As I reflect on the past year, I am humbled by the resilience of our athletes, coaches, volunteers, and staff at USA Swimming as we celebrate a complete return to operations, competitions, and impressive membership numbers two years after the start of an unprecedented global pandemic. The changes we have experienced are monumental: some strategically planned and others the result of surprising external factors. What we have not compromised on, though, is our unshakable commitment to ensuring our athletes are our top priority. What started with a $5 million investment project from our board of directors titled “Keeping Athletes First” has evolved into utilization of that mantra as the starting point for every strategic decision we make. Since this time last year, we managed uncertain competition calendars, developed new policies to ensure our sport appropriately balances equality and fairness, and invested significant resources to improve the technology that enables us to run the best competitions in global sport. And never once during that time did our commitment to keeping our athletes first waver.  

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