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Townley Haas Crushes 200 Free NCAA, American Record With 1:30.46 With the NCAAs being cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Swimming World wanted to take a trip down memory lane and re-live some races from the 2016 NCAAs in Atlanta to fill the void of no live swimming. Today’s race: th...

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) has issued a statement about the eligibility issue in question after winter sports saw their seasons end prematurely because of the coronavrius pandemic. The NCAA has announced that since the spring sports seasons were canceled altogether, ...

With the NCAAs being cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Swimming World wanted to take a trip down memory lane and re-live some races from the 2016 NCAAs in Atlanta to fill the void of no live swimming. Today's race: the women's 200 freestyle. The 200 freestyle at any major meet seems to ...

The Pac-12 Conference announced the recipients of the 2020 Pac-12 Men’s Swimming and Diving awards, as voted on by the league coaches. Cal’s Ryan Hoffer was voted Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year and head coach Dave Durden was tabbed Pac-12 Swimming Coach of the Year as the Golden Bears won their third-st...

Cal senior Abbey Weitzeil has been named a finalist for the Sullivan Award presented each year to the top amateur athlete in the United States by the Amateur Athletic Union. Weitzeil is among ten finalists and you can vote here every day until March 30 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Swimmers Beata Nelson and Ry...

Anna Hopkin had the potential to finish out her college career in style at the NCAA Championships. The Arkansas senior was a potential spoiler pick in the 50, 100 and 200 free, having been seeded in the top three in all of her events. Had she touched first in any of her events at NCAAs in Athens, Ge...

Northeastern senior Megan Clark was named the Colonial Athletic Association Women’s Swimmer of the Year for the second straight season Thursday. Clark had qualified for the NCAA Championships for the third straight season before that event was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Clark re-set ...

Plymouth State will added men’s swimming to its academic offerings in the 2020-21 season, the school announced Thursday. The Division III school in New Hampshire will compete in the Little East Conference, which hosted its first men’s invitational last February and now counts five men's swimming pro...

The University of Florida swimming and diving program’s home pool will now be named the Ann Marie Rogers Swimming and Diving Pool thanks to a million dollar gift from Florida swimming alumna Veronica Meinhard and her wife Kristina M. Johnson, the UF’s Board of Trustees approved on Thursday. Ann Mari...

After 25 seasons at the University of Notre Dame, head diving coach Caiming Xie announced his retirement. Caiming coached for 42 years throughout his career, and was the first full-time diving coach for the Notre Dame program. “Notre Dame is an incredible university filled with wonderful pe...

SAN DIEGO, CA. The scene two weeks ago at UC San Diego's Canyonville Aquatics Center was one of confusion. Hawai'i's women's water polo team had flown in for a Friday, March 13th match against host UCSD—but news was rampant that the polo season was in peril due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The...

Maxime Rooney and Jack Collins drafted a letter to NCAA president Mark Emmert on Tuesday, asking him to consider an additional year of NCAA eligibility option for NCAA winter athletes that lost their season finales because of the coronavirus. Their letter was entitled "A Voice for Senior Athletes" a...

Mark Schubert doesn’t take early dismissal of practice lightly. So when the Mission Viejo Nadadores head coach, a man who’s been on the staff of eight Olympic teams, got official word Tuesday that the 2020 Olympic Games would be postponed to the summer of 2021, the symbol of dispersing the group car...

The Pac-12 Conference announced the recipients of the 2020 Pac-12 Women’s Swimming and Diving awards, as voted on by the league coaches. USC Trojans Louise Hansson was named the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year and Dave Salo was voted Pac-12 Swimming Coach of the Year. STANFORD’s Emma Wheal was named the...

NC State senior Coleman Stewart has asked the NCAA for clarification regarding information about a potential fifth year of eligibility after he missed out on swimming at his final NCAA Championships. Stewart, like many winter sports seniors, will not be able to compete at his final collegiate champi...

Maxime Rooney is a senior at the University of Texas and USA national champion. He recently posted a blog titled "My Perspective" and sent it to Swimming World. Here is the entry Maxime Rooney shared: Hey everyone! I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. With all the changes in the world, I wan...

Taylor Covington is a senior swimmer at Boston College. She is a former Swimming World Intern and current Swimming World contributor. She was swimming at the CSCAA meet when the COVID-19 cancelled NCAA events.  This is the silence I have been dreading. Six nights ago, I perched myself on the plush e...

After the cancellation of the NCAA swimming championships because of the coronavirus pandemic, college teams are leaning on each other like families. At Louisville, that is especially the case as coach Arthur Albiero and swimmer Nicolas Albiero bring a unique father-son relationship to the team. “It...

Earlier this week the Olympic Club affirmed that the Cutino Awards ceremony honoring the top male and female intercollegiate water polo athletes is still scheduled to take place on the first weekend in June. But, like everything in these challenging times, the status of the most prestigious individu...

Swedish swimmer Louise Hansson never envisioned herself swimming in college in the United States. But as she prepares for this month’s women’s NCAAs, the University of Southern California senior says that moving to the U.S. was the best thing she’s ever done. At her first Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,...