Looking Forward to a Fourth Olympics: Team USA Water Polo Captain Brenda Villa -- June 13, 2012 The team that is playing the best together under pressure will be at the top of the podium in London - Brenda Villa Feature by Shoshanna Rutemiller PHOENIX, Arizona, June 13. USA Women's Water Polo has medalled in every Olympics since the sport began being offered at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Initially, the Stars and Stripes brought home silver in 2000, followed by a bronze at the 2004 Athens Games and a silver...

IOC posts candidates for Athletes Commission elections during 2012 Olympics LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND--The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday posted the 21 candidates who are running for 4 openings on the IOC's Athletes Commission. Participating athletes at the 2012 Olympics will vote on the candidates during the Games (July 16-August 8); results will be announced on August 9. Among the 4 athletes whose terms are finishing this summer is swimmer Rania Elwani. Among the 21 candidates are 2 swimmers: -Milorad Cavic, Serbia (Swimming) -Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe (Swimming) Further information on the election,...

LAUSANNE, June 14, 2012 - FINA is offering a pre-Olympic online edition full-colour 124-page of the FINA aquatics magazine on a complimentary basis - through the link below: http://lm.dmo.wildom.com/fina/fb_20120604/ The FINA aquatics magazine is an english publication that addresses all fans of aquatic sport and aims to make the five disciplines more popular globally. The online version of the FINA publication is also available for subscription. For further issues you may subscribe on-line at: http://fina.wildom.com/fina/fina.main.page

EL SALVADOR--Reports from El Salvador indicate that the nation will have 2 swimmers at the 2012 Olympics: Pamela Benítez and Rafael Alfaro. The El Salvador Olympic Committee reportedly received word recently that the two had been granted Universality spots for the Games. http://www.lapagina.com.sv/deportes/67315/2012/06/04/Pamela-Benitez-y-Rafael-Alfaro-se-apuntaron-a-Londres-2012

4 National records set at Bermuda Nationals BERMUDA--Four short-course Bermuda Records were bettered at the 2012 Bermuda Nationals, held this past weekend (June 7-10) in Pembroke. Roy-Allan Burch, who reportedly is Bermuda's only currently-qualified Olympic swimmer, set 3 of the marks. The new 25m records were swum in: -men's 50 free: 22.51, Roy-Allan Burch (old= 22.81, Burch, 2011 Nationals) -men's 100 free: 50.25, Roy-Allan Burch (old= 50.62, Burch, 2011 Nationals) -men's 200 breaststroke: 2:19.96, Julian Fletcher (old= 2:21.60, Graham Smith, November 2001) -men's 50 fly: 24.98, Roy-Allan Burch (old= 25.62,...

Six Athletes from the Americas Qualify for London Olympic 10K Marathon USA's Haley Anderson is women's winner; Richard Weinberger of Canada is second in men's race The FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier was held over the weekend in Setubal, Portugal. On Saturday, Haley Anderson of the USA won the event in a time of 1:44:30.6 to secure her qualification for the London Olympic Games. Zsofia Balazs of Canada finished in 6th place to earn her position. Yanel Pinto of Venezuela was the continental qualifier from the Americas. On Sunday, Richard...

Swimming Canada director Martin Richard named CPC executive director of marketing By David Gold June 3 - The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has announced that Martin Richard has been made their new executive director of marketing and communications. Richard (pictured above) brings with him 12 years of experience in marketing, having spent a decade as the director of communications for Swimming Canada. During his time at Swimming Canada Richard has been responsible for helping to secure long term national broadcast partnerships, as well as launching SwimCAN WebTV. He was also...

Huntington Beach, Calif. – June 8, 2012 –The USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, a collection of excellence in the sport of water polo, will induct three remarkable honorees at a benefit dinner set for Saturday, July 7 at the InterContinental Century City in Los Angeles, CA. The Class of 2012 includes two-time Olympic Medalist, Ellen Estes Lee, Northern California Water Polo legend, Bill Brown, and Women's National Team pioneer, Margo Miranda. This year the induction will be in conjunction with a special send-off for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Water...

To: Members of the UANA Executive Committee & Technical Chairs A quick note to share with each of you the remaining UANA Technical Committee Reports. UANA Secretary Fernando Canales has submitted his draft of the minutes from the May 12th UANA Executive Committee meeting. Please allow the focus of this document to be on the UANA Technical Committees. Later in June the Minutes of the May 12th meeting and the 6 technical committee reports will be distributed to the UANA Family. Please remember to submit the names (and their email...

BOGATA, COLOMBIA--The South American Swimming Confederation, Confederación Sudamericana de Natación (CONSANAT), received word in mid-April that the 2014 South American Games would not be allowed to double as the 2014 South American Swimming Championships, as past editions of the Games have done. As such, the 2014 South American Swimming Championships will be held in Mar del Plata, Argentina; while the 2014 South American Games will be held in Santiago, Chile. Presumably, this decision will mean two major aquatics competitions for South America in 2014.