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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 9. RECENTLY, USA Swimming has contacted the online swimming community to help get the word out about rules for logos on caps at the U.S. Olympic Trials later this month. The meet, which takes place completely under USOC rules, will require much stricter adherence to logo placement on caps. USA Swimming has relaxed its rules in the past years to allow swimmers more sponsorship real estate in terms of caps, but will have to enforce the stricter USOC rules in Omaha. In February, the USOC sent...

Each year USA Swimming selects athletes to become members of the USA Swimming – Scholastic All-American (SAA)Team. The program is open to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors that have a 3.5 GPA and have attained the specified time standard in a single event. The program also has specific qualification standards for Disability Athletes and Open Water swimmers. This year’s application process will be entirely on-line through the USA Swimming website. The student athlete will be required to upload a complete transcript from both semesters of the 2011-2012 school year....

Florida Swimming will present two $1,000.00 awards to one male and one female Florida Swimming / USA Swimming athlete member, in 2012. If you know of a student/athlete member you believe deserves and meets the criteria please have them fill out the enclosed form and return it by Monday, July 16, 2012. The FL awards committee will review the applications and announce the recipient Saturday, July 28, during the “2012 Florida Swimming Long Course Senior Championship”, held at Selby Aquatic Center, Sarasota, Florida. Application

Upload your photos and we will take care of the rest! Go U.S.A! America's Swim Team is showing the world who we are by creating a mosaic! Our photos will be made into a giant USA Swimming logo will be on display in the Aqua Zone Fan Experience in Omaha. To help us create this amazing display, we need your photos. Send us photos of swimming competitions, diving off the blocks, hanging out with friends at a meet, and just having fun in the pool. All photos that show the...

The FL Technical Planning Committee will hold a meeting on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, at 8:30 PM. This will be a teleconference meeting, for further information please contact the Florida Swimming office. The topic for the meeting is discussion pertaining to the 2014 Championship Meets. Login information, Agenda and Past Meeting Minutes here.

The FL office will be on part time hours 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM June 1 , and 13-15. Regular FL office hours are 8:30 to 4:00.

FS has scheduled a Board of Driectors meeting on June 6th at 8:30 PM. This will be an online meeting to discuss the 2014 Meet Schedule. Login information, Agenda, and Minutes from the past meeting can be found here.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Swimming, Speedo USA and two-time Olympic gold medalist Summer Sanders will join forces this summer to help grow participation in swimming as part of a new, national swimming campaign called SwimToday, now live at www.swimtoday.org. With all eyes on swimming this summer, national interest in the sport is at an all-time high and recent industry research* also shows that swimming is one of the top three sports that individuals of all ages aspire to participate in. The SwimToday campaign is designed to help drive participation...




