USA Swimming Safe Sport The USA Swimming Safe Sport home page is www.usaswimming.org/protect. There is a ton of information on the USA Swimming Safe Sport program as well as resources, articles, and free training available there.     Safe Sport for Parents   The USA Swimming Safe Sport Program is proud to offer free athlete protection training to the parents of our member athletes.  Parents are a critical component to our overall goal to protecting children from sexual abuse.  The comprehensive online programming includes information about how offenders operate; how to...

A special Autograph area by Arena wil be available for fans to collect autographs from the meet competitiors.   More information here.

  Election for FL Junior Athlete Representative to the 2013-2014 Florida Swimming Board  of Directors will be held on Saturday, February 23, 2013, during prelims of the “2013  Florida Swimming Spring Senior Championship”, in Orlando, FL.  Candidate applications  will also be accepted on Thursday & Friday, at the meet. A ballot box will be open for  voting from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on deck at the meet on Saturday, February 23, 2012.   Application Notice

  BY MIKE GUSTAFSON//CORRESPONDENT Here’s a message to every high school senior who places no higher than 10th at his or her respective high school state championships: You can become an Olympian. (Don’t laugh – it’s true.) All it takes is the right environment, circumstances, and work ethic.  Just ask Conor Dwyer. The Winnetka, Illinois native and now Gainesville trained swimmer went from being a 5’7”unheard-of high school junior to a 6’5” NCAA Champion at the University of Florida in only four years. (Dwyer grew over five inches in college...

  by Larry Herr USA Swimming The following is a “virtual” zone championship based on LCM performances from 1/1/2012 to 1/26/2013 taking the top 4 swims in Olympic individual events per zone. No additional factors were included and no relays were considered. The top four swimmers by zone between the ages of 12-17 at the time of the swim from 1/1/2012 and 1/26/2013 have been noted. All sixteen places received a score for their zone.               girls boys total 1  south 491 706 1197 2...

Due to the change in procedure of awarding FL sanctioned meets, as voted on at the 2012 FL House of Delegates, October 7, 2012, the following procedure will be followed for the 2014 Florida Swimming Spring FLAGS and Spring Senior Championship meet bids: On January 31, 2013, bids for the 2014 FL Spring FLAGS and Senior Championship meets are due to the Florida Swimming office (attached). After the January 31, 2013 deadline, Florida Swimming will send out official FL House of Delegates ballots for voting on the host for the...

Florida Swimming has provided a great opportunity for swim clubs to view the Orlando Grand Prix.  Read more...

  Applications for the 2013 USA Swimming Diversity Select Camp for athletes and assistant coaches are now available online. The application deadline for both is Feb. 15, 2013.   The athlete application can be found  here and the assistant coach application can be found here.

The 2013 USA Swimming Coach Certification Requirements have been updated.

The meet will be opened to the revised B standards starting Wednesday, January 16th, at 12noon Eastern Time until the cap is reached. The revised standards can be found in the meet information posted on our website and attached to this note. This change only applies to the Orlando Grand Prix standards. Orlando Grand Prix Information