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The Fine Art Of In-Meet Coaching: It Can Take a Deft Touch...Or a Hammer You want smoke on the water, excitement in aquatics? Just put longtime coaches in the same room. For starters, invite Jack Bauerle, Don Gambril, Frank Comfort, Bob Boettner or the departed Don Easterling and Ray Bussard. The su...

Bob Bowman on Arizona State’s Techsuit Swims: It’s a Learning Experience Arizona State turned heads nearly two weeks ago, blitzing the NCAA leaderboard – not to mention Stanford and California – in dual meets. It came with the Sun Devils, the men’s team already ranked No. 1 in the nation, wearing te...

39 Thoughts All Swimmers Have During the 200 Butterfly By Sophia Chiang We're pretty sure most people are terrified of the 200 butterfly. Well, except for the likes of Kristof Milak, Mary T. Meagher and Michael Phelps. But let's just make it clear that Phelps is absolutely an exception and not the r...

The Big Ten Conference announced its weekly swimming and diving awards. Big Ten Women’s Swimmer of the Week Katherine Zenick, Ohio State Jr. – Southlake, Texas – Southlake Carroll– Major: Neuroscience Won three individual titles, all with NCAA B cut times at Notre Dame’s Tim Welsh Classic on Jan. 27...

Allison Schmitt Named to SEC Conference 2023 Class of Women's Legends University of Georgia women’s swimming alumna Allison Schmitt was named to the Southeastern Conference’s 2023 Class of Women’s Legends, as announced by the league office in Birmingham. Each of the SEC’s 14 member institutions are ...

Swimming: A Love-Hate Relationship By Rachel Sansano, Swimming World College Intern  To an outsider, swimmers seem to have a strange relationship with their sport. They simultaneously love and hate every aspect of it. They complain to anyone who will listen. But at the same time, they are the first ...

A Look At Texas' Power and Depth In the 200-Yard Freestyle Entries for the 200-yard freestyle at next month’s NCAA Championships won’t be known for a while, but as the University of Texas chases a 16th national title, the event should produce ample scoring for the Longhorns. It’s been that way for d...

Teri McKeever Fired From Cal After Long Investigation Concludes Longtime Cal women's swimming head coach Teri McKeever has been fired by the university after spending the last eight months on administrative leave. McKeever was under investigation after the Orange County Register reported that McKeev...

The SEC announced its weekly swimming and diving awards. SEC Men’s Co-Swimmers of the Week: Bradley Dunham, Georgia and Jack Dahlgren, Missouri Georgia’s Bradley Dunham, a senior from Hoschton, Ga., posted four wins against Emory. Dunham prevailed in both the 200 freestyle (1:34.18) and 100 butterfl...

The Pac-12 Conference announced its weekly swimming and diving honors. PAC-12 WOMEN’S SWIMMER OF THE WEEK: Isabelle Stadden, Jr., California (Blaine, Minn.) Posted six wins over two meets against USC and UCLA, picking up four individual and two relay wins. Swept the 100 back events with a time of 52...

The Math Behind the Medals: Professor Ken Ono Is Helping Virginia Revolutionize Swimming Performance Ken Ono spent the spring of 2021 trying to convince Paige Madden of the merits of her 400 freestyle. Madden, then a senior at the University of Virginia, had a stellar NCAA season, sweeping national ...

Ohio State Sets 18 Pool Records in Sweeping Tim Welsh Classic Ohio State swimmers set 18 pool records at Notre Dame’s Rolf Aquatic Center, winning the men’s and women’s competitions at the Tim Welsh Classic hosted by Notre Dame on Friday and Saturday. The Ohio State men bested the hosts, the only ot...

7 Ways to Build Your Confidence in the Pool One of the most frequent mental blocks among swimmers is low self-confidence in the pool. Oddly enough, in my experience, it was the swimmers who showed up to train every day, worked their butt off, and yet, still struggled to have the self-belief...

Arkansas Sweeps Tri-Meet with Unconventional Events at Vanderbilt Behind a quartet of double-winners, Arkansas won a pair of dual meets in Nashville on Friday and Saturday, a meet featuring unconventional events. The Razorbacks scored convincing wins over Vanderbilt, 181-62, and Arkansas-Little Rock...

Northwestern Women, Minnesota Men Big Winners at Big Ten Duals The Northwestern women’s team and the Minnesota men were the big winners at the two-day Big Ten Duals hosted by Northwestern Friday and Saturday. Minnesota’s men took a pair of wins over Purdue and Northwestern in the tri-meet format. In...

Arkansas Beats Vanderbilt, Little Rock in Final Dual Meet The Arkansas women's team finished off its dual meet slate Saturday with a trip to Nashville, Tenn., to face SEC rival Vanderbilt as well as Little Rock, and Razorback swimmers prevailed in every event but one on the schedule. Arkansas beat V...

Stanford Women Swim Past USC in Pac-12 Battle of Top 10 Teams The Stanford women's swimming and diving team defeated USC in a battle of top 10 teams in the country on Saturday. The third-ranked Cardinal topped the No. 10 Trojans 175-123. No. 3 Stanford opened the meet by winning the 200 medley relay...

Senior Daniel Kertesz, McKenzie Campbell Lead Georgia Tech Sweep Wins by seniors Daniel Kertesz and McKenzie Campbell led Georgia Tech to a demonstrative sweep of Gardner-Webb on Saturday. The men’s team dominated to the tune of a 181-75 victory. The women prevailed by a 190-69 margin. Meet Results ...

Gabi Albiero, Denis Petrashov Set Pool Records as Louisville Sweeps Cincinnati Gabi Albiero and Denis Petrashov set pool records on Saturday as Louisville bounced back from losses Friday to sweep Cincinnati. The men’s team scored a 203-94 victory. The Cardinals’ women prevailed by a 198-92 margin. M...

Competing in their final home meet of the 2022-23 season, the University of Utah swimming and diving team closed out the home slate in style by dropping the BYU Cougars on Saturday, cruising to a 226-74 final on the women's side and pulling out a 163-137 triumph in the men's competition, which took ...