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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...

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...

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 ...

The Santa Clara Aquamaids (SCA), a pillar in the sport of artistic swimming in the United States and one of the most-recognized elite clubs globally, is excited to announce that internationally renowned artistic swimmer and long-time Cirque du Soleil performer Bill May will serve as the Santa Clara ...

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 ...

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...

Hosts Spain showed great form this weekend in Madrid, as the Spanish capital was hosting the sixth leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018. The home nation captured all gold medals at stake in the team events: Team Technical 88.1682, Team Free 91.8332 and Free Combination 90.8332, as wel...

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...

The second edition of the newest FINA event, the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018, concluded on Sunday July 1 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, after a ten-leg circuit across Europe, Asia and the Americas that started in Paris-Montreuil in March. Mexico and Uzbekistan were the most successful teams t...

 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...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Five members of the Ohio State Synchronized Swimming team -- Emma Baranski, Elizabeth Davidson, Lorraine Hack, Alyssa Hoying and Monica Velasquez-Stiak – have been selected to the US Senior National Training Squad. Over the next four years, the squad members will be invited to regul...

Commentary by Dax Lowry, Swimming World Contributor Anita Alvarez (Kenmore, N.Y.) and Victoria Woroniecki (Palm Coast, Fla.), members of the U.S. Synchronized Swimming National Squad, are set to make their debut as a duet Friday at the Make Up For Ever French Open in Paris. The event runs through Su...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Commentary by Dax Lowery, Swimming World Contributor.  Tiffany Forbes didn’t know a lot about synchronized swimming at the time, although she was impressed as she watched members of the U.S. National Squad work out a few years ago. The synchro athletes were sharing a pool with the Orinda (Calif.) Aq...

2016 Athletes of the Year: Each January Swimming World Magazine celebrates the accomplishments of the many other aquatic sports by naming our Athletes of the Year. The athletes of water polo, diving, paralympic swimming and synchronized swimming all delivered strong performances at the 2016 Rio Olym...

The fifth leg of the 2017 FINA Synchronized Swimming World Series is set to be held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands from May 26-28. Swimmers from Australia, Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Hungary, japan, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Ukraine will be repr...