Description
Read about the swimmers of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series in Santa Clara, California, catch up with some of your favorites in the water, take a look back in swimming history, and meet 2018’s recipients of The Cutino Awards for water polo.
010 TYR PRO SWIM SERIES – SANTA CLARA PHOTO GALLERY
by Becca Wyant
024 2018 TYR PRO SWIM SERIES – SANTA CLARA – FULL FINALS RECAPS by Diana Pimer, Chandler Brandes and Dan D’Addona
Full event-by-event coverage of all four nights, June 7-10, at the George F. Haines International Swim Center.
032 KATIE LEDECKY QUICK TO FIGURE OUT PRO SWIMMING
by David Rieder
Swimming might be Katie Ledecky’s job now, but she won’t think of the sport any differently than she did before. Already, in two months, she’s mastered the essence of professional swimming—and that means you need to be on record-lookout any time she’s entered in a race.
034 CAELEB DRESSEL FOLLOWING IN FOOTSTEPS OF MICHELANGELO
by David Rieder
Michelangelo, known primarily as a sculptor in the early 1500s, mastered a medium in which he was unfamiliar and inexperienced: he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Five hundred years later, Caeleb Dressel has already mastered sprint freestyle and butterfly. Now, he’s beginning to take on several other “off” events and is excelling in them as well.
037 NATIONAL TEAM MEMBER HANNAH STEVENS RETIRES FROM SWIMMING
by Taylor Brien
Hannah Stevens, a 14-time NCAA All-American at the University of Missouri and a 2017 U.S. national champion in the 50 meter back, announced her retirement from the sport of swimming, citing recurring back problems as the major driving force for her decision.
038 MISSY FRANKLIN’S VICTORY AT MARE NOSTRUM SERIES WAS SIMPLY HER RETURN
by Dan D’Addona
Missy Franklin, five-time Olympic gold medalist and current world record holder in the women’s 200 back, didn’t win any events during the Mare Nostrum Swim Series…but the fact that she’s back competing in the sport after a two-year absence due to depression and surgery on both shoulders is more of a victory than anything she could have done in the pool.
039 DEATH OF BODE MILLER’S DAUGHTER REITERATES NEED FOR DROWNING PREVENTION KNOWLEDGE
by Dan D’Addona
U.S. Olympic skier Bode Miller’s 19-month-old daughter, Emeline, recently drowned in a Southern California swimming pool. Here are some important things to know about drowning prevention, according to healthychildren.org: what you should do in a drowning emergency and knowing the warning signs.
040 THE FANTASTIC FOUR SWIMMERS WHO MADE HISTORY AT NCAA DI MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
by Grant Anger
Only four men in the history of swimming have won NCAA Division I titles in the 100 and 200 of their stroke four years in a row: John Naber, Pablo Morales, Brendan Hansen and Ryan Murphy.
042 LAKE FOREST SWIM CLUB: WINNING IN THE WATER SINCE 1958
by Kelsey Mitchell
The Lake Forest Swim Club of Illinois—founded by Ray Essick, the first executive director of USA Swimming…and previous home to Olympians Conor Dwyer, Matt Grevers and Puerto Rico’s Doug Lennox—is celebrating its 60th birthday this year.
044 THE CUTINO AWARDS: WHY WATER POLO IS BEST IN THE WEST
by Michael Randazzo
Cal’s Luca Cupido and USC’s Amanda Longan were recently named winners of the Peter J. Cutino Award, considered the most prestigious individual award in American collegiate water polo. More than 200 people, including some of the most accomplished and influential Americans in the sport, attended the 19th annual event, held at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
