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NCAA Men's Championships: Maximus Williamson Adds 200 IM Title The promise has long been bubbling for the University of Virginia, once its talented class of young swimmers got there. Maximus Williamson has only stoked the flames of that potential this week. Williamson started the final night of the ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Collier Dyer Wins Historic 3-Meter for Missouri It’s been a long climb for Collier Dyer. In four years at the University of Missouri, the senior was in his ninth career NCAA Championships event on Friday night at Georgia Tech. Never before had he finished in the top eight. ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Yamato Okadome Wins 200 Breast to Cap Special Double A year ago, in his debut NCAA season, California’s Yamato Okadome was learning the ropes in first championship season. As a sophomore, things are much different in terms of the talent of the Golden Bears around him. But O...

ESPN to Present 2026 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships ESPN will collaborate with USA Water Polo to present the 2026 NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships, the organization announced this week. The NCAA champion will be decided at the University of California, San Diego’s Canyonview Aquatic Cent...

Evansville Hires Canaan Campbell as Swimming and Diving Head Coach The University of Evansville on Thursday announced the hiring of Canaan Campbell as its new head swimming and diving coach. Campbell replaces Toby Wilcox, who retired last week. He arrives after two years as an assistant at Tulane Un...

NCAA Men's Championships: Luke Sitz Makes History for SMU with 1-Meter Crown SMU’s Luke Sitz scored 428.10 points Saturday to win 1-meter diving gold at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Sitz was second after prelims but scored 428.10 in finals. That was nearly 16 points better than Miami ...

NCAA Men's Championships: With Something to Prove, Rex Maurer Sets 400 IM American Record A year ago, Rex Maurer made the 400 individual medley title part of a resurgent NCAAs for the Texas sophomore. Thursday night, he defended his title in spectacular fashion and while feeling more pressure than i...

NCAA Men's Championships: Arizona State Edges Florida in 200 Medley Relay Florida’s quest for team placement at last year’s NCAA Championships was dealt a blow on Night 1 with a disqualification in the 200 medley relay. Wednesday’s spoiler was more benign, though still disappointing. Led by Ilya Kha...

Jack Hill, Kaley McIntyre Named Division III Swimmers of the Year Denison’s Jack Hill and NYU’s Kaley McIntyre added to their NCAA Division III titles with Swimmer of the Year nods on Tuesday from CSCAA. The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America on Tuesday released the list of A...

Torri Huske, Sophie Verzyl Win Swimmer and Diver of the Year from CSCAA Torri Huske and Sophie Verzyl were named Women’s Swimmer and Diver of the Year, respectively, by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America in Division I this season. CSCAA released the selections on Tuesday ...

Amid Format Changes, NCAA Divers Mixed on New Split Finals The reaction to changes in the swimming portion of the NCAA Division I women’s championships last week was almost uniformly negative. The feeling about changes in the diving program were more mixed. The 2026 edition of NCAAs included no B fi...

Indiana Diving Coach Drew Johansen Releases Letter Defending NCAA Changes Long-time Indiana diving coach Drew Johansen released an open letter on Tuesday defending the changes to the NCAA Championships, calling them the result of “forward thinking”. Johansen backed the thought process that went into...

Pitt's Historic NCAAs Latest Step for Growing Women's Program The superlatives have rained down on the University of Pittsburgh’s women’s swimming and diving program for much of the last 14 months. Though the women at the center of that know the growth trajectory tracks back far further. The record ...

‘The Biggest Bummer:’ NCAA’s Experimental Cut of B Final Met with Widespread Criticism Thursday night should’ve been a celebration for Chloe Braun, but it ended up looking different than what she had expected. As a junior in 2025, Braun became the first swimmer from UC San Diego to qualify for the N...

Off Stellar NCAA Debut, Todd DeSorbo Backs Sara Curtis to Chase Gretchen Walsh Records Sara Curtis hadn’t been at the University of Virginia long when her training partner, Gretchen Walsh, and Todd DeSorbo started looking ahead. The Italian international’s talent before arriving in Charlottesville w...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Stanford Freshman Ellie Cole Sets NCAA Record on Platform Ellie Cole’s first NCAAs as a member of Stanford is going to be hard to top. The Australian Olympian scored 399.80 points, topping the NCAA record from 2013 and beating the field by more than 50 points, a huge boos...

NCAA Women's Championships: Texas Torch Passes to Campbell Stoll in 200 Fly A farewell to three-time NCAA champion Emma Sticklen could’ve meant the Texas dynasty in the 200 butterfly was at its end. Campbell Stoll had other plans Saturday night. And she had Sticklen for inspiration. Stoll went 1:50....

NCAA Women's Championships: Lucy Bell's Breaststroke Split Leads 200 IM Win Just about everyone had their turn near the front of the women’s 200 individual medley Saturday night. But when Lucy Bell and her bombing breaststroke went to the front, that was that. Bell split 31.28 on breaststroke, vault...

NCAA Women's Championships: Sophie Verzyl Delivers Late for 3-Meter Gold Thursday night at Georgia Tech, Chiara Pellacani waited on the deck and watched – or didn’t watch – as Sophie Verzyl dove last with a chance to pass her for the NCAA title on 1-meter. Friday, the roles were reversed on 3-meter,...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Torri Huske Adds Second Title in 50 Free Torri Huske has heard the word “second” plenty of times at NCAAs in contexts she did not prefer. Friday, in winning her second national title this week, brought one second to cherish. Huske clocked in at 20.66 seconds, winning the ...