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Kobe Bryant, the 41-year-old retired N.B.A. star and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were among nine people who lost their lives in a helicopter that crashed near Calabasas, California, on Sunday. The party was travelling to an academy where Bryant coached his daughter's team. Bryant is rated as on...

Nation’s Capital Swim Club has long been one of America’s best swim clubs. It might soon have a facility that matches its national profile. The Bethesda, Md., based club this week submitted a proposal to construct a multimillion-dollar training facility near New Baltimore in Fauquier County, Virgini...

2020sVision - The Athlete Voice In The Mirror Moscow Boycott (From January Issue of Swimming World Magazine) Years of hard work went unfulfilled. Dreams turned into nightmares. Sadness and anger abounded. The repercussions of the United States’ decision to boycott the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow we...

The USA Swimming Foundation starts 2020 with six new members on its Board of Directors, the body announced in the following press release today: USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming in the United States, announced today that its Foundation, the USA Swimming Foundation...

Torri Huske had just one day remaining as a 16-year-old — and made it count. The teen sensation from Yorktown, Virginia, lowered her own 15-16 national age group record in the 100 butterfly on Dec. 6, pulling off one of the biggest upsets in the country this year at the 2019 U.S. Open in At...

Elite swimmers, water polo players, divers and other athletes can now race in NCAA competition and be official members of college teams while being paid for training expenses by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and other national governing bodies such as domestic federations. The N...

Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the Olympic 100m freestyle champion of 1984, a legal advocate for girls and women in sports via her agency Champion Women, is the recipient of the Miriam M. Netter ’72 Stoneman Award. Albany Law School and the Kate Stoneman Honorary Committee have announced that Hogshead-Makar,...

Champion's Mojo Podcast - Kelsi Dahlia In the latest edition of the Champion's Mojo Podcast, Olympic Champion and world-record holder Kelsi Dahlia sat down with hosts Kelly Palace and Maria Parker to discuss the latest in her career. They met up recently in Las Vegas for the International Swimming L...

"I almost feel like a mom sometimes," 29-year-old Allison Schmitt told Steve Megargee of Associated Press (AP) after winning the 200m free in a solid 1:56 on Pro-Series tour in Knoxville last Friday. "I'm like, 'What does that mean?' They have to tell me what things mean, the new slang words." Schmi...

USA Swimming’s release of the top 18 & under swimmers in the world in 2019 includes more than 600 American swimmers across both genders, according to the organisation in a release issued today. The federation's top 100 lists include 299 American boys and 338 girls. Americans rank first in nine of 28...

Amy Bilquist was hoping to get though one year without a major injury. After dealing with multiple setbacks during her career, she was hoping 2019 would finally be her year. It was — but not nearly how she envisioned it. Bilquist’s 2019 was the most successful in her career as a swimmer. But she als...

Pro Series - Knoxville (Day Four) Results The Regan Smith Express continues to roll along toward the Olympic Games in Tokyo, as the American teenager delivered another standout performance on Sunday night to close out her weekend at the TYR Pro Series stop in Knoxville. Contesting the 200-meter back...

TYR Pro Series - Knoxville (Day Three) RESULTS The expectations surrounding Regan Smith and what she might accomplish at this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo are massive, fueled by what the teenager managed at last year’s World Championships. Given what Smith did on the third night of the TYR Pro Se...

Allison Schmitt knows a little something about starring at the Olympic Games, and the veteran freestyler certainly opened her Olympic season in stylish fashion on Friday night. Kicking off the second night of the TYR Pro Series stop in Knoxville, Schmitt produced a strong performance to secure top h...

USA Swimming announced a new partnership on Wednesday with the mental health service Talkspace, that will give new mental health services at no cost to all members of the US National team and the 2016 Olympic team. “Our role in the National Team division is to support our National Team athletes and ...

Erica Sullivan (Pro Swim Series - Knoxville) The United States’ Olympic season officially started on Thursday night in Knoxville, Tenn., as the second stop of the TYR Pro Series opened at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center. With competitors focused on flourishing at the appropriate time, the winning tim...

There is little worse that injury at the start of Olympic year for the swimmer dedicated to making the cut for the Games. In the United States, that also means getting past the toughest domestic test in the world: the U.S. Olympic Trials. No let-out clauses, no discretion of selectors and coaches, n...

The TYR Pro Swim Series heads to Knoxville for the weekend, starting Thursday. It’s the first big North American meet of the year (and second Pro Swim Series stop of the season) where a multitude of Olympic hopefuls can lay down early markers for the pivotal year that lies ahead. Four years ago, wha...

FINIS, Inc. is proud to announce the signing of three-time NCAA champion, Katie McLaughlin. The California native and recent graduate from Cal said on joining #TeamFINIS, “I’m so excited to partner with FINIS! FINIS is innovative, fun, and loves the water as much as I do.” https://www.instagram.com/...

17-year-old Californian Luca Urlando announced late Monday night in an Instagram post that he dislocated his left shoulder during a swim workout last Saturday. He wrote: "Not the way I was hoping to start an Olympic year, but I dislocated my left shoulder during a swim workout last Saturday. Recover...