Nicholas Caldwell won his second event of the meet and set a meet record in the prelims of the men’s 400m free Wednesday at the Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif. His winning time of 3:52.88 in finals was just 56-hundredths off the meet record of 3:52.32 he set in prelims. Also winning their events Wednesday were Jasmine Tosky and Seth Stubblefield. Tosky won her third individual event of the meet Wednesday in the women’s 100m butterfly, while Stubblefield won his second individual event of the meet...

      Jasmine Tosky of Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics won her second event and set her second meet record in as many days Tuesday at the Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif. Tosky won the women’s 400m IM with a time of 4:44.85.         It was one of three meet records set on the second night of competition. Also setting meet records were Vladimir Morozov of Swim Torrance in the men’s 100m free (49.15) and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (Madeline Schaefer, Camille Cheng, Rachael Acker...

    Meet records fell in four of the six events contested Monday at the 2010 Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif. Breaking records were Jasmin Tosky in the women’s 200m butterfly, Andrea Kropp in the women’s 200m breaststroke, Matt Elliott in the men’s 200m breaststroke and Lauren Driscoll in the women’s 800m freestyle.         After day 1, The Woodlands Swim Team leads the field in combined team scoring with 41 points. The Sarasota YMCA Sharks (38 points) and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (34 points) rounds...

      IRVINE, Calif. – Ryan Lochte won his third event of the week Saturday at the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships, beating out a star-studded field in the men’s 200m backstroke with a time of 1:55.58.           The race featured five of the top six performers of all time in this event, including world record-holder and 2009 world champion Aaron Peirsol, 2008 Olympic champion Lochte, Tyler Clary, Nick Thoman and Michael Phelps.   Lochte wasted no time against such talent, taking control of the race...

    IRVINE, Calif. – Ryan Lochte won the marquee matchup of the night Friday at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships, beating 14-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps to the wall in the men’s 200m IM in 1:54.84. It marked the first time Lochte has beaten Phelps in this event in head-to-head competition at a major national or international meet. Phelps was second in 1:55.94. Coming into tonight’s finals, Lochte and Phelps were the two fastest swimmers of all time in the 200m IM. Phelps is the two-time defending...

    IRVINE, Calif. – Rebecca Soni and Michael Phelps turned in the fastest times in the world this year in their respective events Thursday at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships. Soni took the 100m breaststroke by more than two seconds over the rest of the field, touching in 1:05.73. Phelps, meanwhile, won his 50th career national title in the men’s 100m butterfly in 50.65. The two swimmers won their races in similar fashion: more or less maintaining contact with the rest of the field at the turn, then surging...

    PHELPS TAKES 49TH CAREER NATIONAL TITLE     IRVINE, Calif. – With wins in the men’s 200m free and 200m butterfly Wednesday at the 2010 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships, Michael Phelps now holds more national titles than any other swimmer in history with 49, surpassing the 48 titles held by swimming legend Tracy Caulkins. His performance in the 200m free was the fastest time in the world this year, edging Ryan Lochte 1:45.61 to 1:45.78. In that race, Phelps led the field the entire way, but Lochte...

  8/3/2010   IRVINE, Calif. – Olympians Christine Magnuson and Ryan Lochte turned in the fastest times in the world this year in their respective events Tuesday at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships.   Magnuson won the first event on the first night of finals with a world’s-best in the women’s 100m butterfly, turning in a time of 57.32. Then Lochte closed the session with a world’s-best in the men’s 400m IM, touching in 4:09.98.   The women’s 100m butterfly came down to the wire, with Magnuson, the Olympic...

  Effort Aims to Bridge Swimming Gap for Minorities By LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL (AP) – 2 days ago KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Six-year-old Queen Epps is decked out in her pink Spongebob Squarepants bathing suit and green goggles, ready to learn how to hold her breath. She is one of 17 students from Liberty City — one of Miami's most impoverished and crime-ridden neighborhoods — sitting along the edge of the pool, splashing their legs in the water and holding the sides as they learn to blow bubbles and get...

  Valued members, volunteers and swimming families,   In a special meeting held today in Newark, N.J., the USA Swimming Board of Directors and select staff met with independent experts from the Child Welfare League of America, to approve actions and put forth proposed legislation aimed at improving and expanding USA Swimming’s athlete protection efforts. We remain committed to creating the safest environment possible for our members, and for that reason, we continue to work with appropriate experts to expand and improve our athlete protection programming. We are pleased to...