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After its successful 2024 debut in an NFL stadium, the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming will return to the same venue in Indianapolis in June 2028. Lucas Oil Stadium, home to the Indianapolis Colts, will again serve as the host venue after USA Swimming took the event to a football stadium for the first […]
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The Greensboro Aquatic Center in North Carolina has been selected to host the 2026 Big 12 Conference Swimming and Diving Championship. The event will span five days from February 24–28 and will mark the first time the venue will host the Big 12’s swimming and diving championship and only the second time the Big 12’s […]
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The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America will hold its 2025 Open Water National Championship n December 13 at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida. The event — which began in Kansas and was most recently held at Florida International University in Miami — will be hosted in partnership with Visit Sarasota. As […]
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World Aquatics will launch a series of strategic partnerships with MOL Group, MOL — New Europe Foundation, MVM Group and OTP Group to strengthen the international federation’s presence in Hungary, which includes the opening of its new headquarters in Budapest. An interim headquarters was opened in the Hungarian capital in November 2024. The wider transition […]
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USA Swimming has announced four updates to its 2025–2026 national events calendar, as the national governing body continues to round out its domestic competition schedule. The 2025-2026 season will kick off with the Toyota U.S. Open, which will return to a long-course-meter format and take place December 3–6 at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas […]
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Oceanman, a global open water swimming series with events established across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, has announced its official launch in the United States. “It’s an honor to introduce Oceanman to the United States,” said Lenny Krayzelburg, four-time Olympic Gold Medalist, co-founder of Oceanman USA. “It’s hard to believe that Oceanman […]
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The 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles will be the third largest in history with 11,198 athletes — even though the International Olympic Committee’s mandate is for no more than 10,500 athletes. That’s because the 698 athletes that will be participating in baseball, softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse sixes and squash will not count […]
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USA Swimming interim chief executive officer Shana Ferguson is leaving the organization to become the chief of sport and games delivery at the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games and will be succeeded by Bob Vincent, former chair of the USA Swimming Board of Directors, on April 1. The chief executive officer’s role has been […]
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World Aquatics will hold three events for the 2025 Swimming World Cup in North America with stops in Indiana, Illinois and Toronto throughout October. Carmel, Indiana, will host the first leg of the tour October 10–12, before Westmont, Illinois, has the second leg from October 17–19. The finale will take place in Toronto from October […]
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Chrissi Rawak, who was named the new chief executive officer of USA Swimming, withdrew nine days later once the national governing body learned she was the subject of a complaint at the U.S. Center for SafeSport, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday. USA Swimming on February 19 announced the appointment of Rawak as its new […]
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