Florida Swimming Bud & Irene Hacket Scholarship   Florida Swimming will present two $1,000.00 awards to one male and one female Florida Swimming/USA Swimming athlete member, in 2010.  If you know of a student/athlete member you believe deserves and meets the criteria please have them fill out the enclosed form and return it by July 13, 2010.  The awards committee will review the applications and announce the recipient on Saturday, July 24, during the “2010 Long Course Senior Championship” being held at Sarasota YMCA, in Sarasota, Florida.   Click Here...

Dear Members, Coaches and Parents of USA Swimming, In recent days our sport has been portrayed in a very bad light in the media. Sadly, I have also been portrayed as an insensitive, uncaring administrator and spokesperson for USA Swimming.  There are pieces of the recent 20/20 interview that I’d like to have back, there were important things left out, and there were pieces of the report that were untrue.  As a father myself, it breaks my heart to know that there are children out there who have been taken advantage...

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, April 10. SARASOTA YMCA walked away with the combined team title after the final day of competition at the YMCA Short Course Nationals. Meanwhile, Eau Claire's Leah Pronschinski produced the ninth YMCA mark of the meet. Sarasota won the overall team title with... Click Here To Read The Full Story!

  FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, April 9. SPRINGFIELD's Margo Geer cleared her fourth YMCA record of the YMCA Short Course Nationals this evening. Overall, eight YMCA records have fallen in three days of swimming. Geer clocked a smoking fast time... Click Here To Read The Full Story!

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, April 8. TWO more YMCA records fell during the second night of action at the YMCA Short Course Nationals held in Florida. Overall, five marks have fallen during the first two days. Springfield's Margo Geer, who is... Click Here To Read The Full Story!

  FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, April 7. THE first night of competition at the YMCA Short Course Nationals produced a trio of YMCA marks, two by Springfield's Margo Geer. Geer is headed to the University of Arizona after this summer. Geer and Tr... Click Here To Read The Full Story!

USA Swimming named Gregg Troy (Gainesville, Fla.) and Teri McKeever (El Cerrito, Calif.) as head coaches for the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships. In addition, USA Swimming also selected Mike Gobrecht (Camp Hill, Pa.) as the head coach for the 2010 Open Water World Championships team. The 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships will take place August 18-22 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatic Center in Irvine, Calif., and will feature top swimmers from the U.S., Australia, Canada and Japan. The event marks the first time in...

NOTICE: Person's Assisting A Coach During Practice Article 502.4.3 “Anyone who coaches athletes at a USA Swimming practice or competition must be a coach member of USA Swimming and must have satisfactorily completed safety training and background screening required by USA Swimming.” Effective January 1, 2009, any type of coaching including, but not limited to, swimming and dry land training, must be provided by a registered USA Swimming member Coach. Coaching by any other person who is not a registered coach member, including USA Swimming Athlete Members, is not permitted....

  Racing Start Certification Reminder As of May 1, 2009, USA Swimming rules require that all registered swimmers must be racing start certified in order to perform racing starts in less than six feet of water, 103.2.2 (which already provides that racing starts should only be taught in at least six feet of water) to further clarify that racing starts should only be taught under the direct supervision of a USA Swimming member coach, and to expand the definition of teaching racing starts to make clear that no swimmer who...

USA Swimming Code of Conduct and Complaint Reporting: A Reminder Members of USA Swimming, We appreciate your feedback generated by the Open Letter posted on usaswimming.org on March 23, 2010. In response to the societal and global issue of sexual misconduct, and the feedback from you, our members, and to ensure the effectiveness of the protections we have in place, we take this opportunity to highlight USA Swimming’s Code of Conduct and Reporting and Disciplinary process. USA Swimming has thousands of qualified, effective and positive coaches. However, for the fraction...