Swimming

LGBTQ Sports History: 2 Out Trans NCAA Athletes Compete Head-To-Head (AXIOS Sports) History books will record Saturday, March 19, 2022, as the first time that two out NCAA transgender student-athletes competed against one another for a Division I national championship. And it was a sharp rebuke to those activists who complain that trans women are “destroying women’s sports” or dominating them. 

USA Diving Events Heading to Midland, Texas (SportsTravel) USA Diving will hold the 2022 Junior National and Open Championships this summer at COM Aquatics in Midland, Texas.

Lia Thomas’s Success as a Transgender Swimmer Is Divisive—and Unlikely to Be Repeated (Wall Street Journal) Penn swimmer Lia Thomas’s decision to keep swimming as a transgender woman has spawned a thousand think-pieces, new rules and threats of legal challenges over her presence. And the waves she makes are only going to get bigger when she dives into the pool this week at the NCAA championships.  

Hawaii to Host Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships (SportsTravel) The K. Mark Takai Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, will host the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in August after the event was added to the international calendar by the Japan Swimming Federation, Swimming Australia, Swimming Canada and USA Swimming.

TYR Pro Swim Series to Begin in DuPage County (SportsTravel) The 2022 TYR Pro Swim Series will begin March 2­–5 in DuPage County, Illinois, when the FMC Natatorium at Ty Warner Park in Westmont hosts the first stop on the road to select Team USA for the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.