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Mare Nostrum Series Set to Open in Monaco; Jack Alexy Headlines Star-Filled Entry List The first leg of this year's Mare Nostrum series will begin this weekend (May 23-24) with competition in Monaco. The tour has been a longtime staple of the swimming calendar, annually featuring the sport's premier...

Less Than a Month Separated Luka Mijatovic From Iconic Age-Group Record When Luka Mijatovic cracked the 15-minute barrier in the 1500-meter freestyle for the first time on Wednesday night, the rising freestyle star just missed breaking one of the most iconic age-group records in the sport. The 17-ye...

Team Scotland Announces Squad of 25 for Commonwealth Games Team Scotland has announced a 25-strong squad for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Duncan Scott and Angharad Evans were preselected and will be joined by a further 23 swimmers including the likes of Archie Goodburn, Katie Shanahan and Kean...

Jan Prins' Book, Freestyle Biomechanics, a Must-Read for Coaches (Available Now! - See Link) Jan Prins, Ph.D., respected swim scientist and coach, has spent decades advocating for the integration of sport science and kinesiology into practical swim coaching. A former assistant coach with Doc Counsil...

Pro Swim Series Sacramento, Day 2 Finals: Torri Huske Wins Again in 100 Fly Several of the world's best swimmers were in action in their premier events Thursday evening in Sacramento, Calif., at the latest stop of USA Swimming's Pro Swim Series. Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske was racing in the 10...

Virginia Announced as First Program for Upcoming College Swimming League The College Swimming League (CSL) today announced that the University of Virginia will compete in its inaugural season as one of the league’s participating institutions. UVA joins a field of top NCAA programs in the CSL’s debut...

The USA Swimming 2026 TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Sacramento continued on Thursday, May 21. A plethora of Olympians both foreign and domestic are on the slate for a fast meet, hosted by DART Swimming. The Day 2 events are the 100 butterfly, 200 breaststroke, 50 backstroke and 400 IM. Here is a look ...

How the Furniss Brothers - Steve and Bruce - Were Robbed Of An Epic Olympic Showdown With the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal approaching, Swimming World continues its series of new and archived articles of key moments from those Games. In this installment, we look at how brot...

Every Swimming Journey is a Little Different: Focus On Your Own Path Comparison can be one of the fastest ways to lose joy in swimming.  It can happen in a single practice. You may look at your teammate in the next lane holding faster paces; you may see someone your age dropping time every meet whil...

Roos Vanotterdijk & Lucas Henveaux Among Nine-Strong Belgian Squad Headed to European Championships Nine swimmers have been selected to represent Belgian at the European Championships in Paris. Roos Vanotterdijk, Florine Gaspard and Lucas Henveaux are among the team that will compete across 21 indiv...

The Bob Bowman Medley Tree: Dominance Cannot Be Denied At last summer's World Championships in Singapore, the medalists in the men's 200-meter individual medley were quite familiar with one another. While they represented three different countries, they saw each other on a daily basis, under the wat...

Claire Weinstein Pulls out of Sacramento Pro Series After Migraine Lands Her in ER U.S. Olympian Claire Weinstein will not compete in the 2026 TYR Pro Swim Series in Sacramento this week. Weinstein pulled out of the event after experiencing a severe migraine headache that landed her in the emergency...

Pro Swim Series Sacramento, Day 1 Finals: Luka Mijatovic Dominates 1500 Freestyle With First Sub-15:00 Performance The USA Swimming Pro Swim Series resumed Wednesday in Sacramento, Calif., with numerous high-level swimmers competing for the first time in months. Three-time Olympian Ryan Murphy was c...

The USA Swimming 2026 TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Sacramento kicked off on Wednesday, May 20. A plethora of Olympians both foreign and domestic are on the slate for what looks to be a fast meet, hosted by DART Swimming. The Day 1 events are the 200 IM, 50 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and 200 free. H...

Katie Ledecky Recognized with Honorary Degree by Yale University Distance freestyle legend Katie Ledecky added another accolade to her list of achievements last weekend, when Yale University awarded the 29-year-old with an honorary doctorate of humane letters. The recognition was part of Yale's comm...

Your Summer Reading List: Sacramento Opens, Pan Pacs Brings the Fireworks to Greater LA 2026 TYR Pro Preview: Schedule, Psych Sheets & Must-Watch Races Think of this as your California summer reading list. Different? Totally. Kind of perfect? Also yes. Only this list trades short beach stories for l...

Following Strong Freshman Campaign, Kennedi Dobson Preparing for Senior Team Debut at Pan Pacs A bronze-medal-winning performance at the World Junior Championships last August had ramifications that went beyond just the podium finish. Kennedi Dobson finished in 4:06.66, behind the Chinese duo of Yan...

Claire Weinstein Chasing Breakthrough Performances in Middle-Distance Freestyle Among the Olympians scheduled to race at this week’s TYR Pro Series stop in Sacramento is Claire Weinstein, still a teenager but already a longtime staple for Team USA at the international level. Is the 19-year-old’s bes...

National Records from Erika Fairweather, Milan Glintmeyer Highlight New Zealand Champs New Zealand records set by Erika Fairweather and teen Milan Glintmeyer highlighted the New Zealand Championships last week at Auckland’s National Aquatic Centre. Fairweather went 1:55.06 on the second day of the m...

Virginia Hires Reed Fujan as Associate Head Coach The University of Virginia has hired Reed Fujan as an associate head coach for the swimming program, it announced on Tuesday. Fujan spent the last three years in the same role at Louisville. He previously spent three seasons in the same position at A...