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Vintage Simone Manuel Starts 2025 Strong With Two Wins in Westmont For more than two years, Simone Manuel was nowhere close to her previous perch as best female sprinter in the United States and among the best in the world. Her struggles with Overtraining Syndrome had almost knocked her off the Toky...

Adam Peaty Inspired By Own Experiences To Help Working-Class Swimmers Reach Their Potential Adam Peaty has been inspired by the help he got from family and friends when he was a teenage hopeful to support other swimmers from working-class backgrounds to realise their potential. The triple Olympic ch...

NCAA Division II Champs: Tampa and Nova Southeastern Chasing Title Repeats (Meet Preview) This year’s NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division II Swimming and Diving Championships will be held as part of the 2025 NCAA Division II Winter Festival, hosted by the Indiana Sports Corp and the University of Indian...

Cal Poly Athletes Evan Yoo and Alex Seybold Join Big Friendly Swim Podcast to Discuss Team Cut (Video) The Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo athletic department announced Friday the discontinuation of both swimming and diving programs, effective immediately. For a team that has had historic success this sea...

Once Untouchable, Summer McIntosh Has Placed Target on 200 Butterfly World Record Sift through the list of world records and two – one male and one female – inarguably stand out as the most daunting. On the men’s side, there is the 800-meter freestyle standard of China’s Zhang Lin, who clocked 7:32....

USA Swimming has released its annual membership demographics report. The report breaks down the number of members, where they are from and more. The report was prepared by the Member Services staff based on registration data for the 2024 membership year (September 1, 2023 through December 31, 2024)....

TYR Pro Series Westmont, Day Four Finals: Regan Smith and Kate Douglass Double; Shaine Casas Makes It Six Wins The first major U.S. long-course competition of the 2025 campaign has featured plenty of speed over the past few days, with Summer McIntosh and Shaine Casas starring during the first two fu...

A Flying Start: The First World Record of Olympic Legend Michael Phelps In Swimming World Magazine’s latest edition of World Record Flashback, we take a trip to the Jamail Swim Center on the campus of the University of Texas. There, in early 2001, Michael Phelps set the first world record of his car...

Battling Cancer, High School Inspiration Jack Punswick Finishes Second at Kansas State Champs In 2024, as a junior, Jack Punswick won the Kansas 6A swimming state title in the 100-yard breaststroke. His time of 57.94 was massive personal best, over a second and a half faster than his prelims swim. A...

Ellen Walshe Downs Irish 200 Fly Record from 1996 Olympics Ellen Walshe on Saturday took down an Irish record that had stood in the hands of Michelle Smith since the 1996 Olympics. Walshe, a two-time Olympian, swam 2:08.42 in the 200 fly on Saturday at the Leinster Aspiring Champions Meet in Dublin....

Freeman Sweeps Boys and Girls Titles at Virginia Class 5 Championships; Nathan Szobota Shines Decisive. Beginning, and end of statement, as Richmond’s Douglas Freeman boys and girls topped their opposition in the Virginia Class 5 swim and dive competitions held at the Hampton Aquaplex and the Colleg...

TYR Pro Swim Series: Olympic Showdown Set in 100 Back The TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Westmont is not short on big names and thus big matchups. But even among that, the field for the women’s 100 backstroke will stand out prominently Saturday night, the final evening of the meet. Four members of the ...

Claire Weinstein Again Visits Rare Territory in the 500-Yard Freestyle at Sectionals Rare are the moments when a female swimmer dips under the 4:30 mark in the 500-yard freestyle, but Team USA standout Claire Weinstein once again visited that territory on Friday night. Representing the Sandpipers of...

IWD: Setting the Pace: 5 Women Who Changed the Sport of Swimming Today, March 8, we celebrate International Women's Day. As a tribute to the women who have contributed to, grown and defined excellence in the sport, Swimming World will recognize some of the great women and achievements in swimming hi...

TYR Pro Series Westmont, Day Three Finals: Summer McIntosh Blasts U.S. Open Record in 400 IM; Shaine Casas Continues Roll As an early March competition in the first year since an Olympic Games, there was guarded optimism concerning the performances that would come out of this week’s USA Swimming TYR...

Luka Mijatovic Improves 400 Free NAG at TYR Pro Swim Series Luka Mijatovic improved his 400 freestyle national-age group record for 15- and 16-year-olds on Thursday night at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont. Mijatovic went 3:48.95 in the A final. That trims three tenths off his record, set at Jun...

Texas Men, Virginia Women Finish Atop Final CSCAA Dual-Meet Poll The University of Texas Men and University of Virginia Women finished atop the final College Swimming Coaches Association of America dual-meet poll, released Thursday. Both teams were unanimous picks, the Longhorns after an 8-0 mark in...

Cal Poly to Cut Swimming and Diving, Citing House Settlement Cal Poly is cutting its swimming and diving programs, its president announced in a letter on Friday. The decision was one aspect of a larger letter on “budget and organizational changes” distributed by president Jeffrey D. Armstrong. In ad...

TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont: Kate Douglass Navigates 50 Stroke Double Kate Douglass had a busy morning Friday at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont, with the back-to-back 50 breaststroke and butterfly. As has come to be expected from the former University of Virginia star and five-time Olympic med...

Miami University (Ohio) Men and Indiana State Women Claim Missouri Valley Conference Team Titles The 2025 Missouri Valley Conference Championships wrapped up for both men and women over the last two weeks. Miami University (Ohio) took the men's championship while Indiana State won the women's team t...