Articles by Braden Keith

FINA Will Award NFTs to Record Breakers at 2022 World Championships

Only one of the two individual World Record breakers from Tokyo will race at this year’s World Championships: American Caeleb Dressel.

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Arno Kamminga Isn’t Entered in 50 Breast at World Championships

Arno Kamminga, the odds-on favorite to win the men’s 100 breaststroke at the World Championships, won’t race the 50 meter distance.

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Olympic Gold Medalist Melanie Margalis Joins Georgia Tech Swimming Coaching Staff

The Georgia Tech coaching staff in total have 61 CSCAA All-America awards and three Olympic gold medals from their time as athletes.

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Two Years Out from Trials: How Do Indianapolis and Omaha Stack Up?

Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium will be the biggest venue yet for the 2024 US Olympic Trials. How does the rest of the city stack up against Omaha?

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Louisville Hires Ohio State Assistant Bryon Tansel as Associate Head Coach

Bryon Tansel is taking a climb up the ladder, going from assistant coach at Ohio State to associate head coach at Louisville.

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Belgium Hires Fred Vergnoux as Federation’s New Top Coach

Fred Vergnoux, coach of Mireia Belmonte among others, will move from Spain to Belgium to take over the top coaching post of Belgium Swimming.

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Cal All-Americans Isabelle Stadden and Ayla Spitz Enter NCAA Transfer Portal

Two-time Pac-12 Champion and US National Team member Isabelle Stadden (above) has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal amid the fallout of the Teri McKeever abuse allegations.

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Junior Jane Koch Will Stay In-Town With Commitment to Swim at South Carolina

Jane Koch attends high school just two miles from the University of South Carolina campus. She’ll stay close to home with her commitment to swim for the Gamecocks in 2023

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FINA Won’t Require Isolation for COVID-19 Close Contacts at Worlds If Vaccinated

While individuals will not be required to be vaccinated to participate in the World Championships, vaccinated individuals will be treated differently when positive tests inevitably happen.

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Holloway Officiates as Wolfpack Alums Coleman Stewart and Olivia Calegan Wed

Coleman Stewart and Olivia Calegan (above) met when Calegan came to NC State for her freshman orientation. The coach who recruited them both officiated their wedding on Saturday.

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NCAA Champion Andrei Minakov Wins 100 Fly on Friday at Santa Clara International

The George Haines International, a meet that was formerly a regular on the Pro Swim Series circuit, has attracted some of the top regional college swimmers.

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Former Cal Assistant Dani Korman Returns to Yale as Assistant Coach

In Korman’s last stint at Yale, Jim Henry was the coach of just the women’s swimming & diving team at Yale. She now returns to a combined-gender program.

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10-Event School Record Holder Geena Freriks Returns to Kentucky as a Coach

Geena Freriks replaces Bridgette Alexander, another former Wildcat swimmer, on the Kentucky swimming & diving coaching staff for 2022-2023.

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Avery Clapp Commits to D3 Johns Hopkins with Multiple NCAA “A Final” Times Already

Clapp will become one of the best recruits in JHU history with times that would already make a national impact at the NCAA Division III level.

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Brody Lewis Returns to Utah as Assistant Swim Coach

Brody Lewis has been announced as the new assistant swimming coach at Utah under the program’s first year head coach Jonass Person.

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