Pro Swim Series Time Standards Set at Olympic Trials Cuts for 2020-2021 Season
Richmond, Virginia will host the first stop of the 2020-2021 USA Swimming Pro Swim Series, with much smaller fields expected than last year.
20-21 Pro Swim Series Adds Irvine Stop in November With Morning Finals
USA Swimming updated its 2020-2021 calendar, adding a second November Pro Swim Series stop and announcing night prelims & morning finals for half of the PSS.
USA Swimming Will Sanction Meets in July, Times Won’t Count for National Meets
USA Swimming has announced that it will sanction competitions in July, but times will not count towards qualification for national-level meets or events.
Pentland Announces Jim Gerson’s Return As President Of Speedo North America
Jim Gerson says: “It’s a really exciting time to be re-joining team Speedo. Pentland has an outstanding track-record in brand building…”
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Return To Richmond, San Antonio Debut Highlight Changes To 2020-21 PSS Schedule
The 2020-21 Pro Swim Series schedule features a pair of location changes from 2019-20, including the debut of San Antonio, Texas as a host.
USA Swimming Cancels Summer Nationals, Announces 2021 Pro Swim Series Schedule
USA Swimming has officially canceled its summer meets, but plans to run regional meets in mid-summer and kick-start national competition again in late 2020.
Michael Andrew Posts Vlog Describing His Breakout Meet in Des Moines
Michael Andrew swam three lifetime bests at the 2020 Pro Swim Series in Des Moines a couple weekends ago and his new vlog gave us behind the scenes.
Pancake Hot Take: Top 5 Swim(mer)s & Surprises from Des Moines/Pac-12s
This weekend really blew my socks off for a beginning of March, in-season meet. We saw many top times in the world & so many historic, top-10 all-time swims.
Smith & Murphy Lead PSS As 16 of Top 20 Swims of Season Come In Des Moines
Backstrokers Ryan Murphy and Regan Smith lead the 2020 Pro Swim Series as the Des Moines stop produced 16 of the top 20 swims of the season in FINA points.
R. Smith, Andrew Lead Des Moines Money Earners, Smith Leads Entire PSS
Regan Smith earned the most prize money of any athlete for a second-consecutive Pro Swim Series stop, and she now leads the entire series in earnings at $13K.
Gunnar Bentz on Living with Fellow Olympian Kevin Cordes (Video)
Gunnar Bentz describes cooking, sleeping, and TV with recent UGA transplant and fellow Olympian, breaststroke specialist Kevin Cordes
Ryan Held Describes Killer Coley Stickels Set (Video)
Ryan Held breaks down Coley Stickels Sprint training, including a set that burns the arms, the legs… burns just about everything if done right
Michael Andrew Describes Changes in his Swimming after Getting an Agent (Video)
Michael Andrew blasted out to a lifetime best in the 200 IM at 1:56.83, ranking 4th in the world this season and 6th All-time among Americans
Ryan Held Analyzes 100 Free Field Heading into Olympic Trials (Video)
Dean Farris (48.97), Ryan Held (48.99) and Blake Pieroni (49.00) had virtually nothing between them as took third, fourth and fifth
Gunnar Bentz on UGA Training: “It’s been a war zone in Athens” (Video)
Gunnar Bentz shocked many after registering a lifetime best in the 200 fly, taking the event by a wide margin with a time of 1:56.20