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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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

Curtain Call Visit the Swimming World Magazine Vault to Read More. Many of the athletes from last summer’s Olympic water polo, synchronized swimming, diving and open water competitions in Rio will be returning later this month, July 14-30, for encore performances at the World Championships in Budape...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Budapest in Hungary is about to host for the first time the FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships from July 18 - 22, 2018. The 5-day event kicks-off tomorrow at the magnificent Duna Arena, the swimming pool complex built for the FINA World Championships last year, and will bring together...

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.  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...