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Caroline Bricker Hoping for Bounceback Year as Stanford's New Headliner At her second NCAA Championships, Caroline Bricker emerged from relative obscurity to become an NCAA champion. In the 400 IM final at the NCAA Women's Championships, Bricker took over the lead with a commanding performance on br...

Miami Picks Up Dual Meet Wins Over Ohio and North Florida The Miami Hurricanes took down Ohio and North Florida in dual meet action Friday, winning 193-106 against the Bobcats and 232-54 against the Ospreys. Ohio also finished ahead of North Florida by a 221-72 margin. Miami's Leah Evans, Kaelia Hug...

At 2:04.83, Shin Ohashi Provides Another Stunning Leap Forward in 200 Breaststroke Two minutes, four seconds: a man really swam that fast over four lengths of long course breaststroke. Shin Ohashi, only 17, annihilated his best time by two seconds and beat the previous 200 breast world record by six...

Arkansas Earns Wins Against TCU, Drury The University of Arkansas women have gotten off to a strong start in the 2026-27 season. The Razorbacks previously defeated four in-state opponents at the All-Arkansas Invitational, and they triumphed over two more teams Saturday, beating TCU 196-987 and Drury...

Duke Cruises to Wins in Season Opener at Davidson The Duke Blue Devils opened their season with a visit to in-state opponent Davidson. The Blue Devil women won every event on the way to a 246.5-53.5 victory, while the men's score was a bit closer, with Duke coming out on top 193-106. Duke's women do...

CSL Match 3: Caroline Bricker Wins Three Individual Events, Leads Stanford to Win; Ryan Erisman Crushes 4:08 500 Free Amid Huge Day A week after its debut in Westmont, Ill., the College Swimming League moved to the west coast, allowing home team Stanford and Bay Area rival California to take center ...

Combined World Championships: Yu Zidi Tops Rankings in Two Events After Asian Games Star Performance Most of the world's top swimmers wrapped up their 2026 long course seasons by mid-August following the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and Pan Pacific Championships, but the Asian Games to...

Last Year, Caspar Corbeau Broke Through 2:00 Breaststroke Barrier; Who's Next? The world's top male breaststrokers appeared on the verge of swimming the short course 200-meter race in under two minutes for more than 15 years, ever since Daniel Gyurta got within a second of the barrier during the las...

Combined World Championships: Zhang Zhanshuo, Shin Ohashi, Xu Jiayu Vault to Top Spot at Asian Games Most of the world's top swimmers wrapped up their 2026 long course seasons by mid-August following the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and Pan Pacific Championships, but the Asian Games to...

Jack Roach Honored With Prestigious USA Swimming Award This week, USA Swimming honored longtime coach Jack Roach with the annual USA Swimming Award. Roach has coached at various club and college destinations for more than 50 years, and he served as USA Swimming National Junior Team Director beginnin...

Florida Opens Season With Wins Over FAU (Men), Vanderbilt (Women) The University of Florida began its season Saturday with a pair of meets, the women racing in Nashville against SEC rival Vanderbilt while the men traveled to take on Florida Atlantic. Both teams won every event in their respective co...

University of South Carolina Tops UNC-Wilmington as Delaney Franklin, William Carrico Shine The University of South Carolina swim and dive teams took care of business in their season-opening contest at UNC-Wilmington. The Gamecock women triumphed 250-50 while the men won a much tighter meet by a sco...

Hubert Kos, Audrey Derivaux Among Double Winners at Texas Intrasquad The University of Texas competed Friday in its annual preseason intrasquad meet, named in honor of the late Sam Kendricks, a longtime public address announcer at national-level competition who was once a manager and coach for the L...

CSL Match 2: Claire Curzan Blasts 1:46 200 Backstroke as Virginia Secures Win The College Swimming League continued its two-day debut in Westmont, Ill., as Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina State and Virginia all competed in the second match. The Cavaliers, best known for their historic dynasty in wo...

Anna Moesch Set to Continue Rise During Junior Season at Virginia Entering her first season of college swimming, Anna Moesch had already been an Olympic Trials semifinalist, missing out on a finals spot in the 100 freestyle in a swim-off. She quickly became a multi-event scorer for a Virginia Cavali...

College Swimming League to Bring Stakes to Early Season Competition Most years, the NCAA swimming season begins in late September and early October with a series of relatively low-profile dual meets. Maybe you would see a few standout performances here or there but nothing more, no actual consequenc...

Pan Zhanle Trying to Reclaim 100 Freestyle Dominance at Asian Games Two years ago, Pan Zhanle was the envy of the sprinting world. Days before his 20th birthday, Pan unleashed in the Olympic final of the men's 100 freestyle, dominating the field by more than a second and shattering the world record....

After Golden Summer, McKenzie Siroky Entering Fall With Opportunities to Continue Momentum Perhaps no American woman put together a better summer season than McKenzie Siroky. The 21-year-old Division I ice hockey commit-turned-standout breaststroker qualified for her first World Championships team i...

Men's 100 Freestyle Short Course World Record Should Fall This Winter An October 2021 World Cup in Kazan, Russia, played host to Australian sprinter Kyle Chalmers as he sought the first world record of his already-accomplished career. Chalmers had narrowly missed the world mark in the short course 1...

Luka Mijatovic Confirms Plans to Graduate Early, Join Texas in December The swimmer who has rewritten the National Age Group record books in mid-distance and distance freestyle over the past several years will begin his college career earlier than expected. Luka Mijatovic confirmed in an Instagram p...