoring expertise. Alon...