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How Many Personal-Best Times Were Produced at Olympic Trials? A Look at Some Stats With the United States Olympic Trials recently concluded, the largest-scale swim meet in history offers many lessons and useful statistics. The nature of the meet is that the majority of swimmers have gone best times ...

Who Do You Want to Race? Age-Groupers Pick Their Favorite Team USA Stars to Battle With the U.S. Olympic Trials just weeks away, it is a time of building excitement for swimming fans around the country. Watching the Olympics and Olympic Trials is a memorable experience for young swimmers that also r...

Comparing USA Swimming LSCs Around the Country With more than 300,000 swimmers registered with USA Swimming, the Local Swim Committees (LSC) take on the role of administering competitive swim meets across the country. The USA Swimming LSC map is a familiar sight to many, and the 59 LSCs vary signifi...

A Comparison of Development Among United States Sprinters It's always interesting to see when different athletes emerged? Were they standouts from a young age? A late bloomer? Did they follow a gradual arc of progression? Swimmers such as Ryan Held and Michael Andrew are now household names in the s...

What the USA Swimming 2024 Schedule Will Mean For Various Athletes USA Swimming recently announced its full 2024 competition schedule, which includes three Tyr Pro Series meets, Open Water Nationals, three 18&U Spring Cups, a new Club Excellence Challenge Series, the U.S. Olympic Trials, Speedo Summ...

10 Activities to Try Between Prelims and Finals   Making finals is exciting for any swimmer. Due to the way USA Swimming club meets are generally structured, however, swimmers can have many hours between sessions, and are sometimes unsure how to spend their down time. Below are 10 things to consider...

Fast Swims Highlight Annual NCSA Championships in Indianapolis The NCSA Summer Championships took place from July 26-30 in sizzling hot Indianapolis at the famous IUPUI Natatorium. Because this meet took place during the World Championships, many outstanding performances flew under the radar, but th...

What Mold Do You Fit: Practice or Meet Swimmer? Everyone knows that one swimmer who destroys every practice, but when it comes time for meets cannot match that same speed in a race. On the flip side, there are some swimmers who post extremely fast times at every meet, even though they do not bring d...

A Look At Some of the New Competition Pools Around the Country Collegiate and high school swimming has exploded since the pandemic, with the fastest swimming in history happening year over year. A factor in all of the new records set may be new, fast, modern pools. Over the past few months, dozens o...

Which State Had the Best High School Swimming During the 2022-2023 Season? There are various weighs to measure power in the sport, whether it be which country is strongest or which conference boasts the best swimming. High school swimming begs the question: Which state is tops? Here is one analysis ...

Leah Shackley Continues Meteoric Rise at Richmond Sectionals; Erin Gemmel, Thomas Heilman Look Sharp With the summer season just beginning, most of the summer sectional meets are yet to come. But the Eastern Zone Super Sectionals took place last weekend, May 18th-21, in Richmond, and the times were ...