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U.S. House of Representatives Votes to Ban Transgender Participation in Women's Sports For the second time, the United States House of Representatives has passed a bill banning all transgender women from women's and girls' sports that receive federal funding and come under Title IX jurisdiction. The...

Passages: U.S. Olympic Team Massage Therapist Brian Campbell Dies USA Swimming announced in an Instagram post Monday evening that Dr. Brian Campbell, a massage therapist and chiropractor who worked with three Olympic swim teams, has passed away. Campbell was also the head massage therapist at UCLA, ...

Two-time Olympian Olivia Smoliga Launches In Depth Swimming Academy: 'A Passion to Bring Something New' When Olivia Smoliga was a young teenager, like many swimmers, she looked up to the Olympians. Smoliga took advantage of every chance she could to meet them and learn from them through clinics. But...

Scott Rosman, Carrie Stolar Join Board of USA Swimming Foundation Scott Rosman and Carrie Stolar were elected by the USA Swimming Board of Directors at its December meeting to serve on the USA Swimming Foundation Board of Directors starting in 2025, the organization announced on Friday. Tim Buckley,...

Gary Hall Jr. Loses Home, Olympic Medals in Devastating California Wildfire (Link to GoFundMe) At least five people have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed in Southern California amid numerous raging wildfires that have broken out within the past two days. Among the affected is 1...

Maturity and Experience Guided Regan Smith to Career Year in 2024 Returning home from her second Olympics, Regan Smith needed a respite from the pressure-packed, exhausting buildup to the Paris Games. Her partnership with coach Bob Bowman had yielded a strong performance that included three individu...

World Coach of the Year: Bob Bowman Has Mentored a Global Gathering of Champions Bob Bowman leapt into the pool at the IU Natatorium in late March, and somehow his year was just starting. Unspool the rest of the 2024 and it seemed that Bowman leading Arizona State to its first NCAA men’s championshi...

Female Breakout Swimmer of the Year: Veteran Paige Madden Found Something Special to Land on Olympic Podium If you were watching the Paris Olympics and couldn’t quite believe what you were witnessing Paige Madden do, that’s OK. She really didn’t fully grasp it either. The work was certainly there, t...

Male Breakout Swimmer of the Year: Luke Hobson Grew From NCAA Champ to Olympic Medalist to World-Record Holder By the end of the spring, there was no doubting Luke Hobson’s credentials in the short-course pool. In three years, he’d become the best distance swimmer in the history of the University of...

Bob Bowman Talks Leon Marchand & Life In The Spotlight Bob Bowman knew from experience how the life of Leon Marchand would change after he won four gold medals in Paris. The Frenchman won the 200 and 400IM double, the 200m breaststroke and the 200 fly in front of an ecstatic home crowd at La Défense...

After Facing Adversity, Claire Curzan Coming Full Circle in Return to Form Claire Curzan’s recent bout of adversity has forced her to grapple with her relationship with the sport in a way she never did during her do-no-wrong teenage years. Disappointment has yielded balance and growth. In early Octo...

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...

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 ...

Last-Minute Gift Guide for Swimmers, Coaches, and Parents Swimmers live and die by the clock—whether it’s hitting their splits or making intervals. With the holidays speeding closer, it’s time to dive in and find last-minute gifts! Here are trending gift ideas to delight swimmers, coaches, and paren...

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...

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...

Speedo Winter Juniors East: Thomas Heilman, Rylee Erisman Take Down National Age Group Records One day after becoming the first 18-and-under swimmer to swim under 44 in the 100 butterfly, Thomas Heilman has again posted a groundbreaking effort in a butterfly race, this time over double the distance....