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The Men's 200 Backstroke World Records Have Stood the Test of Time Backstroke events have seen generational talents take center stage year after year. In 2024, it was Thomas Ceccon and Hubert Kos who swept the available men's Olympic gold medals, while the women's events were swept by Kaylee McKeown...

SCHSL Champion Grace Hunt Pledges 2026 Verbal To Georgia NEW COMMIT: Greer, South Carolina native and Junior National qualifier Grace Hunt has elected to continue her academic and swimming career at the University of Georgia starting in Fall 2026. She will join Brooke Bennett and Virginia Hinds as a...

Special Sets: The Training of Adalyn Lee, a Surging Star with Brea Aquatics Adalyn Lee, a lean 5-8 Brea Aquatics product from Diamond Bar, Calif., is now 13 years old. When she departed the 11-12 age group last April, she left behind quite an 11-12 legacy. Not only was she heralded as the nation’s t...

World Coach of the Year: Bob Bowman Has Mentored a Global Gathering of Champions Bob Bowman leapt into the pool at the IU Natatorium in late March, and somehow his year was just starting. Unspool the rest of the 2024 and it seemed that Bowman leading Arizona State to its first NCAA men’s championshi...

Top Swim Meets to Watch in 2025: World Championships Head to Singapore in July The post-Olympic year will usher in a new quadrennium, with swimmers aiming to build toward a peak at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Elite swimmers will take varying approaches to 2025, with some of the stars of the Pa...

6 Ways to Become A Great Teammate By Emma Foster Anyone who has been on a swim team knows that swimming is a team sport. While we may swim our races individually for the most part (besides the electrifying relays we get to take part in) anyone that has lasted through a tough aerobic practice, or fou...

Six Predictions for 2025: Leon Marchand Will Add to World-Record Total In one of the greatest individual performances in swimming history, Leon Marchand won four individual gold medals at the Paris Olympics, becoming only the third man to do so in one Games after Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps (twice...

Golden Goals: Setting New Year's Swimming Resolutions for 2025 After 12 months of hard work in the pool, 2024 has finally come to a close. Whether it’s been a successful year or not, the end of the year often represents a time to reflect. Research from the University of Oregon suggests that setting ...

Advice to My Younger Swimmer Self: Summer Finke Reflects on Her Career in the Pool As we begin a New Year, Swimming World is re-running this terrific piece by regular contributor Summer Finke, an Olympic Trials qualifier and standout during her collegiate days at North Carolina State. Summer's refle...

WADA 2025 List of Banned Substances Now in Effect (Links Here) With the start of a new year, the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances for 2025 has gone into effect. The list can be found here and below, and is made available to assist athletes by providing knowledge of what is an ill...

Duncan Scott Awarded OBE In New Year's Honours List Duncan Scott has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List following a year in which he became Scotland's most-decorated Olympic athlete. The University of Stirling swimmer, who was awarded an MBE in 2021, won two medals in Paris bringing ...

World Newcomer of the Year: Tomoyuki Matsushita Upholding Japanese Tradition in 400 IM Held less than a year ahead of the Olympic Games, the 2023 World Junior Championships featured several medalists who made an impact in Paris. While Flynn Southam helped Australia to a pair of relay medals at the O...

UC Davis Scores 2026 Verbal From Rancho San Dieguito's Madison McCormick NEW COMMIT: UC Davis has scored a verbal commitment for the 2026-27 season and beyond from Futures qualifier Madison McCormick of Carlsbad, California. She's the Aggies' first public verbal pledge. She told Swimming World: "I a...

Female Breakout Swimmer of the Year: Veteran Paige Madden Found Something Special to Land on Olympic Podium If you were watching the Paris Olympics and couldn’t quite believe what you were witnessing Paige Madden do, that’s OK. She really didn’t fully grasp it either. The work was certainly there, t...

The 2024 campaign was filled with elite competition, with the Olympic Games in Paris serving as the highlight of the past 12 months. Additionally, spectacular performances were produced at the World Championships, NCAA Championships, various Olympic Trials and the World Short Course Championships. I...

U.S. Open Qualifier Matthew Wolfle Hands 2026 Pledge To In-State Hokies NEW COMMIT: U.S. Open qualifier Matthew Wolfle of Richmond, Virginia, has verbally committed to his in-state Hokies. The breaststroker/IMer will arrive at Virginia Tech in Fall 2026. He told Swimming World: "I am so excited to a...

Male Breakout Swimmer of the Year: Luke Hobson Grew From NCAA Champ to Olympic Medalist to World-Record Holder By the end of the spring, there was no doubting Luke Hobson’s credentials in the short-course pool. In three years, he’d become the best distance swimmer in the history of the University of...

Top Performances of 2024: Pan Zhanle, Bobby Finke Top List With Gold-Medal, World-Record Swims The year concluded with one of the fastest editions of the Short Course World Championships ever, with 30 world records set over six days of competition. However, only one swim from Budapest cracks this ye...

Backstroker Eva Rottink Picks Indiana For 2026 NEW COMMIT: Indiana University has picked up a new verbal commitment for the 2026-27 season and beyond from Eva Rottink out of Germantown, Tennessee. She will join Kayla Han in Bloomington as a member of the Hoosiers' Class of 2030. Regarding her commit...

Cal Bears Get Another Big 2026 Verbal From Local Product Tim Wu NEW COMMIT: The University of California, Berkeley has been on a recruiting tear, recently landing another big verbal pledge for 2026 from local product Tim Wu of San Ramon, Calif. Wu currently ranks in the top five in the Class of 2026...