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Last-Minute Gift Guide for Swimmers, Coaches, and Parents Swimmers live and die by the clock—whether it’s hitting their splits or making intervals. With the holidays speeding closer, it’s time to dive in and find last-minute gifts! Here are trending gift ideas to delight swimmers, coaches, and paren...

Training, Trust & Family Fuel Breakthrough For Rex Maurer at University of Texas At the end of the 2023-24 college season, Rex Maurer made “probably the hardest choice I’ve ever had to make.” After an up-and-down freshman season at Stanford, he saw an opportunity to advance his swimming career with ...

Poll: Which Swimming-Related Item Would You Like to Receive this Holiday Season (VOTE HERE!) There's still some time to run out and get the swimmer in your life the perfect gift for the holiday season. Swim shops are still open and Amazon working overdrive to deliver packages. So, what can you purch...

As holiday training prepares to ramp up, Swimming World is running this piece from the archive that emphasizes the connection between an athlete and the grueling nature of holiday work in the water and the weight room. The piece stresses the importance of this time of year, so get yourself ready to ...

Based on the TikTok Trend: We're Swimmers, Of Course We ... (Fill in the Blank)! Many of us have seen the TikTok trend, “We’re girls, of course we ALWAYS have a hair tie around our wrist!” Why not transition this trend to make it swimming-related? Read along for 10 relatable, “we’re swimmers…” phras...

Hubert Kos Caps Standout Year With World Title at Home in Budapest During both previous occasions in which a global championship meet took place at Duna Arena, a Hungarian was among the stars of the competition, much to the delight of the biased fans in attendance. In 2017, Katinka Hosszu swept the ...

Rohan Taylor Reappointed As Australia’s National Head Coach For A Third Olympic Campaign Rohan Taylor, the man who steered Australia to gold-studded Olympic campaigns in Tokyo and Paris, has been reappointed as head coach for the next Games in LA28. [caption id="attachment_485674" align="alignleft.....

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has released the December edition of the Division I Top 25 dual meet poll, with the University of Virginia women and Texas men retaining their top spots to close out the calendar year. The committee, consisting of Division I coa....

Emerging Queensland Teen Lincoln Wearing Breaks Grant Hackett’s Long Standing 1500m Freestyle Age Record A star was born at the 2024 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships this week, with the arrival of a 15-year-old Brisbane schoolboy Lincoln Wearing who smashed a 28-year-old record held by ....

Many of the top male artistic swimmers from around the world came together for an elite camp in Barcelona. Under the guidance of expert coaches, the event showcased the growing prominence of men’s artistic swimming. The camp, Dec. 13-15,  at Sant Cugat, Barcelona, brought together 36 male athletes—1...

Olympic Medalist Bruno Fratus Announces Retirement Brazilian Olympic medalist Bruno Fratus announced his retirement from competitive swimming this week. Fratus made the announcement on social media, with posting confirmation of his formal withdrawal from the International Testing Agency’s list of ac...

Grass Roots to LA28: A Panel Discussion Featuring Some of the World's Greatest Coaches (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQjjxcKGLoc The Eastern States Clinic, which made its annual visit to the Philadelphia area in late September, featured some of the most notable coaching names in the sport....

Jordan Crooks Followed Unique Path to Becoming Fastest Man Ever The run to becoming a world-record holder was not without its stumbles for the best swimmer to ever come from the Cayman Islands, a country of less than 100 square miles and a population of under 100,000. Jordan Crooks was first pegged ...

The 7 Sins of Swimming (From the Archive - Originally Published 2017) By Chandler Brandes There is no such thing as a perfect swimmer. As swimmers, we sometimes (although rarely) make mistakes. We may DQ, forget our heat and lane, or even accidentally-on-purpose rip our cap at the exact moment a har...

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Luke Hobson, Jillian Cox Return From Worlds to Lead Texas to Sweep of Georgia Seventy-two hours earlier, Luke Hobson was in Budapest, winning a short course world title and a world record in the 200-meter freestyle. Now back with his University of Texas team in Austin, Hobson returned to yards and l...

Dryland Mania: Out-of-the-Pool Drills to Help You Succeed in the Water “Coming to practice is only part of being a great swimmer.” Those were the words my coach always used to tell me. Sure, swim Practice represents the best opportunity for a swimmer to get better. Through building strength and spee...

Army-Navy and College Swimming's Attendance Boom: A Significant Shakeup December 6 was a typical Thursday night in West Point, New York, with hundreds briskly shuffling in to watch their Knights compete. The stands were packed shoulder-to shoulder, anxious in their anticipation of the big event. Thi...

Poll: What Individual Women’s World Record Was Most Impressive at World Short Course Champs (VOTE HERE!) Earlier this week, Swimming World put together a poll that asked readers to choose the most impressive individual men's world record from the recently concluded World Short Course Championships i...

Olympic Mixed Relay Champion Anna Hopkin Retires After Career "Beyond Her Wildest Dreams" Anna Hopkin has announced her retirement after a decorated career in which she has won Olympic and European titles and paid visits to world and Commonwealth podiums. The 28-year-old posted to social media on Mo...