Every year ESPN hosts their version of the Oscars, known as the ESPY Awards. This year Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin are up for multiple awards. Help these amazing swimmers get the credit they deserve by voting for them here!

There will be no afternoon practice for all 3:45pm groups Friday July 3rd due to the holiday weekend. 5pm groups do not have practice on Friday afternoons for the remainder of the summer.

Tickets are now on sale for the 2009 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships and World Championship Trials. To get your tickets go to www.allgreatracers.com! The meet will take place July 7-11 in Indianapolis, Indiana

The meet information for the 2009 Summer Junior Olympics is now availible. It will also be posted on the FGC JO Page tab at the top of your screen.

As many of you know, there has been alot of discusion going back and forth about the current "super suit" controversy. On one side, you have the group who thinks the new suits are some kind of cheating (www.swimnews.com) and we should go back a few years. On the other side, we have people who think that technological advancement in the sport is a good thing and will bring more exitement to non-olympic competitions and are a natural evoloution of the competitive swim suit as long as everyone has the...

CONGRATULATIONS! to the PST Masters on their 3rd place finish at the 2009 Dixie Zone Long Course Championships. The group of Heidi Hester, Vi-An Le, Carlos Ochoa, Todd Wilson, and Coach Tom Cuticchia scored 257 points to place 3rd out of 16 teams. The Masters Team will compete next month at the Plantation Piranhas LCM Masters Invite July 17-18.

The World Water Polo League is being streamed live by universalsports.com. The World League is similar to the World Cup in soccer. It’s not every day that water polo gets international exposure, so check it out and see some of the best athletes in the world swim during a wrestling match!

Brett Hawke is the Co-Head Coach at the University of Auburn. A great swimmer in his own right, Brett is now considered one of the premier sprint coaches in the world. Names in his sprint group include Fred Busquet, Ceasar Cielo and George Bovell. In this interview, Coach Hawke discusses how he and 50m Free Olympic Champion prepared for the 2008 Olympics. Close to the end of the video is a great story of how swimming (and athletics in general) can help you become a better person both in and...

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Offical Statement from USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus: From all of us at USA Swimming who knew and loved Richard Quick, we send our deepest sympathies for the loss of our friend. We will always have the greatest admiration for an icon in the sport of swimming. Our love and respect for Richard is shared by coaches, athletes, volunteers, officials and staff. Richard experienced extraordinary success as a coach, and was one of the world’s all-time great Olympic coaches. But we also knew and loved Richard as a person...