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Swimming’s Marathon: Why Open Water Deserves a Bigger Stage  There is something about endurance sports that draws people in.  Thousands of fans line the streets of Boston and New York to watch athletes run 26.2 miles. Spectators stand along mountain roads for hours waiting for the Tour de France pel...

Two-Time Olympian Phoebe Bacon Making Move to UVA Pro Group Two-time Olympian Phoebe Bacon took to social media on Friday to announce that she is moving her training base to Charlottesville, home of the high-powered University of Virginia program. Bacon is coming off the Pan Pacific Championships an...

Katie Ledecky and TYR Sport Launch Signature Swim Collection TYR Sport is proud to announce the launch of the Katie Ledecky Signature Collection, an exclusive new swim line designed in collaboration with nine-time Olympic gold medalist and 23-time world champion Katie Ledecky. Available beginning Au...

College Swimming League (CSL) Announces Media Rights Deal with DAZN The College Swimming League (CSL) and DAZN today announced a media rights agreement for the league’s inaugural 2026 season that makes DAZN the exclusive free-to-view home of CSL competition in every market outside the United States....

United States Claims Team Title at Junior Pan Pacs; Luka Mijatovic Exits with Seven Golds The United States comfortably claimed the team title at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships, which wrapped up on Thursday night in Vancouver. Team USA totaled 527 points via the meet's scoring system, easily o...

LA28 Announces Next Olympic Ticket Sale Will Take Place in 2027 A press release sent out by the LA28 Organizing Committee on Friday morning indicated that more than 6 million tickets for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles have been sold during the first two stages of the sales process. While that...

Michael Phelps on Texas Contingent: 'That's a One of One Training Group' It's been a decade since Michael Phelps bid farewell to the competitive stage, six medals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro raising his career count to 28, a seemingly unbreakable figure. The 41-year-old has no diffic...

POLL: What Was the Best Performance of the Summer? (VOTE HERE!) Multiple world records went down between the European Championships in Paris and the Pan Pacific Championships in Southern California. With the sport not holding a global championship meet, it was a refreshing sight to see some of the w...

Toledo Hires Indiana Diver Will Jansen as Diving Coach Will Jansen, a standout diver at Indiana University, has been hired as the University of Toledo’s diving coach, the university announced last week. Jansen dove for the Hoosiers from 2022-25. He competed at the Big Ten Championships during his ca...

Penn State Hires Division II Champ Jackson Lustig as Assistant Coach Penn State on Wednesday announced the hiring of Jackson Lustig as an assistant coach for the swimming and diving staff. Lustig was a standout at McKendree University, where he won NCAA Division II titles in the 100 butterfly and 20...

Marist Hires Billy Gordon as Head Coach Marist last week announced the hiring of Billy Gordon as the head coach of the swimming and diving program. Gordon spent four seasons at Bryant University, two as an assistant and two as the associate head coach/coordinator of recruiting and pool operations. T...

Junior Pan Pacs, Night Four Finals: Audrey Derivaux Leads Gold-Silver Finish in 200 IM The final night of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships opened with a United States gold-silver haul as Audrey Derivaux and Sydney Hardy had too much for the field in Vancouver. Derivaux claimed victory in 2:12.10...

James and Courtney Guy have shared that they are expecting their first child. The couple, who got married in Mallorca in August 2025, posted the news on social media. The post read “Time has flown by 🥺💕” accompanied by a picture of Courtney Guy. There were messages of congratulations from many peo...

How Johannes Liebmann Is Changing the 1500 Freestyle At the 2026 European Championships, 19-year-old German Johannes Liebmann stunned the world as he smashed the 1500 freestyle world record by almost four seconds, going 14:26.79. The record was previously held by Bobby Finke from his 2024 Olympic go...

Pitt Scores 2027 Verbal From Junior National Qualifier Sammy DaJusta NEW COMMIT: Junior National qualifier Sammy DaJusta of Columbus, Ohio, has pledged his verbal commitment to the University of Pittsburgh for Fall 2027. DaJusta is a sprint freestyler. He will join Kian Grabar in Pittsburgh as a mem...

Despite 800 Free Loss, Katie Ledecky 'Moving in a Good Direction' to LA 2028 Katie Ledecky had history on her mind Saturday night, but not the kind you might’ve thought. The historical frame of reference that most on deck at Irvine’s Woollett Aquatic Center wanted to discuss was Ledecky finally bein...

Combined World Championships: Hubert Kos, Sam Short Lead Two Events Apiece Over the past several weeks, most of the world’s top swimmers have raced in their main long course competition for 2026. The Commonwealth Games came first in Glasgow, Scotland, before the European Championships in Paris and t...

Guest Editorial: The Author's System of Sprint Swimming Biomechanics (Part II) Swimming World recently ran Part I of Serhii Lysobei's extensive article, "The Author's System of Sprint Swimming Biomechanics." Now, we run Part II, which examines sprint swimming from a technical perspective. PART I Par...

James Guy: History In Paris, Leading By Example & Words Of Wisdom James Guy made history at last week’s European Championships when he became the oldest swimmer to break the 1:45 barrier in the 200 free. The Briton posted 1:44.87 en-route to bronze behind David Popovici and Tamas Navikonis at the ag...

Carmel Swim Club's Jack Street Verbals to Purdue for 2027 NEW COMMIT: Purdue University has picked up a new verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from in-state standout Jack Street of Carmel, Indiana. Street is a Junior National qualifier who is very versatile. Regarding his commitment...