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College Visit Guide for Swimmers | Official & Unofficial A visit is one of the most important steps in the college swimming recruiting process. Visits allow swimmers to see the facilities, campus resources, meet potential future teammates and coaches, assess team culture, and get a feel for campus l...

B Finals Back: Why NCAA Swimming Dumped Consols for 2026, Reinstated Them for 2027 For the first time, last season's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships did not include consolation finals. Athletes earned points for their teams based on their ninth through 16th-place finishes in prelims. The resu...

European Juniors, Day 3 Prelims: Luca Hoek Rattles Spanish 50 Free Record Results Day 1 prelims wrap Day 1 finals wrap Day 2 prelims wrap Day 2 finals wrap Luca Hoek was within touching distance of his Spanish 50 free record as he posted the top time in prelims on day three of the European Junior Ch...

Dame Sarah Storey Retires as Great Britain's Most Decorated Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey has retired after a career in which she won five Paralympic golds in the pool and a further 14 titles in cycling to leave the sporting arena as Great Britain’s most successful Paralympian. Storey has decided to...

Penny Taylor Honored with Prestigious Max Ritter Award Carol Jane "Penny" Pence Taylor has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Max Ritter Award, annually presented by United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) to an individual or nation that has contributed the most to the advancement of understandi...

Bell Canadian Trials, Night 4: Taylor Ruck Gets Fourth Win, Ella Jansen Wins Third The absence of big names from Bell Canadian Trials has been to the advantage of others at Bell Canadian Trials. Enter Taylor Ruck and Ella Jansen. Ruck won the women’s 50 freestyle for her fourth win in as many nights...

Mary-Sophie Harvey has pulled out of the 200 IM final at the Bell Canadian Trials. The Olympian announced her decision on social media. "Unfortunately, I've had to withdraw from tonight's 200 IM final," Mary-Sophie Harvey wrote on Instagram. "I've been dealing with some health issues since the start...

European Juniors, Day 2 Finals: Neutral Athletes Set Another WJR In Mixed Freestyle Relay Results Day 1 prelims wrap Day 1 finals wrap Day 2 prelims wrap The second night of the European Junior Championships in Munich ended with another world junior record by a neutral athletes relay squad in the mi...

College Swimming League Announces TV Deal with ESPN; Broadcast Dates Set The College Swimming League (CSL) and ESPN today announced a multi-year media rights agreement that makes ESPN the exclusive home of CSL competition in the United States and Canada. Under the agreement, all six regular-season m...

A Statistical Appreciation of Katie Ledecky's Distance Dominance As we near the start of the Commonwealth Games, followed by action at the European Championships and Pan Pacific Championships, we figured it was an appropriate time to provide a quick statistical look at the distance dominance of Kati...

Bob Bowman Sees Similiarities Between Summer McIntosh and Michael Phelps As the man who guided Michael Phelps to never-before-seen Olympic glory and as the coach who guided Leon Marchand to four-time Olympic champion status, Bob Bowman obviously recognizes the characteristics required for greatness....

No Simple Answers: When Hormones, Cancer and Sport Collide By Leann Rossi I’ve learned more about hormones in the past few weeks than I ever expected to in my lifetime. When my biopsy results came back, the explanation was both simple and devastating: my estrogen was feeding the cancer. Suddenly, so...

Results Day 1 prelims wrap Day 1 finals wrap Theodora Taylor returned to the Munich pool the morning after winning relay gold to take top spot in the women’s 50 free during day two prelims at the European Junior Championships. The 17-year-old split 53.42 – the fastest of the field – as the British ...

Diogo Ribeiro headlines a nine-strong Portugal squad for the European Championships in Paris. Ribeiro won 50 fly bronze at the 2022 edition in Rome behind Thomas Ceccon and Maxime Grousset before making history as the first Portuguese swimmer to win a world medal with 50 fly silver at Fukuoka 2023. ...

Passages: Jack Roney, Former NC State Assistant Coach, 39 Jack Roney, a former swimmer at NC State and assistant coach at his alma mater, died on July 6. He was 39 years old. Roney was the program record holder in the 200 breaststroke in his time at the school, graduating in 2009. He served as an as...

Bell Canadian Trials, Night 3: Taylor Ruck Adds 100 Fly Title It’s been a banner week already for Taylor Ruck at Bell Canadian Trials. She won the 100 backstroke, setting her best time since 2019. She added a lifetime best in the 100 freestyle. Tuesday, on the third day of competition in Montreal, s...

Irish Swim Coach George Gibney Convicted of Sexual Abuse Irish former swim coach George Gibney was convicted by a court on Monday of sexually abusing young swimmers in the 1970s and 1980s. The 77-year-old was originally charged with 79 counts of assault involving four individual, including the attem...

Duquesne Hires Carolyn Bolden Santee as Assistant Coach Duquesne University of Tuesday announced the hiring of Carolyn Bolden Santee as an assistant coach. Santee joins after serving the last two seasons as a graduate assistant at Division II power University of West Florida. Santee was part of all ...

Arizona State’s Jonny Kulow Wins Big 12’s Bob Bowlsby Award Arizona State men’s swimmer Jonny Kulow was the only male winner of the Big 12’s annual Bob Bowlsby Award, announced on Tuesday. Kulow is the only male winner of the ward this year, joining TCU basketball player Olivia Miles and Cincinnati ...

Swimming Canada Inducts Nancy Garapick, Nigel Kemp to Circle of Excellence Swimming Canada this week has inducted Olympic medalist Nancy Garapick and coach Nigel Kemp into its Circle of Excellence. The announcement is timed with Bell Canadian Trials, which is taking place in Montreal on the 50th ann...