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Penn State Hires Samantha Pickens as Head Diving Coach Penn State on Thursday announced the hiring of Samantha Pickens as the school’s head diving coach. She joins the staff of Hollie Bonewit-Cron after two seasons as the head diving coach at Liberty. Pickens was named the Atlantic Sun Women’s Divin...

Colorado State Adds Brynn Sproul as Assistant Coach Colorado State on Thursday announced the hiring of Brynn Sproul to its women’s swimming and diving coaching staff. Sproul joins the staff of head coach Christopher Woodard after the Las Vegas native spent two seasons at UNLV. She was a director of ...

Alec Kandt Takes Over as Head Coach of St. Bonaventure Alec Kandt was announced on Friday as the new head coach at St. Bonaventure. Kandt replaces Mike Smiechowski, who departed last month to take an associate head coaching position at Penn State. Kandt is new to Olean, having served as an assistant...

Arizona Hires Caitlin DeNise as Assistant Coach The University of Arizona on Thursday announced the hiring of Caitlin DeNise as an assistant coach on the staff of Ben Loorz. DeNise spent five seasons at Lewis & Clark College, the first two as an assistant coach, then one as the interim head coach be...

Penn Hires Megan Shaffer as Assistant Coach The University of Pennsylvania last week hired Megan Shaffer as an assistant coach. She joins the staff of head coach Mike Schnur after two seasons as an assistant at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Shaffer helped the Black Knights win th...

Commonwealth Games, Day One: Dominant Dolphins Win Eighth Straight Gold in Women's 4x100m freestyle Relay Australia has continued its domination of the women's 4x100m freestyle relay in Glasgow, winning an eighth straight gold on a spectacular opening finals session at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games...

Commonwealth Games: Flynn Southam Blazes 47.09 Leadoff, Australia Dominates Men's 400 Free Relay; Two Games Records Thanks to the heroics of Kyle Chalmers on the anchor leg, Australia has captured world titles in the men's 400 freestyle relay in 2023 and 2025. At the Commonwealth Games, the Aussie m...

Commonwealth Games, Day One Finals: With Kaylee McKeown Out, Jenna Forrester Strikes Gold in Women’s 200 Backstroke With Kaylee McKeown out of the Commonwealth Games due to glandular fever, the women’s 200 backstroke field became wide open. Jenna Forrester from Australia took advantage of the openin...

Commonwealth Games, Day One Finals, Women's 400 Freestyle: Lani Pallister Kick Starts Australian Campaign With A Golden Glow In Glasgow Australian swimming's next middle distance star Lani Pallister has kick-started Australia’s Commonwealth Games campaign in the pool in Glasgow with a spectacular al...

Psych Sheets Released for U.S. Nationals; Several Pan Pacs Members Entered (See Full Entries) In less than a week, many of the top American swimmers will gather in Irvine, California for the United States National Championships. Some individuals will use the meet at the William Woollett Aquatic Cent...

Commonwealth Games, Day One Semifinals: Pieter Coetze Rips Games Record in 50 Backstroke; Adam Ramsay-Peaty Rolling Four years after claiming the silver medal in the 50-meter backstroke at the Commonwealth Games, South Africa's Pieter Coetze is ready to move to the top step of the podium. After lead...

Commonwealth Games, Day One Para Events: Nathan Hendricks Powers to Victory in 100 Freestyle South Africa's Nathan Hendricks, a student at the University of Pretoria, notched a convincing victory in the S13 classification of the 100-meter freestyle during Friday's opening finals session at the Commo...

Commonwealth Games: Duncan Scott Sets Games Record, Holds Off Lewis Clareburt for 200 IM Win For the second consecutive Commonwealth Games, Duncan Scott is golden in the men's 200 individual medley. The 29-year-old has been one of the world's best in this event for the past decade, and he secured th...

American Men's Swim Team Has Chance to Build Momentum at Pan Pacs The latest showdown between the two superpower nations in women's swimming, the United States and Australia, will take place at the Pan Pacific Championships. The men's competition, however, will be short on swimmers who have dominate...

Commonwealth Games, Day One Prelims: Erika Fairweather and Lani Pallister Set to Duel for 400 Freestyle Title The first of this summer's three major international competitions got underway this morning, as the Commonwealth Games kicked off six days of action with Friday morning preliminaries from th...

Why Quiet Confidence Matters Most Before Championship Season  As championship season approaches, the atmosphere around the pool begins to change.  Practices become more intentional. Conversations shift from technique and volume to taper, qualifying times, and championship goals. Swimmers start check...

Shin Ohashi, Filip Nowacki Aiming to Lead Speed Surge in Men's 200 Breaststroke At last year’s World Championships, the men’s 200 breaststroke final produced one of the most exciting finishes of the competition as the lead changed hands three times and the winner came from Lane Eight. The order of f...

Australian Swimmers in Line for Major Paydays at Commonwealth Games Australian swimmers who reach the podium at the Commonwealth Games are staring at lucarative payouts, thanks to billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart. A longtime supportive of Aussie swimmers, Rinehart is offering medalists from ...

The Journey of Marrit Steenbergen: Surrounded by Greatness and Willing to Push Limits As her profile started to take shape on the international stage, a teenage Marrit Steenbergen was surrounded by spectacular talent as a member of the Dutch National Team. Take the 2016 Olympic Games for example. In...

Stroke and Turn Officiating – We Have Liftoff By Ron Van Pool Stroke and turn officials are indeed the “eyes of the referee.” The foundation of swimming officiating is to ensure that all the athletes are treated fairly and that any benefit of the doubt goes to the swimmer. Throughout the race, the s...