A New Login Experience is Coming for your USA Swimming Account As a reminder, a new login experience for your USA Swimming account will launch on February 5, 2026. This update aims to enhance security and simplify account creation and access. To prepare for this change, all members need to update their account email addresses and phone numbers during their next login. Please log in at least once before February 5 to verify your email and phone number. After February 5, all members will be required to reset their account...

USA Swimming invites 56 athletes from underrepresented populations to participate in a three-day camp program at the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center. Colorado Springs, CO on April 30 - May 3, 2026, which includes pool training, motivational and education sessions and team-building activities. Selection is based on times swum at USA Swimming sanctioned events. Applications are due February 15, 2026. Click for for the link to the athlete application. Goals of the camp: To empower athletes from diverse backgrounds and diverse populations to: Demonstrate the viability of multicultural success in...

New Login Experience for your USA Swimming Hub Account A new login experience for your USA Swimming account will launch on February 5, 2026. This update aims to enhance security and simplify account creation and access. **** To prepare for this change, all members need to update their account email addresses and phone numbers during their next login. Please log in at least once before February 5 to verify your email and phone number. **** After February 5, all members will be required to reset their account passwords during their...

The Montana Swiming spring 2026 Reach Out Grant applications are due March 25. Submit applications via email to Susan Huckeby. The application form is posted under the DEI tab and then under the Reach Out Grant drop down tab. What is the Reach Out Grant Program? The Reach Out Grant program is a grant program funded by Montana Swimming beginning in October 2017. The purpose of the Montana Swimming Reach Out Grant Program is to increase multicultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic diversity as well as encourage those who are disabled to...

Hello all! If you’re an athlete, coach, sports parent, or there’s an athlete in your life you support, you’re going to love this educational opportunity! As a strong advocate for athlete and child wellbeing, I am proud to be a guest speaker at the "THRIVING YOUTH ATHLETES", a free virtual summit created by María Inés Flores - Olympic gymnast, sports parent, and founder of The Powerful Athlete. María’s story is powerful. At 17, she was so burned out that she competed at the Olympics… and retired the very next day....

The SafeSport Code defines the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s authority and jurisdiction, prohibited categories of abuse and misconduct, and the Center’s process for responding to and resolving abuse and misconduct claims affecting the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement. The Code applies to all Participants (defined within) in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement and federal law dictates the Center’s authority and jurisdiction within the Movement. The Code was first introduced on March 3, 2017, and is revised periodically. This 2026 SafeSport Code will take effect January 1, 2026. 2026 SafeSport...

Congratulations to the following swimmers who set new Montana Swimming state records while competing at the Arizona Holiday Swim Festival in Tempe in early December. Quinn Montgomery (BAC) broke the 13-14 boys 200 yard butterfly record previously held by Robert Wagner (HLST) with a time of 1:56.28. Bennett Seitz (BAC) broke the 15-16 boys 50 free record previously held by Jamie Bouda (KATS) with a time of 21.09. Bennet Seitz (BAC) also broke the 15-16 boys 50 butterfly record previously held by Ethan Harder (BAC) not once, but twice during...

The Pacific Northwest Sectional Meet will be moving sites to Boise, Idaho and maintaining the originally scheduled dates of March 12-15, 2026. The Section Board pursued the possibility of holding the PNW Spring meet as an “approved” meet, but there are several things preventing that from being a viable option for a sectional level competition. In short, USAS Rules require that sectionals must be a sanctioned meet. At this time that does not comply with KCAC usage agreement, and per the coach vote taken last week, the meet will now...

Montana Swimming has updated the time standards for 2024-2028. During the fall HOD meeting, proposals were approved that changed our time standards and the new standards are below. USA Swimming Motivational Time Standards – MT Swimming Time Standards: These are the B/BB/A and so on time standards you are used to using. However, there is one change. At the fall meeting we accepted using the 13-14 motivational time standards for the 50’s of stroke. The second part of that proposal that was passed said we would automatically adopt the time...

If you will be coming to Butte for the 2026 Montana Swimming Short Course State Championships February 26-March 1 -- make your hotel reservations NOW! Even if you're not certain your child will qualify for state, make your reservations now. (You can also make reservations for the BC Championships March 7-8 in Butte now.) Why? The Frontier Conference Men's and Women's Basketball tournament is in Butte at the Butte Civic Center February 27-March 2. Hotel rooms will be at a premium. Make reservations at restaurants early too so you have...