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Improving with Age, Natalie Coughlin is Making Her Mark with Gaderian Wines Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Natalie Coughlin is now enjoying the sweet taste of success as cofounder of Gaderian Wines in Napa Valley, Calif. There’s a fine line that Natalie Coughlin walks, one that she re...

Sprinter Cora Skoog Stays In State With 2026 Verbal To Texas A&M NEW COMMIT: Texas A&M University has kept in-state standout Cora Skoog of Boerne, Texas, in the Lone Star State for her college career after she announced her verbal commitment. She'll arrive on campus in Fall 2026. Regarding her commi...

Bolles School's Liam Carrington Selects NC State For 2026 NEW COMMIT: NC State University has scored a new verbal commitment for its Class of 2026 from Junior National finalist Liam Carrington of Jacksonville, Florida. He will join Sam Marsteiner in Raleigh as a member of the Wolfpack's Class of 203...

World Female Relay of the Year: United States Medley Relay Capped Olympic Games in Style As the athletes were called from the ready room for the final event of the Olympic Games in Paris, there was reason for the United States to feel upbeat. Its women’s 400-meter medley relay was without weakness, ...

Social Kick Podcast: Thanks to Experience, Rex Maurer Suggests This Set to Improve Your 500 Freestyle The crew at the Social Kick Podcast recently welcomed Rex Maurer for a comprehensive interview. Having Maurer as a guest on the show made total sense for hosts Bryan Lundquist and John Mullen, whose...

18 Essentials to Pack for Your Training Trip By Kelsey Mitchell With many swimmers set to take part in a training trip, Swimming World hopes the following article can be useful.  Packing for your team's training trip can be difficult, especially if you are going directly from winter break to your tr...

By Olivia McKelvey, Swimming World College Intern.  'Tis the season for coaches to inflict unlimited hours of training and pain upon their swimmers is now. In order to help all aquatic athletes - college, club, high school etc. - Swimming World has accumulated a list of tips and tricks to help you g...

American Coach of the Year: Todd DeSorbo Continues Leading Virginia Women on Dominant Run He has been the guiding force to the country's most dominant college program, with the University of Virginia having already won four consecutive NCAA titles in women's swimming and diving, and the Cavaliers ar...

Special Sets: The Training of Rising 11-Year-Old Standout Millie Conner It’s early yet. Still, that doesn’t stop 11-year-old Millie Conner from plotting her swimming career. It is mapped out in the 30-40 swimming journals she keeps “filled with words, time and personal goals, charts, graphs and thou...

A Swimmer's Starter Pack: What Screams 'Swimmer?' There are some things that just scream, “you’re a swimmer!” If swimmers had a starter pack, what do you think would be in it? Read along to see what critical items swimmers can’t live without, and what common looks identify a typical competitive swim...

A Letter To the Coach Who Left Me Throughout our careers, we will have relationships with a few different coaches. If we are lucky, we will get to know and be close to a few. Those relationships will be some of the most important and influential ones of your career and life. They mean a lot to you -...

From the Start, the 2024 Swimming Campaign Was Defined by Speed ... and a Fresh Approach to the Sport As the calendar flipped to 2024, maybe we should have known. The signs – after all – were there. For starters, we entered an Olympic year, which history suggests is almost always faster than a typic...

POLL: What Would You Rather Have: An Olympic Medal or World Record? (VOTE HERE) For athletes who reach the pinnacle of the sport, pursuing an Olympic podium and world records are targets of their training. For years, they have worked tirelessly to place themselves in esteemed company, their talent e...

How They Train: The Work of ASU Standout Jonny Kulow Under Coach Herbie Behm (Full Week of Sets) Early on, a Wyoming coach suggested to Bob Bowman that Lander Valley High School swimmer Jonny Kulow was someone to watch. Coming out of high school, Kulow was SwimCloud’s top-ranked swimmer in Wyoming (...

Katie Grimes, Claire Weinstein Return From Worlds to Post Strong Swims at Sectionals Less than a week after wrapping up competition at the Short Course World Championships in Budapest, American teenagers Katie Grimes and Claire Weinstein are competing again, this time in short course yards with thei...

Cody Miller Announces Retirement: "The Time Has Come — Sorta, Kinda" Following a lengthy and successful professional career highlighted by a strong performance at the 2016 Olympics, Cody Miller has announced his retirement. Miller revealed the news in a video on his popular YouTube channel. In that ...

Q&A With Arizona State Coach Herbie Behm By Michael J. Stott A sprinter himself Herbie Behm mastered the art of sprint coaching at Utah and with Bob Bowman at Arizona State University. When Bowman left for Texas this spring, Behm was promoted to ASU head coach and now has the Sun Devils once again v...

A Look and Breakdown Of the Legendary 100 x 100s Set Of Mike Bruner A tradition at some clubs during winter training is for athletes to complete a 100 x 100 workout. The set is an Ironman/Ironwoman accomplishment. So, as some swimmers prepare to tackle this grinding set, we visit the archive for a l...

An Explanation Of How Tech Suits Benefit Swimmers When it comes time to race, many swimmers, especially those racing in high-level competitions, wear specialized knee-length swimsuits known as tech suits. They're everywhere in the swimming world. But how do tech suits work? And do they actually make...

Boglárka Kapás On The Inspiration Of Krisztina Egerszegi, Standout Career Moments & "Remembering Everything" Boglárka Kapás was five when she watched a film about Krisztina Egerszegi, her fellow Hungarian and five-time Olympic champion. It lit a fire in the youngster who would go on to win Olympic b...