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Swim Moms By SuSu Almousa, Swimming World College Intern As every swimmer mounts the blocks, they play in their mind a visual of their race and how they want to perform. Little do they know, in the stands a few hundred feet away someone has their hands clasped at their heart doing the exact same t.....

Why Swimming Is Worth the Sacrifice and Time Demands By SuSu Almousa (From the Archive) Swimmers become “swammers" and swammers typically stay swammers but the sport doesn’t leave us as easily as changing a vowel in our titles. In retirement, we watch meets and there is typically a yearning for a .....

6 Reasons Why Swimmers Make the Best Students Early alarm clock rings. Morning lifting practice. Breakfast. School. Lunch. Practice. Dinner. Homework. Swimming steals a lot of your time and begs the question as to when is there ever time for school? Our education is an important part of our develo.....

By SuSu Almousa, Swimming World College Intern We live in a society that glorifies the road to success as being paved with expensive training, high-end resources, and an outrageous expenditure of investments. As we watched our Olympians take on the pool with grace and skill, we thought in awe about....

By: SuSu Almousa, Swimming World College Intern Three of the six swimmers who qualified for the men's 4x200 free relay are collegiate teammates. All six are not exclusively freestylers, and two of the four collegiates have been featured by Swimming World Magazine as swimmers to look out for.  Gun...

By SuSu Almousa, Swimming World College Intern The Olympic Trials can be an incredibly trying meet— some make the prestigious cut, and others fall short. It is a meet filled with opportunity, a meet in which the underdog can touch out a veteran, a meet where legends are born, and futures are paved.....

By SuSu Almousa, Swimming World College Intern  As swimmers, we all have two fantasies: 1. Make the Olympic Team 2. Be featured as Swimming World Magazine’s National High School Swimmer of the Year. Jack Conger can rest easy. The rising senior at University of Texas Longhorns has managed to do both....

By SuSu Almousa, Swimming World College Intern There are moments in life in which we feel like we’ve hit a wall—as if nothing is changing and no matter how hard you work, nothing seems to be yielding the results you desire. When you study all week for a test to the point where you live eat and brea....

By SuSu Almousa, Swimming World College Intern Why is it that I feel like I perform better when my pre-meet set is centered around alternating sprint 50s? And why do my teammates always groan when I suggest them when coach asks if we have any preferences for our new set. At this point, I don’t know....