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After Incredible World Cup Performance, Josh Liendo Shooting for Big Finish to Florida Career He raced at all three stops of the World Cup circuit, but something shifted when Josh Liendo got back on home soil for the third and final stop in Toronto. Liendo had been nowhere close to the front of the ...

Versatile American Women Must Consider New Schedule on Road to Los Angeles Olympics This year's World Championships concluded with the American team of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske winning gold in the women's 400 medley relay in world-record time. It is impossible to fu...

Liberty Clark Breaking Out as Freshman Freestyle Star for Indiana In the 2025 NCAA final of the women’s 200 freestyle, Indiana’s Anna Peplowski won a nail-biting race against USC’s Minna Abraham. The two swimmers were tied at two different intermediate splits and never separated by more than a tenth...

Virginia’s Thomas Heilman and Maximus Williamson Among Freshmen Men in Contention This College Season Freshmen male swimmers often struggle to immediately make a scoring impact on the national level. Some swimmers arrive as already-established performers, like Canadians Ilya Kharun and Josh Liendo i...

Duke Women, Northwestern Men Take Wins in Two-Day Meet Northwestern hosted Duke for a two-day meet Friday and Saturday, and the result was a split. The Blue Devil women came out on top 192-142 while the Wildcat men dominated by a 216-118 margin. Duke's top team finished almost three seconds ahead in...

LSU Women Dominant Against Houston, Rice, Tulane After the Louisiana State University swim and dive teams swept Alabama and Florida State Friday, the women's team was back in action Saturday with Houston, Rice and Tulane visiting Baton Rouge. The Tigers captured first place in all swimming events en...

Erika Pelaez, Kaii Winkler Impressive as NC State Wins Raleigh Rumble The NC State Wolfpack continued to dominate the Raleigh Rumble on day two. After establishing commanding leads in Friday's competition, the meet finished with the women winning with 790 points over Ohio State (546) and Virginia Te...

Leah Shackley, Kaii Winkler Have NC State Leading Raleigh Rumble The NC State Wolfpack are hosting Ohio State and Virginia Tech for a two-day, three-session event called the Raleigh Rumble, and it kicked off Friday with the home team leading the way. NC State's women have scored 508 points to lead O...

South Carolina Women, North Carolina Men Victorious in Dual Meet A brilliant season for the University of South Carolina women continued Friday as the Gamecocks knocked off North Carolina for the first time since 1985. The South Carolina women won 176-124 over the Tar Heels while the visiting UNC me...

Jere Hribar Impressive as LSU Knocks Off Alabama and Florida State The Louisiana State University Tigers hosted Alabama and Florida State in dual meet action Friday and secured four victories, but the men's team had to work especially hard to edge out the Crimson Tide and the Seminoles by merely fiv...

Torri Huske, Yamato Okadome Shine at Stanford-Cal Triple Distance Meet Traditional rivals Cal and Stanford met Friday for their annual triple-distance meet, where swimmers contest three distances of the same stroke plus individual medley to determine the overall winner. The Stanford women came out o...

Louisville Dominates Kentucky in Annual Rivalry Meet The Louisville Cardinals hosted in-state rival Kentucky in dual meet action Thursday and emerged victorious by large margins. The Louisville women won every event en route to a final score of 218-82 while the men won by a similarly huge margin, 20...

Tinkering With Pro Swim Series Should Pay Off For USA Swimming USA Swimming is reimagining its annual circuit of Pro Swim Series meets for 2026, introducing four-day formats and semifinals. The goal is to "mirror the racing environment athletes experience at major international meets and enhance lon...

Eva Okaro Brings Long-Awaited Speed to Texas in First College Season For five consecutive seasons, the University of Texas women have finished among the top-three teams at the NCAA Championships, the program’s best run in decades. But in an unusual twist for top college teams, the Longhorns have ach...

Hubert Kos Continued Ascendancy With Masterful World Cup Performance More than two years have passed since Hubert Kos secured his status as the world’s top 200 backstroker when he surpassed Ryan Murphy for gold in the event at the 2023 World Championships. The following year, the Hungarian captured ...

Kaylee McKeown, Regan Smith Rev Up Backstroke Rivalry During World Cup Over the past three years, Regan Smith has won 11 international medals in backstroke, reaching the podium at every opportunity. Three of those medals were gold, all from the Short Course World Championships last December, and the...

Missouri Takes Down Vanderbilt (Women) and McKendree at Home Missouri welcomed the women of SEC rival Vanderbilt plus Division II McKendree for the Tigers' first home meet of the season. Missouri was dominant in this one, with the women beating Vanderbilt 236-57 and McKendree 244-40, claiming the wi...

Arizona Sweeps Two-Day Meet Against SMU and TCU The Southern Methodist University Mustangs welcomed a pair of Big-12 opponents, regional rival Texas Christian and the University of Arizona, for a two-day dual meet in Dallas. Arizona was the top team across the board, defeating both the Mustangs and ...

South Carolina Women, Florida State Men Secure Dual Meet Victories The South Carolina Gamecocks swimming and diving teams traveled to Tallahassee, Fla., for a dual meet against the Florida State Seminoles. The South Carolina women continued a strong start to the season with a dominant victory, scori...

Josh Liendo, Anita Bottazzo Brilliant in Florida's Sweep of Georgia The Florida Gators welcomed SEC rival Georgia to town over the past two days and secured a pair of dual-meet victories. Josh Liendo returned to Gainesville to lead his team to a 191-154 victory while Anita Bottazzo was key in the Fl...