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Isabelle Stadden Joins U.S. Women's Backstroke Mix With Breakout Westmont Performance For the last seven years, Isabelle Stadden has been nestled into the lower portion of the U.S. women's backstroke hierarchy, good enough to make a Nationals final and earn top-three finishes at the NCAA Championshi...

Regan Smith Demonstrates Versatility with Two Personal Bests in Pro Series Action Between the Olympic Games and World Championships, Regan Smith owns 22 medals. That total, which is expected to grow in the coming years, should land Smith eventual induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fam...

Yamato Okadome, Nate Germonprez Lead Resurgent NCAA Men's Breaststroke Fields The upcoming NCAA Men's Championships, set to take place in Atlanta at the end of the month, will see significant turnover in the breaststroke events compared to the 2025 season. Six of last year's eight A-finalists from b...

Junior National Finalist Alba Arnall Gives 2027 Verbal to Cal Golden Bears NEW COMMIT: The University of California, Berkeley has received a new verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from Alba Arnall out of New York City. Arnall is a versatile swimmer who has achieved several Nationals...

Serena Dickey Lends 2027 Verbal to Illinois With Team-Leading 200 Fly Time NEW COMMIT: The University of Illinois has added a verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from Junior National qualifier Serena Dickey out of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Dickey specializes in butterfly and freest...

NSW State Open, Night 3 Finals: Jenna Forrester Claims Sydney Treble; Kaylee McKeown Sits Out Another Final In-form dual World Championship medallist Jenna Forrester has put the finishing touches to a Sydney treble, with a nail-biting victory in the 200 individual medley on the final night of the N....

Strong Marks from Sam Short at Pro Series Suggest Big Season Ahead for Aussie Star On four occasions, Sam Short has stood on the podium at the World Championships to receive recognition for his individual distance-freestyle efforts. Three medals were earned by the Australian at the 2023 edition of t...

Change at the Top as Indianapolis Leads CSCAA Division II Poll The March edition of the CSCAA Division II poll brought a change at the top, with Indianapolis jumping Drury by two points. On the women’s side, Tampa remains ensconced in the top spot, though its margin over Nova Southeastern was a slim...

CSCAA Dual Meet Poll: Virginia, Texas Atop Final Standings Virginia’s women’s team and the Texas men finish the season where they started it: Atop the CSCAA Dual Meet polls. Each team got the maximum points in the poll released this week, Texas with 400 on the men’s side and Virginia at425 on the wo...

CSCAA Division III Polls: NYU Women Rise to No. 1 ahead of NCAAs There’s change near the top of both of the final CSCAA Division III polls, released this week, with NYU ascending to the top of the women’s poll and a top-three shakeup on the men’s side. NYU had been third in the February poll. But wi...

IWD: Setting the Pace: 5 Women Who Changed the Sport of Swimming Today, March 8, we celebrate International Women's Day. As a tribute to the women who have contributed to, grown and defined excellence in the sport, Swimming World will recognize some of the great women and achievements in swimming hi...

Tufts Announces $50 Million Olympic-Sized Aquatic Center Tufts University on Friday announced plans to build an Olympic-sized pool and aquatic center in its Boston-area home. The aquatic center is slated to be built in Medford and will be finished by the fall of 2028. It will be located adjacent to ...

NEW COMMIT: Yale University has scored a big verbal commitment* for the 2027-28 season and beyond from Chloe Meyer-Blohm. Meyer-Blohm hails from San Jose, Costa Rica, and currently lives in Exeter, New Hampshire. Meyer-Blohm is a Junior National qualifier who specializes in backstroke. Regarding her...

NSW State Open, Day 2 Finals: Alexandria Perkins Claims Third Gold; Kai Taylor Wins 200 Freestyle Thriller Queensland’s World championship bronze medallist Alexandria Perkins and a valuable player in Australia’s build-up to LA28, has continued on her winning ways with her third gold medal on the se....

Hong Kong's Wui Kiu Man Verbally Commits to Michigan for 2027 NEW COMMIT: The University of Michigan has scored a verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond by Wui Kiu Man, who goes by Eunis, out of Hong Kong. Man specializes in breaststroke. She will join Sofia Szymanowski in Ann Arbor as ...

Westmont Pro Series, Day 4 Finals: Gretchen Walsh Blasts No. 6 Mark in History in 100 Butterfly For some athletes in attendance at the USA Swimming Pro Series stop in Westmont (Ill.), the meet served as a checkpoint in training. Others, such as Gretchen Walsh and Regan Smith, used the meet as a tune...

Pro Series Westmont, Day 4 Prelims: Summer McIntosh Cruises to Top Seed in 200 IM One day of racing remains at the USA Swimming Pro Series stop in Westmont (Ill.), and if the first three days of competition are any indicator, Saturday's action should be enticing. Already, the meet has featured a 1:5...

Records in Open-Water Marathon Swimming: From Fastest to Most Records in pool swimming have more meaning than those in open water. Pool temperatures are generally the same (and optimal), swimmers are separated by wave dampening lane lines, no wildlife (sharks, jelly fish, eels, etc.), no adverse cur...

Sprint Freestyler Molly Lo Hands 2027 Verbal to Duke Blue Devils NEW COMMIT: Newtown Square, Pa. native Molly Lo has announced her verbal commitment to continue her academic and swimming career at Duke University beginning in Fall 2027. Lo is sprint freestyler who is a Junior National qualifier. Reg...

Pro Swim Series Westmont, Day 3 Finals: Summer McIntosh Crushes 1:53.80 200 Free; Gretchen Walsh Impressive in 100 Fly Semis The first three events on the program Friday evening at the USA Swimming Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Ill., featured world-record holders racing in their respective events. Ka...