Ryan Lochte was named USA Swimming’s Swimmer of the Year at the annual U.S. Aquatic Sports Awards Banquet Saturday. The two-time Olympian won six gold medals at the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships, and was the high-point winner at the 2010 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships. The award was the second in two days for Lochte, who won the ConocoPhillips Performance Award on Friday. USA Swimming presented its most prestigious award, the USA Swimming Award, to backstroke legend and safety activist Adolph Kiefer. The 1936 Olympian has dedicated...

Through decisive action at today's House of Delegates meeting, USA Swimming will expand its athlete protection efforts across multiple areas. The measures, which were put forth by the Board of Directors, will educate the membership on the issue, implement athlete protection policies, expand background checking to include all non-athlete members and require those employees and volunteers that interact with athletes to become members, and therefore undergo background checking. Additionally, the House of Delegates passed legislation making it mandatory to report credible information regarding sexual abuse. By USA Swimming bylaws, the above legislation...

DALLAS, Texas, September 18. AT the USA Swimming House of Delegates meeting, current chair of the Rules & Regulations Committee Bruce Stratton won the election to replace outgoing two-term USA Swimming President Jim Wood. Stratton has been a USA Swimming official for the past 25 years, and has served as a chair for a total of eight years. Currently, he's also a member of the Olympic International Operations Committee and is the United States Sports Insurance Company Treasurer. He also served on the Professional Swimming Task Force during the past...

  USA Swimming recognized volunteers, coaches and athletes at its award presentation on Friday night. Headlining the list of award winners was Olympic gold-medalist Ryan Lochte, who won the ConocoPhillips Performance award for his gold-medal-winning performance in the 200m IM at the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships. Also honored was Lochte’s coach Gregg Troy (Gainesville, Fla.) who was named ASCA Coach of the Year. Todd Schmitz (Aurora, Colo.), coach of phenom Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo.) was awarded Developmental Coach of the Year.   Also highlighting the evening, outgoing...

DALLAS, Texas, September 15, 2010. IN the middle of USA Swimming's annual convention in Dallas, Texas, Mark Schubert took a paid leave of absence effective immediately from his duties as USA Swimming's national team head coach. A development that can only be described as shocking, USA Swimming released a statement to Swimming World saying that "Out of respect for individual privacy, and as a matter of policy, USA Swimming does not comment on personnel issues." Swimming World confirmed through credible sources that the reason for the sudden announcement had nothing...

The Florida Swimming Nominating Committee has posted their recommended slate of officers for the 2011 Florida Swimming Board of Directors.  Elections will take place at the Annual Convention on October 3 in the House of Delegates meeting.  Nominations will be accepted from the floor. Candidates applications that were submitted by the deadline can be viewed here.

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) today announced swimming star Ryan Lochte as its August Athletes of the Month.  At the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships held August 3-7 in Irvine, Calif., Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.) won a total of three events (200m back, 200m IM, 400m IM). His win against Olympian Michael Phelps in the 200m IM was his first head-to-head win against Phelps in the 200m IM in a major competition. Lochte also placed second in the 200m and 100m freestyle and won the men's Kiphuth High-Point...

The final 2010 Top 10 SC & LC lists are now posted.  Any corrections must be submitted for final posting by September 28, 2010.

The Florida Swimming 2010, and 2011 (proposed) Meet Schedules have been updated. They can be found here.

  The Florida Swimming office has updated all member rosters.  These can be found here.