[ad_1] After leading the St. Xavier boys to their 36th Kentucky state title in a row, head coach Todd Larkin was named National Coach of the Year earlier this week by the National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA). Larkin, who graduated from the Louisville-based St. Xavier in 1986, has guided the program to state titles for the past 15 years. St. Xavier is tied with Florida’s Bolles School for the
[ad_1] 2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS WHOLE MEET PRELIMS HEAT SHEET Sam Williamson clocked a personal-best 58.95 in the 100 breaststroke prelims at the Australian Olympic Trials on Monday morning, becoming the fastest Aussie in the event since 2013. After dropping about a quarter second off his previous-best 59.21 from February’s World Championships, the 26-year-old now ranks as the third-fastest Australian ever in the 100 breast behind Christian Sprenger (58.79 in
[ad_1] 2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS Whole Meet Prelims Heat Sheet Good Morning to all our Aussies out there, a Good Evening to all of us Americans, and a Good [Insert Appropriate Time of Day here] to all of our readers scattered across the globe. The 2024 Australian Swim Trials are nigh upon us. After taking home nine gold medals and 21 overall from Tokyo, the Australian team will only look
[ad_1] 2024 ACC Champion in the 200 butterfly Noah Bowers has announced his retirement from competitive swimming. Bowers competed collegiately for NC State and had qualified for the 2024 US Olympic Trials. Bowers just finished his fifth year with NC State after arriving in fall 2019. As a freshman, he made two ACC ‘B’ finals and one ACC ‘C’ final but did not qualify for the NCAA Championships that were
[ad_1] A planned swim in the Seine by French Mayor Anne Hidalgo that was scheduled for Sunday, June 23rd, will “probably be postponed,” local media is reporting after speaking to city officials. “Due to the heavy rains in May and the very strong flow of the river, swimming on June 23 will probably be postponed ,” the City told AFP . The city says that Hidalgo, along with police chief Laurent
[ad_1] After more than a decade out of the water, Kim Ruiz returned to the pool last summer in the wake of an injury suffered while training CrossFit. It had been 12 years since Ruiz retired from swimming following a two-year stint at Division I Gardner-Webb, where she earned Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Freshman of the Year honors in 2010 for breaking conference records in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.58)
[ad_1] 2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Beach Cities Swimming 13-year-old Gabi Brito will be the youngest swimmer at the U.S. Olympic Trials next week after pulling off an impressive time drop in the 50 freestyle over the past month. Last month, Brito shaved almost a second off her lifetime best in the 50 free with a time of 25.71, taking down a Southern California LSC record (26.04) belonging to 12-time Olympic
[ad_1] 2024 BSS Last Dash for Indy June 7th -8th, 2023 Jacksonville, FL Uible Pool LCM (50m) Results On Meet Mobile: “Tyr Sprint to Indy” “If, at first, you don’t succeed…” Taking that to heart, Bolles School Sharks swimmer Landon Kyser tried and tried again. Kyser, who will be heading to Madison, Wisconsin, to represent the Badgers this fall, will first make a pit stop in Indianapolis for the Olympic
[ad_1] 2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS Gabrielle Rose will be the oldest swimmer since at least 2004 — and possibly all of modern history — to compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials when the 46-year-old breaststroke specialist enters the water in Indianapolis next week. The two-time Olympian is seeded 27th in the 100 breast (1:09.13) and 46th in the 200 breast (2:31.68). Rose qualified last November during a long course time
[ad_1] Having won several Olympic medals in rowing, including gold at the London 2012 Olympics, Dame Katherine Grainger knows what it is like to win on the water, but also what else can lurk there. "Anything that causes problems either with an ability to perform or affects athletes' health… to think they get set back because of issues in environment we can do something about; it is very frustrating," says
