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After Golden Summer, McKenzie Siroky Entering Fall With Opportunities to Continue Momentum Perhaps no American woman put together a better summer season than McKenzie Siroky. The 21-year-old Division I ice hockey commit-turned-standout breaststroker qualified for her first World Championships team i...

Georgia Bulldogs Land 2028 Verbal From SwimMAC Carolina's Eli Sweet NEW COMMIT: The University of Georgia has scored its second public verbal commitment for Fall 2028, this time from Eli Sweet of Belmont, North Carolina. Sweet, one of the top recruits in the class, is a versatile Nationals qualifier...

The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) and Fitter & Faster Swim Camps have announced the WINNERS FORNAGE GROUP COACH OF THE YEAR for small, medium, large and extra-large teams. The recognition is based on athletes ages 10-14, using the total number of athletes achieving AAA and AAAA+ durin...

Men's 100 Freestyle Short Course World Record Should Fall This Winter An October 2021 World Cup in Kazan, Russia, played host to Australian sprinter Kyle Chalmers as he sought the first world record of his already-accomplished career. Chalmers had narrowly missed the world mark in the short course 1...

Teagan O'Dell Leads Five Key Transfers Who Will Influence NCAA Campaign With the collegiate season underway, there will be considerable chatter over the next six-plus months concerning the outcome of the NCAA Championships. On the women's side, the University of Virginia is chasing a seventh consecu...

Welcome to College Swimming: Forget What You Thought You Knew About Being the Best  Before college, many swimmers are used to being exceptional.  They were team captains, school-record holders, state qualifiers, or the swimmer their relay depended on. Their name was written across record boards, ann...

CSL Hires Two-Time Olympian Brittany MacLean as Analyst for First Stop Olympian an NCAA champion Brittany MacLean has been one of the world's most prominent swimming analysts in her work for CBC. The College Swimming League (CSL) announced the hiring of MacLean to be the analyst for the first to mat...

Louisiana State Champion Kendall Jollands Verbals to Arizona for 2027 NEW COMMIT: The University of Arizona has added to its 2028 recruiting class, having recently received a verbal commitment from Kendall Jollands of Metairie, La. Jollands is a Junior National qualifier who excels in butterfly and ...

Florida Adds 2027 Verbal From World Junior Record Holder Malte Gräfe NEW COMMIT: The University of Florida has secured a new verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from breaststroker Jan Malte Gräfe of Potsdam, Germany. He is the World Junior record holder in the 50m breast. Regarding h...

Luka Mijatovic Confirms Plans to Graduate Early, Join Texas in December The swimmer who has rewritten the National Age Group record books in mid-distance and distance freestyle over the past several years will begin his college career earlier than expected. Luka Mijatovic confirmed in an Instagram p...

Record-Breaking Troféu José Finkel Sets the Stage for Short Course Worlds as Gui Caribe Stars The Brazilian Championships, known as the Troféu José Finkel, held from August 31 to September 4, kicked off the global race for World Short Course Championships spots, as nations are in the process of sele...

Will Underwater Finishes Emerge as Viable Option? College Coaches Share Their Thoughts The last five meters of every swim, no matter the race, are always appointment television. Waves catapult across the pool as the athlete charges toward the wall. Their energy fully expended, athletes battle for re...

In-State Standout Philip Johnson Gives Wolfpack Another Verbal For 2028 NEW COMMIT: North Carolina State University has received its second public verbal commitment for Fall 2028 from in-state standout Philip Johnson of Gastonia, North Carolina. Johnson excels in breaststroke and is a Junior Nationa...

Six-Time Olympic Medalist Brendan Hansen Recovering from Patellar Tendon Tears in Both Knees Six-time Olympic medalist Brendan Hansen, USA Swimming's National Junior Team Director, is on the mend after tearing both patellar tendons in his knees during a July 4 mishap. Hansen was taking part in a can...

Cal Adds Brody Lewis, Keanan Dols to Coaching Staff The University of California on Friday named Brody Lewis and Keanan Dols as assistant coaches. Lewis spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Utah. He mentored one NCAA All-American and three Pac-12 podium finishers with the Utes. Lewis was prev...

Youngster to Watch: Yumeki Kojima Maintaining Japanese Medley Tradition A decade ago, Kosuke Hagino captured Olympic gold in the 400-meter individual medley at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. From 2013 through 2024, Daiya Seto collected six medals at the World Championships in the 400 IM, highligh...

Virginia's Todd DeSorbo Named ASCA George Haines Coach of the Year University of Virginia coach Todd DeSorbo has been named the ASCA George Haines Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. The announcement was made Friday as part of the organization's World Clinic and recognizes DeSorbo for...

Slovenian Olympian Katja Fain Reveals Leukemia Diagnosis Slovenian Olympian Katja Fain revealed this week on social media that she is battling chronic myeloid leukemia. Fain posted on social media this week detailing “the hardest race of my life.” An Olympian in Tokyo and Paris, the 25-year-old had ...

Poolside Passport: Meet Breaststroke Star Eneli Jefimova of Estonia ... and N.C. State Poolside Passport is one of Swimming World's newest features, an engaging opportunity to get to know athletes from around the world. Initially started on the Swimming World social-media channels, Poolside Passport...

World Record Double-Double: When Kaylee McKeown and Regan Smith Both Swam Under a Record Twice in a Week Women's backstroke has belonged to Kaylee McKeown and Regan Smith since Smith broke world records in the 100 and 200-meter events at the 2019 World Championships. McKeown won silver behind Smith ...