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The Presidential History of Swimming Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. once said, "I think swimming is a wonderful thing." Roosevelt's father, Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd President of the United States), swam a great deal during his lifetime. But FDR was not the only one of our Commanders-in-Chief who e...

5 Helpful Tips to Expertly Balance School and Swimming By Caitlin Daday One often over-looked difficulty of any sport at the college level is the need for student-athletes to be just that--STUDENT-athletes. From the outside, most of our non-athlete peers only see the glamours but tend to forget that...

21 Things to Love About Swimming To honor a sport that has defined so many lives in many ways, here are 21 things individuals love the most about swimming: 1. Racing. The feeling of racing--of getting up and giving everything--never gets old. 2. Challenging yourself. You never know what you can do u...

The Benefits of Training with Your Rival By Caitlin Daday In swimming we often find ourselves up against the same people almost every time we race. These people, our rivals, make the sport as intense as it is challenging. Sometimes our rivals may seem like our bitter enemies—it is true it often feel...

4 Ways to React When Things Are Not Going Your Way Swimming is full of ups and downs. You can go for days at a time with everything seeming to go right, until all of a sudden everything seems to go wrong. You don't hit your pace, you get hurt, or just anything does not go the way you hoped. How you ...

These past two months have been difficult, to say the least. The world has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of lives lost around the world. Meanwhile, financial strains have hit families and the normalcy of life has been disturbed, including at-home schooling becomi...

The 2017 Speedo Sectionals, Tupelo kicked off last night at the Tupelo Aquatic Center in Mississippi. The field featured a surprisingly small number of athletes, mostly from a handful of teams. Despite the low attendance, host team Shockwave Aquatics and USA Swimming decided to go forward with the m...

The 2018 NCSA Junior National Championships kicked off tonight in Orlando, Florida. Changing the format from the past, the night began with the 1000 free, followed by the addition of the 100 IM. The night wrapped up with the 4x200 free relays. Women's 1000 Free Georgia commit Madison Homovich of Mar...

On the final night of the 2018 Atlantic 10 Championships, the Duquesne women and the George Washington men are leaving Geneva with their respective conference titles. The Duquesne women notably upset Richmond's seven year win streak, narrowly beating the Spiders 567 points to 558. This year marked G...

Duquesne freshman Emma Brinton and George Washington senior Gustav Hokfelt highlighted night three of the 2018 Atlantic 10 Championships. Both Brinton and Hokfelt have won both of their individual events so far. In addition to last night's 200 IM, Brinton added a win and the meet and pool records to...

Night two of the Atlantic 10 Championships featured conference and meet records from La Salle's Fabian Bergman in the men's 200 IM. After finishing third last year, Bergman took down the previous record of 1:46.54, held by Andrea Bolognesi from 2016. Bergman posted a 1:46.06. Tonight also saw multip...

The 2018 Atlantic 10 Championships kicked off tonight at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. The George Washington men's and women's teams began the meet in record-breaking fashion. The men broke their own meet and conference records set last year with their time of 1:27.47. The women's team matche...

By Caitlin Daday. The Atlantic 10 swimming championships returns this year to the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Beginning Wednesday night, the Richmond women and George Washington men will seek to defend their titles from last year. The Richmond women have won the conference title every year sinc...

Commentary by Caitlin Daday, Swimming World College Intern.  A lot of people ask me how I swam at an invitational the weekend after my grandfather’s funeral. How could I not have? He would have expected nothing less. Because of my grandfather, I have a lot of things. He worked so hard to make life g...

A number of fast swims highlighted the second day of prelims of the Singapore stop of the 2017 FINA World Cup. Regan Smith of the United States led by finishing first in the women's 100 backstroke by over a second. Other highlights included multiple top eight finishes from Vladimir Morozov, Alex Wal...

Katinka Hosszu led the first session of the Beijing World Cup with two top seeds going into Day One finals. Jamaica's Alia Atkinson and Hosszu's Hungarian teammate Boglarka Kapas will also be making multiple appearances in the first night of finals. The host country of China also thoroughly dominate...

The first night of finals of the 2017 World University Games began in record fashion. Meet records were broken in both the men's 400 freestyle and the women's 400 IM, the only two individual finals in tonight's program. The rest of the night featured fast swims in a number of semifinals. Full result...

By Caitlin Daday, Swimming World College Intern. Around 300 million children worldwide suffer from scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine. Scoliosis typically onsets during childhood, often around the age of ten. In the U.S. alone, around 30,000 children affected by the disease have to wear b...

NEW COMMIT: Mackenzie Looze, daughter of Indiana University head coach Ray Looze, has committed to swim for her father beginning in the fall of 2018. Looze swims for Bloomington High School South, where her mother Kandis Looze is co-head coach. She also swims with the Bloomington Swim Club. Looze pr...

The final night of the 2017 Speedo Sectionals Minneapolis was once again a fast night. The night featured many wins by previous event winners, including Jessica Unicomb, Joseph Milinovich, and Nicholas Plachinski. Most notably, 15 year old Grace Cooper swam the ninth fastest time in U.S. history for...