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Eddie Reese has one of the most talented training groups in the entire world, and has had that for the better part of four decades, having been the head men's coach of the Texas swim team since the fall of 1978. In those 40 years as head coach, Reese has won 14 NCAA team titles. Getting dynasties st...

After winning a national championship to enter the realm of an elite swimmer, Shaine Casas has had one goal since then: to prove he belongs there. The Texas A&M sophomore put together a few of the fastest races in the country during the annual Art Adamson Invitational in his home pool. ...

The season's halfway mark has passed and the December TYR / CSCAA Division I Poll is out. In addition to dual meet results, the committee also reviewed mid-season invitationals before casting their ballots. The University of Texas men maintain their number-one ranking while the University of Califor...

NCAA Swimming Meet of the Week The fall semester wrapped up over the weekend for many of the NCAA Division I, II and III teams across the country. The December Invites came to a close and gave fans some appetizers for what will come in February and March once we get into the meat of championship sea...

After turning in NCAA record short-course performances during the 2019 Minnesota Invitational, Abbey Weitzeil and Maggie MacNeil took to the long course for the Minnesota Invitational Long Course. The final day of the Minnesota Invitational was a long-course time trial as some of the top college swi...

The 2019 Minnesota Invitational opened its final session with strong mile performances as some of the top college swimmers in the country vied for victory. Texas won the men's meet with 1,182 points, followed by Michigan (803.5), Cal (759.5), Arizona (551), Iowa (278), Minnesota (246) and Harvard (1...

One night after Abbey Weitzeil set an NCAA record in the 50 free, Michigan's Maggie MacNeil turned in a memorable swim, tying the NCAA record in the 100-yard butterfly on Friday during Day 3 of the 2019 Minnesota Invitational. It was the biggest performance of a night full of elite performances at t...

Maggie MacNeil (Minnesota Invitational) At last summer’s World Championships, Maggie MacNeil pulled off a major shocker when she upset Sarah Sjostrom for the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly. Since that point, nothing MacNeil does in the pool is stunning. On Friday night, during the third day o...

The 2019 Minnesota Invitational started fast on Wednesday but got even faster on Thursday thanks to Cal's Abbey Weitzeil and Ryan Hoffer. Weitzeil broke the American record in the 50-yard freestyle (SCY) in 20.90 seconds to win the event over a trio of Michigan sprinters. The Cal senio...

The 2019 Minnesota Invitational opened with some fast relays on Wednesday in Minneapolis. The men's 200 medley relay had three teams within about a half second from each other — including two from the same team — to lead the fast performances. Texas leads the team scores after the firs...

The parade of college swimming invitationals continues this week, but they aren’t all Division I meets. One of the most intriguing meets involves some of the top NCAA Division II teams and one of the top Division III perennial powers all in one meet in West Michigan at the Calvin University Invitati...

Each year in the NCAA Division I swimming and diving landscape, the number of big-time invitationals seems split between the week before Thanksgiving and the week after. This year however with Thanksgiving being so late, most of the power five Division I schools elected to swim at invites the week b...

World Championship silver medalist Andrei Minakov verbally committed to Stanford University, he confirmed to Swimming World this week. Minakov was the silver medalist this summer in the 100 butterfly at 50.83 behind Caeleb Dressel, who broke the world record in the semi finals. Minakov also broke th...

Texas A&M sophomore Shaine Casas and Tennessee senior Erika Brown were named SEC swimmers of the week for their efforts in the Texas A&M and Tennessee Invitationals. LSU's Aimee Wilson and Manny Vazquez Bas were named women's diver and men's freshman of the week, and Georgia's Zoie Hartman and Zach ...

Virginia freshman Kate Douglass (Pelham, N.Y.) earned her second ACC Women’s Swimmer of the Week honor, the league office announced on Tuesday (Nov. 26), for her record setting weekend (Nov. 21-23) at the Tennessee Swimming and Diving Invitational at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center in the Knoxville, ...

The Georgia Tech Invitational came to a close on Sunday night as the home team Yellow Jackets got wins on the final night from junior Caio Pumputis in the 200 breast and Christian Ferraro in the 200 fly. Pumputis was up first with a 1:53.88 in thee 200 breast, winning ahead of East Carolina's Lyubom...

Wisconsin senior Beata Nelson continued her impressive weekend at the NC State Invitational in Greensboro as she won the 200 backstroke with a 1:49.51. Nelson won her third event of the weekend at the NC State Invite as she put up the nation's top time in the 200 backstroke, finishing ahead of NC St...

Alabama sophomore Rhyan White took two wins on Saturday night at the 2019 Georgia Tech Invitational as she won the 100 fly (51.71) and 100 back (51.12), moving up to third in the 100 back and seventh in the 100 fly in this weekend's power rankings. White's best swim was the 100 back, where she finis...

With all of the craziness of NCAA invitational season, we at Swimming World know it is difficult to keep up with seven meets at once. So we have done the hard work for you in compiling the top times from each night of the November Invitationals. We have you covered from the Missouri (which started o...

Texas A&M sophomore Shaine Casas proved he could turn in stellar performances in just about everything he swam during the Art Adamson Invitational. Casas dominated the 200-yard backstroke to win in 1:38.21, nearly four seconds ahead of the field and the top time in the NCAA this season. ...