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Training of Katie Ledecky: A Glance At Workouts That Led to First Olympic Title Before Katie Ledecky became an Olympian and captured the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, her coach Yuri Suguiyama (now the head coach at Wisconsin) shared some of his pupil's wo...

By Courtney Mykkanen, Swimming World College Intern. Olympians Ryan Murphy and Jacob Pebley recently coached the first ever Back2Back Swim Camp in Palo Alto, Calif. The two-day backstroke camp consisted of 60 swimmers nationally who met the qualifying time standards. These qualifying swimmers not on...

In First Fall on Job, Greg Meehan Redefining Role of USA Swimming Coaches Part of the appeal for USA Swimming in hiring Greg Meehan, beyond the three national championships and slew of Olympians mentored, was his familiarity with what a coach needs. His 13 seasons at Stanford required an expansive v...

Could College Swimming Changes Lead to More Coaching Exits? The first departure was a coach who has captured three NCAA team titles while guiding numerous swimmers to individual Olympic gold. Greg Meehan had just led the Stanford women to their best season in six years, culminating in a runnerup nat...

Wisconsin on Friday announced that Erik Posegay has been elevated to associate head coach on Yuri Suguiyama’s staff. Posegay is in his third year on the Badgers’ staff. He was previously an assistant for two seasons at Penn State. Before that, Bob Bowman had hired him for a five-year stint at North ...

By David Rieder. Katie Ledecky had pulled it off. She led wire-to-wire in the final of the women’s 800 free and won the race by more than 11 seconds over silver medalist Jazz Carlin. Ledecky’s time was 8:04.79, crushing the world record of 8:06.68 that she set in Austin, Texas, seven months ago. And...

By David Rieder. Winning four Olympic gold medals and one silver at her first Olympic Games was far from easy, Missy Franklin insists, because preparing to reach the sport’s highest level requires such intense dedication and focus. But back then, everything in Franklin’s life was smooth, straightfor...

MADISON, Wis. – Yuri Suguiyama completed the coaching staff for his first season with the Wisconsin swimming and diving program on Thursday, hiring Erik Posegay to serve as an assistant coach. Posegay brings a wealth of experience to the Badgers, with his career spanning all levels of the sport. In ...

Commentary by Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16. WHEN the nominees for the ESPY Awards, ESPN’s way of honoring the best sports athletes and moments of the past 17 months, I was shocked that swimming and other aquatic sports were not listed in the nominations. Judging by the reactions from the ...

Wisconsin's Phoebe Bacon 'Pumped' for Olympic Backstroke Reunion at NCAAs As the NCAA postseason spring of 2021 turned toward an Olympic summer, Phoebe Bacon was squarely in the pack of American backstroke contenders. She’d worked hard to place herself in that conversation, via the Nation’s Capital ...

In a commanding performance Friday at the UW Natatorium, the Wisconsin swimming and diving teams cruised to victory in their season opener against Green Bay. The Badgers men's team (1-0) routed the Phoenix men (0-1), 182-107. In similar fashion, Wisconsin's women (1-0) conquered the Green Bay women ...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. This season’s ride around the NCAA swim coaching carousel started early, when TCU head coach Sam Busch was placed on administrative leave on Feb. 2, three weeks before the Big 12 championships. At that point, his departure was all but a foregone conclusion, even befor...

PHOENIX, Nov. 20. EVEN though the college swimming season is only about six weeks old, there's already been plenty of fast swimming in NCAA Division I competition, as this first edition of the Speedo/CSCAA College Best Times list will attest. Many swimmers have already achieved their "A" cuts, w...

By Dave Lohse RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 2. NORTH CAROLINA'S men's and women's swimming and diving teams closed out their 2000-01 dual meet seasons on Friday afternoon by sweeping NC State at the Willis Casey Aquatics Center. The #8 Tar Heel women defeated the Wolfpack 149-92 while the #16 Caro...

Wisconsin marked its first meet at the Soderholm Family Aquatic Center by sweeping a tri-meet with Purdue and Minnesota on both the men’s and women’s side. Men’s Wisconsin 157, Purdue 143 Wisconsin 165, Minnesota 135 Purdue 176, Minnesota 124 Women’s Wisconsin 191.5, Purdue 104.5 Wisconsin 163, Minn...

Wisconsin swimming and diving opened a new era on Thursday by hosting its first official practice in their brand new facility, the Soderholm Family Aquatic Center, that had been under construction for a few years. The pool was set to be completed in 2019, but construction delays pushed the official ...

Tears of Joy and Heartbreak: The Brutal Reality of Olympic Trials Emotions When swimmers have one meet circled on their calendar for years, one chance to make their hopes and dreams come true, emotions might spill over. At the Olympic Trials, you will see screams of jubilation and tears of crushing ...

Hello World: Remembering a First Glance at Katie Ledecky - Circa 2011 By Michael J. Stott While the name Katie Ledecky is now a global, household name, she didn’t really enter the American consciousness until 2012 with her near-wire-to-wire 800 free Olympic victory in 2012. Many were surprised at th...

USA Swimming Names Yuri Suguiyama National Team Senior Director and Coach USA Swimming has announced Yuri Suguiyama as the organization’s new Senior Director and Coach of the National Team. In this key leadership role, Suguiyama will support all facets of the National Team program, guide performance...

By David Rieder. Ryan Murphy was behind. It was unusual, unnerving even, to see the world’s most dominant backstroker trailing. His freshman year, he had won the 100 back NCAA title by a hand’s length over Penn State’s Shane Ryan, but nobody had come close since. But at this year’s championships, th...