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Editorial coverage for U.S. Junior Nationals proudly sponsored by Q Swimwear! IRVINE, California, July 31. PLENTY of fast swims occurred this morning, but the one storyline that might be the most impressive is the three A finalists for Carmel in the women's 100-meter free at the USA Swimming Junior ...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - Funniest & saddest sight of the day -watching Walt Reid run around the computer area, rummaging through his bags and papers to find his ID card. Without it you can't check in for your race. He wouldn't care so much, except it was for a relay, and if every...

BOYDS - Nation's Capital took down the 11-12 400-yard medley relay national age group record during the National Age Group Team Challenge in Boyds, Md. The foursome of Ryan Catron (55.64), Darius Truong (1:05.63), Anthony Nguyen (58.47) and Leo Goldblatt (52.36) clocked a time of 3:52.10 during the ...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - Team scoring, it's not necessarily what you think. When the small, but extremely strong, team from Alaska found out they weren't keeping score at the meet - they took things into their own hands. They made score cards 1-10 and graded each of their swimmer...

Editorial coverage for U.S. Junior Nationals proudly sponsored by Q Swimwear! IRVINE, California, July 31. CARMEL's sprint corps truly owned the night as the squad from Indiana blasted the meet record in the women's 400-meter free relay and the 15-18 national age group record as well at the USA Swim...

The final day of prelims from the 2017 Speedo Grand Challenge from Irvine, California sets up what should be an exciting last finals session. Cal's Marina Garcia got things started with a 2:27.37 in the women's 200 breast. Garcia leads Texas A&M's Jorie Caneta (2:30.95) and USC's Riley Scott (2:32.9...

Vlad Morozov posted his third swim under 22 seconds in the 50 freestyle this year, winning the event at the Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine as he prepares to swim for Russia in a home world championships. The meet features a four-person championship final that often produces some exciting races. Mo...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website Agonswim.com. Duke University head swimming and diving coach Dan Colella and his staff announced Tuesday, June 16 the addi...

Editorial coverage for U.S. Junior Nationals proudly sponsored by Q Swimwear! IRVINE, California, August 1. SOME personal barriers were broken in the 200-meter backstrokes at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals. Women's 200 back Central Bucks' Allie Szekely went out hard, and held on for the win with ...

RIVERSIDE, California, May 20. THE Santa Margarita High School girls and University High School boys took home the CIF Southern Section Swimming and Diving Championship titles for Division I last Saturday afternoon, highlighted by national high school records from Santa Margarita’s Katie McLaughlin ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 2. THIS weekend, the Speedo Champions Series continued with a meet in College Station, Texas, where 14-year-old pro Michael Andrew put on a show with a couple more 13-14 national age group records in yards format. Setting age group records is pretty routine for Andrew, ...

MISSION VIEJO, California, June 27. IT was a strong night of swimming with quite a few in-season bests throughout finals of the Fran Crippen Memorial TYR Swim Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo. The top performer of the night, however, wound up being Aquazots Corey Okubo with a successful double in ...

IRVINE, California, May 24. THE Speedo Grand Challenge is quickly becoming the favorite meet for Stanford's Maya DiRado. She broke into world-class levels of speed last year at the meet, and has returned on fire this year. The meet is known for its unique four-person final setup, where only four swi...