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As many states continue to see cases of COVID-19 flattening out, they are moving to reopen for business, including pool reopening. While the news is generally hopeful for swimmers as the summer begins in earnest, it’s not uniformly so. Colorado on Monday released orders to reopen pools. Outdoor pool...

Coronavirus: An Appreciation for What Has Been Missed By Elise Devlin, Swimming World Intern The icebreaker, the common theme, the pretty much guaranteed, relatable topic.  Swimmers can sometimes just really dislike swimming.  Like everything else, it has so many blessings.  Lifelong friends, mental...

United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland published a letter to athletes Tuesday in response to recent protests over social injustice and police brutality. The letter comes in response to days of protests in many American cities, sparked by last week’s killing of George Floy...

An effort to map the effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on swimming around the world is underway via the World Swim Status Report. The effort, launched by trainingstudy.com, asks swim clubs at various levels of the sport to report how affected they have been by the pandemic restrictions via a two-minute o...

USA Swimming reported that all 317 clubs who submitted applications were awarded COVID-19 Relief Program grants in phase one, which was focused on supporting clubs and members impacted economically by the pandemic (here). A total of $1,482,952 will be distributed to the clubs beginning June 1, 2020,...

As swim clubs across the U.S. struggle to reopen this summer thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, one in Tennessee is faced with having to quite literally rebuild. A deadly line of tornadoes that swept through the South in April counts among its damage the Holly Hills Pool in Brainerd, Tennessee, and...

With pools closed during the coronavirus pandemic, Lilly King and other pro swimmers who train at Indiana University have taken to open water to train. King, along with Cody Miller, Zane Grothe and Annie Lazor, have been training in a pond in a subdivision in south Bloomington. Donning wetsuits, the...

Swimmers and coaches alike know that it takes several factors to help a swimmer be successful and achieve his/her goals. One crucial factor that may be a given but under-addressed is the parental role in a swimmer’s achievement. While the swim parent and coach can make a great support team, they als...

One of the clubs that returned to the water this week is Riptide Swim Team, which means that world-record backstroker Regan Smith is back training. The club, based in Apple Valley, Minnesota, returned to training Monday at the Bluewater Aquatic Center. The training is under new procedures, some of w...

Stakeholders in Washington state are lobbying Gov. Jay Inslee to include swimming pools in an earlier phase of the state’s reopening via an online petition. The petition, “Request to Open Pools in Washington,” has attracted just shy of 4,000 signatures as of Friday evening. Similar efforts are ongoi...

Jacob Sherman, a rising high school senior at Westhill High School in Stamford, Connecticut, has started an online petition to urge the state to reopen swimming pools. Sherman’s petition, “Reopen Connecticut Pools,” on change.org had gotten more than 5,500 signatures as of Friday afternoon. He start...

Dave Durden (From May's Swimming World Magazine) Dave Durden, University of California and U.S. national team coach, simply refers to himself as a swim coach. But he’s also a leader, an expert at maximizing performance, removing doubt, instilling confidence and navigating young men through demanding...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Pools Guidance, including "Hot Tubs, and Water Playgrounds" has been updated to extend the promotion of "Behaviors that Prevent the Spread" of the novel coronavirus to advice on "Healthy Environments & Operations". The update comes as pools put...

A steering committee formed by Water Safety USA has renewed calls for stakeholders and interested parties to join efforts to develop a U.S. National Water Safety Action Plan that will now take into account the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Renewed efforts by Water Safety partners to engage with s...

The Chattanooga Area Swim League became the latest summer league to cancel its season, but other states have provided some good news in the quest to return to the pool amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The CASL serves more than 1,000 competitors from all over southeastern Tennessee. But Tuesday, the leagu...

Missy Franklin, Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder, shared some mental health advice on Monday as part of Mental Health Awareness Month. Franklin, who has been open with her mental health struggles in the past, stated that she writes lists of gratitude daily to remind herself of th...

With no live sports for the foreseeable future, American TV networks have filled the void by airing old sporting events. Next week, NBC Sports Network will air the swimming events at the 2019 World Championships from Gwangju, South Korea. NBCSN will air the entirety of the finals session in groups o...

Government decisions in several states this week could influence the extent to which summer swimming is allowed during the coronavirus pandemic. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is expected to announce a plan Thursday for the place of swimming pools and summer activities in the state’s economic reopening. ...

The Michael Phelps Foundation and Panasonic Corporation of North American Wednesday announced an expansion of the IM Program partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The initiative involves more than $100,000 in grants to provide the foundatioan's "social-emotional curricula” when those clubs...

COVID-19 Antibody Study to help scientists better understand the prevalence of the virus and make recommendations for future safety measures. Two major anti-doping groups, Major League Baseball (MLB) and Stanford University working together on the first United States nationwide study for COVID-...