Read about the swimmers of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series in Santa Clara, California, catch up with some of your favorites in the water, take a look back in swimming history, and meet 2018’s recipients of The Cutino Awards for water polo.<\/p>\n
010\u00a0 TYR PRO SWIM SERIES – SANTA CLARA PHOTO GALLERY <\/strong><\/span> 024\u00a0 2018 TYR PRO SWIM SERIES – SANTA CLARA – FULL FINALS RECAPS by Diana Pimer, Chandler Brandes and Dan D\u2019Addona <\/strong><\/span> 032\u00a0 KATIE LEDECKY QUICK TO FIGURE OUT PRO SWIMMING<\/span> <\/strong> Swimming might be Katie Ledecky\u2019s job now, but she won\u2019t think of the sport any differently than she did before. Already, in two months, she\u2019s mastered the essence of professional swimming\u2014and that means you need to be on record-lookout any time she\u2019s entered in a race.<\/p>\n 034\u00a0 CAELEB DRESSEL FOLLOWING IN FOOTSTEPS OF MICHELANGELO<\/span><\/strong> Michelangelo, known primarily as a sculptor in the early 1500s, mastered a medium in which he was unfamiliar and inexperienced: he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Five hundred years later, Caeleb Dressel has already mastered sprint freestyle and butterfly. Now, he\u2019s beginning to take on several other \u201coff\u201d events and is excelling in them as well.<\/p>\n 037\u00a0 NATIONAL TEAM MEMBER HANNAH STEVENS RETIRES FROM SWIMMING<\/span><\/strong> Hannah Stevens, a 14-time NCAA All-American at the University of Missouri and a 2017 U.S. national champion in the 50 meter back, announced her retirement from the sport of swimming, citing recurring back problems as the major driving force for her decision.<\/p>\n 038\u00a0 MISSY FRANKLIN\u2019S VICTORY AT MARE NOSTRUM SERIES WAS SIMPLY HER RETURN<\/span> <\/strong> Missy Franklin, five-time Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the women\u2019s 200 back, didn\u2019t win any events during the Mare Nostrum Swim Series…but the fact that she\u2019s back competing in the sport after a two-year absence due to depression and surgery on both shoulders is more of a victory than anything she could have done in the pool.<\/p>\n 039\u00a0 DEATH OF BODE MILLER\u2019S DAUGHTER REITERATES NEED FOR DROWNING PREVENTION KNOWLEDGE<\/span><\/strong> U.S. Olympic skier Bode Miller\u2019s 19-month-old daughter, Emeline, recently drowned in a Southern California swimming pool. Here are some important things to know about drowning prevention, according to healthychildren.org: what you should do in a drowning emergency and knowing the warning signs.<\/p>\n 040\u00a0 THE FANTASTIC FOUR SWIMMERS WHO MADE HISTORY AT NCAA DI MEN\u2019S CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/span><\/strong> Only four men in the history of swimming have won NCAA Division I titles in the 100 and 200 of their stroke four years in a row: John Naber, Pablo Morales, Brendan Hansen and Ryan Murphy.<\/p>\n 042\u00a0 LAKE FOREST SWIM CLUB: WINNING IN THE WATER SINCE 1958<\/strong><\/span> The Lake Forest Swim Club of Illinois\u2014founded by Ray Essick, the first executive director of USA Swimming…and previous home to Olympians Conor Dwyer, Matt Grevers and Puerto Rico\u2019s Doug Lennox\u2014is celebrating its 60th birthday this year.<\/p>\n 044\u00a0 THE CUTINO AWARDS: WHY WATER POLO IS BEST IN THE WEST<\/strong><\/span> Cal\u2019s Luca Cupido and USC\u2019s Amanda Longan were recently named winners of the Peter J. Cutino Award, considered the most prestigious individual award in American collegiate water polo. More than 200 people, including some of the most accomplished and influential Americans in the sport, attended the 19th annual event, held at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read about the swimmers of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series in Santa Clara, California, catch up with some of your favorites in the water, take a look back in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":315358,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[56108,65468],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315356","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-swimming-world-biweekly-1","7":"product_cat-click-to-view-all-issues-in-2018-swimming-world-biweekly-1","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"downloadable","12":"virtual","13":"sold-individually","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n
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\nFull event-by-event coverage of all four nights, June 7-10, at the George F. Haines International Swim Center.<\/span><\/p>\n
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