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Improving with Age, Natalie Coughlin is Making Her Mark with Gaderian Wines Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Natalie Coughlin is now enjoying the sweet taste of success as cofounder of Gaderian Wines in Napa Valley, Calif. There’s a fine line that Natalie Coughlin walks, one that she re...

World Female Relay of the Year: United States Medley Relay Capped Olympic Games in Style As the athletes were called from the ready room for the final event of the Olympic Games in Paris, there was reason for the United States to feel upbeat. Its women’s 400-meter medley relay was without weakness, ...

Social Kick Podcast: Thanks to Experience, Rex Maurer Suggests This Set to Improve Your 500 Freestyle The crew at the Social Kick Podcast recently welcomed Rex Maurer for a comprehensive interview. Having Maurer as a guest on the show made total sense for hosts Bryan Lundquist and John Mullen, whose...

American Coach of the Year: Todd DeSorbo Continues Leading Virginia Women on Dominant Run He has been the guiding force to the country's most dominant college program, with the University of Virginia having already won four consecutive NCAA titles in women's swimming and diving, and the Cavaliers ar...

Special Sets: The Training of Rising 11-Year-Old Standout Millie Conner It’s early yet. Still, that doesn’t stop 11-year-old Millie Conner from plotting her swimming career. It is mapped out in the 30-40 swimming journals she keeps “filled with words, time and personal goals, charts, graphs and thou...

A Letter To the Coach Who Left Me Throughout our careers, we will have relationships with a few different coaches. If we are lucky, we will get to know and be close to a few. Those relationships will be some of the most important and influential ones of your career and life. They mean a lot to you -...

From the Start, the 2024 Swimming Campaign Was Defined by Speed ... and a Fresh Approach to the Sport As the calendar flipped to 2024, maybe we should have known. The signs – after all – were there. For starters, we entered an Olympic year, which history suggests is almost always faster than a typic...

Katie Grimes, Claire Weinstein Return From Worlds to Post Strong Swims at Sectionals Less than a week after wrapping up competition at the Short Course World Championships in Budapest, American teenagers Katie Grimes and Claire Weinstein are competing again, this time in short course yards with thei...

Cody Miller Announces Retirement: "The Time Has Come — Sorta, Kinda" Following a lengthy and successful professional career highlighted by a strong performance at the 2016 Olympics, Cody Miller has announced his retirement. Miller revealed the news in a video on his popular YouTube channel. In that ...

Q&A With Arizona State Coach Herbie Behm By Michael J. Stott A sprinter himself Herbie Behm mastered the art of sprint coaching at Utah and with Bob Bowman at Arizona State University. When Bowman left for Texas this spring, Behm was promoted to ASU head coach and now has the Sun Devils once again v...

A Look and Breakdown Of the Legendary 100 x 100s Set Of Mike Bruner A tradition at some clubs during winter training is for athletes to complete a 100 x 100 workout. The set is an Ironman/Ironwoman accomplishment. So, as some swimmers prepare to tackle this grinding set, we visit the archive for a l...

Training, Trust & Family Fuel Breakthrough For Rex Maurer at University of Texas At the end of the 2023-24 college season, Rex Maurer made “probably the hardest choice I’ve ever had to make.” After an up-and-down freshman season at Stanford, he saw an opportunity to advance his swimming career with ...

Poll: Which Swimming-Related Item Would You Like to Receive this Holiday Season (VOTE HERE!) There's still some time to run out and get the swimmer in your life the perfect gift for the holiday season. Swim shops are still open and Amazon working overdrive to deliver packages. So, what can you purch...

Olympic Medalist Bruno Fratus Announces Retirement Brazilian Olympic medalist Bruno Fratus announced his retirement from competitive swimming this week. Fratus made the announcement on social media, with posting confirmation of his formal withdrawal from the International Testing Agency’s list of ac...

Mary-Sophie Harvey had dreamed about being on the podium for an individual race at a major international competition. She was so close at the 2024 Paris Olympics - heartbreakingly close - finishing fourth four times. Instead of letting that sink her, the 25-year-old Canadian star got back to work an...

A Special Week: Gretchen Walsh Achieves Greatest Short Course Performance Ever Surprised by the sheer dominance that Gretchen Walsh imposed on the world's best sprinters at the Short Course World Championships? Then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the 21-year-old's trajectory over ...

FLASH! Regan Smith Breaks 100 Back WR, Leads American Women to Clobbering Medley Relay WR The American women have flexed their dominance throughout the six days of the Budapest World Championships: Gretchen Walsh won five individual golds while Regan Smith had three and Kate Douglass two. In their i...

Budapest 2024, Day 6: Jordan Crooks Backs Big Week With Gold in 50 Free It’s gotten to the point in Budapest this week that any race not ending in a world record seems an outlier. For Jordan Crooks, one ending with him getting a gold medal is just fine by him. Crooks didn’t quite match his world rec...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Does It Again, Sets Ninth World Record & Wins Sixth Gold in 50 Free No one had stopped Gretchen Walsh in her first four individual finals at the Short Course World Championships, and a victory in the 50 freestyle final was seen as a near certainty. But would she again lower the...

Speedo Winter Juniors West: Maximus Williamson, Teagan O'Dell Add More Victories on Final Day The Winter Junior Nationals careers for Maximus Williamson and Teagan O'Dell concluded Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, with both swimmers adding their fourth wins of the competition while Williamson late...