Matt Fallon

Practice + Pancakes: Penn Breaststroke Group Goes SCM Pace 50s, Friday Power

University of Pennsylvania, the new home to national teamer (200 breast) and freshman Matt Fallon, is no stranger to elite breaststroke

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1,239 Swimmers Named to USA Swimming 2021 Scholastic All-American Team

Olympians Lydia Jacoby (pictured) and Torri Huske headlined the 2021 selection to the USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Team.

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Ranking The 2021 Men’s NCAA Recruiting Classes: Honorable Mentions

Griffin Hadley (pictured) brings a strong free/back presence to the Tennessee Volunteers this season.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 1/3 Think Aiden Hayes Will Be Highest Impact Freshman Sprinter

Just over one-third of readers picked top-ranked recruit Aiden Hayes to have the highest-impact freshman season among male freestyle sprinters.

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Re-Rank: Top 20 Boys NCAA Swimming Recruits, Class of 2021

See how we re-ranked the boys’ high class of 2022 as these swimmers enter the NCAA for their freshman seasons.

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Junior of the Meet Matt Fallon Goes Into Detail on Breakout 2021 Olympic Trials

Fallon had my personal favorite swim of the meet in the 200 breast semis, where he touched 8th at the 100 wall and then came home in 1:05.2 to touch 1st

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2021 US Olympic Trials: SwimSwam’s Awards

It was a fun, exhausting, and at-times surprising week in Omaha. Check out our full list of Olympic Trials award winners here.

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2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

Caeleb Dressel’s first opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team comes in tonight’s final of the men’s 100 freestyle.

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2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 5 Finals Preview

Day 5 in Omaha will feature 4 semifinals and 4 finals. Olympians will be crowned tonight in the men’s 800 FR, men’s 200 BR, women’s 200 FL, and men’s 100 FR.

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Matt Fallon: “To feel like that on the last 100 again, that’s just the goal”

Fallon dropped more than a second off his best time from this morning’s prelims in 2:10.13, and then turned things up a couple notches in tonight’s semis.

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2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Night 4 Finals Photo Vault

Night 4 of the US Olympic Trials saw many qualify for their first Olympic team as well as some veterans. Here are the top shots from the electric night.

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2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

It will be a busy session for Katie Ledecky tonight, as she’ll have both the women’s 200 free final and the 1500 free final just over an hour apart.

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Matt Fallon and Nic Fink Went To The Same High School

18-year-old Matt Fallon broke the 17-18 National Age Group tonight to win the 200 breast semifinal. Nic Fink (above) took second place overall from heat one

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2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Day 4: What It Does It Take to Make it Back?

We came within a tenth of a second of seeing it take a sub-49 to make semi-finals of the men’s 100 free, as Dean Farris took 16th in prelims with that time.

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2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

Caeleb Dressel leads a loaded field into the men’s 100 freestyle preliminaries on Wednesday morning.

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