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U.S. Paralympic Trials: Morgan Stickney Improves Her 400 Free S7 World Record Morgan Stickney provided the fireworks Friday on the second night of U.S. Paralympic Team Trials, lowering her world record in the women’s S7 400 free. Stickney won the multi-class event in 4:51.50. That slashes nearly thr...

UNLV Hires Pat Ota on Permanent Basis as Head Coach UNLV on Friday made it official that Pat Ota will remain on as the team’s head coach after he had been the interim since May. Ota has been on staff with the Rebels for eight seasons. He was elevated to the interim job last month when Ben Loorz was ...

Trevor Maida Tapped by Texas as Assistant to Lead Sprint Group Trevor Maida has been hired as an assistant coach by Bob Bowman at the University of Texas to lead the Longhorns sprinters. Maida will arrive in Austin in August. He spent 2023-24 as an assistant coach at Louisville, his latest stop in t...

Chris Guiliano the Star of 2021 Wave I Trials Alums Three Years Later There was, as with so much in 2021, much hand-wringing when USA Swimming was forced into a tough decision. In the name of social distancing and COVID-era safety, the organization decided to divide the Olympic Trials, one of its mo...

David Johnston Added to Olympic Open Water; Erin Gemmell Gets Individual 200 Free Swim USA Swimming made two adjustments to its Olympic roster on Thursday, with David Johnston added to the open water team and Erin Gemmell promoted to swim the women’s 200 free. Johnston qualified for the men’s 1,500 ...

West Virginia Hires Alum Michael Walker as Associate Head Coach New West Virginia coach Brent MacDonald on Monday hired former Mountaineer Michael Walker as an associate head coach. Walker swam in Morgantown from 2005-09, a team captain in the 2007-08 season. He helped lead the Mountaineers to the B...

Manhattan Hires Brian Hansbury as Head Coach Manhattan on Monday announced the hiring of Brian Hansbury as its head swimming and diving coach. Hansbury is relatively short on college coaching experience, but he has a long history in the greater New York City area, in the high school and club scene. ...

Cleveland State Hires Trent Richardson as Men’s and Women’s Head Coach Cleveland State this week named Trent Richardson the new head coach of its men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams. Richardson was an assistant coach last year, helping the men finish third and the women fifth at the Horizon ...

Wellesley Names Dawn Dill as Swimming Head Coach Wellesley College this week hired Dawn Dill as the head coach of its swimming and diving team. Dill spent last season as an assistant coach at Harvard University, helping lead the Crimson to a runner-up finish at the Ivy League Championships. Dill had...

‘Blew Away Our Expectations:’ Lucas Oil Stadium Gets Rave Reviews as Olympic Trials Host It was going to take something special for Blake Pieroni to get back into the water. Pieroni is 28, getting married in August and balancing a commute from his training base of Bloomington to a job in Indianapoli...

Swimming for Late Brother, Louisville’s Tommy Bried has Unforgettable Trials Four times Tuesday at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, Tommy Bried got a chance to step up to the blocks. Each time, the well-coiffed Louisville senior needed look no further than high on his hip ...

Dara Torres Enjoys ‘Amazing’ Corps of Veteran Competitors at Olympic Trials Dara Torres was 41 years old with a two-year-old daughter in 2008 when she ended her retirement to make a run at the Beijing Olympics. That daughter is now off to college, and Torres duties at this week’s U.S. Olympic Trials...

As History Beckons in Paris, Katie Ledecky Keeps Focus on the Details It took Katie Ledecky a moment to get the statistic straight, which is relatable for anyone who’s ever tried to quantify Ledecky’s greatness. Ledecky was watching NBC’s coverage of U.S. Olympic Trials from her hotel in Indianapoli...

‘Hail Mary’ Answered for David Johnston in 1,500 Free Performance David Johnston was hoping to land on a less desperate metaphor. But with five days to mull it over, it was the best he could do. Johnston had finished third in the 400 freestyle and fourth in the 800 free at U.S. Olympic Trials. He’d ...

Emma Weber Channels ‘Inspiration’ of Fellow Regis Jesuit Alum Missy Franklin on Road to Olympics Say the words “Regis Jesuit” to a swimming fan and chances are the response would, Missy Franklin. Emma Weber is forcing an update to that game of word association. The Olympians share an alma mater in C...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Simone Manuel Drops 24.13 to Win 50 Free All of the talk Saturday night, after semifinals of women’s 50 freestyle at U.S. Olympic Trials, focused on other people. Could Torri Huske or Gretchen Walsh crack 24 seconds? Could Abbey Weitzeil get on the team in an individual event? I...

‘Red Carpet Treatment’ of Indianapolis Olympic Trials Could Open Door for Other Big Venues U.S. Olympic Trials won’t be the last swimming event held in an NFL stadium. World Aquatics made that official on Friday. The success of the event at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium opens the door for more swi...

European Championships: Kuzey Tuncelli, 16, Wins 1,500 Free Crown Kuzey Tuncelli is just 16 years old. But the Turkish wunderkind is a European Champion and a sub-15-minute 1,500 freestyler. Tuncelli outdueled Mykhailo Romanchuk Sunday on the final day of the European Championships, clocking in at 1...

Handling 'Pressure, Stress' of Wait, Alex Walsh Reaps Olympic Reward Alex Walsh knew that in plotting her meet program at U.S. Olympic Trials, saving her legs meant testing her nerves. Walsh, who finished fourth in the 400 individual medley at the 2023 World Championships, decided to pass up on the ...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Katie Ledecky Tops 800 Free with Paige Madden Second The math isn’t all that complicated. The record for most Olympic swimming medals by an American woman is 12, shared jointly by Natalie Coughlin, Dara Torres and Jenny Thompson. Katie Ledecky has 10 career Olympic medals. She h...