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Swims That Flew Under the Radar at the Budapest World Championships The World Short Course Championships in Budapest were incredible. Thirty world records were broken during the six-day meet, and it seemed every race saw some sort of historically fast swim. Flying under the radar, however, were hund...

A Look at the Oldest SCM World Records: Who Can Challenge In Budapest? With the Budapest-hosted Short Course World Championships just days away, the stage is set for the conclusion of one of the fastest years of swimming in history. Let's break down the history of the longest-standing, short-course ...

Lana Pudar Serving as an Inspiration for a Country with a Limited History in the Pool In 2021, a 15-year-old Lana Pudar made her senior international debut. Competing at the Tokyo Olympics, she finished 19th in the 100-meter butterfly. Her time of 58.32 was just .24 shy of earning a semifinals berth...

The 2024 Purdue Invite has officially wrapped up competition, putting an end to a weekend of midseason racing. The Boilermakers women won by nearly 600 points ahead of second-place Florida International. Grand Canyon took third in a tightly contested race with Southern Illinois. Purdue's dominance w...

West Virginia Invitational: Navy Runs Away With Men's Title; William & Mary Earns Women's Crown The 2024 West Virginia Invitational has wrapped up competition, adding its name to a week of incredibly fast swimming. Navy won the men's edition of the meet with a decisive total of 2,600 points, nearly ...

Bulgarian Olympian Antani Ivanov Retires From Swimming Amid Controversial Suspension Following a tumultuous few years, Bulgarian Olympian Antani Ivanov has officially signaled his retirement from competitive swimming. A graduate of Virginia Tech, Ivanov broke out in 2017 at the World Championships i...

Beata Nelson Has Been an Underappreciated Star Caught Up in Selection Net Beata Nelson has made herself known on the U.S. National Team for the better part of the last eight years. An accomplished short-course swimmer, the Wisconsin Badger has an impressive pedigree in the all-time rankings of her s...

The Value and Joy of Every Level of College Swimming About one in 13 high school athletes go on to compete in a varsity college sport, or a little bit above 7%. Less than two percent of those athletes compete at a Division I school. In 2023, USA Swimming had 316,263 registered athletes. As all of th...

Passing the Torch: Swimming Has Been Defined by Inspirational Legacies Over the course of the 21st century, we have seen countless stories of legendary swimmers inspiring around the world as they have established themselves among the greatest in history. With that in mind, let's take a look at some ...

Major Potential: South Korea Has Flashed Steady Growth in Freestyle Events Over the course of the last four years, South Korea has quietly built a dangerous 800 freestyle relay. While consistently lowering its national record, South Korea has reached new international heights, with the core of the r...

Katie Ledecky Appears at Tech Conference; Discusses Career Steps and How to Manage Goals On the second day of MetLife's 2024 Triangle Tech X Conference, Katie Ledecky sat down for a 20-minute long interview to highlight some of her experiences throughout her career. The conversation went through all...

How Often Should You Be Swimming Fast? It's a New World On September 26, five-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown blasted a new short course meters 100 backstroke world record. Swimming a 54.56, McKeown undercut the previous record by a significant three tenths of a second. The performance came jus...

Understanding the Potential Heartbreak of Chasing the Olympic Dream Will Licon is a world champion, Pan American Games champion and 11-time NCAA champion. Over the course of his career, he has proven his talent as a spectacular athlete. In 2016, he finished third in the 200-meter breaststroke at the...

A Distance Swimming Renaissance, and Why Today's Athletes Offer Can't-Miss Action In arguably the greatest male race for the U.S. team at the Paris Olympics, Bobby Finke defended his 1500 freestyle Olympic gold medal in stunning fashion, taking down controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang’s 12-year-o...