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The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) Wednesday revealed its plan for a condensed 2020-21 athletic calendar in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, moving football to the spring and condenses the seasons for other sports. All contest dates are suspended through the rest of Augus...

The Big East Conference announced Wednesday that it will postpone the 2020 fall sports season, but the conference deferred a decision on winter sports. The decision postpones fall sports – men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, volleyball and field hockey – from the fall, while t...

American Olympian Cody Miller showed off his new backyard pool setup, featuring a personalized endless pool, in a video posted to YouTube Wednesday. Miller, rocking his Team USA flag cap, provides a tour of his new backyard, complete with new deck and patio area, before showing off the endless pool ...

USA Swimming Tuesday announced a partnership with Futures Without Violence, a nonprofit organization that designs programming to reduce violence against women and children. The product of the collaboration are two programs, “Coaching Boys into Men” and “Athletes as Leaders,” that will be made availa...

The Pac-12 Conference will cancel sports for the fall semester, through Jan. 1, 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision would sideline many of the nation’s top NCAA swimming programs and hamper the Olympic training efforts of numerous hopefuls from a variety of countries. The conference ...

USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming in the United States, concluded its COVID-19 Relief Program with a second round of funding to member clubs on August 11 in the amount of $1,524,253. Nearly twice the number of clubs applied for grants in the second round, with submi...

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) Saturday became the first Division I college league to announce the postponement of all fall sports due to the COVID-19 crisis. The decision postpones all fall contests and MAC championships after a unanimous vote of the conference’s Council of Presidents. The MAC i...

For the 40th time since what could’ve been the peak of his swimming career, the last week of July passed by Brian Goodell without much of a thought. That it’s such a round anniversary since the American distance star didn’t get a chance to defend his Olympic gold medals at the 1980 Olympics thanks t...

Announced changes in the calendar in Louisiana and South Carolina have not affected high school swimming, a fall sport in both states. The Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) sent out a memo Wednesday that moved the start of the football season back to a first contest date of Oct. 8. ...

Minnesota high school swimming and other endurance sports will start on time this fall even as contact sports have had to be rescheduled due to COVID-19. The Minnesota State High School League’s board made the decision in a meeting Tuesday. It moves contact sports like football and volleyball to a n...

Three-time American Olympian Elizabeth Beisel has joined SPIRE Institute and Academy as its international swim ambassador, the school announced Tuesday. Beisel, 27, competed at three Olympic Games, winning silver in the 400 individual medley and bronze in the 200 backstroke at the London Games in 20...

U.S. Masters Swimming and Swim.com are teaming up to host the 2020 Toyota USMS Virtual Championships from Aug. 12-23, a first of its kind virtual championships for masters swimmers. The event will feature competition in the pool (standard distances and strokes over 25-yard pools) and open water race...

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Monday released its 2019 Impact Report, formerly its annual report, detailing the organization’s financials. The report was accompanied by a letter from USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and a sport-specific breakdown of expenditures, the Sport Bene...

Vicki Draves, a double Olympic gold medal-winning diver and International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, was honored Monday as the subject of the Google Doodle. The Aug. 3 date marks the 72nd anniversary of Draves becoming the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal. Draves claimed gold i...

Two swimmers in Northern California have started an online campaign to sell swim caps with #BLM on them to raise money and awareness for Black Lives Matter. The project is the brain child of Nina Rodwell and Riley Hill, both 13. The caps are available on swimcapz.com for $10 each, with half of the p...

Mimi Jones, an activist who was appeared in an infamous 1964 photograph that played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement, died this week at age 73. As a teenager who grew up in Georgia, Jones took part in various demonstrations as part of the Civil Rights Movement, including the 1963 March on Was...

The Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center will be closed through mid-August after five employees have tested positive for COVID-19. The Charlotte Observer reported last week that two lifeguards and two supervisors in the county’s employ tested positive for coronavirus. A fifth was added this week, leadi...

Members of the Dartmouth swimming and diving program orchestrated a demonstration at the college this week using hundreds of goggles to underscore its value to the community. The Dartmouth swimming team chose to illustrate its impact by placing 853 pairs of goggles on the campus green Wednesday morn...

The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Wednesday released a plan to accommodate schedule challenges caused by COVID-19 that will break the school year into four segments. Usually, the state has three sport seasons (fall, winter and spring) but will add a summer season in May and June. The 2020-...

The Atlantic Coast Conference Wednesday announced its plan for the college sports season in the face of COVID-19, which includes football and fall sports occurring at a slight delay. The ACC will allow winter sports like swimming and diving to start as of Sept. 10. The plan was devised in consultati...