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Swimming Australia to Hand Out Annual Awards on Monday in Brisbane

After a year full of impressive exploits, Cate Campbell is in line for several awards at the 2014 Australian Swimmer of the Year banquet.

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Morozov Breaks Russian Record, Hosszu Gets Hungarian Record on Day 1 of Salnikov Cup

The 2014 short course meters Salnikov Cup, featuring for the first time a prize pool of over 4 million Rubles…

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BREAKING: Michael Phelps Pleads Guilty to DUI

Michael Phelps, the winningest Olympian of all time with 18 gold medals, plead guilty and was sentenced on Friday in Maryland.

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Swim Coach Confidential: Oberlin College Coach Andrew Brabson

In only his second year as head coach, Coach Brabson has guided the Yeo swimmers to a wealth of success both in the pool and academically.

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George Bovell Wins Sports Personality Of the Year Award

Trinidad and Tobago’s star swimmer George Bovell was just awarded the Sports Personality of the Year award, chosen by the TV6 viewers. CCN TV6 In Trinidad is one of the main television networks, adding more prestige to the award.

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Katie Ledecky Honored as “Champion of Champions” By L’Equipe

Ledecky is the first swimmer to earn L’Equipe’s international “Champion of Champions” award, which has been presented annually since 1980.

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Bruno Fratus Swims Lifetime Best in 100 Free; DeDeus Breaks Brazilian Record

Bruno Fratus lifted a little further the hopes of the Brazilian 400 free relay going toward the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

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Michael Phelps Due in Baltimore Court Today

Michael Phelps, who was arrested on September 30 for excessive speed, DUI, and crossing double yellow lines, is scheduled to appear in court on December 19, 2014.

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2014 Commonwealth Games Champion Jazz Carlin Has a New coach

Britain’s current best distance swimmer Jazz Carlin has formalized her move to the Bath National Performance Centre.

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10 Ways You Know You’re a Swim Mom

#4 – You save “vacation days” at work to use for travel to out-of-town meets.

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Arena Signs Canadian Commonwealth Champion Katerine Savard

“Katerine is a bright young star in a very competitive event, so it’s with great pleasure that we welcome her to our team of elite athletes,” said Pierre Vermette, Director of Sales and Marketing of F3 Distribution Inc.. (Official distributor of Arena in Canada)

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Rittenhouse Leads 10-meter semifinals at 2014 USA Diving Winter National Championships

Rittenhouse was the only women’s 3-meter diver to score more than 300 points in both the preliminaries and semifinals and heads into the finals with 619.45 points.

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2014 Swammy Awards: Female Oceanic Swimmer of the Year Cate Campbell

Australian Cate Campbell had another fantastic summer putting up impressive results at both the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacific Championships…

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Dear Diary: A KMSC Pro-Am Adventure

A time-lapse of the first day-in-the-life of this particular pro athlete attending the King Marlin Swim Club Pro-Am for the second consecutive year!

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McBroom Swims 3rd-Fastest 1000 Free in History to Top Klueh at AESC Pro-Am

Three of the 20 fastest 1000 yard freestylers of all-time went lifetime bests on Thursday to kick off the AESC Pro-Am in Edmond, Oklahoma, including Michael McBroom (above).

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