Play True Generation at South American School Games November 29, 2012 WADA is running a series of education programs at the South American School Games in Brazil as it looks to enhance the anti-doping knowledge of a 2,000-strong group of athletes, coaches and teachers. The Nov. 29-Dec. 6 event in Natal on the north-eastern coast of Brazil features athletes from 12 countries and WADA is operating its Play True Generation Program to educate the competitors and their entourage about the dangers of doping. WADA’s Education Manager Jennifer Sclater and Edna...

USA Swimming Winter Nationals in Austin, Texas Underway AUSTIN, USA--The 2012 USA Winter Nationals [25 yards] begins today and continues through Saturday (November 29-December 1) in Austin, Texas. Results from the meet are posting online here: http://www.omegatiming.com/Competition?id=00010C010CFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF&sport=AQ&year=2012 Further information on the meet can be found here: http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1418&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en

EIGHT RECORDS TUMBLE AT DEVELOPMENTAL SWIM MEET The St Lucia Amateur Swimming Association continued with its mandated series of developmental swim meets with the "SHORT AXIS STROKES MEET" successfully hosted on, Sunday 25th November 2012 at the Rodney Heights Aquatic Centre. This particular meet was designed to encourage the swimmers to strive for best times in the Short Axis Strokes (i.e. Breaststroke and Butterfly) and included swimmers who have just started training in the club system, more experienced swimmers, elite swimmers and the Masters. The seven main Swim clubs in...

2013 Pan American Masters Water Polo Championships June 21-24, 2013 in Orlando, Florida, USA Location: YMCA Aquatic Center, 8422 International Dr., Orlando, FL 32819 Entry Fee: $700 (US Dollars) per team which is non-refundable; except in the instance less than 3 teams enter in a particular age group. Entry Requirements: All club teams (men's & women's) are eligible to compete - not restricted to national teams. Team registration - gender, club name, country, age group - must be received with payment prior to entry deadline of June 1, 2013. Online...

USA Synchro appoints new executive director Monday, 26 November 2012 By Duncan Mackay posted at Inside the Games November 26 - USA Synchro has appointed Julie Fabsik-Swarts as its new executive director, they have announced. Fabsik-Swarts was previously the director of development and marketing for EducationWorks in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She holds a master's degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and worked as the sports manager for baseball at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. Fabsik-Swarts took part in synchronised swimming at the YMCA in...

Randy Bennett & Jozsef Nagy named Canadian Coaches of the Year CANADA--Swimming Canada (SNC) held its 2012 awards on November 26 in Toronto, Ontario. Winning Coach of the Year (CotY) honors at the event were: -CotY Male Swimmer: Randy Bennet -CotY Female Swimmer: Jozsef Nagy -CotY Male disability swimmer: Pierre Lamy -CotY Female disability swimmer: Reg Chappell -Club CotY: Sean Baker A full listing of nominees for all these awards can be found on the SNC website here: https://www.swimming.ca/NewsArticle.aspx?newsid=3419

2013 Worlds information posted LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND--This month, FINA has posted extended information about the 2013 World Championships, which are in July 19-August 4 in Barcelona, Spain. These additional pages of information can be found on the FINA website in the World Championships section here: http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=336&Itemid=1192 Among the information now posted on the website is: -10 lanes may be used for prelims, semifinals and finals -entry deadlines: --provisional entries are due March 18, 2013 --preliminary entries are due May 18, 2013 --final entries are due July 8, 2013 -the list of...

Three athletes named to USA Diving Board of Directors Posted on November 26, 2012 by USA Diving Three athletes have been elected to serve in various roles on the USA Diving Board of Directors. Cassandra (Cardinell) Metzler, a member of the 2004 Olympic Team, has been elected to serve on the USOC’s Athletes Advisory Council. As AAC representative, Metzler will also have a spot on the USA Diving Board of Directors. In addition, Olympians David Boudia and Brittany Viola have been elected to serve as athlete representatives on USA Diving’s...

Canada's Big Splash Honors Olympic Medallists from London Posted by Craig Lord at SwimNews At Swimming Canada's annual Big Splash Awards Gala in Toronto last night, Ryan Cochrane (Island Swimming/Victoria Academy of Swimming) took home the Male Swimmer of the Year award, Richard Weinberger the Open Water Swimmer of the Year prize and Martha McCabe (Vancouver Dolphins/National Swim Centre, Vancouver) the Female Swimmer of the Year. Cochrane claimed silver behind Sun Yang (CHN) in the 1500m freestyle at the London 2012 Olympic Games, four years after bronze in 2008. He...

Wanut Creek Aquanuts to represent US at World Trophy The Walnut Creek Aquatuts will represent the United States at the FINA Synchronized Swimming World Trophy in Mexico Citgy, Mexico from November 30 to December 2nd. Link to USA Synchro Press Release: http://www.usasynchro.org/Assets/USSyncSwim+Digital+Assets/Walnut+Creek+to+represent+US+at+2012+World+Trophy+v2.pdf