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Ukraine's Yelyzaveta Yakhno pocketed both gold up for grabs in the Solo Technical and Solo Free this weekend in Los Angeles, USA, at the 8th leg of of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series. Yakhno collected 89.4811 points for the Technical routine, while she earned an impressive 91.3667 for her Fr...

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...

The US Synchronized Swimming Foundation accepts grant applications each year to help fund programs and opportunities that promote the growth of synchronized swimming in the U.S. This grant cycle is for programs that run between September 1, 2018, and August 31, 2019.  The deadline for grant applicat...

The U.S. Senior National Synchronized Swimming Team finished fifth in the team tech event Thursday night at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in Surrey, B.C., Canada. Team USA scored 83.003 points, just behind France (84.1938). Ukraine won the event with 90.7305 points, followed by Japan (90.3...

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...

The U.S. Senior National Synchronized Swimming Team started the season strong Friday, winning two medals on the first day of the China Open. Team USA won silver in the team technical event, and Anita Alvarez (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Ruby Remati (Andover, Mass.) won bronze in duet tech. "The athle...

In a little more than a year, the organization formerly known as USA Synchronized Swimming or USA Synchro for short has transformed itself. Under the leadership of their board of directors they have hired a new Chief Executive Officer, arguably the best coaching staff in the world, revitalized event...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault In this issue of SW Biweekly, read about the whole Sun Yang saga- the eight year ban, what's next for Yang and his friends in FINA vs. WADA, Yang's plans to appeal, and rumors about him spilling "t....

USA Synchro is proud to announce the 2018-2020 U.S. Senior National Synchronized Swimming Squad. The squad was finalized following the Senior National Team Challenge in Riverside, Calif., last month. The swimmers selected to the Senior National Team are: Anita Alvarez (Buffalo, N.Y.), Paige Areizag....

More champions were crowned Tuesday at the U.S. Junior Olympic Synchronized Swimming Championships. Emileen Moore and Dalia Ovadia of the Walnut Creek Aquanuts added to their medal haul, finishing 1-2 in the 12 & Under solo free final. Moore won the event with 130.815 total points, while Ovadia was ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Synchro has named two-time Olympian Reem Abdalazem as the U.S. National Team Assistant Coach. "I think Reem is the best person to complete the National Team staff. Reem and I had been working together since 2015," said U.S. National Team Head Coach Andrea Fuentes. "Our ...

USA Synchro Executive Director Myriam Glez has resigned after five years with the U.S. national governing body for synchronized swimming, USA Synchro announced. Glez, a two-time Olympian for France and Australia, was hired as USA Synchro's High Performance Director in 2013, and she also became the E...

The U.S. National Synchronized Swimming Team hopes to build on its recent success when the FINA World Championships begin Friday in Budapest, Hungary. The U.S. will compete in solo, duet, mixed duet and team July 14-22. Around 2,500 athletes in synchronized swimming, swimming, open water swimming...

SAN RAMON, Calif. - More than 250 synchronized swimmers from across the country will compete at the U.S. Masters Championships Oct. 18-21 at the Dougherty Valley Aquatic Center. The athletes, ranging in age from 20 to 85, will compete in solo, duet, trio, team, combo and figures. The U.S. Senior Nat...

Each month the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announce the "Best of" Individual and Team athletes for the month. This month the U.S. Synchronized Swimming team has been crowned as one of the Teams of the Month for June. According to the press release, the U.S. synchro national team was elect...

The 2020 United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) Convention, scheduled for September, has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. USAS President Bill Smith made the announcement Friday in a letter to affiliated organizations. The USAS convention had been scheduled for Sept. 22-27 in Jacksonville...

The U.S. synchronized swimming duet of Anita Alvarez (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Ruby Remati (Andover, Mass.) won another bronze medal Sunday as the China Open concluded in Beijing. Alvarez, a 2016 Olympian, and Remati scored 82.9667 points in duet free to finish third behind two pairs of sisters for the se...

Nearly 1,000 synchronized swimmers representing the nation's top 75 clubs are set to take part in the U.S. Junior Olympic Championships June 23-30 in Oxford, Ohio. The Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center on the campus of Miami University will play host to the championships, the largest synchro event i...

USA Synchro, the national governing body for synchronized swimming, announces an exciting partnership with TeachAids, a nonprofit leader in global education innovation. Together, the two organizations hope to promote athlete safety through TeachAids’ CrashCourse concussion education. [caption id="at...

The United States Synchronized Swimming Foundation mission is to fund the future of synchronized swimming! With that in mind, we are pleased to be able to be able to award grants to support, sustain and grow the sport of synchronized swimming. Last year, 43 teams received an average grant of $750. T...