IRVINE, Calif. – The United States won 13 medals – five gold, four silver and four bronze – and set two meet records Wednesday on the first night of competition at the Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships. The USA leads the field in both medal count and team scoring (107 points). Australia has eight medals overall and is second in the team scoring (76 points). Brazil is third in the medal count with two medals overall (a gold and silver), but Japan is third in the team...

  The Speedo Junior National Championships concluded tonight with Jasmine Tosky adding a fifth and final win to her already-impressive collection of medals throughout the week with a first-place finish in the women’s 200m IM. Tosky also took third in the 50m freestyle behind teammate Madeline Schaefer and Asphalt Green’s Lia Neal in the 50m free. Vladimir Morozov set a meet record for the second night in a row with a time of 22.12 in the men’s 50m free. Nicholas Caldwell earned his third gold medal of the meet when...

Important information from the Florida Swimming office for August. Items covered are: So Zone Team, Jo's and Sr. Champs, Bud and Irene Hackett Award, 2010 FS Convention Information, 2011 Registraion Forms available, and holding tank must be cleared of 2010 registrations. Notes From the Office

  Jasmine Tosky continued her outstanding week at the Speedo Junior National Championships Thursday, winning her fourth event of the week and setting a meet record in the women’s 200m free with a time of 1:58.54.     Tosky’s meet record was one of four set on day 4 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine, Calif. Also setting meet records were C. Youngquist in the men’s 200m free,  Vladimir Morozov in the men’s 100m breast and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (Camille Cheng, Tosky, Ally Howe, Madeline Schaefer)...

    Nicholas Caldwell won his second event of the meet and set a meet record in the prelims of the men’s 400m free Wednesday at the Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif. His winning time of 3:52.88 in finals was just 56-hundredths off the meet record of 3:52.32 he set in prelims. Also winning their events Wednesday were Jasmine Tosky and Seth Stubblefield. Tosky won her third individual event of the meet Wednesday in the women’s 100m butterfly, while Stubblefield won his second individual event of the meet...

      Jasmine Tosky of Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics won her second event and set her second meet record in as many days Tuesday at the Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif. Tosky won the women’s 400m IM with a time of 4:44.85.         It was one of three meet records set on the second night of competition. Also setting meet records were Vladimir Morozov of Swim Torrance in the men’s 100m free (49.15) and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (Madeline Schaefer, Camille Cheng, Rachael Acker...

    Meet records fell in four of the six events contested Monday at the 2010 Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine, Calif. Breaking records were Jasmin Tosky in the women’s 200m butterfly, Andrea Kropp in the women’s 200m breaststroke, Matt Elliott in the men’s 200m breaststroke and Lauren Driscoll in the women’s 800m freestyle.         After day 1, The Woodlands Swim Team leads the field in combined team scoring with 41 points. The Sarasota YMCA Sharks (38 points) and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (34 points) rounds...

      IRVINE, Calif. – Ryan Lochte won his third event of the week Saturday at the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships, beating out a star-studded field in the men’s 200m backstroke with a time of 1:55.58.           The race featured five of the top six performers of all time in this event, including world record-holder and 2009 world champion Aaron Peirsol, 2008 Olympic champion Lochte, Tyler Clary, Nick Thoman and Michael Phelps.   Lochte wasted no time against such talent, taking control of the race...

    IRVINE, Calif. – Ryan Lochte won the marquee matchup of the night Friday at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships, beating 14-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps to the wall in the men’s 200m IM in 1:54.84. It marked the first time Lochte has beaten Phelps in this event in head-to-head competition at a major national or international meet. Phelps was second in 1:55.94. Coming into tonight’s finals, Lochte and Phelps were the two fastest swimmers of all time in the 200m IM. Phelps is the two-time defending...

    IRVINE, Calif. – Rebecca Soni and Michael Phelps turned in the fastest times in the world this year in their respective events Thursday at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships. Soni took the 100m breaststroke by more than two seconds over the rest of the field, touching in 1:05.73. Phelps, meanwhile, won his 50th career national title in the men’s 100m butterfly in 50.65. The two swimmers won their races in similar fashion: more or less maintaining contact with the rest of the field at the turn, then surging...