Cullen Jones News

Bremerton native Nathan Adrian will look to defend his American records in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles at the U.S. Short Course Nationals at the King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way today through Saturday.

Almost 90 children in Los Angeles County drown every year, the majority being minorities, according to the county's Department of Health.

Swimmer and Gulf Breeze High grad Kyle Cormier is going professional. After competing in the 2008 Olympic Swim Trials and breaking school records while at the University of South Carolina, Cormier has set higher goals for himself.

The focus of the Circle City Classic always will be the big football game between two historically black colleges, but organizers are trying to broaden the appeal to other sports this year.

James Smith travels from California to the Caribbean to recruit students to his Virginia university, but he finds recruiting during the Circle City Classic an especially rewarding visit.

The Circle City Classic takes place in downtown Indianapolis this weekend. The event ranks as the seventh highest event for economic impact on downtown, bringing in $14.8 million in revenue.

Maybe it was a sign, a gentle elbowing, that I should have acted on the promise I made in early spring.

By Jeff Commings, The Morning Swim Show associate producer, originally posted on SwimmingWorld.TV CHICAGO, Illinois, September 18.

Olympic gold medal swimmer and NC State grad Cullen Jones appears in one of the segments on tonight's September premiere of HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." "The Swim Gap" explores the relationship between race and swimming in the U.S., and Jones' mission to bring down the number of African-Americans who don't know how to swim.

South Kitsap's Nicole Hinely draws inspiration from the movie "Pride" - which is about a group of black swimmers in Philadelphia during the 1970s.

Olympic swimming gold medalist Cullen Jones will receive the 2009 Chase Major Taylor Award in Indianapolis in conjunction with the Circle City Classic on Oct.

By Tracy Allen CALL Staff Writer It took a near drowning accident during a family trip to a water park in Pennsylvania as a toddler for Cullen Jones' mother to realize that her 5-year-old son needed swimming lessons.

That big smile. Everyone remembers Terrell Stewarts smile. And they console themselves with the thought that Terrell is smiling still down on his brothers, his parents and the classmates who were with him when he drowned May 29 at a backyard pool party.No one knows what led to the tragedy.

After nearly drowning in a water park at age 5, Cullen Jones never imagined that the swimming lessons his mom quickly enrolled him in the next day would eventually lead to him becoming the first African-American male to hold a world record in swimming and an Olympic gold medalist in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Dr. Conrad Murray took his stripper girlfriend to meet Michael Jackson in Las Vegas two years ago.

What were you doing a year ago tonight? Don't bother trying to recollect. I'll tell you.

Olympian C ullen Jones, the first African-American male to hold a world record in swimming, learned the hard way about water safety as a child.

Milorad Cavic is tired of hearing about Michael Phelps having to compete in a supposedly inferior swimsuit.

FINA World Championships, Swimming: World Record Holder Fred Bousquet Tops 50 Free Semis; George Bovell Sizzles in Swimoff for Meet Record -- Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the FINA World Championships, including full results and recaps UniversalSports.com Daily Coverage, including webcasts ROME, Italy, July 31.

Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the FINA World Championships, including full results and recaps UniversalSports.com Daily Coverage, including webcasts ROME, Italy, August 1. BRAZIL's Cesar Cielo put together a strong swim to claim his second sprint world title of the meet in the 50 free at the FINA World Championships.