PHOENIX, Arizona, July 19. JUST a few weeks after becoming one of the few men to grace the cover of Vogue Magazine, as well as appearing on the front of Men's Health and Men's Journal, Ryan Lochte is about to take center stage on the new Time Magazine cover. Set to appear on newsstands tomorrow, the cover photo shows Lochte swimming backstroke, and was revealed today by Time Magazine. The magazine will feature previews of many storylines to watch at the London Olympics, including the in-pool rivalry between Lochte and...

  USA Swimming Sectionals, Ft. Lauderdale: Area Tallahassee, Westminster Academy Take Home Women's, Men's Titles -- July 15, 2012 FT. LAUDERDALE, Florida, July 15. AREA Tallahassee ran away with the women's team title by more than 400 points, while Westminster Academy edged Metro Aquatic Club by just 30 points to win the men's meet in Ft. Lauderdale. The last evening of competition kicked off with the women's 200m fly, where Metro Aquatic Club's Isa Paez had a huge third 50 to pull away from her heat and win in 2:16.24, with Area Tallahassee's...

All:      We are extremely excited to let you know that the USA Swimming Safe Sport program has released parent education for our membership.   It is provided free of charge.    The course is online and takes about 15-20 minutes to complete.   I’d invited each of you to take the course and please pass on widely to your contacts! The course is available here: http://usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1960&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en under the header “Free Training for Parents”. Thank you for your commitment to providing a safe and healthy environment for all of our members! Thank you!...

All member rosters are now updated as of July 6th.  Athlete, Coaches, Officials, and Others rosters can be found here.

Florida Swimming has updated the Top Ten Long Course Times Rankings here.

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OMAHA, Neb. – Jessica Hardy qualified for her third event, the women’s 50m freestyle, on night eight of 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, winning with a time of 24.50. In addition to the 50m free, Hardy will also be eligible to represent Team USA in the women’s 100m freestyle and the 400m free relay. Hardy, traditionally a breaststroker, has had to change her focus on strokes after qualifying for only freestyle events. “I don’t believe it,” says Hardy of her freestyle qualifications. “What is happening? I thought I was a...

7/1/2012     OMAHA, Neb. – Michael Phelps won his fourth event of the meet Sunday at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, taking the men’s 100m butterfly with a time of 51.14. That accomplishment makes him eligible to swim eight events at the 2012 Olympic Games – the 100 fly, the 200 fly, the 200 IM, the 400 IM, the 200 freestyle and all three relays. It’s the same program he followed in his historic eight-gold-medal run in Beijing, though his status in the 400 free relay is up...

By Matt Entringer//Correspondent When Conor Dwyer touched the wall at 1:46.64 in the Men’s 200m Freestyle, he knew he had spent his last 11 months wisely. The 23-year-old Winnetka, Ill. native, who qualified for the 800m freestyle relay in the 2012 London Olympics after coming in fourth place, trained upwards of six hours per day for almost an entire year, rarely taking a day off. The countless days of pool and dryland workouts all started shortly after Dwyer’s last NCAA Championship appearance for the University of Florida in 2011. However,...

OMAHA, Neb. – Michael Phelps won his second of three races against Ryan Lochte this week at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, edging his rival Saturday in the men’s 200m IM, 1:54.84 to 1:54.93. Other winners on the sixth night of finals at the CenturyLink Center included Lochte in the men’s 200m backstroke in 1:54.54; Rebecca Soni in the women’s 200m breaststroke in 2:21.13; and Jessica Hardy in the women’s 100m freestyle in 53.96. Second-place finishers included Micah Lawrence in the women’s 200 breast (2:23.03); Tyler Clary in the...