FINA World Open Water Championships Wrap with 25K After 15 days of pool and open water racing at the 2022 FINA World Championships, the final swimming event of the competition concluded this morning in Budapest, Hungary. Four Americans dove into the Lupa Lake Beach waters to swim the grueling 25K and resulted in Anna Auld capturing the top-American finish by touching in seventh in the women's event. Auld rotated around the top-10 throughout the entirety of the five hour, 10-lap race, even finding herself as high up on the leaderboard...

Congrat's to the CVST June Health & Nutrition Challenge Winners & July's Challenge Congratulations to CVST's Jax Repak, Julia Laine, Sutton Lynch, Bella Herrera, Alex Myers & Sky Steele for completing the Sunscreen & Water Bottle Challenge. These swimmers brought their water bottles everyday to practice and also slathered on their sunscreen each day before getting into the pool! Great job girls! Where were our boys on this one? Next month's Challenge will begin on Tuesday, July 5th, and here's all the information: This month’s CVST Health & Nutrition Challenge...

Grimes Posts Historic 10K Result at Open Water Worlds A sunny day at Hungary’s Lupa Lake Beach was the setting for today’s FINA World Open Water Championships 10K. A quartet of Americans took to the water and saw Katie Grimes post a historic result in American open water swimming. Throughout laps 2-4 of the women’s 10K, the top three swimmers were Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA), the reining Olympic champion in the 10K; Aurelie Muller (FRA), the three-time open water world champion; and Grimes, the 16-year-old American making her FINA World...

Psych Sheets, Timelines, Heat Sheets Now Posted for SPA Meet All the information you need for this weekend's SPA, Last Chance Meet, at Northshore Aquatic Complex, is now posted on the Event Page at CVST.org. Psych Sheets, Estimated Timelines, Heat Sheets and more. Be sure to download a copy of the Heat Sheets before you go to the meet as they will not be available for sale at the meet. Also, take a minute to check out the Psych Sheets and where you stack up against the competition! Make sure...

Gravley, Smith Lead U.S. in Open Water World Championships 5K The 2022 FINA World Open Water Championships continued Wednesday morning, featuring the men’s and women’s 5K event at the Lupa Beach in Budapest, Hungary. The men’s race saw Brennan Gravley and Simon Lamar fight the course. Gravley, the reigning U.S. national champion in the event, posted the top-American finish in the men’s division by tying for 10th place in 52:48.40. The result is three spots better than his finish in the event at the 2019 FINA World Open Water Championships...

The 10 Guaranteed Ways to Spot a Swim Parent From SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Many people have no problem spotting swimmers from a mile away with these telltale features: a bulky bag, messy bun filled with dead hair (for the girls), dry skin, tired eyes, goggle and cap tan lines, and the wide-eyed fear whenever the word “butterfly” is used, no matter the context. Swim parents, however, can be more difficult to spot. They wear a camouflage much like any other parent, but a few distinct characteristics sets swim parents apart. 1. The...

Open Water Swimmers Make Debut at FINA World Championships The open water portion of the 2022 FINA World Championships kicked off Sunday morning at the Lupa Beach in Budapest with the mixed 4x1500m freestyle relay, where the U.S. finished in seventh place. The U.S. sent out Mariah Denigan (Walton, Ky./Indiana University), Bella Sims (Las Vegas, Nev./Sandpipers of Nevada), Brennan Gravley (Las Vegas, Nev./Sandpipers of Nevada/University of Florida) and Charlie Clark (Sandusky, Ohio/The Ohio State University/Vacationland Swim Club). Three out of the four Americans—Denigan, Sims and Clark—were making their FINA World...

Swimming Doesn’t Define You – These Eight Characteristics Do! From SwimmingWorldMagazine.com In the June issue of Swimming World, Wayne Goldsmith takes a look at some of the characteristics which define swimmers, such as hard work and being a great teammate. Who you are is not based on your swimming accomplishments. The qualities and capabilities you learn in training to be a swimmer help contribute to the person you are and who you will become. One of the inevitabilities of swimming competitively is coming to terms with winning and losing. It’s...

U.S. Swimmers Cap Record-Breaking World Championships with Eight Medals on Final Day For the first seven days of the 2022 FINA World Championships, the United States displayed its strength, speed, and above all else, depth. Saturday proved to be a final, shining example of all three as U.S. swimmers took home eight more medals in Budapest – two gold, four silver and two bronze. The day’s haul brought the United States’ team-leading meet medal count to 45–17 of them gold–and set a new record for medals at a World Championships....

5 Signs of Dehydration and How to Best Rehydrate Hot weather is coming, and that means your athletes are at a higher risk of becoming dehydrated during practices and games. And even mild dehydration can impact athletic performance, as well as an athlete’s general health. Losing just two percent of an athlete’s bodyweight through sweat loss can change how an athlete is feeling and performing, whether they are sprinting at a track meet or participating in a day-long volleyball tournament. Here, TrueSport Expert Stephanie Miezin, MS, RD, CSSD, is sharing...