Five MSI Swimmers including Warner Russ, Luke Fender, Nan Sheppard, and Rachel McAlpin of MMST and Cody Ano of BEST shined this past year in the classroom and the pool as each earned recognition for USA Swimming's Scholastic All-American. This award is the highest level earned for a HS athlete through USA Swimming and requires swimmers to earn at least one Junior National Championship qualifying time and maintain a 3.5 or greater GPA. For more information, please see: https://www.usaswimming.org/times/popular-resources/scholastic-all-america Warner is a 2024 graduate of Jackson Preparatory School in Flowood...

Congratulations to Eddie Ware (Mississippi Makos Swim Team) who won Mississippi Swimming's 2024 Senior Coach of the Year and Robert Gonzalez (Biloxi Elite Swim Team) who won Mississippi Swimming's 2024 Age Group Coach of the Year.

BILOXI, MS | Over 360 swimmers, parents, officials, and coaches from both the MS and LA LSCs hit the coast this past weekend for USA Swimming's Swimposium 2.0 event. Designed with the goal of providing educational opportunties for our non-athletes and leadership development for our swimmers, the event was a great success achieiving its targeted goals. MSI left with over ten new certified volunteer officials, increased awareness for our parents, leadership skills and fun for our swimmers, and coaching development with USA Swimming new ADM programming. The event was capped...

LOUISVILLE, KY | Eight MSI swimmers from four clubs represented the LSC at the 2024 Southern Zone Athletes Summit from June 21-23, 2025. The three-day event focused on multiple platforms involving leadership, mental health, college recruiting, social media branding, and governance. Each night was concluded with group games with other LSCs and an Olympic Trials watch party on the big screen. Mississippi Swimming is proud to have been a sponsor for this great event affording our swimmers the opportunity to attend and thanks the Southern Zone and UL faciltiies for...

Congratulations to Rachel McAlpin who will be representing Mississippi Makos Swim Team and Mississippi Swimming at the USA Swimming Olympic Trials. Rachel competed at the Southern Zone South Sectional Championships in Ocala, Florida. She finished first in the 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:10.25 to earn the Olympic Trials cut (1:10.29) and also break the Mississippi Swimming open state record in the process. Rachel will now compete in Indianapolis, Indiana at Lucas Oil Field, on Sunday, June 16th.

Congratulations to Warner Russ on being a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American for 2022-2023 competition and academic season. Warner is a Senior at Jackson Preparatory School in Flowood, MS and will be attending Auburn University in the Fall of 2024. Warner competed in both the Winter Juniors in Columbus, OH in December finaling in the 200 IM and the 100 & 200 Freestyle (also breaking the 17-18 Men's state record). Over the Summer, he competed at Summer Juniors in Irvine, CA racing in the 50 & 100m Freestyle and the 100...

Congratulations to two of our Mississippi officials Wade Kojima and Todd Patterson. Two of our MS Swimming officials were selected and participated in the recent 2024 TYR Pro Swim Series Meet held in Knoxville, TN January 10-13, 2024.

Flowood, MS | November 18, 2023: Mississippi Swimming Inc. (MSI) held the first ever DEI Camp for swimmers in our LSC. 24 athletes representing different programs gathered for a one-day event. 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 any athlete, from any background. Camp directors Will and Isaac Davis brought some big energy to the camp. They were able to connect and relate to the campers while sharing technique...

Congratulations to Makos coaches Brian Ware (senior coach) and Natalie Johnson (age group) for being voted by the coaches of Mississippi Swimming as the 2023 Senior and Age Group coach of the year!

Athlete Protection Training (APT) - PLEASE READ COMPLETELY. As a reminder, there are only four courses that will satisfy the Athlete Protection Training requirement for membership. Those four courses are the Core Course, Refresher 1, Refresher 2, and Refresher 3. Currently, those are located in Education - Course Catalog - All Courses. The courses listed under Safe Sport do NOT satisfy the APT requirement. The accepted courses show up as: Athlete Protection Training Athlete Protection Training - Refresher 1 Athlete Protection Training - Refresher 2 Athlete Protection Training - Refresher...