Swimmer's Daily

  • Lyon, Rome and Dubrovnik is on the list when swimmer Sarah Sjöström make her top list of destinations in the world.

    Lyon
    One of the gastronomic capitals of the world with an excellent culinary offering. It’s also a lovely city that’s easy to get around. Every year, La Fête de Lumières sets Lyon awash with light, and it’s well worth seeing.

    Read Scandinavian Traveler

  • TrueSport Ambassador and Olympic Swimmer, Elizabeth Beisel shares some training tips.

    https://youtu.be/mIYU5KQIUWw

  • Go behind the scenes with Team Speedo to meet Ye Shiwen, the woman who stormed into the swimming record books aged 16, when she smashed the Olympic and world records. We meet the Chinese swimmer and get to know the double Olympic gold medallist.

  • A Towson University diving coach was indicted on criminal charges Monday in connection with a cellphone that was recording in the team’s locker room last month.

    Maureen Mead of Lutherville, 43, is charged in Baltimore County Circuit Court with interception of communication, peeping Tom and altering evidence, according to the university and online court records.

    On Oct. 16, members of the women’s swimming and diving team reported finding a smartphone that was recording them in their locker room in Burdick Hall.

    A message left at Mead’s home was not immediately returned Monday night and she does not have an attorney listed in court records.

    Mead is no longer listed on the team’s website as a member of the coaching staff. She previously had been listed as the diving coach.

    Read The Baltimore Sun and see CBS Baltimore

  • A sexual allegation against a local swim coach cost him his job and his future in the sport.

    Jack Maddan, the Head Coach of FLEET, the competitive swim team at Cy-Fair Swim Club on Spring Cypress Rd. has been banned for life from USA Swimming, the national governing body of competitive swimming in the United States. […]

    Parents of swimmers have jumped to Maddan’s defense telling Eyewitness News the ban is “tragic” and that their experience with Maddan has been only “positive.” One parent said when swimmers learned of the ban Wednesday night, one punched a wall so hard, he broke his hand.

    “There’s not an ounce of truth. There is no substance to the allegations. There is not evidence to the allegations,” Maddan told Eyewitness News. He wouldn’t discuss what he’s accused of citing a USA Swimming confidentiality policy but we’ve learned it’s from 16 years ago, made by a former swimmer who recently came forward alleging sexual misconduct.

    See ABC 13

  • Olympic champions and world-record holders Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md.) and Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.) claimed top honors as repeat Athlete of the Year winners Sunday at the 2015 USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE.

    Ledecky was the night’s big winner, claiming three awards – Female Athlete of the Year, Female Race of the Year for the 200-meter freestyle at the 2015 FINA World Championships and Relay Performance of the Year for anchoring the women’s 4x200m free relay to gold at the FINA World Championships – for the second straight year. […]

    The 18-year-old Ledecky earned Female Athlete of the Year honors for the third straight year with five gold medals, four of them in individual events, at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. With victories in the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle events, Ledecky became the first swimmer to win gold in all four events at the same FINA World Championships. She also eclipsed her own world records in the 800m and 1500m free.

    “I’m very honored to be up here,” Ledecky said. “Everybody brings something special to the team – the coaches, the swimmers, the support staff. Everybody really deserves a lot of credit. I could thank so many people in this room for your support of USA Swimming and the USA Swimming Foundation.”

    Phelps won Male Athlete of the Year honors for the second straight year and the sixth time in his career. He was dominant at the Phillips 66 National Championships in San Antonio, posting world-best times for 2015 in a trio of events – the 100m fly, 200m fly and 200m IM. Equally as impressive was that each swim also cracked the top-eight performances of all-time.

    “Thank you for nominating me for this, and I look forward to big things next summer for all of us,” Phelps said.

    Read USA Swimming

  • One stroke at a time! Michael Phelps may be a reigning Olympic champion, but the athlete isn’t going to try to force swimming upon his unborn son, he exclusively told Us Weekly in an exclusive interview.

    “He’s definitely going to be water safe, that’s for sure!” the 22-time medalist said at the NBC Olympics promo shoots in West Hollywood, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 21. “If he wants to swim, I’ll let him. But I’m not pushing him. Everyone’s been commenting like, ‘I guess he’ll be in the Olympics in 2032, but no… if he wants to swim, he’ll swim, but he’ll definitely be water safe, that’s for sure.”

    Read US Magazine

    https://youtu.be/bRBI-LyY_VM

  • A majority of German swimmers are considering skipping the upcoming European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Israel due to security fears, it emerged at their national championships over the weekend.

    “Honestly, for me, the risk just seems too great,” said Alexandra Wenk, a world bronze medalist who competes in the women’s 100-meter butterfly.

    Wenk is among 13 of the 25 swimmers who do not want to go to Netanya for security reasons, according to the spokesman of the German Swimming Federation.

    Even head coach Henning Lambertz said he was “not hot to go out there” and that he would make a final decision closer to the event.

    In contrast, stars like Paul Biedermann and Marco Koch expressed no fear.

    “The security in Israel will be good. It’s no more dangerous than anywhere else,” said Koch, the world men’s 200-meter breaststroke champion, who secured his place in the competition by setting a new German record for the 400×4 relay medley.

    For Biedermann, the decision to go to Israel has nothing to do with security, but “essentially depends on my ability to swim fast” during the qualifiers. Last season, the double 2009 world champion missed out on a medal at the World Short-Course Championships in Doha, Qatar, but clinched the bronze medal at the World Long-Course Championships in Kazan, Russia.

    The German Swimming Federation said it will leave the choice to all swimmers and coaches.

    Read The Times of Israel

  • Paralyzed after an four-wheeler accident, former Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken speaks about the progress she has made through physical therapy.