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The University of Florida men's swimming and diving team and head coach Anthony Nesty has officially announced the addition of Mateusz Dubas, who will join the Gators for the 2020-21 season. Dubas, a native of Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland, heads to Gainesville after achieving various succes...

The latest change to the fall sports schedule will take a national power out of the water: Kenyon College will not compete in intercollegiate athletics for the rest of 2020. The decision came down Tuesday. It’s predicated on president Sean Decatur’s plan for academics, which includes a mix of in-per...

Washington State has picked Mackenzie Duarte, Chloe Larson and Taylor McCoy as captains for the women’s swimming team in the 2020-21 season, the school announced Tuesday. Duarte holds three top-10 times in program history, including the school record in the 200 breaststroke. She qualified for the ca...

The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) has pulled the plug on sports in the fall semester, suspending competition through Dec. 31, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The PSAC had a meeting of its school presidents Tuesday. It had been reported Tuesday night that the decision was imminent. The ...

The SEC on Tuesday announced a delay to the fall season for three sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Volleyball, soccer and cross country. The announcement makes mention of football nor does it offer a timeline on a decision about winter sports such as swimming. The statement delays SEC competitio...

While the state of Michigan has not allowed swimmers to return to indoor pools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Michigan swimming program has returned to the water in their home facility. Michigan swimmers, practicing social distancing, have returned to Canham Natatorium, one per lane, ...

Duke graduate Alyssa Marsh, Kentucky's Asia Seidt and Minnesota's Lindsey Kozelsky are three of the 605 female student-athletes that have been nominated for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Rooted in Title IX, the NCAA Woman of the Year Award was established in 1991 to recognize graduating fem...

Olympic gold medalist and former Stanford women's head coach Lea Maurer, who guided the Cardinal for seven years, has been named USC men's and women's swimming associate head coach, first-year Trojan head coach Jeremy Kipp announced today. Maurer and is the newest addition to Kipp's staff, which als...

La Salle University head swimming and diving coach Jamie Platt announced his resignation on Monday, after accepting the position of executive director at Middle Atlantic Swimming. Platt, a former student-athlete with the Explorers, spent 18 seasons as a coach at La Salle University and recently comp...

More dominoes are beginning to fall with fall college sports being canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Patriot League will not participate in fall sports this season because of the virus, the league announced on Monday. The Patriot League consists of the Naval Academy, Bucknell, Lehigh, t...

Petitions have been started to save the Dartmouth College and UMass Dartmouth swimming programs cut at both of those schools this month. More than 4,000 people have signed the petition for UMass Dartmouth, whose men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs were cut July 1. The petition was started...

39 Thoughts All Swimmers Have During the 200 Butterfly By Sophia Chiang, Swimming World College Intern We're pretty sure everyone is terrified of the 200 butterfly. Well, except for Michael Phelps, maybe. But let's just make it clear that Phelps is absolutely the exception and not the rule. Even if ...

The Pac-12 announced Friday that fall sports will observe a conference-only schedule in 2020, following the announcements by other major conferences this week. The Pac-12’s announcement comes on the heels of similar moves by the ACC and Big Ten. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, less travel is hope...

NESCAC announces cancellation of fall sports. After the Ivy League made a monumental decision to cancel its fall sports season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the question was raised if other major conferences would follow suit and do the same. In a statement released Friday, the Division III New Englan...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Friday July 10, 2020, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Do you agree with the CSCAA's request to prohibit on-campus recruiting until March 2021? The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) is ca...

Wingate Swimming and Diving announced two new promotions. Wingate University vice-president and director of athletics Steve Poston and head Wingate Swimming coach Kirk Sanocki announced a pair of promotions this week. Greg Doyle has been named the associate head coach for women's swimming and aquati...

The fate of college sports during the COVID-19 pandemic is unclear, and the picture got murkier with a pair of decisions made Thursday. The Big Ten Conference announced that if it is able to participate in fall sports, it will do so via conference-only schedules. The announcement comes on the heels ...

Dartmouth announced on Thursday that it will eliminate five varsity athletic, and several staff positions, including men's and women's swimming. Dartmouth concluded the change would give school more flexibility in admissions, reducing the number of recruited athletes in incoming classes by 10%. The ...

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) named 1,479 swimmers and divers to Scholar All-American Team for the 2019-20 season. The award recognizes students who achieved a grade point average of 3.50 or higher and were invited to compete at their respective national c...

The Ivy League officially decided on Wednesday to postpone its fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will not entertain any sports beginning play until after Jan. 1, 2021. The decision, which was expected, was reported by CBSSports.com's Jon Rothstein, and confirmed by the conference in a re...