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Hawaii Offering Duke Kahanamoku License Plates Hawaii is offering license plates featuring the likeness of legendary swimmer and surfer Duke Kahanamoku. The specialty plates will be available starting Nov. 16 at all satellite city hall locations in Oahu with an initial availability of about 4,000 un...

‘Forever Part of My Story’: Swimming Community Mourns Loss of Dan Hicks For Rowdy Gaines, being broadcast partners with Dan Hicks was more than just meeting up a few times a year to call swimming. It was a friendship that stretched through the year, through decades, through eight Olympics calling sw...

Passages: NBC Olympic Broadcaster Dan Hicks, 64 NBC broadcaster Dan Hicks, who served as NBC’s swimming broadcaster for the last eight Olympics, has died. He was 64. Hicks’ wife, fellow broadcaster and journalist Hannah Storm, made the announcement Thursday. They described it as sudden following an ...

Olympic Champion Tatjana Smith Changes Allegiance to Netherlands South African Olympic champion Tatjana Smith has changed her sporting allegiance to the Netherlands, she announced on Tuesday. Smith, who won four Olympic medals for South Africa with the first two as Tatjana Schoenmaker, made the anno...

UCLA’s Ryder Dodd Sets Conference Record with 12-Goal Game UCLA men’s water polo’s Ryder Dodd set a school and conference record with 12 goals in a win Saturday over UC-San Diego. Dodd was one of three players in UCLA history to score eight goals in a game when he did so against Pepperdine in 2024. ...

Maggie Wanezek Sets Pool Record as Wisconsin Sweeps Minnesota Maggie Wanezek improved her pool record in the 100 backstroke as Wisconsin swept Minnesota in a pair of dual meets on Friday. The 12th-ranked women’s team claimed a 182.5-115.5 over the No. 22 Golden Gophers. The men captured a 165.5-132....

Hayden Gibson Stars as Arkansas Sweeps Texas A&M, Illinois Hayden Gibson won three races, and Arkansas set a pair of pool records in wins over Texas A&M and Illinois on Saturday in Fayetteville. The Making Waves Women’s Empowerment Meet at Arkansas Natatorium yielded wins of 203-96 over Illinois and...

Jessica Thompson, Lana Pudar Lead Virginia Over West Virginia Jessica Thompson and Lana Pudar helped a split-squad of Virginia swimmers to a win over West Virginia on Saturday. The meet at the Aquatic and Fitness Center in Charlottesville went ahead even with the Cavaliers mostly occupied with the C...

Retired Swimmer Michael Gunning Earns Sports Personality Award Retired swimmer Michael Gunning was awarded Sports Personality of the Year at the UK’s Ethnicity Awards in October. Gunning was recognized in the public awards section, which highlighted online influencers, broadcasters and public figure...

U.S. to Send 11 Swimmers to World Para Swimming Series in Peru The United States is set to send 11 swimmers to the World Para Swimming Series stop in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 12-14. The meet will be held at the VIDENA Aquatic Center, the venue that is slated to host the 2027 Parapan American Games compet...

Olympian David Johnston Reveals Car Accident Injuries Keeping Him Out of the Water American Olympic distance swimmer David Johnston this week revealed “persistent neurological symptoms” that have kept him from competing the last 13 months. Johnston made a lengthy post on Instagram shedding light on ...

North Carolina Takes Tight Sweep over Virginia Tech North Carolina picked up a pair of tight victories at Virginia Tech on Thursday, with the 19th-ranked men upsetting the No. 12 Hokies, 160-140. On the women’s side, the 15th-ranked Tar Heels claimed a 177-123 win over No. 23 Va. Tech at the Christi...

Tomoru Honda Handed 21-Month Suspension, to Miss LA Olympics Olympian Tomoru Honda was banned 21 months by the Japan Swimming Federation on Wednesday, ruling the 24-year-old out of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The discipline stems from a high-speed car crash that Honda was part of in November 2...

Savannah Skow Distance Double Leads Princeton to Cannon Trophy over Rutgers Savannah Skow pulled off the distance double to lead Princeton to a win over in-state rival Rutgers on Friday, 134-09. The win in their season debut gives Princeton the Cannon Trophy to show from their trip to Piscataway. Sk...

CSCAA Division III Poll: Emory Women Jump to No. 1 in Shakeup Emory jumped to No. 1 in the CSCAA Division III poll for October, with NYU falling to No. 3 in the rankings released on Friday. Denison holds onto the No. 1 spot in the men’s poll from the September preseason poll. Emory tallied 392 point...

Emily Jones Leads Alabama to Win over Miami Emily Jones won two individual events and was part of four victorious relays as Alabama topped Miami, 224-110, in a two-day non-conference meet. Jones and the sprint contingent led the way in Coral Gables. She won the 50 freestyle in 22.03 seconds, with te...

U.S. Short-Course Trials: Kate Douglass Blasts 100 Free WR Kate Douglass had an idea that a world record might be possible Saturday night in the 100 freestyle. When the five-time Olympic medalist gets that notion, it’s time for everyone else to watch out. Douglass knew she’d need to attack the front...

U.S. Short Course World Trials, Day 4 Women’s Finals: Skyler Smith Punches Ticket in 50 Breast  Skyler Smith was, as the broadcast at Short Course World Trials pointed out Saturday, about as happy as one could be with a medal at the Pan Pacific Championships this summer. At the FMC Natatorium in Wes...

U.S. Short Course World Trials, Day 4 Men’s Finals: Ilya Kharun Drops No. 4 All-Time 50 Fly Men’s butterfly has gotten a shakeup at the Short Course Worlds Trials this week in Westmont. Tyler Ray and Ilya Kharun set U.S. Open records in the 100 fly, the latter getting the win. Luca Urlando downed th...

Tampa Rises to No. 1 in CSCAA Division II Men’s Poll Tampa moved to the No. 1 spot in the CSCAA Division II men’s swimming and diving poll for October, released on Friday. Tampa had been second in the preseason poll but rose to first with 250 points, the maximum. Second is Colorado Mesa, up from fou...