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Melissa Seidemann, Jesse Smith Headline 2025 USA Water Polo Hall of Fame Class Former players Melissa Seidemann and Jesse Smith headline the five-member Class of 2025 for the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, announced Monday. Seideman is a three-time Olympic champion and three-time World Champion for th...

Luca Urlando Has Opportunity to Convert 200 Fly Success into Stardom The last time Luca Urlando posted a performance that set him up as the next American star in the 200 butterfly was six years ago. The then-17-year-old swam a time of 1:53.84 at a Pro Series meet in Clovis, Calif., breaking a Nation...

Rising 15-Year-Old Star Luka Mijatovic Fires Off NAG Record of 4:10.96 in 500 Freestyle In what is his latest sensational performance, 15-year-old Luka Mijatovic (Pleasanton Seahawks) destroyed his own National Age Group (NAG) record in the 15-16 classification on Sunday night. Competing at the Far ...

What Makes the Perfect Swimmer's Body? Although swimmers with a wide variety of body types have found success in the sport, most at the international level tend to look similar, sporting tall and muscular bodies - typically with long torsos, long arms and short legs. This begs the question: If you c...

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 .....

Claire Weinstein, Ivan Puskovitch Secure 5K Titles at U.S. Open Water Nationals There's a good chance that Claire Weinstein will represent the United States in the pool at this summer's World Championships in Singapore. After all, Weinstein has established herself as a regular on the Team USA roster...

Canada Nominates Emma Finlin, Eric Brown for World Championship Canada’s Emma Finlin and Eric Brown are in line for spots at the World Championships this summer in open water swimming after their finishes at the U.S. Open Water Championships on Friday. Finlin finished ninth in the women’s race in Sa...

Kyle Chalmers Blasts 21.78 PB In 50 Free To Clinch Double At Bergen Swim Festival Nine-time Olympic medallist Kyle Chalmers fired off a 21.78 PB in the 50 free to clinch the freestyle double at the Bergen Swim Festival. Chalmers' previous PB stood at 21.98 set at the 2024 Australian Open Championshi...

Grace Nuhfer Sets S13 200 Fly World Record at TYR Pro Swim Series Paraswimmer Grace Nuhfer set the world record in the S13 200 butterfly on Friday at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Sacramento. Nuhfer, swimming alone in the B final of the 200 fly, went 2:22.78. That trounced the record held since 2018 by...

Antonio Djakovic Completes Freestyle Quadruple & Sister Vanna Clinches Treble As Swiss Championships Wrap Up Antonio Djakovic completed a sweep of the freestyle events from 200 to 1500 with victory over 400m as the Swiss Championships wrapped up in Sursee. The two-time European medallist over eight ...

Becca Mann Publishes Memoir 'Outside the Lanes' That Details Mental Health Struggles, Triumphs When Becca Mann first burst onto the national swimming scene, she was labeled a prodigy. The youngest swimmer to place in the top 10 at four events at the U.S. Olympic Trials, things were looking great. Bu...

14 Ways To Tell You Come From a Swimming Family By J.P. Mortenson Due to the sport's all-consuming nature, swimming inevitably becomes a family affair. And once your family becomes a swimming family, the sport will affect your home life in more ways than you could have ever imagined! Here are ways t...

Lincoln Driesse and Una Diaz Win 5K Titles at Open Water Junior Nationals One day after the United States identified its qualifiers for this summer's World Championships in the open-water 10K race, Lincoln Driesse and Una Diaz showed their potential. Driesse and Diaz secured titles in the 5K Junior ...

By Tera Bradham Commentary (From the Archive) Swimmer. It’s a word that encompasses a brutality known only by those to whom it pertains. There is no sport more excruciating than swimming. While other athletes make similar claims, we know one day in our lives would silence them forever. When an outsi...

6 Reasons Why Swimmers Make the Best Students Early alarm clock rings. Morning lifting practice. Breakfast. School. Lunch. Practice. Dinner. Homework. Swimming occupies 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 deve.....

TYR Pro Series: Grant House Rolls to Victory in 200 IM on Final Night These days, the name of Grant House is regularly mentioned in the settlement known as House vs. NCAA, the legal decision that has reshaped college sports and allowed for collegiate athletes to receive benefits. However, during the...

Noè Ponti Posts 50.27 100 Fly Scorcher In Sursee; Roman Mityukov Goes Top Of The 200 Back Rankings Noè Ponti posted a 50.27 scorcher for the second-fastest 100 fly of his career on day three of the Swiss Championships in Sursee. Out in 23.48 and back in 26.79, the Tokyo bronze medallist was just 0.1...

Tessa Giele Rattles 100 Fly Rankings At Bergen Swim Festival Tessa Giele elevated herself into the top five of the 100 fly world rankings as she claimed her third title of the Bergen Swim Festival. Giele - who won 100 fly silver behind Gretchen Walsh at the short-course worlds in Budapest in Decembe...

Former All-American Swimmer Atiba Wade Stars in Movie 'Four Down' Atiba Wade is always looking for another job on screen. The professional stunt man and former All-American swimmer at Georgia, has been part of "Wakanda Forever," "Pride," and on Netflix, but a starring role in a movie was something h...

USA Water Polo Announces 'Women of the Water: An Olympic Journey'; Six-Part Series to Premiere April 28 A year after "Path to Paris" chronicled USA Water Polo's men's national team's quest to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games, USA Water Polo is excited to announce its second original content series...