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Sun Devil Open Day 2: Taylor Ruck, Torri Huske Double Up With Pair of Wins The Sun Devil Open continued with its second day of competition from Tempe on Saturday, May 17. Taylor Ruck opened the second day of finals with a win in the 50 backstroke. The Canadian Olympian got to the wall in 28.87 to dr...

Hubert Kos, Regan Smith Double Saturday Night in Austin; Marchand Clocks 2:08.25 200 Breast A concluding session of tune-up racing at the Longhorn Elite Invitational saw backstroke specialists Hubert Kos and Regan Smith each win over 100 meters in their preferred stroke, and both swimmers returned a...

Leon Marchand Posts World's Top 400 IM Time With 4:07.11 at Longhorn Invite Less than 10 months ago, Leon Marchand raced the 400 IM in front of an adoring crowd in Paris on the way to his first Olympic gold medal. The stakes were far lower Friday evening at the Longhorn Elite Invite as he notched th...

Sun Devil Open: Torri Huske Doubles Up to Open Meet Torri Huske won the women’s 200 individual medley and 50 freestyle on the opening day of the Sun Devil Open Friday. Huske went 2:11.57 in the 200 IM final to prevail in an all-Stanford battle for the wall. Second was Caroline Bricker in 2:11.90, wi...

Ieva Maluka Drops Five Seconds For Latvian 200 Fly Record Ieva Maluka dropped more than five seconds on the 200 butterfly to set the Latvian record at the Bulldog Grand Slam at the University of Georgia on Friday. Maluka entered with a best time of 2:20.20 from the Baltic States Championships in 202...

Anti-Doping Back on Capitol Hill with Senate Hearing on May 22 U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is convening a Senate subcommittee hearing on May 22 over anti-doping enforcement in swimming. The hearing of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy, which Blackburn ...

Simone Manuel Blasts 53.11 100 Freestyle at Longhorn Elite Invite Many of the elite swimmers based at the University of Texas are competing this weekend in their home pool in one last tune-up for U.S. Nationals, the selection meet for this summer's World Championships. In Thursday evening's racing, ...

USA Swimming Announces Selection Procedures for 2026 Pan Pacific Championships USA Swimming, the National Governing Body of the sport of swimming in the United States, today announced its pool selection procedures for the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships, which will have its swimming events August 12-...

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body of the sport of swimming in the United States, today announced four updates to its 2025-2026 national events calendar. The 2025-2026 season will kick off with the Toyota U.S. Open, which will return to a Long-Course-Meter format and take place December 3-6 a...

USA Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in the United States, and its fundraising arm, the USA Swimming Foundation, today announced the 2025 Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU) grant recipients. Eight HBCU programs will receive funding this year, which will help them to...

Grant House Got Involved With NCAA Lawsuit to ‘Open Up The Doors,’ Not Deny Opportunities When he became associated with the lawsuit that would later bear his name, Grant House had no idea of the wide-ranging implications for college sports that would result over the next several years. He never exp...

Rex Maurer Will Aim to Turn College Wins into International Rise Entering the summer championship season, the U.S. women continue to look like the world’s deepest and most dominant team. They won 18 medals at the Paris Olympics and are now set up for success at the Singapore World Championships foll...

Passages: Presley Bard Anderson, Former US National Teamer, Dies After Lung Cancer Battle Former U.S. National team swimmer Presley Bard Anderson died on April 30, 2025, at age 34. Bard Anderson had been battling lung cancer for the past three years. The news was announced on the family's GoFundMe p...

A Week of Katie Ledecky Stats (Day One): All the Records of Her Storied Career One week after she stunningly lowered her world record in the 800-meter freestyle to 8:04.12, Swimming World is kicking off A Week of Katie Ledecky Statistics. Each day for the next week, we’ll run a short piece that high...

Claire Weinstein Making Inroads on World’s Best in Mid-Distance Freestyle Each of the last three seasons has seen Claire Weinstein make a substantial jump in her ascent to international prominence in the freestyle events. In 2022, she was just 15 years old and less than a year removed from joining t...

Applications are now being accepted for the ASCA Timothy Welsh Fellows Program. In its 23nd year, this excellent career development program aims to identify and foster future swimming coach leaders. Annually, ASCA selects a group of coaches to spend a year of research, education, and career exposure...

USA Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in the United States, and its philanthropic arm, the USA Swimming Foundation, today announced the 2025 Community Impact Grant recipients. Nine additional USA Swimming member clubs will be receiving a $5,000 grant, eligible for renewal annually f...

Gretchen Walsh Tracking to Bring Individual Dominance to Long Course Worlds While she wracked up NCAA titles and American records in short course yards, Gretchen Walsh took a little longer to find her footing in long course. And even while representing the United States and winning medals at the 202...

Gary Hall Jr. Receives Replacement Olympic Medals in Swiss Ceremony American sprinter Gary Hall Jr. lost the 10 Olympic medals he earned over a stellar career during wildfires that swept through Los Angeles in January. Monday, he received replica medals as a replacement in a private ceremony at Olym...

Amid Historic Career, Katie Ledecky Just Had Her Greatest Achievement With Latest World Record Two main factors have made Katie Ledecky the consensus greatest female swimmer in history. The first is an unflinching consistency in the distance freestyle events, leading to a streak of dominance unparal...