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The article focuses on the efforts of the USA Swimming to increase participation of African-Americans and other ethnic minorities in swimming competitions. More than a decade ago, it established an outreach committee and program to spearhead the effort. It brought some of the sports best-known and most articulate African American swimmers to inner-city clubs to sign autographs, conduct clinics and serve as role models for youngsters who aspired to aquatic greatness. The percentage of African-Americans registered with the organization has remained at just under one percent since the 1990s.

The article presents information on events at the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship in Atlanta, Georgia. The team contest pitted Auburn, with a full contingent of 17 swimmers and one diver versus Arizona, with only nine swimmers and no divers. Despite having a much smaller team, Arizona actually outscored Auburn in the 18 swimming events, 440.5 to 428.5. Auburn took advantage of Arizona's lapse and clinched title. The article offers details on all the three-day events. The article also offers a rating list of top 10 performing teams with points secured.

The article presents information on activities related to swimming that were held during the year November 2004-October 2005. Olympic champion Laure Manaudou of France cracked the oldest record in the book and the last drug-tainted mark when she swam the short course of 1500 meter free in 15 hours and 42 minutes. Athlete Michael Phelps was awarded as the USA Swimming Foundation's 2004 Male Athlete of the Year and for the Male Race of the Year. Athlete Thomas Rupprath of Germany won four gold medals in European Short Course Championships in Vienna. Slovakia's athlete Martina Moravcova notched her 100th World Cup title in Moscow.

The article focuses on the success of the FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships at the 17,000-seat Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana. Dale Neuburger has made this event a reality amid strong controversy. The head of the Indiana Sports Corp. and FINA V.P. had a crackerjack staff of superb professionals and volunteers — people who began turning Dale's dream into a success months before the Olympic Games took place in Athens. Some of the top athletes who are participating in the event includes Michael Phelps, Natalia Coughlin, and Yana Klochkova. Russia's Alex Popov would not be competing but would be honored by FINA upon his retirement from a glorious career.

Reports the victory of swimmers Natalie Coughlin and Michael Phelps at U.S. Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. World records set by the two swimmers; List of other athletes participating in the competition; Departure of the U.S. National Swim Team for the Pan Pacific Championship.

Recounts the events during the National College Athletic Association swimming and diving championship women's division in Austin, Texas. Record set by swimmer, Natalie Coughlin; Performance of swimmers, Maggie Bowen and Maritza Correia; Comment of swimmer, Tara Kirk on winning the 100 meter breaststroke.

Recounts the events during the National College Athletic Association swimming and diving championships in Athens, Georgia. Record set by Stanford in swimming; Anticipation on swimmers, Brendan Hansen and Patrick Calhoun 100 meters breastroke; Ability showed by the Texas team in the diving event.

Highlights the Novo Nordisk Sprint Cup in the New York, New York. Affirmation of the solidarity of world's top sprinters; Sponsorship of the Novo Nordisk Sprint Cup; Pronouncement of success by swimmers and coaches.

Highlights the swimming event of the Third Annual R.C.P. Tiburon Mile swim in California. Participants of the event; Results of the race for the men and women category; Amount collected for the fund raising for the Special Olympics.

Presents several professional swimmers earning recognition during the United States Nationals in Austin, Texas. Record achieved by Ed Moses; Awards garnered by Michael Phelps; Comparison between the performance of Phelps and Tom Malchow in terms of split times.

Presents a preview of swimming events at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, New South Wales.

Focuses on the Seventh Annual Flowers One-Mile Sea Swim, an ocean swim competition, held in Georgetown, Grand Cayman. Age qualification for the participants; Description of the Grand Cayman seven-mile beach; List of sponsors and winners; Prizes given. INSET: The 10 Most Fun Open Water Swims by Jeff Bliss.

Focuses on University of Georgia's winning of the 1999 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Athens, Georgia. Recap of daily events; 1999 CSCAA Swimming and Diving Awards.

Focuses on the swimming competition USMS Short Course Nationals held in Santa Clara, California from May 13 to 16, 1999. Performance of female swimmer Ardeth Mueller; Names of former Olympic athletes who participated in the competition; Performance of swimmer Andrew Holden.

Highlights several swimming events which took place in 1998. Winners of FINA World Championships in Sydney, Australia; Outcome of the Goodwill Games in New York; Medals won by Australia at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Presents a preview of the 1998 World Swimming Championships scheduled on January 12-18, in Perth, Western Australia. Threats to the competition's integrity; Potential medalists; Dominant swimmers in various events; Countries with strong teams.

Highlights results of the 1998 Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships held in Clovis, California. United States National Team Director Dennis Pursley's designation of the competitions as the primary meet from which four national teams for 1999 were to be selected; Veteran participants include Cristina Teuscher, B.J. Bedford and Tom Malchow; Strengths and weaknesses of American swimmers highlighted during the meet.

Features the winning performance of the Stanford University's swimming team in the 1998 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming Championships. Misty Hyman's NCAA and American record in the 100 fly; Catherine Fox's NCAA and American record in the 100 back; Georgia's Kristy Kowal's winning record in the 100 breast; Columbia's Cristina Teuscher as the first woman ever to win an NCAA title from the Ivy League.

Features the results of the women's events at the 8th Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA) World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Victory of Australia's Susie O'Neill in 200 fly; Winning performances of the United States' Jenny Thompson in 100 free, and Amy Van Dyken in 50 free; Triumph of Hungarian Agnes Kovacs in 200 breast; Victory of China's Wu Yanyan in 200 individual medley.

Focuses on the top performers in the women's events at the 1997 senior national swimming competitions held in Nashville, Tennessee. Versatility displayed by swimmer Kristine Quance; Brooke Bennett's success in distance swimming; Performance of newcomer Misty Hyman; Performance of Olympic champions Amy Van Dyken and Jenny Thompson.

Focuses on the victory of the University of Auburn's Tigers men's swimming team at the 1997 National Collegiate Athletic Association Swimming Tournament. David Marsh as Tigers' swimming coach; Winners of individual events.

Presents the results of the swimming competitions at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Highlights; Performance of the US team; Surprise winners; Upsets; Outstanding feats; New and old faces; Medal tally; Winners of the different distance and stroke categories.

Focuses on the results of the 1996 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Women's Swimming Tournament. Stanford University's fifth straight title; Results in individual categories; Best performers.

Presents a day-to-day account of the men's swimming competition in the 1994 World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy. Performance of American male swimmers; World records; Categories; Participants. INSETS: American pie.;Canada and Australia win, by Craig Lord..

Comments on the World Masters Swimming Championships in Casablanca, Morocco from June 19 through 25, 1998. Brief description of the city; Problems encountered during the competition; Performance of the swimmers who participated in the event. INSET: Q&A forum.

Highlights the 8th FINA World Swimming Championships held in Perth, Australia on January 7 to 18, 1998. Impact of the drug issue involving Chinese swimmers on the competition; Details on the men and women's events; Winners of the competition.

Focuses on the 1998 World Championships in swimming which will be held in Perth, Australia from January 12-18. Good performance of the Chinese swimmers in its National games in Shanghai, China; Reason behind their good performance; Different events of the competition; Possible winners of each events.

Presents developments concerning the swimming competition during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Medal standings; Success of swimmers from small countries; Emergence of drug issues with the collapse of the Chinese, accusations against Irish swimmer Michelle Smith and positive drug tests for two Russian swimmers.

Explains the emerging dominance of China in global swimming competitions since the 1980s. Increasing competitions won by the Chinese; Dramatic improvement of the swimmers; Speculations on the use of drugs among the swimmers; Drug use of swimmers from the former East Germany; Racism issue; Discipline instilled among the swimmers; Encouragement for the development of reliable tests for drugs used in sports. INSET: 1993 Chinese performances..

Presents an article which focuses on the Bonaire Eco-Swim that was held in Kralendijk, Bonaire on November 30, 2001. Description of the Bonaire Island; Information on the organizers and sponsors of the event; Winners of several swimming competitions during the event.

Documents the performance of the swimming team of Georgia against swimmers from ten other states in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Women's Championship.

Reports on the U.S. West/Nortel Phoenix Swimfest 1998 held on May 15-17, 1998 in Phoenix, Arizona. Attendance of world-class swimmers; Participants in the men's and women's teams for the Battle of the Sexes race; Participants in the 50-meter monofin race.

This article presents information on the efforts of the journal "Swimming World," to identify the top 18-and-under boys and the fastest 16-and-under girls in the U.S. The best up-and-coming sprinters in the U.S. are all in their early 20s. Among the 18-and-unders, the most promising sprinter appears to be 17-year-old Nathan Adrian from Tacoma Swim Club who has posted times of 23.43 for the 50 and 50.99 for the 100-meter free. Around the World Internationally the most promising young sprinter is Germany's Steffen Deibler, who won the Euro Juniors in 2005 in world-class limes of 22.26 and 49.26.

Focuses on swimmers, gathered in Orlando, Florida, for the 2004 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming spring national Championships, held from February 10-14, 2004.

Swimmer Michael Phelps swam to an unprecedented five individual gold medals at the 2003 ConocoPhillips USA Summer National Championships, held from August 5-9, 2003 in College Park based in Maryland. Swimming mostly "off events," the 18-year-old swimmer still managed to set three American records and lower his own, world mark in the 200 meter individual medley. Trojan Swim Club's Kaitlin Sandeno, a junior at the University of Southern California, won three events with outstanding swims.

Focuses on the tenth annual Kerr-McGee Corporation NIKE Elite Pro-Am swimming competition in Oklahoma. Records set by Jason Lezak; Awards received by Ron Karnaugh; Participants of the freestyle sprints for women.

Reports on winners of the open sea races during the World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia last February 1998. Performances of American swimmers Erica Rose and Tobie Smith; Record of Russian athlete Alexei Akatiev; Timing during the finish.

Focuses on the highlights of the 8th Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA) World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Strong performances from the American and Australian swimmers; Swimming medals garnered by each participating country; Decision of FINA about the Chinese drug scandal.

Part II. Chronicles how East Germany's systematic, state-mandated use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs warped the results of the swimming competition at the Olympic Games and World Championships during the 1980s. United States' boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics; Soviet Union's boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics; Performance of American women swimmers at the 1982 World Championships in Ecuador.

Reports on the ouster of China from the 1995 Pan Pacific meet in Atlanta, Georgia. Response from Liu Ji, president of the Chinese Swimming Association (CSA); Evidence supporting the doping of Chinese athletes; Courses of action undertaken by FINA; Reaction of American coaches.

Highlights the 1998 NIKE World Masters Games held on August 10-15, 1998 in Gresham, Oregon. Factors that held down the attendance at the swimming competition; Details on the record-setters in the 1998 event.

Two letters to the editor are presented including a response to John Lohn's article "A Voice for the Sport," from the May 2007 issue, and another letter remarks on the benefits of sports for young children.

This article presents the author's comments about the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Championship, a swimming tournament in the U.S. The author says that the NCAA tournament is in danger of losing its unique place in the world because all the international swimmers are not swimming for American colleges and universities. He says that many swimmers have turned professional, and under NCAA rules, they cannot compete in intercollegiate sports. He says that this is a loss for the swimming fans because they will not be able to see some of the best swimmers in the world compete in the NCAA championships.

Presents the author's views on the chaos and confusion that reigned in the preceding months of the FINA World Championships, organized by the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) in Montreal, Quebec. Information that at one point, FINA actually removed the meet from Montreal and solicited bids from other cities; Competition between swimming world record holder and Olympic champion Otylia Jedrzecjzak of Poland and Australian Jessicah Schipper; View of the author on the violation of FINA rules by Otylia.

Ranks colleges and universities in the U.S. according to the performance of their students in swimming championships and academics. Success of various college and university programs; Creation of combined swimming and academic success ranking; Flaws in the list of ranks.

Comments on the swimming competitions for disabled people. Schedule of the USA Swimming Disabilities Championship; Classification of the participants; Appreciation of human potentials.

Reports on the dominance of European swimmers in the First FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships, held October 31-November 4, in Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Presents swimming events to look for at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, New South Wales.

Highlights results of the swimming competitions during the 1998 Goodwill Games held in the United States from July 28 to August 2. Performance of participating American swimmers; Format of competitions; Winning athletes.

Cites the political reason for Moroccan officials' decision to deny the visa requests of Israelis who wanted to participate in the World Masters Swimming Championship in Casablanca in June 1998. Morocco's relationship with Israel; Violation of Morocco's commitment to allow qualified Masters swimmers and cross country runners from Israel; Call on the United States swimming organizations to express its outrage.