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Veteran Coach Scott Teeters to Lead Eastern Illinois Program Scott Teeters, a veteran head coach at the college level, has been hired to lead Eastern Illinois. Introduced on Thursday, he’s the 10th coach in program history but the fourth in as many seasons for a Panthers program that has seen recent...

Beyond Leon Marchand, European Men Packaged Dominant Showing at Paris Games How dominant were the European men at the Olympic Games in Paris? Have a look at these numbers. European men won all but three of the individual events at La Defense Arena, and of the 42 medals on offer in solo races, 24 wer...

Paris Olympics: Paige Madden Claiming 800 Freestyle Bronze Was Top Swimming Surprise Paige Madden left U.S. Nationals in 2023 seriously questioning whether she would ever make it back to representing her country at a senior-level international competition. She had missed the A-final in the 200 frees...

Q&A with Coach Gary Taylor: Guiding Thomas Heilman and Joining UVA's Powerhouse Program A seasoned college and club coach, Cavalier Aquatics head man Gary Taylor has spent the last three years training a strong cadre of senior swimmers to national and international prominence, including 2024 Olympia...

Legendary U.S. Relay Set for International Swimming Hall of Fame Induction; Foursome Achieved the Impossible The 59th annual International Swimming Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held Oct. 4-5 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As part of the festivities, the 1976 Team USA women's 400 freestyle r...

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming, today announced its roster for the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, to be held August 21-24 in Canberra, Australia. Athletes qualified based on results from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, presented by Lilly. “B...

Bill Furniss Retires As Aquatics GB Head Coach Following 19 Medals Across Three Olympics Bill Furniss is retiring as Aquatics GB Head Coach after overseeing a five-medal haul in Paris at his fourth Olympic Games  in the role. Furniss will head into retirement as the most successful Head Coach in the...

Three-Time Olympic Water Polo Player Kaleigh Gilchrist Retires Kaleigh Gilchrist, a two-time gold medalist and three-time Olympian for the U.S. women’s water polo team, announced her retirement on Thursday. The 32-year-old made the announcement on social media. She helped the U.S. win gold medals at...

Leon Marchand and His March to Olympic Legend: Nine Days of Greatness For nine days in the pool at the Paris Olympics, Leon Marchand brought down the house at the Paris La Defense Arena, metaphorically. At the end of two weeks in a home-country Olympics widely regarded as a successful spectacle, Mar...

Paris Olympics: Summer McIntosh Inspired Canada in Dominant, 'Surreal' Performance Three years earlier, Summer McIntosh had become one of the youngest Olympic swimming finalists in modern memory. In Tokyo, McIntosh was just 14, but she nearly pulled off a medal, swimming in third place behind an epi...

On This Date: Michael Phelps vs. Milorad Cavic: A Half-Stroke To History at Beijing Games With just a few strokes remaining in the 100-meter butterfly duel between Michael Phelps and Milorad Cavic at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Phelps’ pursuit of eight gold medals looked over. Cavic had a vis...

Veteran Coach Matt Hurst Taking Reins at Powerhouse Mercersburg Academy Mercersburg is pleased to introduce Matt Hurst as the new head swimming coach. Hurst, who coached swimming at Penn State University and Southern Connecticut State University–his alma mater, is excited to work with his longtime a...

What Makes the Perfect Swimmer's Body? Although swimmers with a wide variety of body types have found success in the sport, most at the international level tend to look similar, sporting tall and muscular bodies - typically with long torsos, long arms and short legs. This begs the question: If you c...

Notre Dame Men's Swimming Suspended At Least One Year After Gambling Investigation It was supposed to be the best year for the Notre Dame men's swimming program. With the program's first Olympian, things were looking up. They came crashing down on Thursday as the university announced it was suspendi...

Georgia Tech Head Coach Courtney Shealy Hart Departing after 15 Years Georgia Tech head coach Courtney Shealy Hart announced on Wednesday that she is stepping down after 15 years at the helm to pursue professional opportunities away from the pool. Hart was named Georgia Tech’s head coach in 2009-10....

Paris Olympics: In and Out of Pool, Katie Ledecky Brought Power and Grace to Latest Games At both the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 Games in Tokyo, Katie Ledecky faced the media at a press conference and let her emotions pour out. She spoke of the sport’s meaning in her life, and...

Paris Olympics: U.S.-China Mixed Medley Showdown Was Best Race of Games In the past two Olympic Games, the mixed 400 medley relay has been a wildly entertaining addition to the swimming program, with each nation making slightly different strategy choices to maximize strengths and mask their weakness...

5 Reasons to Continue Swimming as a Lifelong Sport By Lianne McCluskey U.S. Masters Swimming has referred to swimming as "the magic pill" for a reason - regardless of an individual's athletic ability, a person can pick up the sport at any time in their life. Here are five reasons why swimming is a w...

Eric the Eel: A Unique Tale of Hope and Struggle ... And Lifeguards on Alert The Olympic Games in Paris concluded, Swimming World takes a look back at the tale of Eric Moussambani, dubbed "Eric the Eel." The swimmer from Equatorial Guinea barely made it through his 100-meter freestyle at the 2000 Ga...

Klete Keller Rescues 18-Year-Old in Jet Ski Accident; Mom: 'Gave My Son Another Chance at Life' Five-time Olympic medalist Klete Keller can also be known as a lifesaver for his actions earlier this month in Florida earlier this month. Keller, who competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, was on ...