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...

DUBAI, UAE – Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.) broke the first individual world record of 2010 with his performance Thursday in the 400m IM at the 10th FINA Short Course World Championships (25m). On the second day of competition in Dubai, Team USA took home a total of six medals, including three gold, one silver and two bronze.   Lochte earned his second gold medal of the competition with a time of 3:55.70 in the 400m IM. His teammate Tyler Clary (Riverside, Calif.) led the race at the 200 meter...

    Ryan Lochte won the first gold medal of the meet for Team USA, and U.S. swimmers took down four American records in the opening night of competition at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Dubai. Lochte earned the top spot on the podium after cruising to an American record in the men’s 200m free. His time of 1:41.08 lowered both the American and Championship records. The U.S. women's 4x200m free relay team also broke the American record Wednesday. In the semifinals of the men’s 100m breast, Mike Alexandrov broke the...