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Matheny Takes World Junior C’ships Silver In New 100 Breast NAG Of 1:00.17

Josh Matheny powered his way to the silver medal in the men’s 100m breast at the World Junior Championships tonight, lowering his newly-minted NAG as well.

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Cusinato Ilaria: “I Can’t Leave Anything Behind,” That’s why I chose Shane

Ilaria Cusinato: “I Can’t Leave Anything Behind”. That’s why I chose Shane. The Italian IMer talks about some details of this choice

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Van Der Merwe Clocks 50m Breast Age Record, Becomes 7th Fastest Briton Ever

16-year-old Kayle Van Der Merwe became Britain’s 7th fastest 50m breaststroker ever with her 30.91 silver medal-worthy swim tonight in Budapest.

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Tomac Lowers Own French Age Record For 17-Year-Olds With 54.17 100 Back

Mewen Tomac of France lowered his own Age Record in the 100m back en route to 4th place at the World Junior Championships in Budapest.

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Italy’s Ceccon Knocks Down World Junior C’ships Record With 53.46 100 Back

18-year-old Thomas Ceccon is the king of the men’s 100m backstroke, winning the World Junior Championships title in a new meet record of 53.46.

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2019 FINA World Juniors Day 2 Finals: 11 events, 0 scratches

Carson Foster has a tough double on Wednesday night in Budapest, swimming in finals of the 200 free and 200 IM.

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Natsumi Sakai Takes Double Gold At Japan High School C’ships

At the Japanese High School Championships this week, Rio Olympian Natsumi Sakai took home gold medals in the women’s 100m and 200m back.

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2019 World Junior Championships: Day 2 Finals Preview

Italian Thomas Ceccon will contend for the men’s 100 back title after setting the championship record in the heats.

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2019 World Junior Championships: Day 2 Prelims Recap

Carson Foster completed an impressive double during day two prelims with swims in the men’s 200 IM and 200 free, qualifying first and second overall.

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Sabitova, Cohen Groumi Scratch Prelims Events on Day 2 at 2019 World Juniors

One swimmer who has not scratched his prelims events is Gianluca Urlando who is entered in the 100 fly and 200 free on Wednesday.

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2019 World Junior Championships: Day 2 Prelims Preview

Senior World Champs silver medalist Andrei Minakov could take a shot at a world junior record in the 100 fly this morning.

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Liz Jantausch Makes Verbal Commitment to Cincinnati for 2020-21

Liz Jantausch from Countryside YMCA in Lebanon, Ohio has verbally committed to swim for the University of Cincinnati in the class of 2024.

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Norway’s Mats Kamnes Commits to University of the Cumberlands

Mats Kamnes, a freestyle and breaststroke swimmer from Norway, has committed to swim for University of the Cumberlands beginning fall 2019.

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Shane Tusup Posts “Episode 1” of Olympic Dark Horse YouTube Series

Shane Tusup returned to deck as a swim coach on Monday for the first time in over a year. He’s in Italy, where he’ll train Ilaria Cusinato toward the Tokyo Olympics.

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Cody Miller to Change His Breaststroke Pullout After Relay DQ in Lima

What Miller was disqualified for, doing mulptiple dolphin kicks off a turn, is a relatively common breaststroke DQ. In his latest vlog, he talks about that call.

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