by admin | Jun 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Katie Ledecky reclaimed the 400m freestyle crown to open the world swimming championships, prevailing in the absence of rival Ariarne Titmus of Australia. Ledecky won in a championship record 3 minutes, 58.15 seconds, topping 15-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh by...
by admin | Jun 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
When 16-year-old swimmer Leah Hayes at last sat down for dinner after the final day of April’s world championships trials, she rested her head on the table. Her father asked if she was OK. Hayes looked up, said she was fine and added, “It’s just a lot.” Read...
by admin | Jun 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Katie Ledecky will be plenty busy at the world championships that start next week, just not at the record level of mileage we saw in Tokyo. She’s slated to swim a total of 5,600 meters, a drop down from her 6,200 at the Olympics last year, an unprecedented total for...
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the nine individual women who will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame this summer, along with Michael Phelps and hurdling great Roger Kingdom. Others...
by admin | May 29, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to the Sooner softball team who have only lost one game this season 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Teri McKeever who is being investigated for being emotionally abusive to swimmers she...
by admin | May 26, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Teri McKeever, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Olympic swimming head coach, was put on paid administrative leave by Cal Berkeley amid an investigation into a report that 20 current or former Cal swimmers said McKeever verbally and emotionally bullied her swimmers....
by admin | May 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Ariarne Titmus broke Katie Ledecky‘s world record in the 400m freestyle at the Australian swimming trials on Sunday, becoming the first swimmer other than Ledecky to break a Ledecky world record. Titmus, the 21-year-old who won the Olympic 200m and 400m frees over...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Katie Ledecky was standing where she has stood twice before over the past 10 years, at the White House, at a Team USA ceremony, a few feet from the President. The greatest female swimmer of all-time was back Wednesday to celebrate another Olympics, last year’s Tokyo...
by admin | May 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Katie Ledecky won the 1500m freestyle by 12.37 seconds to finish the U.S. swimming trials, going four-for-four in her first major meet since the Tokyo Olympics and a cross-country move. She qualified for June’s world championships in Budapest in her four primary...
by admin | Apr 4, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Claire Curzan is preparing to swim the world championships trials in her favorite venue, but she’s taking a liking to just about any pool these days. Curzan, 10th in the Tokyo Olympic 100m butterfly at age 17, won a pair of races in a 15-minute span, including a...
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