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'Swimming Pretty' A Groundbreaking History of Artistic Swimming is Pivotal Work As the 2024 Paris Olympics reach audiences around the world, there will be plenty of focus on the water. From swimming to diving to open water and water polo, aquatics athletes will be on display. It is also the biggest ...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 4: Katie Ledecky Seeks Historic Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle 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 that, Swimm...

Growth Mindset Has Led Max Irving to Water Polo Stardom One wakeup call occasioned another for Max Irving. It was 2017, and Irving’s star was rising fast. He’d gone from a redshirt season at UCLA in 2013 to an All-American. That June brought his first U.S. national team call—in the FINA Intercontine...

40 Years in the Making: The Evolution of Olympic Racing Suits from 1984 to 2024 Over the years, racing suits in the sport of swimming have evolved to continually push the boundaries of speed and efficiency. Initially, suits were simple, functional, and made from materials like Lycra and nylon. These...

Janet 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...

5 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...

The 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...

On 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...

Olympic 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...

Life 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, ...

The 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...

10 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...

Manly 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,....

Hallowed 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,...

A 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...

YMCA 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...

Maya 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....

NAG 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' ...

6 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...

Olympic 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...