SANTA CLARA, CA. MEMO to Irvine High School's girls' swim team: Five-consecutive CIF Southern Section Division I Championships? Not bad, but you've got a long ways to go before you're
By Stephen Wilson LAUSANNE, Switzerland. May 18. IN a move certain to open the organization to charges of nepotism, outgoing IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has nominated his son for
By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SANTA CLARA, May 17. With some 1,849 of the nation's top Masters swimmers gathered at the George Haines – Santa Clara International Swimming Center
ATHENS, Greece, May 17. IN what he hopes will be a preview of the 2004 Olympic Games, Holland's Pieter van den Hoogenband won three events at the 15th annual Akropolis
RALEIGH, NC, May 17. THE Raleigh Swimming Association announced yesterday it has hired 1996 Atlanta US Olympic swimmer, John Hargis, as coach for its Junior (11-13) group. Hargis is an
by Michael Collins SANTA CLARA, CA – The USMS Short Course Nationals will begin on Thursday with the distance events being contested (1,000 Free & 1,650 Free). Over 1,800 swimmers
By Don Gambril (The following tribute to coach Yutaka Terao, who took his life on Monday, was written for SWIMINFO by his close friend, coach Don Gambril.) I have know
By Phillip Whitten May 16. HE is the most dominant swimmer in his event in history, winning gold at the 1994 World Championships, the 1996 Olympics, the 1998 World Championships
BERLIN, May 16. KAREN KOENIG, 33, a former East German swim star and European champion, is suing the German Olympic Committee (NOK) for damages, claiming that she was doped by
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. May 14. JAPANESE coaching legend Yutaka Terao, 58, committed suicide in Pompano Beach, Florida, according to a report from John Leonard, Executive Director of the American Swimming