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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...

The Top Returning Finishers From the NCAA Championships in 2025-26 Season A large contingent of top performers departed college swimming at the conclusion of last season. Gretchen Walsh concluded her astounding four years representing the University of Virginia by matching or lowering the fastest ti...

Surging  Shaine Casas Continues Superb Year on World Cup Circuit For 16 hours this summer, any questions about Shaine Casas and his ability to fulfill his massive potential in major moments was silenced. In the World Championships final of the men’s 200 IM, Casas delivered the swim of his life to sn...

Mollie O’Callaghan, Lani Pallister Will Sustain Australian Freestyle Excellence in Post-Titmus Era What Ariarne Titmus accomplished for Australia between her international debut in 2017 and her final meet at the Paris Olympics, cannot be understated. The legacy goes far beyond the eight Olympic meda...

Kennedi Dobson Building Momentum With Pan Pacs Qualification, Stellar College Debut At this summer’s World Junior Championships, two American women blasted performances quick enough to qualify them for the senior-level team bound for the Pan Pacific Championships next summer. One was Rylee Erisman, ...

Kate Douglass Becomes First Female Under 50 in 100 Freestyle (SCM) Six days after Kate Douglass broke a freestyle world record for the first time, she has taken her mark even lower by becoming the first woman to break 50 seconds in the short course meters 100 freestyle. Douglass achieved a barrier t...

Hubert Kos Blitzes Another World Record in 100 Backstroke The star Hungarian has been the world's dominant 200 backstroker for the last three years, having captured gold at four different global meets before capturing the short course world record in the event Thursday evening. Now, Kos has entered ...

Kaylee McKeown Crushes 200 Back World Record Again; Regan Smith Under Previous WR For the second time in less than a week, Kaylee McKeown and Regan Smith have both gone under the world record in the short course meters 200 backstroke. Just like six days earlier in Westmont, Ill., McKeown has gotten ...