USA Swimming has released information on the Criminal Background Check Policy for all Non-Athletes here.

 Florida Swimming has released a list of clubs that are chartered for 2011. If your club is not listed, the Florida Swimming office has not received one or both of the following items.  Either the 2011 Club Charter forms and/or the years fee ($300.00).  If you are not listed on the attachment, please contact the Florida Swimming office immediately.  Please let us know if your forms and fee are in the mail.  At this time, your athletes are UN-Unattached and must enter any meets as UN-Unattached and no relays.  When...

The application for Coaches, and Managers for the 2011 Florida Swimming Open Water Team has been posted.  More information can be found on the form here.

Florida Swimming has posted the Senior and Age Group Swimmer of the Year Awards for the 2009-2010 Short Course and Long Course seasons here.

  Sunday, January 9, 2011     Technical Planning Meeting 12:00 Noon BOD Meeting, 2:00 p.m.   at Ocala, FL More information will be posted on the Event Page.

Wired! How to Reach Today’s Youth As we all know, kids today are wired in, connected 24-7 to phones, instant messaging, texting, video chats, X-box, etc. So, if we coaches are going to be able to stay relevant, we’ve got to learn to communicate on their level. Swimming has come a long way with all the new technologies to help swimmers and coaches get better at what they do.  After being out of coaching for a number of years and getting back into it just a few years ago, I...

  Ryan Lochte collected three more gold medals, bringing his meet total to six, and the U.S. men’s 4x100m medley relay team won gold in American record-time on the final night of competition at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Dubai, UAE. Team USA finished atop the medal count with 25 medals. American swimmers took home 12 gold, six silver and seven bronze throughout the five-day competition.  China was behind Team USA in the medal count with a total of 14 medals (three gold, five silver and six bronze)....

  Olympic gold medalist Rebcca Soni (Plainsboro, N.J.) won gold Saturday on day four of the FINA Short Course World Championships in Dubai. Team USA earned a total of three medals on the penultimate night of competition, including Soni’s gold in the 100m breast, a silver medal in the women’s 4x100m free relay and a bronze medal for Ariana Kukors (Auburn, Wash.) in the 200m IM.     Soni won her second World Championship gold medal with her win in the 100m breast. She took the lead from the start...

Florida Swimming has released the latest Top 10 Short Course Yards Rankings with meets through November. Top 10 Rankings here.

DUBAI, UAE– Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Katie Hoff (Towson, Md.) and Ariana Kukors (Auburn, Wash.) led the Team USA gold medal haul Friday at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Dubai.  Lochte also broke his second world record of the meet with his win in the men’s 200m IM. Lochte smashed the 200m IM world record with a time of 1:50.08. He led the field from start to finish and took more than a second off the previous world record. Austria’s Markus Rogan was second in 1:52.90 and...