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Don't Violate These 16 Unspoken Swimmer Laws By Allison Peters Once, during a meet, I had a revelation. After almost being jumped on by one of my teammates during warmup, I thought to myself, “Wow, he’s really breaking a norm right now.” Then I realized the way swim meets and swim practices run are ...

15 Things Swimmers Are Tired of Hearing By Allison Peters, Swimming World College Intern Previously, I wrote "11 Things Your Swimming Coach is Tired of Yelling" This week, I write from the point of view of a swimmer and the things that we get tired of hearing. Here are a few things non-competitive s...

5 Truths Only Swim Siblings Know By Kennedy Cutler (Archive) Navigating college is a daunting task, especially when you’re an athlete. Suddenly you have to balance your own schedule, between classes and study hall, practices and competitions, and somehow still find time to have something of a social...

Training for Butterfly: Seven Special Secrets and Sets (From the Archive) The following training sets are designed to help your butterfly. 1. BK – SK – FK – SK (Kick drill) The trick to a great fly kick is to learn to kick with strong, flowing, even power and rhythm in both directions. Try this dril...

Swimming Parents By Wayne Goldsmith and Helen Morris You see them every day. They are everywhere. At every pool. Every swim meet. Every school swimming practice. There they are. Sitting at the side of the pool. Watching every lap. Counting every breath. Analyzing every stroke. Studying every move yo...

By Trevor Lee, Swimming World Guest Contributor Eat. Sleep. Swim. Repeat. As a former competitive swimmer on a year-round swim team (I swam throughout the year, except during mid-August to early September), I hold on to countless lessons that my swimming experience has imparted. Swimming is arguably...

(From the Archive) By Alison Murtagh, Swimming World College Intern Like most athletes, I began competing at a young age. However, my “competition” consisted of swimming 12 yards of freestyle with a noodle around my waist, and a swim cap pulled down so far it almost covered my eyes. Cheered on by th...

By Nicole Johnson, Swimming World College Intern She stumbles into class with a wet bun on her head and a warm coffee thermos in her hand. She slides into her seat, places her thermos on the ground and lays her head down on the desk. The boy in the seat next to her looks over at as if she looks like...

Hall of Fame Day: When Rebecca Soni Crashed Through the 2:20 Barrier in 200 Breaststroke As she prepares to be inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, Swimming World takes a look back at when Rebecca Soni became the first woman to dip below 2:20 in the 200-meter breaststroke. A day af...

How Fatigued Are You? Factors That Measure Your Fatigue Level (Chart Included) By Wayne Goldsmith (From the Swimming World Archive) How fatigued is fatigued? How do you know how much training to do? How do you know when your body and mind are tired and need time to rest and recover? Feeling fatigued...

Halloween: You Know You're a Swimming Zombie If... In real life, it is rare to find zombies in swimming pools. They are more commonly found in natural bodies of water such as lakes and ponds. Zombies gravitate to water to cool down and can be frequently found standing on the bottom in a resting stat...

The Emergence of Eric the Eel In Swimming Lore (Video Included) It's been 20 years since Eric Mousambani, from Equatorial Guinea, entered Olympic waters and doubt emerged as to whether he would need to be saved. Here is the piece that Craig Lord wrote for Swimming World at the 2000 Olympic Games in ...

We are bringing back this past Top Inspirational Movies list by five-time Olympic medalist Josh Davis, since it provides some great movie ideas for filling time at home. Obviously, with the Covid-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders around the globe, there is additional time to watch a movie and, per...

Relive this lost interview with Bill Boomer by Brent Rutemiller in the earlier years of the Morning Swim Show.  This interview was produced before mainstream videos and digital media.  It was rendered as a .wmv file and as a result the remastered quality is poor.  However the content is priceless! O...

While cleaning up the SwimmingWorld.tv servers and archives, we ran across this exclusive interview with Mary Freeman Kelly Spitzer.  She was a coaching pioneer in the late 50s and 60s.  She gave up her spot to become the first Women Olympic Swim Coach for the United States.  Listen to her reasons. ...

Swimming World went into it vast vault of content, photos and videos to relive the life of Adolph Kiefer.  Enjoy this republishing of an article first published in October 3, 2007. THE International Swimming Hall of Fame presented Adolph Kiefer with the Gold Medallion Award, ISHOF's highest honor, d...

The Virginia Tech swimming and diving program was well represented at the 2017 Gobblers Thursday night at the Moss Arts Center as the H2Okies took home two of the top prizes of the evening. Senior Brandon Fiala was named the athletic department Male Athlete of the Year and freshman Reka Gyorgy was s...

May 3 - USA 10 China 5 Davis, Calif. - May 3 - The USA women's water polo team picked up their second straight win at the FINA Intercontinental Tournament defeating China 10-5. Aria Fischer (Laguna Beach, CA/Laguna Beach HS/SET), Melissa Seidemann (Walnut Creek, CA/Stanford/NYAC), Ali Thomason (San ...

USA Diving is pleased to announce the addition of Lee Johnson as the organization's new CEO. Johnson brings to the organization over 19 years of experience in strategic planning, brand building and partnership marketing with top brands, universities and National Governing Bodies. "I have been lookin...

The Marist women's and men's swimming and diving teams will join with other alumni of the program to host the first ever Swimathon at 2 p.m. Friday, May 5, in McCann Natatorium. The fundraiser will benefit former team member and Marist alumnus John-Takashi Suzuki '93, who was recently diagnosed with...