AuthorBetsey Bennett

Greetings, swimming enthusiasts! Swimming is already a hard sport, so imagine how much harder it would be as a below the leg amputee. Sophie Pascoe, a native New Zealander, has not let a harrowing childhood lawnmower accident stop her from making a mark in the world of swimming. As New Zealand’s Most Decorated Paralympian, Pascoe has become a national treasure. Pascoe first proved her talent in...

Hello swimming enthusiasts! Today, we’ll be traveling all the way back to the year 1912, when Charlotte “Eppy” Epstein became president of the National Women’s Life Saving League. What better way to celebrate women’s achievements in swimming than by examining the life of a woman known as the “Mother of Women’s Swimming in America?!” In the United States in the 1910s, a group of female swimming...

Greetings, swimming enthusiasts, and happy August! Last week marked an important event in swimming that cannot go unnoticed: the 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships and World Championship Trials. The elite competition, held at the William Woolle, Jr. Aquatic Center in Irvine, California, brought together young hopefuls alongside Olympic veterans like Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin for five...

Hello swimming enthusiasts!   Today, I am here to recount to you the feats of Federica Pellegrini, an Italian swimmer known as the Lioness of Verona. In 2004, at the age of sixteen, Pellegrini took home the silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle at the Olympic Games, making her the youngest Italian athlete to win an individual Olympic medal. Four years later, at the next Olympic Games, she...

Hello swimming enthusiasts!   Today I am back to recap some big news in the collegiate swimming world: Harvard has come away with the 2018 Ivy League Championship title for Women’s Swimming and Diving!   The event was hosted at Harvard from February 14th to February 17th, and featured up-and-coming swimmers on the collegiate level. This was Harvard’s third win in the past five years...

Hello swimming enthusiasts, and Happy 2018!   Next week, an all-star group of female swimmers, including Dana Vollmer, Mallory Comerford, Melanie Margalis, and Breeja Larson, will kick off the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series. The meet, held at the University of Texas from January 11-14, will be the first of six stops in the recently redesigned series. Tune in to NBC Sports throughout next week to...

Hello again, swimming enthusiasts!   While many of us are still recovering from Thursday’s feast, some of the country’s fastest swimmers are preparing to compete in the SCY Winter National Championships in just a few days.   The short-course meet will take place in Columbus, Ohio from November 29 to December 2, and will feature big-name female swimmers like Melanie Margalis, Mallory...

Hello swimming enthusiasts, and Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!   This is the first of two posts that I will be publishing today, as there is so much to catch up on in the swimming world.   The Golden Goggle Awards, which is hosted annually to honor and celebrate the U.S. National Swim Team, took place in Los Angeles last weekend.   In case you missed it, here are some of the...

Greetings, swimming enthusiasts!   This summer has been full of exciting swimming competitions. A few weeks ago, at the 17th FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, the United States women’s team broke the 4×100 medley relay world record to win the gold.   The relay team consisted of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Kelsi Worrell, and Simone Manuel. They broke the previous record...

Hello swimming enthusiasts!   Today we are going to travel back in time to the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. Why this particular Olympics, you may ask? In fact, this was the first Olympics in which the swimming competition included female events.   Although in 1912, women were already able to compete in sports such as archery, golf, tennis, and yachting, the inclusion of swimming...