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Underwater Kicking Champ and Big Personality Emma Sticklen Starting Strong in Fifth Year at Texas Down the stretch in the arduous 200 butterfly, Emma Sticklen finds her groove. During those laps, when even top-notch competitors are fading and trying desperately to reach the wall, Sticklen can reach ...

Get Ready for Gretchen Walsh Show at Short Course World Championships Elite swimmers regularly decline the chance to race at the Short Course World Championships. Katie Ledecky has never attended that meet, and Michael Phelps only did so once, when it was held in the United States. Fortunately for s...

Texas A&M Sweeps Two-Day Tri-Meet Against TCU and BYU The Texas A&M Aggies hosted intercollegiate competition for the first time this season over the weekend and proved dominant against a pair of teams from the Big 12, Texas Christian University and Brigham Young University. Friday Women's Scores: T...

Michigan Dominant Against Wisconsin and Notre Dame Women in Two-Day Tri-Meet The University of Michigan swim and dive teams crushed their competition this weekend as they hosted Wisconsin and the Notre Dame women for two days of competition. Michigan's women won by dominant margins, 238-115 over Wis...

Ohio State Dominates Kentucky, Akron (Women) in Season Opener The Kentucky Wildcats swim and dive teams plus the women from Akron visited Columbus, Ohio, Saturday to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes, and this one was all Scarlet and Gray as OSU's women won 218-80 over Kentucky and the men earned a 19...

Kaelyn Gridley, Carles Coll Marti Impressive as Duke, Virginia Tech Split In one of the first Atlantic Coast Conference showdowns of the season, Duke hosted Virginia Tech Saturday, with the result a split: the Duke women topped Virginia Tech 165-135, and Virginia Tech dominated the Blue Devils by a ...

World Cup Shanghai, Day 2 Finals: Regan Smith, Kate Douglass Notch American Records; Leon Marchand Breaks Series Record Five swimmers who won individual medals at the recent Paris Olympics were victorious during Saturday's finals at the World Cup in Shanghai. Among the standout performances, Leon Ma...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Crushes 100 IM World Record, Breaks Three More SCM American Records at Dual Meet The Gretchen Walsh show has returned to college swimming. The University of Virginia senior, just two-and-a-half months removed from her first Olympic Games, is already breaking records, this time ...

Josh Liendo, Julian Smith Lead Florida Men to Win at Virginia; G. Walsh, Curzan Lead UVA Women The elite showdown of the college season thus far took place Friday afternoon in Charlottesville, Va., as the Virginia Cavaliers, winners of four consecutive NCAA women's titles, hosted the Florida Gators,...

Freshmen Who Will Make an Impact in Women’s College Swimming This Season: The Rich Get Richer As if the University of Virginia women’s team needed another influx of talent to make a fifth consecutive NCAA team title a near certainty. Gretchen Walsh is one of the most dominant sprinters ever in the c...

How NCAA Realignment Will Eventually Boost College Swimming This Season The new era of U.S. college athletics took shape just over a year ago, rising from the ashes of a Pac-12 conference that failed to secure a television deal on par with its fellow power conferences. Within months eight universiti...

Louisville Women, Indiana Men Top SMU Classic; Owen McDonald Impressive in Indiana Debut The University of Louisville Cardinals and Indiana University men were victorious at the SMU Classic held this weekend at the Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center in Dallas, with the six teams competing recording nu...

Indiana Men to Scare Favorites This Season Thanks to Veterans and Transfers The Indiana Hoosiers have not finished as a top-two team at the NCAA Men’s Championships since 1975, a quarter-century before head coach Ray Looze arrived in Bloomington. But Indiana has asserted its status as a powerhouse p...

Can Cal Men Reclaim NCAA Swimming Title in 2025? Every NCAA swimming season, we remember one of the most incredible streaks in college sports: the Cal men’s swim team has finished among the two best teams in the nation for a decade-and-a-half. Head coach Dave Durden has led his Golden Bears to six n...

Marchand Record Mania to Continue? Frenchman Sets Sights on Short Course Meters World records in short course meters swimming often lack the credibility of their long course counterparts, largely because of elite swimmers eschewing opportunities to race in the 25-meter course. European swimmers typi...

Paris Practice For Los Angeles? Teenagers Who Could Emerge as Stars Three years before they emerged as the top swimmers of the Paris Olympics, Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh each got a taste of the sport’s highest level, collecting some valuable international experience that they would quickly pa...

NCAA Women’s Swimming: 5 Veterans Who Can Elevate Their Squads in 2024-25 As the next college swimming season begins, those with even a rudimentary knowledge of the sport understand that the Virginia women are set to dominate the country for a fifth consecutive year, with Gretchen Walsh returning fr...

Maggie Mac Neil Produced Many Golden Moments During Brilliant Five-Year Run The list of Canadian women to capture Olympic gold in swimming stands at just four: Anne Ottenbrite was the lone member of the club for 32 years after topping the 200 breaststroke at the 1984 Olympics, but since 2016, one sw...

Gold Medalists Leon Marchand, Kaylee McKeown Returning to Competition at World Cup in Shanghai Only 11 weeks will have passed since the conclusion of the swimming events at the Paris Olympics when several big-name competitors return to international competition at the Swimming World Cup in Shanghai,...

Eddie Reese, Chris Plumb Honored For Coaching Accomplishments at USA Swimming Luncheon At the annual USA Swimming Workshop Award Luncheon, one of the most accomplished coaches in the sport's history was recognized for a career spanning nearly a half-century. Eddie Reese captured 15 NCAA team titles ...