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USA Swimming Announces Coaching Staff for World Short Course Championships USA Swimming has announced its coaching staff that will lead the U.S. contingent at the 2026 World Aquatics Championships (25m). DART Swimming’s Billy Doughty will lead the team alongside a decorated group of assistant coache...

Hawaii Offering Duke Kahanamoku License Plates Hawaii is offering license plates featuring the likeness of legendary swimmer and surfer Duke Kahanamoku. The specialty plates will be available starting Nov. 16 at all satellite city hall locations in Oahu with an initial availability of about 4,000 un...

‘Forever Part of My Story’: Swimming Community Mourns Loss of Dan Hicks For Rowdy Gaines, being broadcast partners with Dan Hicks was more than just meeting up a few times a year to call swimming. It was a friendship that stretched through the year, through decades, through eight Olympics calling sw...

Passages: NBC Olympic Broadcaster Dan Hicks, 64 NBC broadcaster Dan Hicks, who served as NBC’s swimming broadcaster for the last eight Olympics, has died. He was 64. Hicks’ wife, fellow broadcaster and journalist Hannah Storm, made the announcement Thursday. They described it as sudden following an ...

Van Mathias Hoping to Continue Astonishing Run at Short Course Worlds Predicting two individual gold medals for Van Mathias at the upcoming Short Course World Championships would hardly qualify as a bold statement, not after the incredible year the 26-year-old has put together in the sprint breastst...

Caeleb Dressel and THEMAGIC5 introduce $90 limited-edition Vector swim goggles with custom 3D face scanning. See the design, fit technology and where to buy.

When Isabelle Odgers got to the wall and looked up and saw her time, her eyes lit up. The former USC All-American was going to get to wear a new swim cap. Odgers took second in the 400 IM at the USA Swimming Short Course World Championship Trials and qualified for the Short Course World Championship...

Luka Mijatovic Lowers 17-18 NAG Record in 500 Freestyle Beginning next semester, Luka Mijatovic will take his dynamic mid-distance freestyle skills to the University of Texas, where he is set to contribute to a team favored to win a third consecutive national title. In the meantime, Mijatovic contin...

Tennessee Freshman Charlotte Crush Making Instant Impact in Backstroke Events At the first U.S. selection meet of this quad, teenager Charlotte Crush threw her name into the talented mix of American women's backstrokers. In the 200-meter race, Crush dropped more than two seconds from her best time i...

Olympian David Johnston Reveals Car Accident Injuries Keeping Him Out of the Water American Olympic distance swimmer David Johnston this week revealed “persistent neurological symptoms” that have kept him from competing the last 13 months. Johnston made a lengthy post on Instagram shedding light on ...

The Events Nobody Volunteers to Race: How Swimmers Are Valued Swimmers who regularly take on demanding or less popular events give their teams flexibility. They fill gaps in the lineup, compete outside their specialties, and accept combinations of races that others would rather avoid. But when that ...

College Swimming League Championship: NC State Stuns the Field to Win the First-Ever CSL Championship By Brendan Oswald & Adam Denn The inaugural season of the College Swimming League (CSL) has reached its conclusion, with Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina State and Indiana battling for the champi...

Guest Editorial: Swimming Is the Sport College Sports Can't Afford to Lose By Alex Versen Every American Olympic swimmer has a story that starts at about 5 a.m. A parent warming up the car. A bag that smells permanently of chlorine. A coach on the deck with a stopwatch, a whistle and a cup of coffee...

Luca Urlando 'On the Right Path for Short Course Worlds' After Record-Setting Trials Since narrowly missing out on the Olympic semifinals in the event two years ago, Luca Urlando has been on a roll in the 200 butterfly. In 2025, he lowered the fastest time ever in the 200-yard fly on three occasions...

Rylee Erisman Cracks World Junior Record in 100 Freestyle; Continues Sharp Upward Trajectory The final event of last week's United States Trials for the World Short Course Championships will be remembered for the world record of Kate Douglass in the 100-meter freestyle. Clocking a time of 49.64, Dou...

Mike Brady Named Director of Aquatics at Greensboro Aquatic Center Oak View Group (OVG) and Greensboro Complex are pleased to announce the hiring of Mike Brady as Director of Aquatics at Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC). Brady brings extensive experience in aquatic facility operations, competitive s...

American Men's Backstroke Shows Signs of Life at Short Course Trials, But Questions Remain The United States men have struggled mightily in backstroke for the past two years, at least since Ryan Murphy won bronze in the 100-meter race in Paris for his third consecutive Olympic medal in the event. Si...

How Kate Douglass Swam to a 49.64 in the 100 Freestyle At last week’s United States Trials for the Short Course World Championships, Kate Douglass swam some historic times. Her best swim of the meet may have been her last, the 100 freestyle. Going into the meet, Douglass already held the world recor...

Swim Across America Awards $450,000 Grant to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center to Advance Innovative Ovarian Cancer Research Swim Across America, a national nonprofit dedicated to funding cancer research and clinical trials, has awarded its Colleen C. Wilcox/Swim Across America Ovarian Cancer Innovat....

American Women's Freestyle Relays Should Obliterate World Records at Short Course Worlds The United States has assembled its team traveling to the Short Course World Championships in Beijing, with the most but not all big-name American swimmers securing their spots at the biennial global meet. The c...