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USA Swimming Foundation Awards $865K In 2025 Learn-to-Swim Grant Funding For Lesson Providers

These funds will be distributed across 36 states to provide roughly 13,500 individuals with the opportunity to learn the lifesaving skill of water safety.

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Mike Novell Leaves Fort Collins Area Swim Team After 11 Years For Role With USA Swimming

Mike Novell, longtime assistant coach at FAST, is stepping away to begin a new position as a senior advisor within USA Swimming’s Team Services department.

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U.S. Center For SafeSport Fires CEO Ju’Riese Colón

Colón, who chaired the U.S. Center for SafeSport since 2019, was fired following a SafeSport investigator getting arrested on rape charges.

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Dressel, Ledecky, McIntosh & Marchand Headline Loaded Fort Lauderdale PSS Psych Sheets

Caeleb Dressel will make its 2025 competition debut next week in Fort Lauderdale as a star-studded cast of swimmers compete at the last Pro Swim of the year.

Claire Weinstein Turns In 1:58.06 200 FR At Team Rebel Opener

Former Sandpiper teammates Claire Weinstein and Bella Sims went head-to-head in the 200 free and 50 free in Las Vegas last weekend

USA Swimming Announces Yuri Suguiyama As National Team Senior Director and Coach

Suguiyama joins USA Swimming after seven seasons as the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers, aligning with another former NCAA coach, Greg Meehan.

Olympians, Former NCAA Champions Headline 2025 U.S. Masters Championships In San Antonio

Danish Olympian and former NC State Wolpfack Anton Ipsen, the 2018 NCAA champion in the 1650 free, will be in the field at this week’s Masters Nationals.

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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.

Shouts From The Stands: An Open Letter To USA Diving

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

OCEANMAN® Officially Launches in the United States

The world’s premier open water swimming series is now coming to the USA.

Stanford Posts Women’s Head Coaching Position With Salary Range Of $160,000-$195,000

Head coach Greg Meehan departed the program last week to become the next National Team Director with USA Swimming.

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.

Samusenko, Kolesnikov, & Lifintsev Move Into Top 5 World Rankings In Men’s 50 Back

The men’s 50 backstroke on day three of the 2025 Russian Swimming Championships saw three swimmers move into the top five world rankings.

The Story Behind Northwestern Swimming’s Largest Men’s NCAAs Contingent Since 2007

The Northwestern men made tremendous progress to get to the NCAA Championships, where they qualified their most swimmers at the meet in nearly two decades.

Martens 400Fr WR, Olympic 50s, & Meehan as Nat’l Team Director | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN

we discuss Lukas Martens’ huge world record in the 400m Free, 50s of stroke in the Olympics, and Greg Meehan as the new US National team director.