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How To Get The 2025 Women in Swimming Magazine With The Regan Smith Cover

8x Olympic medalist Regan Smith graces the cover of SwimSwam Magazine’s 2025 Women In Swimming Issue, a 172-page collector’s edition.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 35% Most Excited To See Marchand Racing In Fort Lauderdale

Leon Marchand’s appearance at the Fort Lauderdale Pro Swim marks his first time racing since the 2024 World Cup circuit last fall.

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Why Swimming’s Future Depends on More Captains and Fewer Lone Wolves

Swimming is hard. Leading is even harder. But when the two are taught together, something incredible happens.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 40.6% Think Cielo’s 20.91 50 Free Is Next Super-Suited Record To Fall

In the 15-plus years since Cesar Cielo set the 50 free world record of 20.91 in late December 2009, no one has come within a tenth of that time.

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Swim Across America Grants $900,000 Toward First-of-Its-Kind Gene Editing Innovation

Revolutionary CRISPR gene editing and other cell and gene therapy editing takes center stage in finding ways to effectively treat cancer.

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Shouts From The Stands: An Open Letter To USA Diving

Former NCAA diver David Hoffer raises his concerns with the direction of USA Diving.

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How To Use Stroke Rate To Build Stroke Length

Giving swimmers a set stroke rate and then asking them to go continuously get faster, without changing their stroke rate, is a beneficial drill.

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A Not-So Tall-Tale From A Christmas Training Trip

How a beach day turned into an accidental case of grand theft auto, with six embarrassed swimmers, one magical key, and no chance of ever living it down.

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Leon Marchand Named On TIME Magazine’s List Of World’s Most Influential People

Marchand’s tribute in the article was written by another swimmer who gained fame and world acclaim in Paris for a four-medal performance, Summer McIntosh.

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SwimSwam Pulse: Swim Fans Split On Addition of Stroke 50s To Olympic Schedule

There’s been a wide range of reactions to the stroke 50s being added to the Olympics, with 42% loving it, 31% hating it, and the rest left undecided.

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Jenny Shaughnessy Ferris: Parents, Brother Were #1 Support System For 2022 M Club HOF Swimmer

Shaughnessy Ferris was a 12-time All-American, eight-time Big Ten champion and the female U of M recipient of the prestigious 2009 Big Ten Medal of Honor.

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US Olympian Jay Litherland Is Moving to Japan to Pursue His Music Career

Jay Litherland, along with his brothers Kevin and Mick, are throwing themselves into the Tokyo music scene via their group TRiiiPSS.

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Martin Zielinski: Longtime Record Holder Now Chief of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery At Baylor

A seven-time Big Ten champion and 10-time NCAA Division I All-American in the pool, Zielinski is now the Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Baylor.

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Watch A Mic’d Up Penny Oleksiak Attend Brother’s NHL Game In Seattle

Oleskiak and a friend sat front row at the game, mainly to watch Oleksiak’s older brother Jamie, a 32-year-old defenseman for the Kraken. 

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Masters Sports: The Hidden Gem We Shouldn’t Ignore

No matter the sport, athletes who return to competition later in life show incredible resilience, passion, and love for their craft.

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