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By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World College Intern (Archive) Maybe you have had a rough season. Maybe you missed that cut time you were hoping for all year by .10 of a second. Maybe you didn’t improve a much as you had hoped. Maybe you got injured or sick and were unable to swim. Maybe, just maybe, you...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World College Intern. There’s skydiving, platform diving, cliff diving, and there's ...dog diving? Sure enough, Diving Dogs - also sometimes referred to as dock jumping - is a nationally recognized sport. According to North America Diving Dogs description, the event goes s...

The 2019 Swimming Futures Championship continued for day three in Greensboro, NC. Events included the 200 fly, 50 free, 200 breast, 100 back, and 400 free. Marlins of Raleigh’s Ashley Wordon and Sarasota Tsunami’s Anna Freed were two of the top place finishers of the night, both dominating the field...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World Intern.  The 2019 USA Swimming Futures Championships kicked off today in Greensboro North Carolina. This is one out of the four Futures meets across the country, with other locations including Mt. Hood, Oregon; Geneva, Ohio; and Des Moines, Iowa. Competition will tak...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World Intern.  The 2019 Speedo Sectionals Jenks continued today with day two. Events included the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, and 50 breast. Top place finishers from night one such as Brady Kendall, Autumn Haebig and Jack Dolan kept their spots on the podium tonight, and al...

The 2019 Speedo Sectionals in Gainesville concluded today with its final day of competition. Events included the 400 free relay, women’s 800 free, men’s 1500 free, 200 fly, 100 breast, 100 free, 200 breast, and 200 back. After 4 days of nonstop racing and excitement, teams swam their final races and...

Competition for the 2019 Speedo Sectionals in Gainesville continued today at the O’Connell Pool. Day three events included the 100 back, 50 breast, 50 fly, 200 IM, 400 free, and 400 medley relay. Gator Swim Club continued to dominate the meet, with several first place finishers and multiple people i...

The 2019 Speedo Sectionals in Gainesville continued today with the second day of competition. Events included the 200 free, 100 breast, 50 back, 100 fly, 400 IM, and the 800 free relay. Emma Weyant and Kieran Smith continued their winnings streaks from the night before Gator Swim Club proved to domi...

The 2019 Gainesville Speedo Sectionals kicked off today with the distance session and several relay events today in Gainesville Florida. Hosted by Gator Swim Club, the meet will be held July 11-14 at the Stephan O’Connell Center Pool, found on the University of Florida’s campus.  Women’s 1500 Free  ...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World Intern.  Few sports perfectly integrate both mind and body in quite the way that cliff diving does. This sport, which happens to be the oldest extreme sport in the world, is not for the faint of heart. Dives from up to 90 feet high with multiple twists and somersault...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World Intern. Championship season is quickly approaching, yet again. For many swimmers, this entails multi-day meets and long, hot days. It is times like these - the combination of nerves, fatigue, and adrenaline - when nutrition is more important than ever. Swimmers, just...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World College Intern. Officials. They are the dedicated men and women present at the end of the lane during during every one of your meets. Whether it be a local pool’s summer league competition on a Wednesday night or the biggest stage in swimming - the Olympic Games - of...

By Madeline Ladd, Swimming World Intern.                                                     When you think swimming... What do you think? At first glance, swimming can seem as if it is a sport like no other. How many athletes stare at a black line for countless hours per week with their heads under...