Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Dana Vollmer made the USA Olympic Swim Team in the 100m butterfly today, Stephanie Peacock is still in the hunt in the 400m freestyle, seeded fifth in the finals with a time of 4:08.23 in the 400m freestyle at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. But Haley Anderson just missed making the finals by 0.4
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While many eyes in the competitive swimming world will be interested in the times produced by Michael Phelps (entered in the 100 and 200 freestyle, 100 and 200 butterfly and 200 IM) and Ryan Lochte (100 and 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM) at the United States Olympic Swimming
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming has a large and growing number of world-class competitive open water swimmers as it puts more resources into the sport. The American team scored the most points at the 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships. The 12 members of the USA Swimming 2016-2017 Open Water National Team is headlined by
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Years ago - and among some pool swimming coaches even nowadays - competitive pool swimming coaches in America and elsewhere believed that if a competitive pool swimmer focused on open water swimming, or even participated in open water swims, then their speed would decrease and their pool swimming times would
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers occasionally talk about sharks and jellyfish, cold water and currents. But those with long hair know a more frequent, but understated, problem occurs with swimming long distances: tangled hair that becomes matted under a swim cap and can become damaged by pool chemicals over time. "As
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While everyone was focused on watching the world's greatest female swimmer, Olympic champion and world record holder Katie Ledecky at the 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin, Texas in the 400m freestyle finals, our eyes were zeroed in on Becca Mann of North Baltimore Aquatic Club and Stephanie Peacock of
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo courtesy of the Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee. At the 2015 Universiade, American Stephanie Peacock found herself in South Korea for the first time. Housed in the Universiade Athletes Village, Peacock was with thousands of other athletes and heads of delegations in an
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When swimmers get together - in real life or online - they often share how much they are training, how difficult their last swim was, how sore they are or how busy they are managing their workouts and work. They talk about the turbulence they face in the ocean, the cold temperatures they endure throughout
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephanie Peacock got her first international taste of competitive open water swimming in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the King and Queen of the Sea. While she just missed out on a victory together with Chip Peterson, she was the queen of Miramar Lake in Florida today after winning her first international
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photos courtesy of Jaco Tredoux and Andrew Martens of Helicam Productions. Photo of Keri-Anne Payne courtesy of Jetline Action Photo/Gameplan Media. This Olympic quadrennial is finally heating up for 2008 Olympic silver medalist Keri-Anne Payne. While bearing with a brutal travel schedule between Great
