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Montclair State Head Coach Brian McLaughlin Retires after 37 Years Montclair State head swimming and diving coach Brian McLaughlin announced his retirement after 37 years. McLaughlin has spent nearly four decades at the Division III school in New Jersey, leading its men’s and women’s swimming and di...

Marshall Adds Nicole McConnell to Rebuilt Staff Marshall University on Wednesday hired Nicole McConnell as an associate head coach, joining the staff of head coach Phoebe Campbell. McConnell was most recently an assistant coach at Penn State. She previously spent four seasons as an assistant coach a...

Recent NC State Graduate Kyle Ponsler Starts Coaching Career at Northern Colorado Recent NC State graduate Kyle Ponsler was hired last week as an assistant coach at Northern Colorado. Ponsler wrapped up a distinguished swimming career in Raleigh in the spring, serving as the captain of the Wolfpack ...

College Visit Guide for Swimmers | Official & Unofficial A visit is one of the most important steps in the college swimming recruiting process. Visits allow swimmers to see the facilities, campus resources, meet potential future teammates and coaches, assess team culture, and get a feel for campus l...

B Finals Back: Why NCAA Swimming Dumped Consols for 2026, Reinstated Them for 2027 For the first time, last season's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships did not include consolation finals. Athletes earned points for their teams based on their ninth through 16th-place finishes in prelims. The resu...

College Swimming League Announces TV Deal with ESPN; Broadcast Dates Set The College Swimming League (CSL) and ESPN today announced a multi-year media rights agreement that makes ESPN the exclusive home of CSL competition in the United States and Canada. Under the agreement, all six regular-season m...

Passages: Jack Roney, Former NC State Assistant Coach, 39 Jack Roney, a former swimmer at NC State and assistant coach at his alma mater, died on July 6. He was 39 years old. Roney was the program record holder in the 200 breaststroke in his time at the school, graduating in 2009. He served as an as...

Duquesne Hires Carolyn Bolden Santee as Assistant Coach Duquesne University of Tuesday announced the hiring of Carolyn Bolden Santee as an assistant coach. Santee joins after serving the last two seasons as a graduate assistant at Division II power University of West Florida. Santee was part of all ...

Arizona State’s Jonny Kulow Wins Big 12’s Bob Bowlsby Award Arizona State men’s swimmer Jonny Kulow was the only male winner of the Big 12’s annual Bob Bowlsby Award, announced on Tuesday. Kulow is the only male winner of the ward this year, joining TCU basketball player Olivia Miles and Cincinnati ...

Kelly Lennon Joins Louisville As Assistant Coach On Tuesday, the University of Louisville announced that Kelly Lennon has been hired as an assistant coach. Lennon most recently spent five seasons on the staff at Army West Point from 2021-26, serving as an assistant coach for three seasons before bei...

Why NCAA Swimming Championships Switching to Yet Another Event Order in 2027 Another new event order will await swimmers at next season's NCAA Championships, albeit a lineup bearing more resemblance to the traditional one from 2025 and before. For the 2026 season, nine of 13 events ended up on diffe...

Rob Collins Promoted to Associate Head Coach for Club Relations and Athlete Development at Tennessee Thanks to his significant impact on the program and Tennessee's recruiting efforts, Rob Collins has been promoted to Associate Head Coach for Club Relations and Athlete Development for the Tennessee ...

Miami Adds Klaudia Nazieblo as Assistant Coach The University of Miami Thursday hired Klaudia Nazieblo to the staff of its women’s swimming and diving program. Nazieblo has spent much of the last decade at Virginia Tech, where she swam from 2014-2018 and where she has been an assistant coach since 2...

Kentucky Hires Ben Keast as Assistant Coach Kentucky on Thursday announced the hiring of Ben Keast as an assistant coach on the staff of head coach Bret Lundgaard. Keast spent the last three seasons at SwimMAC Carolina in Charlotte as an assistant coach with the high performance training group. That...

Pitt Hires Austin Pillado as Associate Head Coach The University of Pittsburgh this week announced the hiring of Austin Pillado as associate head coach of the swimming and diving team. He joins the rebuilt staff of Director of Swimming and Diving Katie Kasparzak and head coach Ian Walsh. “I would li...

Falling in Love with Swimming Again - From the Outside  There comes a point for many swimmers when the love story with the sport changes.  For some, it happens after retirement. For others, it begins during college, after years of chasing times, standards, and expectations. The black line that once ...

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has named over 2,230 swimmers and divers to its Scholar All-American Team presented by Fitter & Faster Swim Camps for the 2025-26 season. To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes must have earned a GPA of 3.5...

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) is proud to announce its Spring 2026 Scholar All-America Teams presented by Fitter & Faster Swim Camps, recognizing 714 teams from 418 institutions for their outstanding academic achievement during the spring semester. Collective...

Is Distance Swimming Dying? Top Coaches Discuss Future of the Events Katie Ledecky’s gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London is a moment that will last a lifetime. A rising star at the time, Ledecky stunned the world, cutting through the water with a ferocious ease....

Virginia Atmosphere Has Lifted Italian Sara Curtis to Career-Best Marks Gretchen Walsh - World-record holder. Kate Douglass - Olympic Champion. Alex Walsh - Olympic Medalist. Claire Curzan - American-record holder. The list could go on, and these athletes could be accompanied by other descriptors. T...