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The Big Ten Conference announced its 2023 Big Ten Men’s Swimming postseason award recipients on Wednesday, as selected by the conference’s head coaches. Indiana’s Brendan Burns was named Swimmer of the Year, while teammate Andrew Capobianco was selected as Diver of the Year. The Hoosiers’ Ray Looze ...

From South Africa to Southern Illinois, Ruard van Renen Has Historic NCAAs Ruard van Renen did his research before deciding on Southern Illinois as his college destination. The small-town feel of the Missouri Valley Conference school met the South African backstroker’s specifications. He arrived in ...

Learning From Colleagues: How Swimming Promotes a Familial Relationship Among Coaches Swimming World explores the fraternal nature of how coaches learn from one another. Not surprisingly, such education isn’t always about X’s and O’s, but borne from familial relationships that reveal the caring for ...

Virginia Duo Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh Lead Honda Sport Award Finalists Virginia’s Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh are among four finalists for the 2023 Honda Sport Award for Swimming and Diving, announced on Tuesday. Joining the Charlottsville duo are LSU’s Maggie MacNeil and diver Aranza Vazq...

Outstanding NCAAs By Leon Marchand a Special Moment for His Olympic Family The whistle piercing the air at the University of Minnesota when Leon Marchand surfaced to breathe in breaststroke last week belonged to Xavier Marchand. Beyond that and the poster-boarded cutout of Marchand’s face, there was...

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced its NCAA Men's Division I award winners and All-Americans for the 2022-2023 season. Awards are determined by a nationwide vote of CSCAA-member Division I head swimming coaches and diving coaches. All-Americans are ...

Why Leon Marchand Surpasses Caeleb Dressel Among Historic NCAA Performances To ensure proper perspective, historical appreciation — in any sport — is a necessity. Through this approach, the water-based contributions of Mark Spitz will not be forgotten. Nor will those of John Naber and Pablo Morales....

NCAA Championships Top Performances: Marchand, Douglass Highlight Dazzling Two Weeks of Swimming One week, it was the University of Virginia women putting on a dominant performance for the third consecutive year, riding a three-individual-record performance from Kate Douglass and a sweep of the five...

Two years ago, Kate Douglass and Leon Marchand were budding stars full of potential. They were on the rise, yet so were a lot of swimmers. Two years later, they have become dominating forces in NCAA swimming never seen before. There have been very few swimmers at their level in NCAA history as far a...

The 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships is happening in Minneapolis this week. There have already been plenty of fast swims and memorable moments. Swimming World Chief Photographer Peter H. Bick is on hand to capture those moments. Complete meet coverage Check out a gallery ...

'Amazing' Arizona State Relishing Growth to Runner-Up NCAAs Finish Texas, California. California, Texas. Since 2010, only one team – Michigan, with its 2013 title – had broken that superpower blockade on the top two spots at the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships. So for all the myriad acc...

NCAA Men's Championships: Florida Edges Cal For 400 Freestyle Relay Title As Both Squads Shatter NCAA Record The outcome of the team-championship race was already decided heading into the final event of the NCAA Men’s Championships, the California Golden Bears repeating as titlists. But the 400-yard...

In one of the most anticipated showdowns in recent men's NCAA swimming history, Cal, Texas and Arizona State all were within striking distance of the title on the final day. That has only happened two other times in the past 12 years as most of the decade has been Cal and Texas and everyone else. Th...

NCAA Men's Championships: Platform Diving Goes to Perfect 10 Carson Tyler There’s not much more that Carson Tyler could’ve done with his fifth dive at the NCAA Championships on Saturday night. The Indiana sophomore hit his back three-and-a-half tuck about as good as a diver can be hit – to the tune ...

NCAA Men's Championships: NC State's Aiden Hayes Stuns With 200 Butterfly Comeback Win The swimmers geared up for one more showdown individually,, this time in the 200 butterfly on the final night of the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships from Minneapolis. Entering the fina...

NCAA Men's Championships: Leon Marchand Goes 3-for-3 with 200 Breast Record The vocabulary is left wanting these days when it concerns Leon Marchand. The Arizona State sophomore not only keeps winning, not only keep setting records, but keeps doing them in such dominant fashion and by such varied me...

NCAA Men's Championships: Josh Liendo Sprints to 100 Free Title The sprinters geared up for one more showdown, this time in the 100 freestyle on the final night of the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships from Minneapolis. The final included the defending champion, a freshman...

NCAA Men's Championships: Destin Lasco Repeats in 200 Back, Scares Ryan Murphy Record The 200 back has become Destin Lasco’s property. Three years, two wins, no worse than second place – that’ll do it. Even if the times have left him occasionally a tad frustrated. And, well, this week, Cal showed th...

NCAA Men's Championships: Will Gallant, Ross Dant Lead NC State 1-2 in Mile Ross Dant hit the wall in the penultimate heat of the mile and shared a bit of wisdom with Will Gallant. The NC State junior had just set a best time of 14:30.32 in the next-to-last heat of the 1,650 freestyle at the 2023 NC...

NCAA Men’s Championships: Team Race to Come Down to the Wire (Heat Sheets, Up/Downs) Three teams enter the final day of the 2023 NCAA Men’s Championships within shouting distance of one another. Three more are in a jumbled contest for fourth place. There will be plenty of scoreboard watching in the ...