Read more8Olympic Throwback: Janet Evans and Her Seoul Super Show in the 400 Freestyle; A Back Half to Behold (Video)17 July 2024Janet Evans - Ahead of Her Time When Janet Evans stepped onto the blocks for the final of the 400 freestyle at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, the American star already had a gold medal in her grasp. A few days earlier, the 17-year-old bested the field in the 400 individual medley, an event that wa...
Read more5 Reasons Why 'Casual' Masters Swimming is Important17 July 20245 Reasons Why 'Casual' Masters Swimming is Important Masters swimming is seen by many as a way to continue competing after high school and college. However, most Masters swimmers do not compete in meets. US Masters Swimming estimates that fewer than half of its members compete. Even though these swi...
Read more1Noblesville Swim Club, High School Hire Jess Preston as Swim Coach16 July 2024The Noblesville Swim Club in Indiana and Noblesville High School jointly announced the hiring of Jess Preston as head coach beginning August 1. Preston comes to Noblesville from Penn High School in Mishawaka, Ind., and Irish Aquatics. As head coach of the Kingsman girls and boys swim teams since 200...
Read moreOn His Fifth Try, Dr. Jeremy Bagshaw Will See the Olympics Now16 July 2024On His Fifth Try, Dr. Jeremy Bagshaw Will See the Olympics Now Jeremy Bagshaw looked at the video board and wouldn’t let himself believe it at first. For five Olympic cycles, from a 16-year-old prodigy from British Columbia in 2008 to a 32-year-old medical school graduate who’d been to four World Ch...
Read more3Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 5: Caeleb Dressel Trying to Return to Gold-Medal Form in 100 Butterfly16 July 2024Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 5: Caeleb Dressel Trying to Return to Gold-Medal Form in 100 Butterfly The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before...
Read moreLife for Olympic Swimmers and All of Us - Pain and Persistence16 July 2024Life for Olympic Swimmers and All of Us - Pain and Persistence By Charles Hartley, Guest Contributor Here in America, we value persistence. If someone gets knocked around, rejected by a friend, fired from a job, loses a swimming race, we want to see that person come back, keep trying, be resilient, ...
Read moreThe Olympic-Watching Experience and the Role It Can Play for Viewers16 July 2024The Olympic-Watching Experience and the Role It Can Play for Viewers The Summer Olympic Games: A time when people from all over the globe come together to celebrate the world’s most talented athletes as they compete to be crowned as the best in their sport. The Olympic-watching experience can be des...
Read more3310 Hidden Benefits of Swimming16 July 202410 Hidden Benefits of Swimming Everyone wants to be an Olympic swimmer. But luckily, you don’t have to be an Olympic swimmer to benefit from the sport. People of all ages, from all backgrounds, and with various levels of experience can benefit from swimming. Swimming is one of the few sports you can...
Read more3Passages: Frank O’Neill, The First Australian To Break 60 seconds for 110 Yards, Dies Aged 9715 July 2024Manly Olympian Frank O’Neill, The First Australian To Break 60 seconds for 110 Yards and who taught Greta Garbo How To Swim, Dies Age 97 One of Australia’s oldest surviving Olympians and Commonwealth Games medallists, Frank O’Neill, has passed away peacefully at home in his beloved suburb of Manly,....
Read moreHallowed Hometowns of the United States' Paris Olympic Swimmers15 July 2024Hallowed Hometowns of the United States' Paris Olympic Swimmers By Charles Hartley, Guest Contributor There’s a beautiful, patriotic, and down-to-Earth song called “Hometown” by Bruce Springsteen. If you’ve ever heard it, you’ll know exactly what I mean. It takes you right back to where you grew up,...
Read moreHistoric Steve Genter Swimming Medals Up for Bid This Week at Olympic Auction15 July 2024A remarkable piece of Olympic history is up for grabs as Boston-based RR Auction offers a complete winner’s medal set from the Munich 1972 Summer Games. This extraordinary set, awarded to legendary U.S. swimmer Steve Genter, comprises his gold medal in the 4 x 200-meter freestyle relay, his silver m...
Read moreYMCA National Champion John Rusnock Picks Princeton15 July 2024YMCA National Champion John Rusnock Picks Princeton NEW COMMIT: Princeton University has scored a new verbal commitment* for the 2025-26 season and beyond from John Rusnock of Suffield, Connecticut. He will join Alex Townsend, Jiarui Xue and Oliver Rowe as a member of the Tigers’s Class of 2029. Reg...
Read more1Maya Merhige Swims English Channel at Age 16 to Complete Open Water Triple Crown15 July 2024Maya Merhige, a 16-year-old marathon swimmer has successfully conquered the English Channel making her one of the youngest swimmers in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Merhige swam the English Channel (20.5 miles or 33 km) in just 11 hours and 39 minutes on July 13, 2024....
Read moreNAG Relay Record Holder Drew Ploof Gives Verbal to Missouri15 July 2024NAG Relay Record Holder Drew Ploof Gives Verbal to Missouri NEW COMMIT: The University of Missouri has picked up a new verbal commitment for the 2025-26 season and beyond, this time from U.S. Open qualifier Drew Ploof of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. He will join Jaedon Carter as a member of the Tigers' ...
Read more16 Reasons Why You Should Become a Summer Swim Coach 15 July 20246 Reasons Why You Should Become a Summer Swim Coach The summer swim season is over in some parts of the country, or winding down in others. But another season will arrive next year and maybe becoming a summer swim coach is something you have thought about. Here are some reasons why being a summer s...
Read more5Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 6: Summer McIntosh, Kaylee McKeown, Kate Douglass Conclude Individual Events With 200 IM Clash15 July 2024Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 6: Summer McIntosh, Kaylee McKeown, Kate Douglass Conclude Individual Events With 200 IM Clash The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine day...
Read moreOlympic Throwback: The Dolphin Kick Controversy of Kosuke Kitajima vs. Brendan Hansen15 July 2024The Dolphin Kick Controversy of Kosuke Kitajima vs. Brendan Hansen The final of the 100 breaststroke at the 2004 Olympics in Athens was shrouded in controversy after Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima was shown performing an illegal dolphin kick on the way to defeating American Brendan Hansen. The move by Kita...
Read moreGary Hall Jr. Discusses Variety of Topics - Including Doping - On Latest Athletes Only Podcast15 July 2024Gary Hall Jr. Discusses Variety of Topics - Including Doping - In Latest Athletes Only Podcast Gary Hall Jr. is regarded as one of the greatest sprinters the sport has seen, that distinction solidifed by his back-to-back Olympic crowns in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. Du...
Read moreMotivational Monday: Rest is Needed (and OK) - Learning the Hard Way15 July 2024Motivational Monday: Rest is Needed - Learning the Hard Way Growing up, I was taught that taking time off to rest was a bad thing. I believed that all my hard work and progress would go to waste if I took a day off. Before Covid-19, the most time I took off from swimming in a year was a week for spr...
Read moreParis Open Water Prep Differs for Mariah Denigan, Katie Grimes14 July 2024Paris Open Water Prep Differs for Mariah Denigan, Katie Grimes Mariah Denigan likes to joke with her teammates that the 1500 freestyle in the pool feels like a sprint. She omitted, perhaps strategically, her teammates’ response to that. But when it came to U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis last mo...