College

Student-Athletes: Keep Your Balance On and Off the Blocks Since the school year has started, high school and college student-athletes have been asking themselves the same question: How do I balance maintaining good grades, going to daily practice, and nurturing my social life?  Here are a few steps ...

Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky announced she has joined the Florida swimming and diving program as a volunteer swimming coach and will train for the 2024 Olympics in Gainesville with Florida head coach Anthony Nesty, who was an assistant coach for Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics. Flor...

Texas Ready to Start Chase For 16th NCAA Title With Annual Orange-White Meet The University of Texas, which has captured five of the past six NCAA men’s team titles, will begin its 2021-22 campaign on Friday when the Longhorns race in their annual Orange-White meet. The intrasquad competition, at le...

The Three Most-Dominant NCAA Male Swimmers Of Recent Years The last 10 years in NCAA swimming have changed the sport tremendously. In the last decade, there have been a plethora of athletes who have made their mark individually on the sport. This article will focus on males, specifically. When think...

Ten former University of Texas student-athletes will be inducted this October into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor, including swimmers Tobie Smith, Clay Britt and diver Jessica Livingston Gibson. These 10 individuals will be recognized along with the 14 selections (13 former UT student-athletes an...

Being a Transgender Athlete in the Swimming World By Tara Draper - Swimming World College Intern Recently, I had a friend - who is not an athlete - come out as transgender. She has had many battles regarding her identity and has slowly started transitioning. Her transition led me to t...

Cincinnati, BYU, Houston Women Set to Bolster Big-12 Swimming in Coming Years After weeks of rumored expansion of the Big 12 conference, we now know that four universities will be entering over the next few years. The University of Texas and Oklahoma University are each set to depart for the SEC in ...

By Kaylie Williams, Swimming World College Intern. There are few swimmers who will contest that they enjoy running. Likewise, there are few runners who like to swim. Although there is speculation about which sport may be more beneficial overall, there is no doubt that each sport is equally challengi...

Passages: Rich McGeagh, 1964 Olympian and NCAA Champion Dies at 77 Rich McGeagh, a 1964 Olympian and an NCAA swim champion from USC, died on Thursday (Sept. 9) in Hermitage, Tenn., of COVID complications.  He was 77. McGeagh was a 3-time (1964-66) All-American at USC on teams that won the NCAA champ...

Who Are the 100 Greatest Swimmers and Coaches in College History? CSCAA Will Reveal Honorees It’s been 100 years since the College Swimming Coaches Association of America was founded, and the CSCAA will celebrate its centennial with a special program that honors collegiate greatness. The CSCAA, whic...

Texas Swimmer Carson Foster Signs NIL Deal with Mizuno Swim University of Texas swimmer Carson Foster has signed with Mizuno Swim, the company announced on Thursday. He’s the first college swimmer added to Mizuno’s roster of athletes. Foster is a sophomore at Texas. He won an NCAA title for the Long...

Former Ohio State swimming coach and American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) CEO Bill Wadley has died, multiple sources have confirmed. He was diagnosed with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer earlier this year. Bill Wadley had retired as head coach at Ohio State in March 2017 where he coa...

By Grace Hoffmann, Swimming World College Intern I believe that life as told by a female swimmer varies a lot from the male swimmer's story. From having to explain to school friends why your hair is always thrown up in a ponytail, to those broad "swimmer shoulders" that everyone comments on, it is v...

Texas Dedicates Eddie Reese Outdoor Pool in Honor of Legendary Coach Eddie Reese has been the head men's swimming coach at Texas since 1978-1979, and in his third season, the Longhorns captured their first national championship. Since then, the team has raised its total to national victories to 15, ...

Texas Bolsters Sprint Contingent With Transfer of Speedster Cameron Auchinachie The University of Texas has bolstered its sprinting group with the addition of Cameron Auchinachie to the roster. Auchinachie, who formerly competed at the University of Denver, will be a graduate student and take advant...

An Open Letter to the Unsung Swim Parent By Lillian Nelson, Swimming World College Intern Swimming is tough. It is a constant grind, where we get used to putting in hours and hours of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears in hopes that at the end of the season when we race our best events, we will shav...

Marc Briggs Upgraded to Full-Time Diving Coach on Arizona State Staff After nearly a decade as a volunteer diving coach with the Arizona State swimming and diving team, Marc Briggs has been elevated to a full-time staffer. Head coach Bob Bowman made the announcement Monday. Briggs has worked with cl...

Eastern Illinois Hires Tyler Donges as New Swimming Head Coach Eastern Illinois on Monday announced the hiring of Tyler Donges as the new head coach of the school’s men’s and women’s swim teams. Donges spent the 2020-21 season at Division II Anderson University, helping the team set 22 program recor...

Why I Shouldn’t Have Quit Swimming (From the Archive) By Swimming World Guest Contributor, Nicholas Zhu First let me start off with why I did quit. As a kid, I hated swimming. I would cry when my parents dragged me to the pool for basic safety lessons. They used to bribe me with White Castle Sliders...

Sources: Shaine Casas to Leave Texas A&M; Will Stay In-State With Transfer to Texas The reigning CSCAA Men's Swimmer of the Year is on the move. Sources have confirmed to Swimming World that Shaine Casas is departing Texas A&M and plans to transfer to the University of Texas. After winning his first...