Santa Ana, CA - May 13 - The Santa Ana Family YMCA has partnered with the Santa Ana Unified School District and USA Water Polo to make the pool at the Santa Ana Family YMCA and Segerstrom High School the official training site of the USA Water Polo Men's National Team. This partnership will run through 2016 and the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "I want to thank the Santa Ana Unified School District and the YMCA of Orange County for offering a fantastic training location for...

RBC Insurance announces multi-year partnership with Swimming Canada to support Canada’s Swim Team initiative “25 Metres Matters” campaign will promote water safety by recognizing 700,000 children who learn to swim 25 metres Toronto, May 13, 2014 — To raise awareness about the importance of swimming as a lifelong skill, Swimming Canada and RBC Insurance announced a new multi-year partnership Tuesday. RBC Insurance will now become the presenting sponsor of Canada’s Swim Team, the movement to teach every Canadian child how to swim. With this initiative, RBC Insurance and Swimming Canada...

Melissa Wu (AUS) gets the only non-Chinese title in Puerto Rico FINA Diving GRAND PRIX 2014 Chinese athletes were in great shape in the fifth leg of the FINA Diving Grand Prix 2014, by winning seven out of the eight titles at stake in San Juan (PUR), from May 8-11. The only non-Chinese victory went to Australia’s Melissa Wu in the women’s 10m platform. Among men, the Asian supremacy was complete, with new names on the circuit dominating the operations: Sun Zhiyi in the 3m springboard, and as in Gatineau...

Preventing Drowning of Competitive Swimmers In the wake of the recent drowning of UC Santa Barbara water polo player, Nick Johnson, the National Drowning Prevention Alliance has developed a position paper that clarifies misconceptions and terminology that will educate and coaches, athletes and lifesavers about the risks and causes of of breath-holding blackout Loss of Consciousness in Breath Holding Swimmers Accidental Drowning of 19 year old Water Polo player in Santa Barbara, California

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The “President’s Message” is a continuing effort on my part to keep the members of USA Swimming informed about current happenings in our sport and our organization. Please feel free to share the message with others. The USA Swimming Board of Directors held its most recent meeting on May 3, 2014, and some important decisions were made that I believe will be of interest to you. Executive Director Update Our Executive Director, Chuck Wielgus always provides a general update to our Board of Directors for each of our...

31st Brazil Winter Junior Championships--Rio de Janeiro, RJ Wednesday-Saturday (May 7-10) http://www.cbdaweb.org.br/cbda/natacao/evento/14/2014/trofeu-dr-tancredo-neves/relatorios A Senior meet is being held concurrently with the Junior meet

WADA Code can punish athlete support personnel Saturday, 10 May 2014 Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email More Sharing Services 5 By Duncan Mackay Australian sport has been warned that the new World Anti-Doping Code, due to come into effect next year, could have serious implications for coaches, trainers and support personnel linked to a drugs scandal. The warning came from Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates during the organisation's annual general meeting today in Sydney, and was a thinly veiled reference to the Australian Sports...

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Matheus Santana Axes A Chunk Off His World Junior 100 Free Record With 48.35 May 10, 2014 - Craig Lord Matheus Santana, the 18-year-old who established a 48.61 World Junior record over 100m free at the Maria Lenk Trophy last month, took the global youth pace down to 48.35 for a victory on the junior side of the Brazilian Winter Nationals in Rio. Out in 23.51 and back in 24.84, Santana is building into a swimmer who will soon be tipped for gold at a home Olympic Games over 100m...

NBCUniversal buys US Olympic rights through to 2032 in a $7 billion boost to Olympic Movement Wednesday, 07 May 2014 Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email More Sharing Services 1 By David Owen The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced one of the most important commercial agreements in its history, selling United States broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games between 2021 and 2032 to NBCUniversal (NBCU) for $7.65 billion (£4.51 billion/€5.49 billion). The eye-popping deal - which the IOC claimed ensured the long-term financial security of the...