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By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern This year's Olympics was one for the books. It was the last Olympic Games for many veterans, and the first for many newcomers. Every single event was an exciting one. As the Games come to a close, here are the eight best moments that happened at Rio...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Interns After Day 3 of the Futures Championships, in Austin, Texas, Lakeside Aquatic Club continued to stay on top, with 561 points to end the day. Cypress Fairbanks Swim Club trailed in second with 270 points, while Nitro Swimming currently sits in third ...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern The Lakeside Aquatic Club continued to dominate after Day 2 of the Futures Championships in Austin, Texas. In the women's 200m free, Reilly Lanigan of Nasa Wildcat Aquatics barely edged out Caitlin Clements of Magnolia Aquatic Club, clocking a 2:02....

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern Thursday night's timed finals of the Futures Championships in Austin, Texas proved to be a fast one. Lauren Pitzer of Lakeside Aquatic Club took the women's 800m free by storm, taking the event by over 10 seconds in 8:44.63, taking a massive 6.81 se...

By Cristian Corbett with Kayla Brumbaum, Swimming World College Interns American sprinter Ryan Held will make his international debut at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in the 4x100 freestyle relay. Held secured his relay spot after finishing third in the 100m freestyle at the Olympic Trials in Omaha ...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern Every four years, swimmers from around the country get a chance to represent Team USA at the summer Olympics. This chance is called the Olympic Trials. The fastest swimmers from all over the United States come to one place to duke it out and earn th...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern Staff Sgt. Ashley Anderson is a unique kind of athlete. She has made it her goal to overcome any and all challenges that she may come across in her life, and that’s exactly what she’s doing. Ashley was born in the town of Winnebago, Minnesota to She...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern Swimmers around the country are training and prepping for one of the largest meets of their careers: the Olympic Trials. Among those swimmers is a group that train at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. BYU will be sending seven swimmers to rep...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern High school and college swimming seasons are known to be long, brutal and sometimes eternal, but eventually it must come to an end; and whether you're looking forward to it or not, off-season training is an absolute necessity in order to stay in sha...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern Phelps, Lochte, Adrian, Dupree. All last names of swimming greats that any swimming fanatic would recognize. Does one look unfamiliar? It shouldn’t. Tucker Dupree is a three-time medalist from the 2012 Paralympic Games, holds two world records, nine...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern Almost every swimmer will eventually and inevitably reach the point in their lives where a tough decision will have to be made: “should I swim in college?” Whether you’ve been swimming club for 10 years or started swimming in high school, the questi...

By Cristian Corbett, Swimming World College Intern This is a story about Shayne Stone.  Shayne is a junior student athlete, member of Sigma Phi Epsilon with majors in exercise science and biopsychology. He competes for the Monmouth College Fighting Scots swimming and diving team and up until this y....