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Freshman Focus: Five Swimmers Making Instant Impact on New Teams A large group of decorated swimmers will suit up for the upcoming college championship season as they seek to continue adding individual and team accolades to their respective résumés. Alex Walsh enters her fifth year of racing having ...

Maturity and Experience Guided Regan Smith to Career Year in 2024 Returning home from her second Olympics, Regan Smith needed a respite from the pressure-packed, exhausting buildup to the Paris Games. Her partnership with coach Bob Bowman had yielded a strong performance that included three individu...

Wisconsin Crushes UC-San Diego, UCLA Women in West-Coast Trip The University of Wisconsin Badgers traveled to La Jolla, Calif., to begin their spring competition season against UC-San Diego and the women from UCLA. Both the women's and men's meets saw Wisconsin have dominant performances, winning al...

Florida Women, Indiana Men Win Tight Dual Meets as Bella Sims, Owen McDonald Star The Indiana Hoosiers traveled to Gainesville, Fla., on the heels of their winter training trip to race the Gators in a star-powered dual meet. Both the women's and men's contests were highly competitive, but Florida ca...

Top Swim Meets to Watch in 2025: World Championships Head to Singapore in July The post-Olympic year will usher in a new quadrennium, with swimmers aiming to build toward a peak at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Elite swimmers will take varying approaches to 2025, with some of the stars of the Pa...

Six Predictions for 2025: Leon Marchand Will Add to World-Record Total In one of the greatest individual performances in swimming history, Leon Marchand won four individual gold medals at the Paris Olympics, becoming only the third man to do so in one Games after Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps (twice...

Top Performances of 2024: Pan Zhanle, Bobby Finke Top List With Gold-Medal, World-Record Swims The year concluded with one of the fastest editions of the Short Course World Championships ever, with 30 world records set over six days of competition. However, only one swim from Budapest cracks this ye...

Female NCAA Swim of the Year: Gretchen Walsh Reaches 47-Second Territory in 100 Fly One year earlier, the 100 butterfly final at the NCAA Women's Championships featured the three fastest women in history (at the time), and the race did not disappoint: Kate Douglass was the winner that night, clockin...

Male NCAA Swim of the Year: Leon Marchand Dabbled with 500 Freestyle; Refined Limits of Possibility For more than two years, Leon Marchand has been considered the world's best swimmer, dominating the individual medley events like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte did during their heydays while also bec...

After Facing Adversity, Claire Curzan Coming Full Circle in Return to Form Claire Curzan’s recent bout of adversity has forced her to grapple with her relationship with the sport in a way she never did during her do-no-wrong teenage years. Disappointment has yielded balance and growth. In early Octo...

American Coach of the Year: Todd DeSorbo Continues Leading Virginia Women on Dominant Run He has been the guiding force to the country's most dominant college program, with the University of Virginia having already won four consecutive NCAA titles in women's swimming and diving, and the Cavaliers ar...

Katie Grimes, Claire Weinstein Return From Worlds to Post Strong Swims at Sectionals Less than a week after wrapping up competition at the Short Course World Championships in Budapest, American teenagers Katie Grimes and Claire Weinstein are competing again, this time in short course yards with thei...

Cody Miller Announces Retirement: "The Time Has Come — Sorta, Kinda" Following a lengthy and successful professional career highlighted by a strong performance at the 2016 Olympics, Cody Miller has announced his retirement. Miller revealed the news in a video on his popular YouTube channel. In that ...

Training, Trust & Family Fuel Breakthrough For Rex Maurer at University of Texas At the end of the 2023-24 college season, Rex Maurer made “probably the hardest choice I’ve ever had to make.” After an up-and-down freshman season at Stanford, he saw an opportunity to advance his swimming career with ...

Hubert Kos Caps Standout Year With World Title at Home in Budapest During both previous occasions in which a global championship meet took place at Duna Arena, a Hungarian was among the stars of the competition, much to the delight of the biased fans in attendance. In 2017, Katinka Hosszu swept the ...

Jordan Crooks Followed Unique Path to Becoming Fastest Man Ever The run to becoming a world-record holder was not without its stumbles for the best swimmer to ever come from the Cayman Islands, a country of less than 100 square miles and a population of under 100,000. Jordan Crooks was first pegged ...

Luke Hobson, Jillian Cox Return From Worlds to Lead Texas to Sweep of Georgia Seventy-two hours earlier, Luke Hobson was in Budapest, winning a short course world title and a world record in the 200-meter freestyle. Now back with his University of Texas team in Austin, Hobson returned to yards and l...

A Special Week: Gretchen Walsh Achieves Greatest Short Course Performance Ever Surprised by the sheer dominance that Gretchen Walsh imposed on the world's best sprinters at the Short Course World Championships? Then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the 21-year-old's trajectory over ...

FLASH! Regan Smith Breaks 100 Back WR, Leads American Women to Clobbering Medley Relay WR The American women have flexed their dominance throughout the six days of the Budapest World Championships: Gretchen Walsh won five individual golds while Regan Smith had three and Kate Douglass two. In their i...

FLASH! Regan Smith Takes Down 200 Back World Record, Completes 50-100-200 Sweep; McIntosh Sets WJR Her earlier wins in the 50 and 100 backstroke were not particularly close, but as Regan Smith aimed to win her third backstroke gold medal of the Short Course World Championships, she faced a familiar ...