Swimming

2/18/2025 |  Family Sues USA Swimming, Swim Club and Aquatics Center Over Daughter's Death at Meet (Athletic Business) A family has filed a lawsuit against USA Swimming, Kamehameha (Hawaii) Swim Club and the Kapolei Aquatic Center after their daughter drowned at a swim meet. 
According to SwimSwam, 17-year-old Tehani Kealoha was swimming warm-down laps after a race in May 2023 when she suffered symptoms of cardiac arrest. Her mother, Jamie, was assisting timers on deck when she saw her daughter being pulled out of the water by another swimmer. Jamie said that no one knew what to do, and she began performing CPR on her daughter.

1/30/2025 |  HS's Swim, Dive Teams Forced to Forfeit All Meets After Eighth-Graders Ruled Ineligible (Athletic Business) A Massachusetts high school's swimming and diving teams will be forced to forfeit all of the meets they competed in this winter after three swimmers on the team were declared ineligible. 

12/9/2024 |  Orlando Welcomes U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships (SportsTravel) The best Paralympic swimmers in the nation are headed to Orlando as U.S. Paralympics Swimming will host its National Championships at the Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center from December 13–15, 2024.
It will be the second time U.S. Paralympics Swimming has hosted an event in Orlando, following the 2023 edition. The Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center features an indoor 8-lane 50-meter competition pool, a dive well with four lap lanes and a heated teaching and training pool with seven lanes.

12/9/2024 |  2026 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Moved to Irvine (SportsTravel) One of the bigger international swimming events in 2026, the Pan Pacific Championships, will be held at William Woollett Junior Aquatics Center in Irvine, California.
The event was announced as moving to Southern California from Canada in October 2023 to lay the foundation ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. Canada had been set to host in 2022, but the meet was postponed to 2026 because of the pandemic. The pool competition is set for August 12-15, while the Open Water competition date will be announced later.

9/28/2024 |  USA Swimming Announces 2025 Domestic Schedule (SportsTravel) USA Swimming will hold the 2025 Open Water National and Junior National Championships April 4-6 in Sarasota, Florida, while Indianapolis will host the 2025 National Championships, June 3-7 and the U.S. Open will take place December 3-6 in Austin, Texas.
The 2025 event schedule also features Open Water Nationals and Junior Nationals, Speedo Winter Juniors, three TYR Pro Swim Series events, the Toyota U.S. Open and National Championships, June 3–7 in Indianapolis, which recently hosted the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium.