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USA Water Polo Selecting Jamie Davis, of USA Volleyball, as New CEO For just the second time in two decades, USA Water Polo, the national governing body for the sport in the United States, is hiring a new CEO. After 18 years—currently the longest tenure of any NGB leader in the country—Chris Ramsey ...

On the surface, it would seem like Emma Weyant has just been cruising in the fast lane - making the Olympic team in the 400 IM in two consecutive Olympic Trials. But beneath the surface, it has been a tumultuous journey back to the team for Weyant. Since winning the silver medal in Tokyo in the 400 ...

Blake Pieroni didn't believe he could make another Olympic team - he just wanted to swim in an NFL stadium. Then when he was already qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium, something happened. Pieroni, 28, was racing at a smaller meet and threw down a time that made him start bel...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Dressel's Return Plus Young Sprint Stars Make American Men 400 Free Relay Favorites The United States has a complicated recent history with the men's 400 freestyle relay. The Americans had never lost the event in the Olympics before the start of the 21st century, but in four ...

U.S. Paralympic Trials: Elizabeth Marks Ties World Record; Jessica Long, Ali Truwit Claim Titles (Full List of Winners) For the fourth time in its history, Team USA returned to the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center for a U.S. Paralympic Team Trials - Swimming, which kicked off Thursday. The first day o...

Athletes Only Podcast: A Stroke Analysis of Olympic Champion Caeleb Dressel At the recent United States Olympic Trials, former Cal Bear Kyle Millis was at Lucas Oil Stadium gathering content for his YouTube Channel and the Athletes Only Podcast. Swimming World and Kyle have agreed to a partnership t...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Australian Women Favored For Fourth Straight 400 Free Relay Gold The last time Australia was not victorious in the women's 400 freestyle relay at a major international competition was 2017, when the United States won a tight World Championships final at a meet when Cate Campb...

‘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...

Top 8 Performances of U.S. Olympic Trials: Gretchen Walsh, Regan Smith Lead Way With World Records Nine nights of swimming at Lucas Oil Stadium produced record-setting races in front of record-sized crowds, and by the end, the United States had assembled a team of 46 pool swimmers (20 female, 26 mal...

U.S. Olympic Trials: A Collaboration of the Past, Present, and Future Something that made watching the Olympic Trials a little more special this year was seeing all the familiar faces. I’m not talking about the well-known stars that everybody knows. I’m talking about the swimmers I grew up racing ag...

Michael Brinegar Formally Issued Four-Year Suspension After Competing at Doha Worlds During Appeal At last week's U.S. Olympic Trials, Michael Brinegar competed in the prelims of the 400 and 800 freestyle but withdrew from the 1500, his best event, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reim...

United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) presented the 2024 Max Ritter award, posthumously, to Dr. Donald Catlin. Dr. Catlin was a pioneer and a champion of worldwide anti-doping efforts throughout his career. United States Aquatic Sports President Patty Miller was joined by USA Swimming President and CE...

After a stunning performance at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials last week, the Notre Dame swimming and diving program got some stunning news. Notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua informed the athletic staff via email that an external review of potential "culture issues" within the men's swimm...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Great Britain Favored in Men's 800 Free, Americans in Pursuit The United States had never missed an Olympic relay podium until 2021, when the men's 800 freestyle relay group faded out of contention and ended up fourth. But since then, a young group of 200 freestylers have bui...

Michael Phelps, Allison Schmitt Testify Before Congressional Subcommittee on Anti-Doping Measures, WADA As news has emerged about 23 Chinese positive drug tests from 2021 and the subsequent nondisclosure of those results, top American swimmers and officials have spoken out against the World Anti-Dop...

U.S. Olympic Trials: With a Green Wave on Hand, Notre Dame Swimming Enjoyed a Meet for the Ages It was an historic week at the Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis for the Notre Dame Swimming program.  Led by rising senior Chris Guiliano, the Notre Dame swimmers put together performances that had...

The 2024 United States Masters Swimming (USMS) Spring National Championshisp concluded on Monday from Indianapolis at the Indiana Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI. There were 27 Masters Age Group World Records set at the meet that ran June 20-24. USMS Records Thursday, June 20 Jane Robie, Illinois ...

Olympic Relay Analysis: U.S. Women Facing Huge Deficit in 800 Freestyle Relay At last year's World Championships, the United States women took the lead over Australia with one leg remaining in the 800 freestyle relay. But the standings at that point were a mirage: the Americans had put all of their ...

Special Sets: The Training of Newly Anointed Olympian Luke Whitlock Forty six of the more than 1000-plus pool swimmers who competed at Olympic Trials in Indianapolis will soon be leaving for Paris to represent the United States. Among them is Luke Whitlock, a Florida commit, from Noblesville, Indian...

The ninth day of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials is in the books from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The first ever meet in an NFL stadium is being documented by Swimming World Chief Photographer Peter H. Bick. Here are the scenes from Day 9. [gallery type="slideshow" columns="1" size="ful...