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College Swimming Women's Top Times: Who Has Surprised This Season? College swimming has just over a month to go until the beginning of conference championship meets, which can produce sensational efforts from all corners of the country. One month after that will be the NCAA Championships, with both ...

Jordan Crooks, Camille Spink Speedy as Tennessee Crushes Alabama The Tennessee Volunteers traveled to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to race against the Crimson Tide, and they came away with two dual-meet victories. Jordan Crooks, fresh off becoming the first man to break 20 in the short course meters version of...

Chris Guiliano Impresses in First Longhorn Appearance as Texas Dominates SMU The Texas Longhorns opened 2025 in strong fashion against in-state rival SMU, with the women winning 218-76 and the men jumping out to a 237-63 margin. The Texas men's team, which already features Olympic champion Hubert Ko...

Auburn Men Dominate South Carolina But Gamecock Women Score Upset The Auburn Tigers hosted South Carolina in an SEC showdown Saturday, and while the Tiger men cruised by a 215-85 margin, the Gamecock women pulled off an upset by five points, beating Auburn 152.5-147.5. Madison Kolessar started thing...

Gretchen Walsh Sizzles With Quickest 50 Fly Split Ever in Virginia-Va Tech Dual Meet; Hokie Men Shine Coming off the greatest short course performance ever at the recent 25-meter World Championships in Budapest, Gretchen Walsh is back in a University of Virginia cap and continuing to impress. Walsh ...

North Carolina Downs Duke in Rivalry Dual Meet The North Carolina Tar Heels continued their impressive season with matching dual meet victories over rival Duke, with the UNC men dominating by a score of 211-81.5 while the women came out on top in a closer affair, 178-114. The UNC men began their dom...

Gary Hall Jr. Loses Home, Olympic Medals in Devastating California Wildfire (Link to GoFundMe) At least five people have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed in Southern California amid numerous raging wildfires that have broken out within the past two days. Among the affected is 1...

Freshman Focus, Part Two: Wolfpack Duo of Shackley and Pelaez Rocketing Up Rankings The North Carolina State women’s team is in good hands following the departure of Olympic medalist Katharine Berkoff, who won a trio of 100-yard backstroke national titles during her five years of collegiate swimming...

Freshman Focus: Five Swimmers Making Instant Impact on New Teams A large group of decorated swimmers will suit up for the upcoming college championship season as they seek to continue adding individual and team accolades to their respective résumés. Alex Walsh enters her fifth year of racing having ...

Maturity and Experience Guided Regan Smith to Career Year in 2024 Returning home from her second Olympics, Regan Smith needed a respite from the pressure-packed, exhausting buildup to the Paris Games. Her partnership with coach Bob Bowman had yielded a strong performance that included three individu...

Wisconsin Crushes UC-San Diego, UCLA Women in West-Coast Trip The University of Wisconsin Badgers traveled to La Jolla, Calif., to begin their spring competition season against UC-San Diego and the women from UCLA. Both the women's and men's meets saw Wisconsin have dominant performances, winning al...

Florida Women, Indiana Men Win Tight Dual Meets as Bella Sims, Owen McDonald Star The Indiana Hoosiers traveled to Gainesville, Fla., on the heels of their winter training trip to race the Gators in a star-powered dual meet. Both the women's and men's contests were highly competitive, but Florida ca...

Top Swim Meets to Watch in 2025: World Championships Head to Singapore in July The post-Olympic year will usher in a new quadrennium, with swimmers aiming to build toward a peak at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Elite swimmers will take varying approaches to 2025, with some of the stars of the Pa...

Six Predictions for 2025: Leon Marchand Will Add to World-Record Total In one of the greatest individual performances in swimming history, Leon Marchand won four individual gold medals at the Paris Olympics, becoming only the third man to do so in one Games after Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps (twice...

Top Performances of 2024: Pan Zhanle, Bobby Finke Top List With Gold-Medal, World-Record Swims The year concluded with one of the fastest editions of the Short Course World Championships ever, with 30 world records set over six days of competition. However, only one swim from Budapest cracks this ye...

Female NCAA Swim of the Year: Gretchen Walsh Reaches 47-Second Territory in 100 Fly One year earlier, the 100 butterfly final at the NCAA Women's Championships featured the three fastest women in history (at the time), and the race did not disappoint: Kate Douglass was the winner that night, clockin...

Male NCAA Swim of the Year: Leon Marchand Dabbled with 500 Freestyle; Refined Limits of Possibility For more than two years, Leon Marchand has been considered the world's best swimmer, dominating the individual medley events like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte did during their heydays while also bec...

After Facing Adversity, Claire Curzan Coming Full Circle in Return to Form Claire Curzan’s recent bout of adversity has forced her to grapple with her relationship with the sport in a way she never did during her do-no-wrong teenage years. Disappointment has yielded balance and growth. In early Octo...

American Coach of the Year: Todd DeSorbo Continues Leading Virginia Women on Dominant Run He has been the guiding force to the country's most dominant college program, with the University of Virginia having already won four consecutive NCAA titles in women's swimming and diving, and the Cavaliers ar...

Katie Grimes, Claire Weinstein Return From Worlds to Post Strong Swims at Sectionals Less than a week after wrapping up competition at the Short Course World Championships in Budapest, American teenagers Katie Grimes and Claire Weinstein are competing again, this time in short course yards with thei...