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Livermore Aquacowboys Seniors Gabby Kleman & Gabe Benitez Announce Class of 2025 Commitments The Livermore Aquacowboys recently announced two college commitments for seniors Gabe Benitez and Gabby Kleman. Both athletes are lifelong friends and seniors at Granada High School in Livermore, CA. When as...

NCAA Division II Championships, Night 4: Jacob Hamlin, Agata Naskret Break National Records as Drury Leads Drury has maintained leads in both the women's and men's competition at the NCAA Division II Championships in Indianapolis, but the team titles will come down to the final day of the meet. Drur...

Walsh Sisters Will Lead Virginia Women to More Relay Records in College Finale Perhaps you remember the iconic college swimming career that Kate Douglass put together at the University of Virginia. Her first season was cut short when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of the ...

NCAA Division II Championships, Night 3: Drury Takes Relay Record, Men’s Lead It’s been a long wait for Drury. The Panthers have been runners-up at the men’s NCAA Division II Championships five times since winning their 12th and most recent team title in 2014. Thursday’s finish to the session at the...

NCAA Division II Championships, Day 3: Luna Mertins Sets Meet Record in 100 Fly Luna Mertins has been on a multi-year climb back to the summit of NCAA Division II butterfly. The fifth-year student at Lynn University won the NCAA title in 2022. She finished third in 2023 and second in 2024. Thursday ...

5 Races to Watch: NCAA Women's Championship Edition After five months of swimming’s elite battling it out, we’ve almost arrived at the big moment: The NCAA Women's Championships. The right to a title will again run through Charlottesville, as the Virginia Cavaliers look to claim their fifth consecut...

Anna Peplowski is all smiles in life. The Indiana senior is warm and upbeat and it is something everyone feels her radiate. But when she gets into the water, she is able to flip the switch to a world-class competitor. It is something she learned from her role model, Missy Franklin. Fittingly it will...

NCAA Division II Championships, Night 2: Jacob Hamlin Lowers His 1,000 Free Record Jacob Hamlin served notice in January when the Tampa sophomore downed the NCAA Division II record in the men’s 1,000 freestyle. It went lower on Wednesday. Much, much lower. Hamlin was more than 6.5 seconds quicker th...

NCAA Division II Championships: Augustana’s Bryn Greenwaldt Sets 50 Free Record Augustana’s Bryn Greenwaldt set the NCAA Division II record in the women’s 50 freestyle Wednesday morning at the Division II Championships in Indianapolis. Greenwaldt went 21.92 to lead the way in prelims. That’s faster ...

NCAA Releases Men's Division I Official Psych Sheet: Cut Line 27-29 The official psych sheets for the 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were released on Wednesday. This comes one day after the pre-cut psych sheet were released. The field has now been narrowed in each event...

5 Ways to Ensure Your Body is Rested While Traveling to Your Championship Meet Championship meet season is here! It's the time of year when excitement is high and all your hard work and training are behind you (for now). But traveling to a big meet—whether it’s across the country or just down the ro...

Cal Poly Launches Campaign to Reverse Swim Program Cuts Cal Poly swimming and diving team has launched a campaign to reverse the school’s discontinuation of its program, which the university announced last week. The SaveCPSwimdive campaign has begun fundraising, within the first two days raising 10 ...

NCAA Division II Championships Day 1: Tampa Crushes 800 Free Relay in D-II Record The 2025 NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships kicked off with Day One of the swimming competition from Indianapolis. The first day featured only the men's and women's 800 freestyle relay. It took place in...

NCAA Preview: A Van, National Parks and a Deserved Break - How Mona McSharry Balanced Life After Paris Regardless of what happened in Paris, Mona McSharry knew where she’d spend the fall of 2024. The Irish international planned to take the semester off from the University of Tennessee. With her dog ...

NCAA Men's Championships Pre-Cut Psych Sheet: Florida Gators Own Seven No. 1 Times The pre-cut psych sheets for the upcoming NCAA Men’s Championships were released Tuesday. These are not the final entry lists for the meet, which will take place March 26-29 in Federal Way, Wash., as only a select num...

As NCAA Champs Approach, Promoting the Sport and Elevating Fan Experience a Must for Future At the upcoming NCAA Championships, certain guarantees will unfold at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center. At the women’s meet (March 19-22), we can count on the latest short-course spectacle from Vir...

NCAA Division II Champs: Tampa and Nova Southeastern Chasing Title Repeats (Meet Preview) This year’s NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division II Swimming and Diving Championships will be held as part of the 2025 NCAA Division II Winter Festival, hosted by the Indiana Sports Corp and the University of Indian...

Cal Poly Athletes Evan Yoo and Alex Seybold Join Big Friendly Swim Podcast to Discuss Team Cut (Video) The Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo athletic department announced Friday the discontinuation of both swimming and diving programs, effective immediately. For a team that has had historic success this sea...

Texas Men, Virginia Women Finish Atop Final CSCAA Dual-Meet Poll The University of Texas Men and University of Virginia Women finished atop the final College Swimming Coaches Association of America dual-meet poll, released Thursday. Both teams were unanimous picks, the Longhorns after an 8-0 mark in...

Cal Poly to Cut Swimming and Diving, Citing House Settlement Cal Poly is cutting its swimming and diving programs, its president announced in a letter on Friday. The decision was one aspect of a larger letter on “budget and organizational changes” distributed by president Jeffrey D. Armstrong. In ad...