Section · Endurance
Open Water Swimming
Everything the paper holds for Open Water Swimming: game reports built from the signed-off box score, the schools that field the sport, the athletes who have chosen to be public, and the season calendar.
From the Scorebook
Open Water Swimming Game Reports
No Open Water Swimming reports published yet
A report lands in this section as soon as both teams' books agree, the box score is signed off, and the recap is published from the game page.
The Season
Season Calendar
Season Calendar · 2026
Open Water Swimming · World Aquatics
| Phase | Starts | Ends | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | Jun 21, 2026 | The 20th edition, four stops: Somabay, Egypt 27-28 March; Ibiza, Spain 24-25 April; Golfo Aranci, Italy 1-2 May; Setubal, Portugal 20-21 June. Venue choice follows water temperature rather than hemisphere, opening in Egypt's Red Sea before moving to the Mediterranean and Atlantic. |
| U.S. domestic open water championship season | Apr 3, 2026 | Jul 25, 2026 | USA Swimming Open Water National and Junior Championships plus USMS Sprint-Distance and Long-Distance Open Water Nationals at Nathan Benderson Park, Sarasota, 3-4 April 2026 (1 mile on 3 April, 5K on 4 April); Marathon-Distance Open Water Nationals, Applegate Lake, Oregon, 18 July 2026; Middle-Distance Nationals, Square Lake, Minnesota, 25 July 2026. |
| 2027 World Cup season restructure | — | — | The season is being restructured. The 2027 World Cup begins in October 2026, a refreshed calendar that closes the season ahead of the Budapest 2027 World Championships and the LA28 Olympics. No stop-by-stop dates were published. |
| No long-course World Aquatics Championships in 2026 | — | — | There is no long-course World Aquatics Championships in 2026; the 2026 calendar centres on World Cups and the December short-course championships. |
| World Aquatics Championships Budapest 2027 - open water programme | Jul 3, 2027 | Jul 8, 2027 | Budapest, Hungary; open water venue still to be announced |
World Aquatics open water competitions hub · checked Jul 31, 2026
Not Yet Confirmed
4 parts of the Open Water Swimming year are still unsourced
These are gaps, not blanks. Each names what is missing and who would confirm it. Nothing is estimated to fill the shape of the table above.
- Championship
- Budapest 2027 open water venue — World Aquatics or the Budapest 2027 organising committee would confirm. Budapest 2027 event schedule page
- Elite calendar (2027)
- The stop-by-stop 2027 Open Water World Cup calendar — World Aquatics would confirm. World Aquatics calendar announcement
- Olympic and major games
- Open water's presence at the Commonwealth Games 2026 and the Youth Olympic Games — World Aquatics would confirm. LA28 Games Plan
- College season
- NCAA swimming and diving championship months for 2027 and whether any collegiate open water series exists — the NCAA and USA Swimming would confirm. NCAA Future Dates Summary · NCAA Emerging Sports for Women
Around The Season
- High school
- Open water is not an NFHS championship event. NFHS sanctions Swimming & Diving, a pool sport contested in winter in most states, but not open water swimming. High-school-age open water racing happens through USA Swimming's Open Water Junior Championships instead, held alongside the senior nationals in Sarasota on 3-4 April 2026. NFHS Activities & Sports
- College
- Not a separate NCAA championship sport. NCAA swimming and diving championships are pool events; open water does not appear in the NCAA championship future-dates schedule nor on the emerging-sports-for-women list. Collegiate distance swimmers race open water under USA Swimming sanction. NCAA Future Dates Summary
- Olympic and major games
- Open Water Swimming is on the LA28 Olympic programme; World Aquatics frames the restructured calendar around the World Championships and the LA28 Olympic Games. The Olympic 10km marathon swim is the pinnacle event. LA28 Games Plan
- Club, youth and academy
- The U.S. domestic open water season runs April to July: USA Swimming Open Water National and Junior Championships plus USMS Sprint-Distance and Long-Distance Open Water Nationals at Nathan Benderson Park, Sarasota on 3-4 April 2026, with an open water clinic run alongside by SwimTrek for the USA Swimming Foundation; then Marathon-Distance Open Water Nationals at Applegate Lake, Oregon on 18 July 2026 and Middle-Distance Nationals at Square Lake, Minnesota on 25 July 2026. Pool qualifying meets that feed the international calendar run January to June and are listed publicly by World Aquatics.
- Busiest months
- March, April, May, June, July, October
Results data · Results published in structured form and freely reachable. World Aquatics publishes per-event pages, schedules, entry lists and qualifying-meet tables openly, and USA Swimming and USMS national championship results are published on their own sites.
Programs
Schools Fielding Open Water Swimming
No Open Water Swimming programs in the directory yet
This list is built from the school directory the roster work already produced. Schools appear as soon as a program for this sport is sourced.
Athletes
Public Open Water Swimming Pages
Athlete records are private by default. Only athletes who have claimed their record and chosen to make it public appear here.
No public athlete pages in this section yet
An athlete appears here only after they have claimed their record and set it public. Nothing is listed on their behalf.
Bylines
Reporting on Open Water Swimming
No filed stories on Open Water Swimming yet
Stories from named reporters covering this sport appear here, each carrying that reporter's page and their podcast, channel and social links.