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• 2026 Australian Trials Day 1 Roster Update: Forrester Punches her Ticket(s) in two Events

  09-06-2026 01:02 via swimswam.com
  
  By Mark Wild on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Live Results
  Live Stream
  Storylines To Watch
  Live Recaps:Prelims: Day 1
  Final: Day 1After an exhilarating first day of competition in Sydney at the 2026 Australian Trials, the first batch of athletes have been named to the Pan-Pac an
  
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• BREAKING: South African Matt Sates Is Seeking Australian Citizenship Ahead of LA 2028 Olympics

  09-06-2026 05:23 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Mat Thompson, part of the broadcast team for the 2026 Australian Swimming Trials, dropped a bomb of a newsbreak during Tuesday’s prelims session in Sydney.
  Thompson revealed that South African swimmer Matt Sates is seeking Australian citizenship with the intention of representing the country internationally in the future.
  While Thompson’s news was light on details, the move would be big for Sates, who has been a high potential swimmer whose long cours
  
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• Sam Short Goes Short in the 200 Free; O’Callaghan and Southam Both No-Show Races on Tuesday

  09-06-2026 04:50 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Live Results
  Live Stream
  Storylines To Watch
  Live Recaps:Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2
  Final: Day 1A pair of high profile no-shows from Mollie O’Callaghan and Flynn Southam plus a new lifetime best from Sam Short sho
  
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• NCSAs Finalist Luke DeFrancisco Commits to Denison for Fall 2026

  09-06-2026 03:54 via swimswam.com
  
  By Charlotte Wells on SwimSwam
  Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all commitment news. For many, swimming in college is a lifelong dream that is pursued with dedication and determination. Fitter and Faster is proud to honor these athletes and those who supported them on their journey.
  NCSA Championship finalist Luke DeFrancisco has announced his commitment to swim for Denison University in Ohio beginning in the fall of 2026,
  
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• Collin McKenzie Graduate Transferring From Indiana to USC

  09-06-2026 02:44 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  Collin McKenzie has announced he will stay in the Big Ten as a graduate transfer, joining USC after spending three seasons at Indiana.
  “Excited to announce my commitment to USC for my next and final chapter of my career. Thankful to everyone who helped me get to this moment. Fight on”
  McKenzie joined the Hoosiers as a sophomore, transferring in after his freshman season with NC State where he only competed through midseason. He arrived in Bloomington in fa
  
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• Division III Case Western Reserve Lands Freestyle Specialist Catherine Kwong for 2026

  09-06-2026 02:36 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all commitment news. For many, swimming in college is a lifelong dream that is pursued with dedication and determination. Fitter and Faster is proud to honor these athletes and those who supported them on their journey.
  Burlingame Aquatics’ Catherine Kwong has committed to further her academic and athletic career at Case Western Reserve University beginning in t
  
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• 2026 Australian Swimming Trials: Day 2 Prelims – Live Recap

  09-06-2026 02:23 via swimswam.com
  
  By Mark Wild on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Live Results
  Live Stream
  Storylines To Watch
  Live Recaps:Prelims: Day 1
  Final: Day 1HEAT SHEET (ALL PRELIMS)
  Day 2 of the 2026 Australian Swimming Trials is expected to feature a great slate of swimming, as swimmers buoyed by their p
  
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• D3 Bluffton University Quietly Drops Swimming & Diving Programs Amid Shrinking Rosters

  09-06-2026 01:40 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  NCAA D3 school Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio has quietly eliminated its men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs.
  While the school has made no announcements, both programs have been removed from the list of athletic offerings. That reduces the schools athletics offerings to 16 programs: 7 men’s, 7 women’s, and 2 coed programs.
  The university has not responded to multiple requests about the future of the program, but members of the
  
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• US Olympian Zach Harting Takes Part in Grown-Up Swimming in Denver

  09-06-2026 00:33 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  Tokyo Olympian Zach Harting has traded his token walkout costumes and 200 butterfly races for a bit of a different type of racing atmosphere, with Grown-Up Swimming, a different twist on the sport, allowing adults to reignite the flame of racing short and fun races, as many athletes did as children.
  The concept of Grown-Up Swimming is to give its members a low-pressure, fun environment, involving athletes of all skill levels, featuring shorter races, such as 25s and
  
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• Kauã Santos Carvalho Scares 50 Breast World Junior Record with 27.08 at Brazilian Junior Champs

  08-06-2026 22:57 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  Brazilian Junior Winter ChampionshipsJune 2-6, 2026
  Julio de Lamare Aquatic Pool, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  LCM (50 meters)
  ResultsAt the Brazilian Junior Winter Championships in Rio, future Auburn Tiger Kauã Santos Carvalho nearly clipped the World Junior Record in the 50 breaststroke, touching in 27.08, just over a tenth of a second off of Germany’s Jan Malte Grafe‘s 2025 World Junior Record of 26.95 from the World Junior Championships in Otopeni, R
  
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• Five Takeaways From Day 1 At The 2026 Australian Trials

  08-06-2026 20:31 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Live Results
  Live Stream
  Storylines To Watch
  Live Recaps:Prelims: Day 1
  Finals: Day 1With the first day of the 2026 Australian Trials now done and dusted, the first spots on the Commonwealth and Pan Pac teams have now been claimed and s
  
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• Army Hires Scott Thacker from VMI as New Head Swim Coach

  08-06-2026 20:25 via swimswam.com
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Army West Point has announced the hiring of Scott Thacker as its new head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach. He replaces Brandt Nigro, who left the program to take over as associate head coach of the University of Texas women’s teams.
  While being an athletics coach at a service academy is a unique role, Thacker will bring relevant experience to the position. He comes from the Virginia Military Institute in Virginia, a Senior Military C
  
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• AUS & Russian Trials, Longhorn Invite, And Podcast Roundup | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN

  08-06-2026 20:09 via swimswam.com
  
  By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwamToday on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss the ongoing Australian and Russian Trials Meets, the Longhorn Invite, and last week’s many episodes of the SwimSwam Podcast.
  Read the full story on SwimSwam: AUS & Russian Trials, Longhorn Invite, And Podcast Roundup | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN
  
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• LA28 Paralympic Swimming Schedule Revealed, Including 1 New Event

  08-06-2026 19:11 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Organizers of the LA28 Paralympic Games have added an S14 Class mixed 400 medley relay to the schedule for the 2028 Games.See the full day-by-day Paralympic schedule here.The Paralympic swimming schedule is generally less stable than the Olympic swimming schedule, with events shifting based on participation numbers. For example, the Paris 2024 Paralympics had 8 fewer individual events and 3 more relays than the Tokyo 2020 Games did.
  By comparison, the Los Angeles Para
  
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• Kolesnikov, Kornev Highlight First Three Days of Russian Swimming Championships

  08-06-2026 19:10 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  2026 RUSSIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPSJune 6-11, 2026
  Kazan, Russia
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Live ResultsOne national record and a number of noteworthy performances have gone down through the first three nights of action from the 2026 Russian Swimming Championships, with the competition in Kazan having gotten underway on Saturday and running through Thursday.
  On Monday, Egor Kornev fired off a new Russian Record in the semi-finals of the men’s 50 free,
  
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• Do You Love Swimming? See 184 Swim Jobs You Might Love

  08-06-2026 18:32 via swimswam.com
  
  By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam
  Looking for a job in swimming? Go here to see 184 Swim Jobs.
  Graduate Assistant Swim Coach
  Reporting to the Head Coach, the Graduate Assistant is a twelve-month position starting August 1, 2026 and is renewable for two consecutive years (two years total). All GAs must adhere to their graduate program requirements including maintaining a minimum 3.0 GPA and must be enrolled in graduate coursework in each semester of the appointment.
  Executive Director of Competitive
  
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• JMU Alumna Alexa Good Returns To Pool Deck As New Diving Coach

  08-06-2026 18:14 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: JMU Sports
  HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison swimming & diving alumna Alexa Good (formerly Holloway) returns to the pool deck as the program’s diving coach, announced by Head Coach Dane Pedersen on Monday morning.
  “We are thrilled to welcome Alexa back to our program in a new role as our head dive coach,” Pedersen said. “Alexa possesses all the skills our divers and our program need to be successful in the America
  
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• Egor Kornev Blasts 21.12 50 Free To Break Morozov’s Russian Record, Jump To #6 All-Time

  08-06-2026 17:56 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  2026 RUSSIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPSJune 6-11, 2026
  Kazan, Russia
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Live ResultsComing off a breakout year in 2025, Russian sprinter Egor Kornev had an electric performance in the men’s 50 freestyle on Monday at the Russian Swimming Championships, obliterating the national record with one of the fastest swims ever in a textile suit.
  Kornev, 22, fired off a time of 21.12 in the semis of the 50 free, knocking 15 one-hundredths of
  
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• McKendree Swim and Dive Program Passes 10-Year Mark

  08-06-2026 16:15 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: McKendree Athletics
  LEBANON, Ill. – McKendree Swim and Dive program just surpassed the 10-year mark and have seen so much success in the decade in Lebanon.
  The program was started in the 2016-2017 season where then director of athletics Chuck Brueggemann announced the hiring of Jimmy Tierney to build the program. Coming from NCAA Division I and the Big Ten Confer
  
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• Lewis Clareburt, Erika Fairweather Lead 13-Strong Kiwi Roster For Commonwealth Games

  08-06-2026 16:09 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  Swimming New Zealand has revealed its 13-strong roster slated to represent the nation at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
  World champions Erika Fairweather and Lewis Clareburt headline the squad, with seven athletes headed to their first-ever Games.
  22-year-old Fairweather qualified in the individual events of the women’s 200m/400m/800m/1500m freestyle and will also be taking on the women’s 4x200m free relay and mixed 4x100m free relay.On her selection
  
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• Re-Rank: Top 20 NCAA Swimming Recruits In The Boys’ High School Class of 2026

  08-06-2026 14:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  Our annual NCAA recruiting rankings return. This year, we’re opening things with our re-rank of the graduating high school seniors before we take a look at the top recruits in the current sophomore and junior classes.
  As recruiting classes get closer to actual NCAA competition, we start to weigh certain factors more heavily: NCAA scoring times become more important, and we tend to value one or two standout events a bit more heavily (compared to a wide range
  
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• McKeown & O’Callaghan Deliver 27.13/27.19 50 Back For Top 2 Spots In World Rankings

  08-06-2026 13:41 via swimswam.com
  
  By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Live Results
  Live Stream
  Storylines To Watch
  Live Recaps:Prelims: Day 1
  Final: Day 1In a fierce battle on home soil, the world’s biggest backstroke talent Kaylee McKeown held off freestyle Mollie O’Callaghan in the 50 b
  
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• How Hilton Area Swim Team Simplified Scheduling and Messaging

  08-06-2026 13:00 via swimswam.com
  
  By Dan Dingman on SwimSwamCourtesy of Commit Swimming, a SwimSwam partner
  How Hilton Area Swim Team Simplified Scheduling and Messaging
  When Hilton Area Swim Team outgrew SportsEngine’s limited calendar and communication tools, they knew they needed a change.
  “The calendar did not allow us to set up multiple things. We had to use SignUpGenius for jobs, and it was not user friendly for emails.” — Misty Cole, Coach, Hilton Area Swim Team
  By switching to Commit Swimming, Hil
  
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• Sam Short Unloads 3:40.67 400 Free Personal Best For #1 In World Rankings

  08-06-2026 12:44 via swimswam.com
  
  By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Live Results
  Live Stream
  Storylines To Watch
  Live Recaps:Prelims: Day 1
  Final: Day 1Leave it to Sam Short to give Aussie trials a dynamite start. In the meet’s first event, the men’s 400 freestyle, he gave the World and nati
  
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• 2026 Australian Swimming Trials: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

  08-06-2026 11:10 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Live Results
  Live Stream
  Storylines To Watch
  Live Recaps:Prelims: Day 1The opening night of finals from the 2026 Australian Swimming Trials promises to be an exciting one with some of the country’s biggest stars competing, led by&
  
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• Kylie Masse Clocks 100 Back Season Best on Final Night At Mel Zajac Jr. International Meet

  08-06-2026 10:29 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
  2026 Mel Zajac Jr. International Swim MeetJune 5-7, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  LCM (50 Meters)
  Meet Central
  Psych Sheets
  Day 1 Recap | Day 2 RecapThe 2026 Mel Zajac Jr meet wrapped up yesterday, with yet more best times for some top-rated U.S. junior athletes and a strong long course season opener from multi-Olympic medalist Kylie Masse.
  Women’s Recap
  Brinkleigh Hansen won her third individual event of the meet on the final night, lowering her
  
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• McKeown Clocks #1 50 Back Time In The World This Season, Despite Illness Causing 200 IM Scratch

  08-06-2026 09:41 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Heat Sheet
  Live Results
  Prelims Live Recaps: Day 1Kaylee McKeown may have been battling illness through the first prelims session at the 2026 Australian Trials, as reported by Tom Decent of the Sydney Morning Herald, but while that resulted
  
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• Sweden’s Felicia Klintemar Swims 100 Fly Best Time at a Dual Meet in Ohio, Secures Euros Spot

  08-06-2026 05:03 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  FAST vs. HEAT Schools Out for Summer Dual MeetMay 29, 2026
  Ocasek Natatorium, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
  Long Course Meters (50m)
  Meet Results (PDF)A lowkey dual meet between Firestone-Akron Swim Team and the Hudson Explorers Aquatic Team led to a last minute marker for an international-caliber swimmer.
  Racing among mostly age groupers, 20-year-old Swede Felicia Klintemar posted times of 27.34 in the 50 fly and 59.26 in the 100 fly.
  Klintemar’s previo
  
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• Ahmed Hafnaoui Returns To Long Course, Posts 15:27.40 1500 Free On Final Day Of Ocala Sectionals

  08-06-2026 03:36 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2026 Ocala SectionalsJune 4-7, 2026
  Ocala, FL
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Mobile “2026 FL SZSS Sectional Championships”
  Meet Central
  Day 1 Recap
  Day 2 Recap
  Day 3 RecapIn his first long course meet since the 2024 World Championships, Ahmed Hafnaoui posted a 15:27.40. He has been as fast as a 14:31.54 that he swam to win the 2023 World Championship title. This was his 2nd race of the weekend as he also swam in prelims of the 400 free (3:55.43).
  Also earning a win
  
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• 2026 Australian Swimming Trials: Day 1 Prelims – Live Recap

  08-06-2026 02:53 via swimswam.com
  
  By Mark Wild on SwimSwam
  2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALSMonday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
  Sydney, Australia
  Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Commonwealth Selection Criteria
  Pan Pac Selection Criteria
  Psych Sheets
  Heat Sheet
  Live ResultsG’Day!!!!
  It’s a great morning (or evening, where I’m covering from) for some fast swimming, as the 2026 Australian Swimming Trials are nigh upon us.
  It’s a very important meet, as Swim Australia
  
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