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Mississippi Swimming Holds First DEI Camp. Mission: To support, educate, and encourage the development of our members to achieve their goals and improve their lives through competitive swimming. Flowood, November 18, 2023: Mississippi Swimming held the first ever DEI Camp for swimmers in our LSC. Twenty-four athletes representing different programs in MS gathered for a one-day DEI camp held in Flowood, MS. These athletes came together with a common goal of fostering and empowering a culture of inclusion with the mindset that performance excellence can happen in any program, by...
USA Swimming Coaches, USA Swimming is excited to announce the addition of the Head Coach Certification Program to USA Swimming University. The Head Coach Certification program is primarily for new and aspiring head coaches, featuring lessons catered to coaches with plans or aspirations of assuming a head coach role. The course design is guided directly by coaches and features the voices of many experienced USA Swimming member coaches. The certification aims to support a pathway for career coaches. USA Swimming has the best performance-based coaching in the world. Still, when...
USA Swimming Coaches, As many of you know, the 2023 Toyota U.S. Open reached the athlete cap in three days. Thanks to Virginia Swimming and the International Swim Coaches Association, we now have another long course competition where athletes can qualify for next summer’s Olympic Team Trials in Indianapolis and the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024. The ISCA Open at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, will be held November 29-December 2, following the same event order as the Toyota U.S. Open. Lynchburg is within driving distance of Greensboro and...
Greetings Everyone! A lot has been happening since our SZ Annual Meeting last month. Here’s an update: NEW SZ ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES TO BE SENT TO SZ LSCs USA Swimming has given all four zones an end-of-year deadline to update their Administrative Policies (formerly known as Policies & Procedures). Members of the SZ Board are finalizing the draft that LSCs will receive by November 1, 2023. More information on the APs will be arriving in your email box in two days. 2024 SOUTHERN ZONE POOL and OW CHAMPIONSHIPS & SECTIONALS Posted...
USA Swimming Announces 2022-2023 Scholastic All-America Team COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Swimming today announced the full list of 2022-2023 Scholastic All-America recipients. The lists consist of 1,135 athletes in grades 9-12 who maintained a minimum 3.5 grade point average (GPA) and meet any of the competition criteria* during the qualifying period of September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023. Two Sandpipers of Nevada, Claire Weinstein (White Plains, N.Y.) and Katie Grimes (Las Vegas, Nev.), are the only two athletes who earned perfect scores due to being an event champion...
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NC Swimming won the 2023 Southern Zone Age Group Championships with 3455.5 Combined Team Points. Florida Swimming finished 2nd with 2030 Combined Points, and followed by Southeastern Swimming in 3rd with 1951.5 Combined Team Points. MEET RESULTS SZ AG RECORDS TEAM POINTS MEET RESULTS FILE .ZIP
OFFICIALS' NEWSLETTER Greetings from the Chair // Matt Wilson: Happy Summer, everyone! Where does the time go? It feels like yesterday that we were selecting our team to send to Budapest. Actually, it was (sort of)! With a condensed quad due to the global pandemic, the international meets are stacked up and waiting for our representatives to be selected. Phillips 66 Nationals is just around the corner. With selections for four international teams coming from the event, a lot is on the line. Oh, and Olympic Trials are now less...
