2017 Arena Pro Swim Series: Mesa - (Tag)

Ali DeLoof dominated the women's 100 back, clocking in at 59.43, tied for the fourth fastest time in the world. Hear what she had to say afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gky3o4hfTcw DeLoof explained why she was so shocked at her final time, and she discussed how life has changed since bec...

Taylor Ruck swam the 200 IM on the final day of the arena Pro Swim Series in Mesa, less than a week after competing at Canada's national meet. In Mesa, she spoke with Swimming World. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ZXCB5AHtQ Ruck did not qualify for the World Championships for Canada, and she expl...

The heat sheets have been posted for the first night of finals at the arena Pro Swim Series meet in Mesa, Ariz. The session begins at 5 p.m. local time (same as PT), and live coverage will be available on Swimming World. Click here to view the full heat sheet. The session kicks off with the 100 free...

Women's 200 IM It was a battle to the finish in the women's 200 IM, highlighted by strong competition between Madisyn Cox and Melanie Margalis. Neither swimmer began the race ahead, both slipping behind throughout different legs of the race. Margalis delivered a strong breast leg to turn first at th...

Michael Andrew finished fifth in the men's 50 free final at the arena Pro Swim Series meet in Mesa and discussed his effort afterwards with Swimming World. https://youtu.be/c2jnmWM1T0U Andrew explained why he decided to pass on swimming the 400 IM to focus on the 50 free and what he thinks he got ou...

Swimming World was on deck this past weekend at the Arena Pro Swim Series stop in Mesa collecting video interviews with all of the meet's top performers. Below, you can watch any of the 30 interviews from the meet. Those interviewed included Katie Ledecky, Nathan Adrian, Simone Manuel, Matt Grevers ...

Simone Manuel won the 50 free and took third in the 200 free on night two at the arena Pro Swim Series in Mesa and afterwards spoke about her double. https://youtu.be/yt_-4zhSXZY Manuel explained how she's figuring out how to swim the 200 free more efficiently after fading badly down the stretch in ...

The last night of the 2017 arena Pro Swim Series Mesa was highlighted by a slew of Olympians posting top finishes. Katie Ledecky secured an easy win in the women's 800 free, while fellow 2016 Olympian Chase Kalisz grabbed wins in the 200 fly and 200 IM. Breaststrokers Kevin Cordes and Katie Meili da...

Mary-Sophie Harvey and Eva Merrell were both event winners on night two at the arena Pro Swim Series meet in Mesa, while Michael Weiss was a member of the 2015 U.S. World Championships team who swam in the B-final of the men's 200 free. Watch video interviews with all three from during the day at Sk...

The 2017 arena Pro Swim Series splash back into action tomorrow morning with the first session. Heat sheets are now available and exciting races are expected with a total of eight events on the docket. DAY ONE PRELIMS HEAT SHEETS Events:  Women's 100 Free Men's 100 Free Women's 200 Breast Men's 200 ...

Watch Kevin Cordes discuss his win in the men's 100 breast at the arena Pro Swim Series meet in Mesa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwiIyCJZTak Cordes explained how he returned to full-on training at Auburn right around the new year and how training has changed since he returned from Singapore, ev...

Men's 100 Breast Kevin Cordes maintained control over the men's 100 breast from start-to-finish. Cordes blasted ahead of the competition to pick up a smooth finish of 1:00.78, finishing over half a second ahead of the field. Josh Prenot picked up second with a time of 1:01.40, just ahead of Louisvil...

Women's 200 Fly Kelsi Worrell cruised to an easy victory in finals of the women's 200 fly. Worrell pulled ahead early in the race and never looked back, stopping the clock at a final 2:09.04 for the gold. Worrell's time moves her into the top 20 world rankings for 2017. Lauren Case finished second o...

The third and final day of the 2017 arena Pro Swim Series Mesa has elapsed, but not without some dominating swims. Katie Ledecky continued to flex her reign over the distance events with a top showing in the 800 free, while Chase Kalisz collected another two victories in both the 200 fly and 200 I....

Women's 800 Free Katie Ledecky continued to reign over the distance events with a top showing in the 800 free. Ledecky, the Olympic gold medalist in this event, posted a sizzling 8:15.44 to blast up world rankings for 2017. The previous world leading time was an 8:23.08 set by Ariarne Titmus at the ...

Check out interviews with sprinters Madison Kennedy and Katrina Konopka and backstroker Erin Voss at the arena Pro Swim Series meet in Mesa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PZn6hp0GA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_IVV47ohfs https://youtu.be/sSYtLiBNpWY Kennedy discussed why she still enjoys com...

The heat sheets are now available for the final session of the arena Pro Swim Series meet in Mesa. The session will include finals of the women's and men's 200 fly, 100 breast, 100 back and 200 IM, along with the women's 800 and men's 1500 free. Click here to view the full heat sheet. Ella Eastin, t...

Olympian Tom Shields got his summer started with a solid 100 butterfly win with a 52.42. Shields pulled away over the last 50 with a win over Tim Phillips (52.87) and Marius Kusch (53.43). Shields is the go-to butterflyer for the United States with the impending retirement of the greatest of all-tim...

By David Rieder. He’s accomplished just about everything one could want in the sport of swimming. And after three Olympics and eight medals, five of them gold, Nathan Adrian has returned to competition for another go-round. If it seems like Adrian has been around forever, there’s good reason for tha...

Women's 400 Individual Medley It was a battle for first in the women's 400 individual medley (IM) with multiple swimmers exchanging the lead throughout. The race began with Ella Eastin of Stanford grabbing an early lead with the fly leg, before Stanford teammate Katie Ledecky edged ahead in the back...