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The story of Dr. Gary O'Toole, his courage, the courage he encouraged, the woeful failings of sports authorities and indeed the legal system to deliver justice to victims and survivors of sexual abuse in swimming is a tortured tale layered with issues that demand inquiry anew and changes to the law,...

Ryan Lochte has put Rio 2016 behind him as he looks to qualify for his fifth Olympics in Tokyo a year from now. The six-time Olympic champion admits he has had several "bumps in the road" over the past four years and described the postponement of Tokyo 2020 as a "minor bump". The 35-year-old generat...

NEW COMMIT: Brigham Young University has picked up a big verbal commitment from in-state standout Tanner Nelson of South Jordan, Utah, for the fall of 2021. Regarding his commitment, he said: "Excited to announce my verbal commitment to Brigham Young University! I would like to thank my friends, fam...

NEW COMMIT: Penn State has added a new verbal commitment from Molly Pedersen of Fishers, Ind., who will arrive on campus in the fall of 2021. She will join Molly Carson, Shelby Kahn, Marly Lough, Maura Fluehr and Mac Sullivan in State College as members of the Nittany Lions’ class of 2025. Regarding...

Olympic gold medalist and former Stanford women's head coach Lea Maurer, who guided the Cardinal for seven years, has been named USC men's and women's swimming associate head coach, first-year Trojan head coach Jeremy Kipp announced today. Maurer and is the newest addition to Kipp's staff, which als...

La Salle University head swimming and diving coach Jamie Platt announced his resignation on Monday, after accepting the position of executive director at Middle Atlantic Swimming. Platt, a former student-athlete with the Explorers, spent 18 seasons as a coach at La Salle University and recently comp...

NISCA has announced its results for the 2019-20 NISCA National Dual Meet Team Championships. According to the official NISCA website, the objective of this program is to rank and recognize the top high school dual meet teams in each classification. Each time is given a point value based on the offic...

NEW COMMIT: Binghamton University has received an in-state verbal pledge for the fall of 2021 from Garden City, N.Y. native Lauren Kuzma, making it their first for the class of 2025. Regarding her commitment, she said: "I am so excited to announce my verbal commitment to Binghamton University! Thank...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. It has been a grim week for the sport of swimming, with Dartmouth cutting its swim team and Stanford cutting its synchronized swimming team, effective in the spring of 2021. The Ivy League also announced it was cancelling fall sports for the time being becaus...

Amaury Leveaux announced on Monday that he had missed a drugs test in Mulhouse, France. The Frenchman has his sights set on Tokyo 2021 - when he will be 35 - after returning to the pool in 2018. Leveaux, who won his first Olympics medals at Beijing 2008 when he took silvers in the 50 free and 4x100 ...

USA Swimming announced the addition of the TYR Pro Swim Series at Irvine to the 2020-2021 national events calendar. The event is scheduled to take place November 12-15, 2020 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine, California. USA Swimming also removed the August regional events that w...

More dominoes are beginning to fall with fall college sports being canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Patriot League will not participate in fall sports this season because of the virus, the league announced on Monday. The Patriot League consists of the Naval Academy, Bucknell, Lehigh, t...

NEW COMMIT: Junior National qualifier Erini Pappas of Phoenixville, Pa. has handed Fairfield University their first verbal commitment for the 2021-22 season and beyond. She told Swimming World: "I’m so excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim and study at Fairfield University! Thank you to m...

British swimmers were among Olympians used as "guinea pigs" to test an experimental substance "in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money" on the way to the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to an investigation by The Mail on Sunday. The allegations on a ...

UK Sport and Sport England are to immediately undertake the first joint review of the Code for Sports Governance. The announcement coincides with a newspaper investigation that calls in question a secret research project organised by UK Sport in 2012. UK Sport's governance review will focus on three...

NEW COMMIT: Florida State University has scored a new verbal commitment for the fall of 2021 from Arijus Pavlidi of Vilnius, Lithuania. He announced his decision via CollegeSwimming. He will join in-state native Rian Covington in Tallahassee as a member of the Seminoles' class of 2025. Regarding his...

NEW COMMIT: Futures qualifier Sydney Metzler of Arvada, Colo. has announced her verbal commitment to the University of Wyoming and will arrive on campus in the fall of 2021. She will join in-state native Katie McPherson as a member of the Pokes' class of 2025. She told Swimming World: "I am beyond e...

Olympic silver medalist Gustavo Borges from Brazil sat down with Brett Hawke on his podcast to talk about his career and how the world of professional swimming has changed since his era in the 1990s. Borges went over the 1995 World Short Course Championships (7:00) that was held in his home country ...

NEW COMMIT: Pittsburgh, Pa. native Taylor Connors has handed Miami University of Ohio a new verbal commitment to join their class of 2025. She will join Lauren Murray, Emily Rinker, and Maggie Stock in Oxford at the start of the 2021-22 season. Regarding her commitment, she said: "I am so excited to...

9 Types of Competitors Found On Deck At Swim Meets By Jennifer Yoo, Swimming World College Intern. This is it. This is where it all pays off: the early morning practices, sets with long yardage, and hours upon hours of staring at a black line on the bottom of the pool. For every swimmer, the routine...