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BYU announced Wednesday that head swimming and diving coach John Brooks' contract would not be renewed, despite Brooks leading the team to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title in 2021. Brooks was hired in 2012. He’s won four MPSF titles, this year’s triumph being the first since 2016. This t...

Marc Long Stepping Down as Iowa Coach; School Releases Insulting Statement By Not Referencing Program Cuts The University of Iowa announced on its athletics website on Tuesday that head swimming coach Marc Long has declined the opportunity to continue on as the coach of the Hawkeyes. What was missin...

Arkansas freestyler Peyton Palsha last week announced she will transfer to the University of Georgia for her fifth and final year of eligibility. Palsha spent four years at Arkansas, qualifying for the NCAA Championships this season and turning in several lifetime bests. An agriculture major, she’s ...

The Positives/Negatives of Swimming Short Course Yards: An International Perspective By Jinq En Phee (Archive) For many of the NCAA's international swimmers, training and racing in short course yards is a new experience. These swimmers have focused primarily on long course meters, and often not race...

Auburn and head swimming and diving coach Gary Taylor have mutually agreed to part ways, Auburn Director of Athletics Allen Greene announced Monday. Taylor spent three seasons as the Tigers' head coach. "Auburn is appreciative to Gary for his service to the Auburn swimming and diving program," Green...

Shy of an opening relay DQ, it took until Day 4 of the Atlantic 10 Championships for a men’s swimming race that didn’t feature a George Washington swimmer in the top two. It was that dominant of a performance from the Colonials on the way to their fourth title. A much more balanced women’s meet prod...

Aleksey Tarasenko attained an Olympic A cut in the 100 free at the Uzbekistan Swimming Championships this week. Tarasenko went 48.55 on Day 1 of the multi-day meet Thursday to win the event by more than three seconds. It was just .02 under the Olympic A cut in the event. Uzbekistan already has an A ...

The Buffalo Bulls ended Akron's seven-year winning streak on Saturday night at the 2021 Mid-American Conference women's swimming and diving championships in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Buffalo won with 773 points, seven points ahead of Akron (766) who has won every title since 2014. This is Buffalo's first...

Success for the Navy swimming and diving teams continued Saturday as both teams defeated Army at Crandall Pool in West Point, N.Y. The Mids won the women’s meet by the score of 220-77 and the men’s meet by the count of 198-102. The Navy teams combined for 26 victories in the 32 events. Additionally,...

The Missouri State Bears celebrated their fifth straight Missouri Valley Conference title on Friday night in Carbondale, Illinois as the Bears dominated the three-day post NCAA competition with 929.50 with Southern Illinois in second at 548.5 and Indiana State in third at 475.5. Results Team Scores ...

The Akron Zips and Buffalo Bulls are in a tight battle for the Mid-American Conference women's title with one day to go as the Zips have won the last seven conference titles. Despite winning both relays, Buffalo sits in second after leading last night as the Bulls are trying to end Akron's winning s...

Indiana University on Thursday announced the hiring of Eric Best as a volunteer assistant diving coach. Best spent 20 seasons at Michigan State as the head men’s and women’s diving coach, leading perennially one of the conference’s best programs. Best mentored numerous NCAA qualifiers and U.S. Olymp...

Wisconsin on Friday announced that Erik Posegay has been elevated to associate head coach on Yuri Suguiyama’s staff. Posegay is in his third year on the Badgers’ staff. He was previously an assistant for two seasons at Penn State. Before that, Bob Bowman had hired him for a five-year stint at North ...

Virginia swimming & diving head coach Todd DeSorbo, the CSCAA Women’s Coach of the Year, has signed a five-year contract extension through the 2026-2027 season, director of athletics Carla Williams announced on Thursday (April 15). “Todd has done an amazing job of creating a culture of excellence in...

The Mid-American Conference women's swimming & diving championships kicked off Thursday from Ypsilanti, Michigan as the Buffalo Bulls have a slim four point lead over seven-time defending champs Akron. Team Scores: Buffalo, 239 Akron, 235 Miami, 148 Ohio, 114 Eastern Michigan, 104 Toledo, 85 Bowling...

By Tera Bradham The magical, two-syllable word that brings more excitement to a swimmer than any other: taper. It’s the only time of the year when swimmers get to experience the energy level of a normal human being; yet we aren’t allowed to utilize any of that pizzazz to which we are so unaccustomed...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Wednesday April 14, 2021, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Should the NCAA meets have only timed finals relays at future championships? The NCAA Division I & II championships experimented with timed final rela...

University of Texas Men’s Swimming junior Daniel Krueger has been selected as the Big 12 Conference Men’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the league office announced Wednesday. Krueger was chosen as the award winner for the sport of Men’s Swimming and Diving based on the votes of ea...

Texas A&M’s Shaine Casas and Alabama’s Rhyan White were named the SEC Swimmers of the Year Wednesday in the postseason All-SEC Awards. Seven schools split the 12 swimmer and coaching honors, including six different schools on the men’s side. Leading the way was A&M with three – Casas, Female Diver o...

Virginia senior Paige Madden was named the ACC Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the Virginia men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams had 21 student-athletes named to the All-ACC Academic teams, the conference office announced on Wednesday (April 14). Louisville's Nicholas Albiero earned the...