CORONADO, Calif, Oct. 6. FORTY year-old Masters swimmer Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen swam an amazing 4:58.98 500-yard free at a USA-S Freestyle Festival meet held October 6th in Coronado, CA. Pipes-Neilsen became

By PHillip Whitten MELBOURNE, Australia, October 8. THE USA's Steve Borowski won two events, just missing the world records in each, and Jane Swaggerty-Hill and Don Hill took home his

By Justin Cohen SYDNEY, Oct. 7. OLYMPIC and World Champion swimmer Michael Klim today announced that he will be relocating from Australia's Gold Coast to Sydney. As one of Australia’s

MELBOURNE, Oct. 7. AUSTRALIA'S Simon Leighfield, 29, set the only world record on Day One of the World Masters Games in Melbourne. Leighfield blitzed the 200m breaststroke in 2:20.25, slicing

By Forbes Carlile SYDNEY, October 7. CHINA'S performance at the just-concluded Asian Games invites new questions about doping — not because her female swimmers were so spectacular in Busan –they

BERKELEY, CA., Oct. 6. THE Bruins are definitely NOT in ruins. UCLA's men's water polo team, NCAA champs in 1999-2000 and runners-up to Stanford last season, bounced back from a

CITY OF COMMERCE, Calif., Oct. 6. PAUL V. Carter began the short course season where he left off in long course — breaking two USMS national records over the weekend

BERKELEY, CA. Oct. 5. COACH Nort Thornton's Cal Golden Bears men's swimming team — among the contenders for national honors at next spring's NCAA Championships in Austin the final weekend

SACRAMENTO, CA., October 5. WITH the debate about the interpretation and implementation of Title IX raging — and with the Collegiate Wrestling Coaches' Assn. having filed suit in federal court

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 6. KAZAKHSTAN was the surprise winner of the gold medal in water polo in the Asian Games today, upsetting Japan 15-14 in a hard-fought, overtime game.