USA Swimming Foundation's Make A Splash is holding a drawing for a trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The trip includes transportation, lodging, and lots of other goodies. You can ... Read More

Many ideas have been proposed in an attempt to describe how elite swimmers propel themselves through the water. In relatively recent times, long-standing and credible ideas have been discredited. For ... Read More

Prime is the term we use to state that the air has been mostly purged from the swimming pool water pump and that the filter pump is moving pool water. ... Read More

Ice Right is an easy system to use for ice and compression treatment of a variety of injuries. The Ice Right would work very well for ice and compression injury ... Read More

American Mimi Hughes is now set to swim 700km down the Drava and Mura Rivers to help raise environmental awareness. Starting in Austria on 1 June, Hughes will begin ... Read More

On the 15 July 2007 British endurance swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh is attempting to become the first ever person to swim at the geographic North Pole in near freezing temperatures. ... Read More

One of the most important actions to learn for competitive swimming is the underwater dolphin kick. Its usefulness was apparent at the recent World Championships, especially as we watched Michael ... Read More

Officials of the Omaha Sports Commission, USA Swimming, City of Omaha and Qwest Center Omaha announced today that approximately 9,000 all-session tickets to the 2008 Olympic Team Trials for Swimming, ... Read More

So, you want to improve your swimming ability or swim competitively, but aren't sure about the next step - or you have taken time off and want to "get back ... Read More

Getting your swimming pool open in the Spring is much easier if your swim pool cover stays on during the Winter. Having your pool cover fall into the swimming pool ... Read More

The full results are now on-line for the 2007 National Open Water Swimming Festival in Fort Meyers, Florida. USA Swimming Championships in the 5k, 10k, and 25k were contested, along ... Read More

The 2007 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships wrapped up today in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., with the men’s and women’s 25K. Winning the men’s race was Mark Warkentin of ... Read More

This swimming workout has swims that get shorter while the swimmer aims to hold a steady, strong effort on the first part of each swim, and a slightly faster ... Read More

Olympic Swimmer Katie Hoff turned in two gold medal-winning performances as the final day of action at the 2007 Eric Namesnik Grand Prix Swim Meet drew to a close in ... Read More

Prelims for 10 events were contested tonight, in preparation for tomorrow’s morning finals session. The 2007 Eric Namesnik Memorial Grand Prix will draw to close tomorrow, after finals in the ... Read More

The family of TRISWIM products do what they are intended to do, and they do it very well. After a month of testing, the swimmers that have used the TRISWIM ... Read More

Chip Peterson and Chloe Sutton won their second titles of the week Saturday at the 2007 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships. Peterson, of North Carolina Aquatic Club, won the ... Read More

Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) brought his meet total to five individual first-place finishes after winning three events Saturday morning. Phelps won the 100m fly, 200m free and 100m backstroke on ... Read More

Ladies and gentlemen, set your alarm clocks, the Hoff-Phelps-Lochte show begins at 9 a.m. Saturday. Olympians Katie Hoff (Towson, Md.) Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) and Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.) ... Read More

The Fastlane Wall-Mount Swimming Machine by Endless Pools attaches directly to the wall of a swimming pool. The Fastlane produces a smooth, broad, adjustable-speed swim current in the pool that ... Read More

Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) and Kaitlin Sandeno (Lake Forest, Calif.) each earned two individual first-place finishes on day two of the 2007 Eric Namesnik Grand Prix at Canham Natatorium in ... Read More

Two highly favored swimmers won the men’s and women’s 5K race Thursday at USA Swimming’s Open Water National Championships. Defending 5K national champion Chip Peterson, of North Carolina Aquatic Club, ... Read More

The Eric Namesnik Memorial Grand Prix kicked off in Ann Arbor, Mich., tonight, with top swimmers advancing in six events. The finals of the 400m freestyle, 200m individual medley and ... Read More

This swimming workout features three longer swims followed by two sets of shorter swims at a faster effort. The goal is to gradually swim at a faster pace as the ... Read More

Another swim meet this weekend (17-20 May, 2007) is the 2007 US Masters Swimming Short Course Yards Championships. Results for the swim meet are available on-line, too.

The results from the 2007 National Open Water Festival are posted on-line. The event includes the USA Swimming 5k, 10k, and 25k open water championships and the US Masters Swimming ... Read More

You can review the results from the 2007 Eric Namesnik Memorial Grand Prix in near-real-time via the Michigan website.

The Toyota Grand Prix meet on 17-20 May will feature morning finals and late afternoon prelims. (Jo-Ann Barnas/Free Press)

ASCA has made their vast audio library of more than 1000 clinic presentations available for download at 99-cents each. Each is about 1-hour long, and include talks from swim coaches ... Read More

The psych sheet and meet information for this weekend's USA Grand Prix swim meet in Ann Arbor, the Eric Namesnik Memorial Grand Prix have been released. The meet begins tomorrow ... Read More

A strong contingent of American athletes represented themselves and their country well at the ITU Aquathlon World Championships in Ixtapa, Mexico on Saturday 12 May 2007. Team USA grabbed a ... Read More

The 2007 USA Open Water Swimming Nationals are 17-21 May in Fort Myers, FL. The weekend of swimming races includes open water swims of 5K on Thursday, a 10K on ... Read More

There is a lot of confusion about various filters, and many different opinions. Here are a few facts to consider. The first is that a pool can be properly maintained ... Read More

There was a lot of diving over the 10-12 May 2007 weekend at the 2007 AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix. You can review the diving on-line via the AT&T Blue ... Read More

Ideally you should keep your swimming pool water level between one-third and one-half the way up the opening of the pool skimmer. Why? Among other reasons, this is the level ... Read More

How important is a streamline to a swimmer? I think it can make a world of difference, particularly in a short-course setting, since streamlines and the idea of reducing drag ... Read More

The proper way to clean your cartridge pool filter consists of three steps. Rinsing the loose dirt. Soaking in a cartridge cleaner. Rinsing again. This cleaning method is also excellent for diatemacous earth (DE) ... Read More

Swimmers, the way you position your head while you swim can have a huge effect on technique and how fast you swim. Head position can make your swimming technique fast ... Read More

This swimming workout features three rounds of shortening distances from 150 to 50, with increased efforts as that distances decrease. You can vary this same workout by following different patterns ... Read More

Remember those old table hockey games where you controlled your players via control sticks running under the surface, and the little players moved "up and down" the ice via a ... Read More

The world-record-setting trio of Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.), Katie Hoff (Towson, Md.) and Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.) lead an accomplished field of swimmers set to compete in the Erik ... Read More

Team USA Diver Thomas Finchum picked up his second silver medal of the 2007 Canada Cup, this time finishing second with partner David Boudia in the men’s 10-meter synchro event ... Read More

Diver Thomas Finchum won a silver and Haley Ishimatsu and Mary Beth Dunnichay won a bronze at the 2007 Canada Diving Cup on Saturday 5 May. Finchum scored 528.75 points ... Read More

This swimming workout features shifting efforts within swims of 100's and 150's. Swimmers, you can vary this same swim practice by following different patterns of shifting swim efforts and/or by ... Read More

"I have my bike and run training figured out, but can't get the swim portion locked in; do I do long swims, short sprints, focus on technique, or something else? ... Read More

A guide for swimmers on performing several freestyle technique improvement drills to help make a swimmer's freestyle swimming faster and improve swimming efficiency. Learn how to improve swimming technique to ... Read More

The man that Mark Spitz said made him great, Jerry Heidenreich, left a list of the top 21 things to keep in mind about swimming. Take a look at Jerry ... Read More