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Robert White Sr., a deeply respected and highly accoladed coach of 40 years and former Indiana University swimming star, passed away on Sunday, August 5, 2018 at the age of 91. White’s lifelong commitment and service to the sport garnered a NISCA Hall of Fame Award in 1999, forever memorialized at t...

The Kaitlin Sandeno Effect on Trials & Swimming Goes Beyond the Pool Kaitlin Sandeno has been around the sport of swimming for almost her entire life.  Sandeno, a two-time Olympian and four-time Olympic medalist, is a model of everything that USA Swimming represents; someone who has achieved excelle...

Throwback Thursday: Misty Hyman and Her Epic Olympic Upset (Video) On Sept. 19-20, 2000, Misty Hyman navigated a three-race journey that landed her Olympic glory. Twenty-four years later, we take a look at Hyman's epic upset of Susie O'Neill in the final of the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Olympi...

Olympic Gold Medalist Kaitlin Sandeno will be the host for swimming at this year’s Warrior Games, presented by The Department of Defense. The Warrior Games are a Paralympic-style competition for wounded, ill and injured service members. Athletes from the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and ...

The DC Trident of the International Swimming League (ISL) announced its roster during a league press conference on Tuesday. General Manager Kaitlin Sandeno has plenty of talent on her roster, led by Katie Ledecky. “Of course, I am absolutely thrilled to have Katie Ledecky on the DC Trident roster, n...

By Phillip Whitten and Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 16. WORLD records fell in all four final events on the first night of competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In fact, five world marks fell in the four events. Women's 400 IM - FINALS GOLD - Klochkova UKR 4:33.59 WORLD RECORD! SI...

By Sydney Mason, Swimming World College Intern. Many Swimming World readers grew up idolizing the great swimmers of the Athens, Beijing and London Olympic Games. However, a large number of these athletes have retired and are out of the spotlight. What happens to them after retirement? Do they hit th...

LOS ANGELES, May 7. EL TORO High senior Kaitlin Sandeno has done it all in her rather abbreviated but highly productive swimming career. She's been an Olympian, finaled in the "Big Show" and won Olympic bronze, set innumerable records and won innumerable races. But the future Trojan has yet to s...

by Phillip Whitten San Antonio, TX - Jenny Thompson and Lenny Krayzelburg both won their specialties in meet record time on the second night of competition at the U.S. Open Swimming Championships, being held at the Palo Alto College Natatorium in San Antonio. Thompson slashed more than a second and ...

The Fast and Furious Frenzy of the ISL — And Its Feasible Fatal Flaws Swimming deserves a real professional league, and through two full seasons plus the start of a third with the International Swimming League (ISL), the benefits to the sport have been obvious. Elite swimmers have the opportunity to...

What the Olympic Swimming Trials Mean to the State of Indiana In the State of Indiana, sports are a sacred pastime.  From high school boys basketball, dubbed “Hoosier Hysteria,” to the backing of the Indianapolis Colts - regardless of record - Indiana residents rally around their sports teams, and s...

ISL Managers and Mentors Talk Through Challenges of New Pro Era  The International Swimming League (ISL), the pioneering global Pro-Team tour that gets its first season underway next month, offers “the only chance in history” to drag the sport into a truly professional era. The quote came from John ...

Ian Finnerty, DC Trident. In the lead-up to the first International Swimming League pro-team season, Swimming World will look at some of the pioneers of a new chapter unfolding in the sport. Today: Fastest breaststroker in NCAA history. Pioneers Of Pro-Team Swimming • Olivia Smoliga • Katie McLaugh....

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 19. It's the half-way point of the swimming portion of the Olympics. Excitement is still at a fever pitch and every event seems to be a new world or Olympic record, produce a surprise winner, or hold a special story. Tonight's competition at...

By Michael Collins & Phillip Whitten SYDNEY, September 16. OLYMPIC records were set in two events during prelims of the first day of competition at the Olympic Games here in sunny Sydney, Australia. Australia's golden boy, Ian Thorpe, cracked Russia's Evgeny Sadovyi's 1992 mark of 3:45.0...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 22. The seventh, and next to last day of swimming in the Olympics produced one world record and three Olympic marks. Meanwhile, Team USA continued to dominate the medal count, winning three of five events. Women's 200 Backstroke Final Gold - Moc...

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, May 26. CRISTINA Teuscher dominated some very tough competition to score back-to-back victories on the first night of competition at the Cadillac Challenge Swim Series, held at the Canham Natatorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The 1996 Olympian, swimming for her ...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23. IT was a night of celebration in Fukuoka, courtesy of a world record of 59.94 seconds by Roman Sloudnov, of Russia, in the second semi-final of the 100m breaststroke, and two European records in the 200m butterfly. The first of those went to Germany's Annik...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, Texas. March 28. ED MOSES finally entered the Promised Land--a world record--tonight at the U.S. National Swimming Championships. Moses' time of 1:00.29 broke the old global mark of 1:00.36 set last year by Russia's Roman Sloudnov. It also broke the American record...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Two-time backstroke world champion Lenny Krayzelburg, the reigning king in the specialty, easily defeated a strong field to win the 200m backstroke to highlight the second day of the sixth annual Janet Evans Invitational on Friday (July 16) at the USC McDonald’s Swim Stadium in the...