After good friend and teammate Fran Crippen died because of unsafe conditions during an open water competition almost three years ago, Alex Meyer has been on a personal crusade to convince FINA to take additional precautions.

Following the 2012 London Olympics last summer – where he won his second individual bronze medal in the 400 freestyle – Peter Vanderkaay needed a break. For the first time in more than a decade, he had some much-needed “me” time.

Two dozen of the nation’s top open water swimmers today were named to the 2013-14 USA Swimming Open Water National Team and National Junior Team, respectively.

With a quartet of 2013 national champions headlining the selections, USA Swimming today announced its open water roster for July’s FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, as well as the open water team for next month’s World University Games in Kazan, Russia.

Two-time Olympian Kate Ziegler owned the distance events for a decade in the most competitive era in the history of swimming. But Ziegler has only recently grown comfortable with her rollercoaster career, as she explains in this week’s 20 Question Tuesday.

Deck Pass, the official mobile application of USA Swimming, released Version 4.0. The latest version offers multiple new few features and capabilities for the free application.

A while back, I received an email from a Twitter follower. I asked him if it was OK that I reproduce this question and answer, since I believed it would help other swimmers in similar situations, too.

Esther Williams became one of the most famous swimmers in history without ever participating in an Olympic Games, because she found opportunities that were disguised in many obstacles that she confronted.

Clyde Smith is in his fourth year coaching the Sioux Falls Snowfox Swim Team, and is in his first season serving as head coach. Smith guided the club to both the long and short course state championship titles.

Here are some tips I’ve learned over the years to adjust to the summer reality of double practices . If you are like me and didn’t swim doubles throughout the school year, don’t fret this summer.

With a quartet of 2013 national champions headlining the selections, USA Swimming today announced its open water roster for July’s FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, as well as the open water team for next month’s World University Games in Kazan, Russia.

A few weeks before the 2013 Delaware High School State Championships, senior Kaitlyn Jones wasn’t even sure she would swim the 200 IM. Then, when Missy Franklin broke the national independent school record, Tatnall High’s Jones told her coach about Missy’s new record, “I could get that.” Her coach agreed.

Stanford men’s run of 31 consecutive Pac-12 titles is over. The last time anyone but Stanford won a Pac-12 Championship? 1981. IBM had just unveiled their first PC, and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born yet.

We’re now officially halfway finished with the Arena Grand Prix Series. There have been phenomenal races so far in this post-Olympic year, but these are some of the bigger, underlying storylines we’ve seen…

With every flip and turn in the short course pool at the 2012 Short Course World Championships, Ryan Lochte solidified himself as one of the greatest butterfly kickers of all-time.