Tune-in this weekend to see exciting high school swimming action webcast exclusively on ESPN3. The Colorado Class 5A Girls Swimming and Diving State Meet is shaping up to be a very competitive meet.

Olympic gold medalist and former world record-holder Anthony Ervin has has become an official spokesperson for International Water Safety Day. International Water Safety Day is designed to educate youth in becoming safer in and around the water while spreading global awareness about the ongoing drowning pandemic.

For the past couple of years, I’ve been chronicling the Olympic Trials dreams and memories of many swimmers who competed at the 2008 event. Now, as the 2012 Trials creep ever closer, I’d like to share some of my Trials experiences.

Last week, we uploaded Part One of our interview with Jim Ellis, whose story of coaching inner-city Philadelphia swimmers was fictionalized in the movie, “Pride." This week we upload Part Two of our hour-long interview, where Jim discusses his goals for the future, and how hard his team trains.

Traveling internationally can affect athletes in a number of ways. Not only can the conditions on long flights lead to exhaustion, but crossing multiple time zones leads to jet lag, the disturbance of your sleep/wake cycle caused by rapid change to a different schedule.

If the name Rachel Bootsma sounds familiar, you may remember her making headlines last year when, at just 16-years-old, she smashed the national high school record in the 100 backstroke. She’s continuously dropped time throughout her career, and she was only seven tenths of a second off Natalie Coughlin's American Record this previous summer.

Tune-in this weekend to see exciting high school swimming action webcast exclusively on ESPN3. The Colorado Class 5A Girls Swimming and Diving State Meet is shaping up to be a very competitive meet.

The 2011 AT&T Winter National Championships concluded the 2011 swimming year. The biggest stories of the meet were numerous comebacks, including Dara Torres and Brendan Hansen. The meet gave younger swimmers the opportunity to rub shoulders with their Olympic heroes.

USA Swimming National Team member Eva Fabian took home the top prize this weekend at the second stage of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup in Viedma, Argentina. The competition welcomed 24 women and 31 men from 20 countries, including some of the top stars in open water swimming.

Olympians Jason Lezak, Matt Grevers and Amanda Weir headline the list of swimmers competing at the 2012 Missouri Grand Prix, February 10-12 in Columbia, Mo. The Missouri Grand Prix is the third stop of the 2011-2012 Grand Prix Series and will take place at the Mizzou Aquatic Center.

Adam Mania, a former University of Wisconsin standout, went to the 2004 Olympics as a member of the Polish Olympic team. He had dual citizenship. But a few years later, Mania decided he wanted to make the U.S. Olympic team.

Adam Mania went to the 2004 Olympics as a member of the Polish team. Then, in 2007, he decided that he wanted to try for the United States roster. He missed the U.S. team in 2008, but that won’t stop him from attempting to come back and make the team this year.

We sat down with National Team member Matt McLean during a recent training visit to Colorado Springs. He discussed his preparation for the Olympic Trials and the key to his success in Omaha.

The 2011 AT&T Winter National Championships concluded the 2011 swimming year. The biggest stories of the meet were numerous comebacks, including Dara Torres and Brendan Hansen. The meet gave younger swimmers the opportunity to rub shoulders with their Olympic heroes.

Megan Jendrick took the world by surprise at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. After a frustrating near miss at the 2004 Olympic Trials, the Washington native came back and made the team in 2008. The married Jendrick had a baby in October, and is already back doing all she can to make a run toward the 2012 Olympic Trials.

USA Swimming National Team member Eva Fabian took home the top prize this weekend at the second stage of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup in Viedma, Argentina. The competition welcomed 24 women and 31 men from 20 countries, including some of the top stars in open water swimming.

National Team member Emily Brunemann took a break from training on a recent visit to Colorado Springs and shared her thoughts on the upcoming Open Water National Championships and the Olympic Trials in Omaha.