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Training, Trust & Family Fuel Breakthrough For Rex Maurer at University of Texas At the end of the 2023-24 college season, Rex Maurer made “probably the hardest choice I’ve ever had to make.” After an up-and-down freshman season at Stanford, he saw an opportunity to advance his swimming career with ...

Hubert Kos Caps Standout Year With World Title at Home in Budapest During both previous occasions in which a global championship meet took place at Duna Arena, a Hungarian was among the stars of the competition, much to the delight of the biased fans in attendance. In 2017, Katinka Hosszu swept the ...

Jordan Crooks Followed Unique Path to Becoming Fastest Man Ever The run to becoming a world-record holder was not without its stumbles for the best swimmer to ever come from the Cayman Islands, a country of less than 100 square miles and a population of under 100,000. Jordan Crooks was first pegged ...

Luke Hobson, Jillian Cox Return From Worlds to Lead Texas to Sweep of Georgia Seventy-two hours earlier, Luke Hobson was in Budapest, winning a short course world title and a world record in the 200-meter freestyle. Now back with his University of Texas team in Austin, Hobson returned to yards and l...

A Special Week: Gretchen Walsh Achieves Greatest Short Course Performance Ever Surprised by the sheer dominance that Gretchen Walsh imposed on the world's best sprinters at the Short Course World Championships? Then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the 21-year-old's trajectory over ...

FLASH! Regan Smith Breaks 100 Back WR, Leads American Women to Clobbering Medley Relay WR The American women have flexed their dominance throughout the six days of the Budapest World Championships: Gretchen Walsh won five individual golds while Regan Smith had three and Kate Douglass two. In their i...

FLASH! Regan Smith Takes Down 200 Back World Record, Completes 50-100-200 Sweep; McIntosh Sets WJR Her earlier wins in the 50 and 100 backstroke were not particularly close, but as Regan Smith aimed to win her third backstroke gold medal of the Short Course World Championships, she faced a familiar ...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Does It Again, Sets Ninth World Record & Wins Sixth Gold in 50 Free No one had stopped Gretchen Walsh in her first four individual finals at the Short Course World Championships, and a victory in the 50 freestyle final was seen as a near certainty. But would she again lower the...

Speedo Winter Juniors West: Maximus Williamson, Teagan O'Dell Add More Victories on Final Day The Winter Junior Nationals careers for Maximus Williamson and Teagan O'Dell concluded Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, with both swimmers adding their fourth wins of the competition while Williamson late...

Speedo Winter Juniors East: Thomas Heilman, Rylee Erisman Take Down National Age Group Records One day after becoming the first 18-and-under swimmer to swim under 44 in the 100 butterfly, Thomas Heilman has again posted a groundbreaking effort in a butterfly race, this time over double the distance....

Budapest 2024: Jordan Crooks, Noè Ponti Find Special Meaning in Breaking Caeleb Dressel's World Records When the sun rose Saturday morning in Budapest, Caeleb Dressel held more world records in swimming than any other man when combining his achievements in long course and short course. He has held t...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Takes Down Eighth WR, Takes Down Kromowidjojo's 50 Free Mark In a down-and-back flash, Gretchen Walsh stormed to eighth individual world record of the Short Course World Championships, this time taking down the all-time standard in the 50 freestyle. After clocking 23.02 in prel...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Takes Down Seventh World Record of Week For 100 Fly Gold In less than 36 hours, Gretchen Walsh of the United States has redefined the imaginable in the short course meters edition of the 100 butterfly. No woman had ever been under 54 seconds before Walsh arrived at Duna Arena f...

Speedo Winter Juniors West: Teagan O'Dell, Maximus Williamson Win Two Events Apiece High school seniors Teagan O'Dell and Maximus Williamson continued to impress at their final Winter Juniors meet, with both swimmers capturing first place in their respective 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke races Fr...

Speedo Winter Juniors East: Thomas Heilman Wins 200 IM, 50 Free on Second Night Following a lifetime-best performance leading off his club's 800 freestyle relay Wednesday evening, Thomas Heilman of Cavalier Aquatic Club kicked off his individual slate of events at the eastern site of Speedo Junior N...

Budapest 2024: In Medley Victory, Kate Douglass Broke Last of Katinka Hosszu's Five SCM World Records During a stretch when Katinka Hosszu was clearly established as the world's most versatile swimmer and dominant medley swimmer that the Hungarian held seven different world records. The stretch bega...

Budapest 2024, Day 2 Finals: Regan Smith Swims Third-Fastest Time Ever For 100 Backstroke Gold For the past two years of long course international competitions, Regan Smith has performed admirably in the backstroke events, only to come out on the receiving end of Kaylee McKeown's continued winning i...

Budapest 2024: Young Australian Men Have Golden Opportunities At the most recent Short Course World Championships, Australia’s Isaac Cooper believed he had captured his first world title in front of partisan fans in Melbourne, but the entire field was forced to re-swim the race after a false start. ...

Budapest 2024: Which Female Star Will Dominate? Of the four women who won multiple individual gold medals at the Paris Olympics, three will miss this week's Short Course World Championships in Budapest. Distance legend Katie Ledecky continues her streak of never competing in the 25-meter championshi...

Thomas Heilman, Maximus Williamson Headline Strong Fields for U.S. Winter Junior Nationals (Psych Sheets) Many of the top teenage swimmers in the United States will race in short course yards this week as USA Swimming holds its always-well-attended Junior Nationals, with the meet split between two s...