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Americans Release Full 28-Swimmer Roster for BHP Billiton SuperSeries, Including Open Water

Ryan Lochte is one of 28 American swimmers who will head down under later this month for a weekend of racing in Perth.

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2016 Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier Returning to Setubal, Portugal

Ous Mellouli (above), the defending Olympic champion in the 10km marathon swim, had to come through the last-chance Olympic qualifier meet to get his shot at gold in 2012.

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FINA Releases ‘Junior World Bests’ Short Course Standards In Order To Identify Junior World Records

The times were released today by FINA following the acceptance of short course Jr World Records as of January 1st, 2015, and are the first step in identifying official short course meters Junior World Record holders.

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USOC Meets Thursday To Select US Candidate City For The 2024 Olympic Games

Representatives from the USOC will be meeting Thursday, January 8th at the Denver International Airport to consider a U.S. bid…

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Tennessee’s Robles, Missouri’s Reedy heat up at the Tennessee Diving Invite

The Tennessee Diving Invitational offered an early look at how diving might impact conference and NCAA finishes this coming season, at least for the mainly-East Coast teams who attended.

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Forecasting the road to next year’s Rio Olympic Games

Now that the 2016 Rio Olympics are officially “next year,” let’s take a look back at the previous Olympic cycle to see just how much is likely to change between now and Rio.

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High School State Champs rundown: Every State Championship meet of 2015

You know it’ll be a great year of high school swimming when the nation’s best high school swimmer is also arguably the best female swimmer in the world. Case in point: Washington D.C.’s Katie Ledecky.

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Park Tae-Hwan Parts Ways with Michael Bohl; to Test SwimMAC Carolina Training

Korean swimming superstar Park Tae-Hwan has parted ways with his Australian coach Michael Bohl, with whom he has worked since 2010, and will…

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Swimming’s 2014 Person of the Year: Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps’ 2014 was up and down, and up and down, and at the end of it he says he’s learned. The final chapter will be written in 2015. It’s 2015, not 2016, that will determine how his legacy will be written.

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Pros Kennedy, Feigen, Weber Win First Ever WV 50 Competition

Madison Kennedy ruled the pool in West Virginia as she took home the sprint crown at the first ever “Harry Green WV50”.

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2014 Swammy Awards: United States Male Swimmer Of The Year Connor Jaeger

When looking back at the 2014 year years from now, two of the biggest historical factors will be records, and the fact that Jaeger was the first American to ever win gold in the 1500m freestyle at Pan Pacs.

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2014 Swammy Awards: Female Swimmer Of The Year Katie Ledecky

She had arguably the best long course season any swimmer has had since the end of the suit era, breaking a total of five world records.

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Hosszu Wins 6 More to Finish Indian Ocean Champs 16-for-17 in Individual Races

Katinka Hosszu went an incredible 16-for-17 at the Indian Ocean Championships that finished on Tuesday.

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2014 Swammy Awards: American Female Swimmer Of The Year Katie Ledecky

With the amount of success that Ledecky had in 2014, there is no doubt that she is the rightful recipient of the 2014 Swammy Award for 2014 American female swimmer of the year, and the winner of the award for the second year in a row.

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Katinka breaks Two Hungarian Records, Wins 5 of 6 on Day 2 of Indian Ocean Champs

Katinka Hosszu showed a little bit of a chip in the armor on Monday at the 2014 Indian Ocean Championships,…

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