Women's aquatics
Olympic stars Ledecky, Dressel headline US team for worlds

May. 01, 2022 05:07 PM EDT
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel highlight a 41-member U.S. swimming team that will compete at this summer’s world championships in Budapest,...

FILE - Stanford players huddle before an NCAA college basketball game against Oregon State while wearing warmup shirts honoring the school's soccer team goalkeeper Katie Meyer, who helped Stanford win a national championship, in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 women's tournament, March 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. There has been a lot of talk about the mental health struggles that many young athletes face, the pressures and vulnerabilities that can seem overwhelming — especially to those who feel compelled to shield their pain from the outside world. (AP Photo/David Becker, File)
Column: May deaths of Katie, Sarah and Lauren not be in vain

By Paul Newberry Apr. 30, 2022 12:40 AM EDT

FILE - Evgeny Rylov of the Russian Olympic Committee poses with his gold medal for the men's 100-meter backstroke final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. A statement from swimming's world governing body, FINA, on Thursday, April 21, 2022, announced that Rylov has been banned from the sport for nine months for appearing at a rally in support of President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Russian swimmer Rylov banned for appearing at Putin rally

Apr. 22, 2022 03:39 PM EDT

FILE - The American 4x100 women's medley relay team celebrate on the pool deck after they won the gold medal at the World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia, Friday, Jan. 16, 1998. From left, Jenny Thompson, Lea Maurer, Amy Van Dyken and Kristy Kowal. Two-time Olympic medalist Maurer was named head coach of Southern California’s men’s and women’s swimming teams Friday, April 1, 2022, making her the first woman to lead both programs. (AP Photo/Steve Holland, File)
Lea Maurer becomes 1st woman to lead USC swim programs

Apr. 01, 2022 02:35 PM EDT

University of Pennsylvania transgender athlete Lia Thomas competes in the 500-yard freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, Thursday, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Column: Lia Thomas sparks all sorts of conflicting thoughts

By Paul Newberry Mar. 18, 2022 04:34 PM EDT

FILE - A general view of the St. Petersburg Stadium prior to the Confederations Cup soccer match between New Zealand and Portugal, in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2017. The British government led calls Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022 for the Champions League final to be taken off Russia by European football's governing body to punish its deepening intervention in Ukraine. The showpiece men's game is due to be played in St. Petersburg on May 28 for the biggest sporting event in Russia since the 2018 World Cup.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)
Euro backlash as FIFA refuses to expel Russia from football

By Rob Harris Feb. 27, 2022 05:53 AM EST

FILE - International Olympic Committee Vice President Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. arrives for a news conference at the headquarters of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee in Beijing, Sept. 18, 2018. The International Olympic Committee member who oversaw Beijing Winter Games preparations since 2015 was voted back on its executive board Saturday, Feb. 19. 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Samaranch voted back on IOC executive board at Beijing Games

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 19, 2022 05:31 AM EST

FILE - Swimmer Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands displays her two gold and one silver medals as she waits for a train, at St Pancras station, after the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London, Aug. 13, 2012. Three-time Olympic champion swimmer Ranomi Kromowidjojo announced her retirement Thursday Jan. 27, 2022, bringing to an end a career that saw her compete at four Summer Games. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
Dutch 3-time Olympic champion swimmer Kromowidjojo retires

Jan. 27, 2022 06:12 AM EST

Swimming Australia report recommends coach quotas

Jan. 21, 2022 01:08 AM EST
SYDNEY (AP) — Swimming Australia on Friday released the findings of a report into alleged misogyny in the sport, saying the “open and frank” feedback from female...

Pennsylvania's Lia Thomas is shown during the playing of the national anthem before a swim meet, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, in Philadelphia. The NCAA has adopted a sport-by-sport approach for transgender athletes, bringing the organization in line with the U.S. and International Olympic Committees. NCAA rules on transgender athletes returned to the forefront when Penn swimmer Lia Thomas started smashing records this year.(AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Penn pledges to work with NCAA, support transgender swimmer

Jan. 20, 2022 08:54 PM EST

Dressel, Ledecky win athletes of year at Golden Goggles

Dec. 08, 2021 01:05 AM EST
MIAMI (AP) — Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky were honored as male and female athletes of the year at USA Swimming’s annual Golden Goggle awards on Tuesday night. ...

FILE - United States head coach Adam Krikorian, right, directs players during a quarterfinal round win over Canada in a women's water polo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Right after the Summer Olympics, Krikorian was done. Worn down by coaching the U.S. women's water polo team through a pandemic, he thought it might be time to try something new. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
US water polo coaches returning for Paris Olympics

By Jay Cohen Dec. 07, 2021 09:01 AM EST

FILE - Britain's Hannah Miley competes in a women's 200-meter individual medley semifinal during the swimming competitions of the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on July 23, 2017. Three-time Olympian Hannah Miley of Britain has retired from competitive swimming at the age of 32. The Scottish individual medley specialist is a former world, European and Commonwealth Games champion. Miley was a finalist for Britain at three consecutive Olympics, most recently the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games where she finished fourth in the 400-meter individual medley. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
British swimmer Hannah Miley announces retirement

Dec. 01, 2021 07:15 AM EST

FILE - In this June 28, 2016 file photo, Elizabeth Beisel competes in the women's 200-meter freestyle preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb. Beisel competed in three Olympics, but she's never taken on a challenge quite like this. Honoring her late father and raising money for cancer research, she's planning to swim more than 12 miles through cold ocean waters to a popular vacation island off the Rhode Island coast. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Beisel completes swim to Block Island to honor late father

Sep. 25, 2021 04:45 PM EDT

In this July 2012 photo provided by Joan Beisel, Olympic medalist swimmer Elizabeth Beisel, right, stands for a photo with her father Ted Beisel, left, at the 2012 Olympics, in London. Beisel competed in three Olympics, but she's never taken on a challenge quite like this. She will attempt to become the first woman to swim from the Rhode Island mainland to Block Island. The 10.4-mile swim is to honor her father, who died July 1 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Beisel has raised more than $121,000 for the fight against cancer and knows that she brought some meaning to her father's life in his final months. (Joan Beisel via AP)
Olympic swimmer Beisel hits the ocean to honor her father

By Paul Newberry Sep. 22, 2021 02:20 PM EDT

FILE - Katie Ledecky reacts after winning the women's 1500-meters freestyle final at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, in this Wednesday, July 28, 2021, file photo. Ledecky announced Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, that she is moving to the University of Florida to be closer to home and train under Anthony Nesty, a rising star coach who will oversee her preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ledecky, a seven-time Olympic gold medalist, spent the last five years at Stanford University, where she worked with U.S. national team coach Greg Meehan while earning a psychology degree. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Gator Chomp: Ledecky heads to Florida to work with Nesty

By Paul Newberry Sep. 22, 2021 02:16 PM EDT

FILE - Australia's Madison Wilson holds her silver medal after her second place finish in the women's 100m backstroke final at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, in this Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, file photo. Olympic gold medal swimmer Madison Wilson of Australia has been hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19. Wilson, who is fully vaccinated, was forced to withdraw from the International Swim League competition in Naples, Italy because of the diagnosis. “I’m taking some time to rest and I’m sure I’ll be ready to bounce back in no time,” Wilson said in a post Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
Olympic gold medalist Madison Wilson hospitalized for COVID

Sep. 20, 2021 03:41 PM EDT

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Aug. 20, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 21 1901 — William Larned wins the first of seven men’s singles titles in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship. ...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Aug. 19, 2021 12:00 PM EDT
Aug. 20 1921 — Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Mary Browne, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 to win the U.S. women’s national tennis title at the Germantown...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Aug. 19, 2021 11:43 AM EDT
Aug. 20 1921 — Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Mary Browne, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 to win the U.S. women’s national tennis title at the Germantown...