USA Deaf Swimming

USA Deaf Swimming America's Deaf Swim Team. Non-profit established to support competitive swimming among the Deaf. The USA Deaf Swimming, Inc. We depend upon YOUR SUPPORT!

(USADS) is a 501(c)3 that promotes swimming among the deaf community, support coaches and deaf athletes, and forms the deaf national team (Team USA) which represents the United States at World Deaf Swimming Championships and the Deaflympics. We champion deaf participation in competitive swimming with clubs, UIL, and NCAA. We are dependent upon donations from individuals and organization sponsors t

o enable us to represent the USA in international events. Our board and staff are all volunteers. Our swimmers come from all over the United States and range in age from 13 to 26. They are all members of USA-Swimming, USADS, and the USA Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF). The USADSF, although an affiliate of the US Olympic Committee (USOC), is not a USOC-funded entity. Able-bodied and Paralympics national team athletes receive training and travel funds, but Deaf swimmers do not. For that reason, Team USA must raise ~$120,000 per competition; $6,000 per athlete for training, travel and accommodation expenses for international competition.

A pacing solution for deaf athletes.
05/04/2026

A pacing solution for deaf athletes.

LumaLanes LED Swim Pacing

05/02/2026

"Big Brother" runner-up Matt Klotz, the show's first deaf contestant, shared a message to "haters" while reflecting on his ongoing fitness progress.

Deaflympian Ava Pruden in the news.
02/26/2026

Deaflympian Ava Pruden in the news.

Ava Pruden is an award-winning swimmer who was diagnosed with significant hearing loss as an infant, but that has never stopped her determination to succeed.“I wasn’t born with hearing loss. I actually passed my newborn screening,” she said. “They discovered (I had hearing loss) when I was t...

Quietly exceptional.... USA Deaf swimming athletes through the lens of Even Realities .
12/23/2025

Quietly exceptional.... USA Deaf swimming athletes through the lens of Even Realities .


Even Realities (ER) partnered with USA Deaf Swimming to tell our story through their lens. We 🤟 ER and you will too. Qui...
12/23/2025

Even Realities (ER) partnered with USA Deaf Swimming to tell our story through their lens. We 🤟 ER and you will too. Quietly extraordinary... just like our athletes!

Ahead of the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics, the USA Deaf Swimming Team were preparing for more than competition.Travel brings constant moments of interaction: findi...

Calling deaf leaders in sports. The International Committee on Sports for the Deaf is seeking applications for Summer Sp...
12/20/2025

Calling deaf leaders in sports. The International Committee on Sports for the Deaf is seeking applications for Summer Sports Directors. International Deaf sports needs you. Please consider applying.

We love our little fans!
12/19/2025

We love our little fans!

USA's Carli Cronk earns women's high point and Brooke Thompson ranks 20th in the world at the Deaflympics. Congratulatio...
12/14/2025

USA's Carli Cronk earns women's high point and Brooke Thompson ranks 20th in the world at the Deaflympics. Congratulations!

Notre Dame Swimming/Diving
Rutgers Swimming & Diving

Behind the scenes of international competition. The fun energy becomes fierceness in the pool.
12/14/2025

Behind the scenes of international competition. The fun energy becomes fierceness in the pool.

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