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Training Sets Of the Past: How Beth Botsford Became An Olympic Champion In a five-year period in the early 1990s, North Baltimore Aquatic Club phenomenon Beth Botsford held every national age group backstroke record (SCY/LC) for ages 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14. At 15, she went on to win two Olympic gold ...

Swim Workouts From the Past: A Look at the Olympic-Road Training of Ryan Lochte Swimming World will occasionally brings its readers some workouts from the past. In this edition, the training of 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte is examined. The sets listed below were from the days leading into th...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we've ...

The staff at Swimming World would like to extend a huge “Thank You!” to all of the photographers who contributed photos to Swimming World Magazine and swimmingworld.com in 2019. Without your hard work and dedication to capture the important moments in our sport, our reporting would be incomplete. Re...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we're ...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. In the final days of 2019, we're looking ...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we're ...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we're ...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we're ...

Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland completed the perfect season in Bilbao, Spain, winning her seventh stop in a row to become the first Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series diver ever to go unbeaten all year. On the men’s platform, it was the familiar sight of England’s Gary Hunt celebrating in front of 27,...

The 2019 FINA World Junior Championships are right around the corner and several representatives of Team USA's junior team were swimming their best at the 2019 Phillips 66 US National Championships. USA World Junior coaches Crystal Keelen (Penn Charter Aquatic Club) and Billy Doughty (DART Swimming)...

The 50 free is a short race and requires a strong game plan, which is exactly what Erika Brown had. "I wanted to be super aggressive off the start and through my exit and get out ahead right away and just be really confident and big throughout the whole race," explained Brown.  For Brown, this win w...

Every athlete has a different strategy when it comes to the individual medley events. For Madisyn Cox, she strives to go out long and smooth on the fly and then pick up the tempo on the backstroke. Cox always ends the race by bringing it home on the freestyle, she mentioned. The fact that every athl...

It's always inspirational to see one's teammates do well and Vanessa Pearl did just that prior to her swim in the women's 200 IM A final. She was able to see teammate Kelly Fertel win the B final and she took that energy and finished as the runner-up in the A final. The runner-up finish is the highe...

The fifth and final session of the 2019 Phillips 66 US National Championships saw the return of 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte. Lochte's backstroke split of 29.47 was instrumental in putting him in the lead and he never turned back, posting a 1:57.76 for the gold. Madisyn Cox took home the Nat...

Dean Farris is one of many swimmers who has had a busy summer and has double-dipped in important events. He represented Team USA at the World University Games (WUGs) earlier this summer, before showing up in California for the 2019 Phillips 66 US National Championships. Similar to Asia Seidt, this m...

Shaine Casas has had an outstanding meet at the 2019 Phillips 66 US National Championships, touching second in the 200 back and first in the 100 back. In both races he has cut time and improved upon his races. While it was a bittersweet moment to finish second in the 200 back, Casas couldn't hide ba...

Injuries can affect anyone's mentality and make any athlete question whether or not they want to continue with a sport, and that's exactly what happened to Amy Bilquist. Thankfully, she persevered and now has a National title to show for it. Earlier in the summer, Bilquist suffered an injury to her ...

The 2019 Phillips 66 US National Championships continued in Stanford, California and saw some familiar names returning to the top of the podium. Among those garnering National titles was 2012 Olympian Breeja Larson, who won the women's 100 breast. Michigan native Devon Nowicki was the men's winner i...

Torri Huske broke a phenomenal barrier on night three of the 2019 Phillips 66 US National Championships when she took down the 15-16 100 fly National Age Group Record with a 57.80. That NAG record had stood since 1981 when legend Mary T. Meagher posted a 57.93 en route to what was then a World Recor...