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Matt Grevers Swims 45.7 100 Back, Brooks Fail Hits 4:15 500 Free at Arizona Invite The Arizona Wildcats swimming and diving team opened up their season Thursday night with the Arizona Invitational in Tucson with in-state foe Grand Canyon across the pool deck. 35-year-old Matt Grevers, chasing his th...

Six female athletes have filed suit against the University of Iowa, citing gender discrimination in the school’s decision to cut women’s sports teams. The lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by Swimming World, was filed in the Southern District of Iowa. It seeks a temporary restraining order and p...

The 2020 Texas Invitational continued on Thursday night from Austin with the Longhorns and the Horned Frogs from TCU competing in the two-team only invite. The swim of the day came from the Texas women in the final event of the night with a 3:26.86 to shoot past Virginia (3:29.16) on the national ra...

The Midwest Conference announced Thursday that it will not sponsor league competition or championships for fall or winter sports in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Men’s and women’s swimming and diving are among the affected sports, along with men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cr...

The Texas Longhorns hosted the Texas Invite with just in-state foe TCU with the 200 medley and 800 free relay on Wednesday night. The Texas men swam a 6:07.34 in the 800 free relay with the team of Drew Kibler (1:30.57), Coby Carrozza (1:32.32), Jake Sannem (1:32.24) and Carson Foster (1:32.21), mis...

The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) canceled fall and winter sports amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is the conference's release: In accordance with public health guidance and safety standards, as well as NCAA Resocialization recommendations, the SCIAC Presidents have...

How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Affecting College Recruiting COVID-19 dramatically altered the lives of swimmers everywhere, particularly those of high school swimmers attempting to navigate the recruiting process and its new restrictions. College recruitment usually begins June 15, between swimmers’ s...

Big 12 Honors: Carson Foster, Anna Elendt Are Newcomers of the Week Texas’ Anna Elendt and Carson Foster were named Big 12 Swimming & Diving Newcomers of the Week. The award is the second consecutive for Foster. Elendt recorded an Olympic Trials cut time of 1:07.50 en route to a first-place finish o...

Challenging 9 Swimming Myths That Have Run Rampant By Gigi Picard, Swimming World College Intern For whatever reason, myths just pop to the surface when non-competitive swimmers comment on swimmers and swimming in general. I know I’ve encountered some wild theories like swimmers shouldn’t go on land...

37 Thoughts Swim Fans Have from the Stands (Archive) By Chandler Brandes, Swimming World College Intern. This past weekend I did something I have never done before: I watched my first swim meet. Technically, I have watched hundreds of swim meets before, but always from the deck as either a swimmer r...

The No. 1 University of Texas Men’s Swimming and Diving team swept the season’s Big 12 Conference weekly awards for the second straight time, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon. Sophomore Caspar Corbeau was named Swimmer of the Week, while senior Jordan Windle claimed his second-straight ...

Zoie Hartman of Georgia and Texas A&M’s Shaine Casas were named Swimmers of the Week in SEC Weekly Honors Tuesday. For Casas, it’s the fourth time in five weeks he’s earned the nod. Hartman’s teammate Jake Magahey and Casas’s mate Chloe Stepanek were named Freshmen of the Week. Arkansas’s Brooke Sch...

Virginia’s Kate Douglass has been named the women’s ACC Swimmer of the Week for the second time this season, joined by men’s swimmer Evgenii Somov of Louisville. Florida State’s Samantha Vear and Joshua Davidson are the women’s and men’s Divers of the Week, announced on Tuesday. Douglass set a pair ...

Junior Ema Rajic set a Cal record in the 100-yard breaststroke and posted the No. 2 time in school history in the 200 breast, as the Golden Bears took on Stanford for a second consecutive weekend in a non-scoring dual meet Saturday. Ema Rajic covered the 100 breast in 58.93, just under her mark of 5...

Alabama junior Rhyan White swam an impressive 1:49.30 to win the 200 back on the final night of the Tennessee Double Dual in Knoxville. Last year's NCAA top seed before the meet got cancelled, finished within a second of her best time of 1:48.0 from last year's SECs as she won ahead of fellow Crimso...

Talia Bates helped Florida finish the Auburn Fall Invitational strong, winning the 100 free in a personal-best time of 48.52 seconds. That’s the 10th-fastest time in Gators history. The Florida women bested Auburn by a 508-421 score, while the men brought a 521-426 victory back to Gainesville. The l...

Luca Urlando led Georgia to an outstanding final day at the Georgia Invitational, setting a national-age group record in the 200 butterfly and a school record in the 400 freestyle relay. Urlando set a personal best in the 200 fly, going 1:40.67. It’s third-fastest nationally, the sixth-fastest in Ge...

Virginia sophomore Kate Douglass, fresh off becoming the third fastest performer in the 200 IM, moved to a tie for fifth all-time in the 100 butterfly, becoming the seventh member of the sub-50 club with a 49.73 on Friday night at the Tennessee Double Dual with the Vols and Alabama. Douglass improve...

The Art Adamson Invitational concluded Friday from College Station, Texas with fast times across the board as three SEC champions put up impressive times. Texas A&M junior Shaine Casas concluded his strong meet with a 1:36.62 in the 200 backstroke, just missing his best time of 1:36.54 that he swam ...

Drury freshman Karol Ostrowski out of Poland broke the NCAA Division II record in the 50 freestyle on Thursday night at Drury's dual meet with SMU in Dallas. Ostrowski blasted a 19.09 in the 50 free to take down David Lambert's record of 19.17 from the 2017 Texas Invite. Ostrowski also anchored the ...