All high school officials -- MHSA has changed the Swimming Rules Clinic this year to have a separate clinic for the officials who are working high school swim meets. Please also remember to do the concussion clinic on NFHSLearn.com as it is required to be taken yearly after June. You don't need to send the completion certificates to MHSA, just print a copy for your records. The master swim schedule for 2025-26 season is posted on the MHSA website under the sport of swimming. The link to the officials' rules...

Day 1 of the Tokyo Deaflympics is complete and Team USA left the pool with 3 golds, a silver, and 2 bronze medals, 2 Deaflympic Records and 2 Deaf World records. Matt Klotz led the men with a win in the 100 backstroke and 3rd in the 50 fly. The USA men Titus-Klotz-Davis-Pizzolato then took silver in the 4x100 relay. Carli Cronk led the women with golds, Deaflympic and World records in the 100 fly and 400 free while Brooke Thompson joined the podium with a bronze in the 100...

If you will be coming to Butte for the 2026 Montana Swimming Short Course State Championships February 26-March 1 -- make your hotel reservations NOW! Even if you're not certain your child will qualify for state, make your reservations now. (You can also make reservations for the BC Championships March 7-8 in Butte now.) Why? The Frontier Conference Men's and Women's Basketball tournament is in Butte at the Butte Civic Center February 27-March 2. Hotel rooms will be at a premium. Make reservations at restaurants early too so you have...

Sy Pizzolato, former BAC standout swimmer and now college swimmer, is in Tokyo with his mother Alison for the Deaflympics. Sy is representing Team USA. Best of luck to you Sy!! Here are the events Sy is swimming in Thursday and Friday. Keep in mind Thursday 10am is 6pm today in Montana. And finals if he qualifies will be 2 am, our time, each night -- 100m backstroke, 400m freestyle, 4x100m free relay, 200m free, and 200 m backstroke. Here is the link for prelims later on November 19: https://www.youtube.com/live/B6NXQeFxrio?si=9LQtC9qJ8dSXY50w...

Coach, officials, and non-athletes, as a part of your 2026 membership, you may request, without additional cost, one 2026 USA Swimming Rulebook. Use the link below to request either the regular-size rulebook or the mini-rulebook. https://fs22.formsite.com/usaswimming/k8u6vvjyhw/index You will need your USA Swimming ID number to complete the form. The order form must be completed no later than Monday, December 1, 2025. After this date, the rulebook will need to be purchased through SwimOutlet.

The Absorb Learning Management System (LMS) which runs the Safe Sport Courses has scheduled LMS downtime for all SafeSport LMS instances beginning on Thanksgiving Day, November 27th, 2025. This includes athlete protection training -- take your APT early if it will expire August 26-30. During this time, the SafeSport LMS and all associated functions will be inaccessible. This outage may last up to 48 hours. Please communicate this scheduled outage to your members and participants to avoid any training date conflicts.

Sy Pizzolato will be traveling as part of Team USA to compete at the Deaflympics in Tokyo this month. His mom Allison will be traveling with him. He has raised $4,835 of the needed $6,400 to go. Will you donate to help him reach his financial goal as he goes for the gold? Sy is gearing up for an incredible opportunity to represent Team USA at the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo. As a competitive swimmer with BAC and now as a college freshman, Sy has shown immense dedication and passion,...

November is Thank a Coach Month presented by Speedo! When you see your coaches, give them a big thank you for all they do and let them know why you appreciate them! Thank you coaches!!

Montana Swimming is proud to recognize our Native American athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, and families this month. The month of November is known as Native American Heritage Month or Indigenous Peoples Month. The purpose of this month is to focus national attention to Indigenous communities across the United States to recognize their history and significant contributions to the founding and growth of the United States. This celebratory month began as one specific day at the turn of the 20th century, but after numerous attempts to the United States Congress, it...

The Billings Fire Department hosted an award ceremony October 18 honoring two teenage girls and six firefighters for their acts of bravery this year. The girls, Sadie DeBusk and Hallelujah McPherson, were awarded with Citizen Service Medals for helping to rescue a 10-year-old girl and her father who fell off thier floatation devices in Lake Elmo on July 27. The incident involved the rescue of nine people, three of which were hospitalized. DeBusk and McPherson, who did not know each other before this occurred, had been floating in the lake....