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Cal Men, Women, Sweep USC in Close Dual Meet Behind Keaton Jones, Mary-Ambre Moluh The Cal Golden Bears swept the USC Trojans in a men's and women's dual meet on Saturday, Jan. 16. Cal won the men's meet 178-122 and the women's meet 156-144. The Cal women opened the meet with a win in the 400 medley...

Stanford Swims Past UCLA Behind Wins From Torri Huske, Caroline Bricker The Stanford women defeated UCLA in a women's swimming and diving dual on Friday, Jan. 16. Stanford opened the meet with a win in the 400 medley relay. Alana Berlin, Lucy Bell, Gigi Johnson and Annam Olasewere got to the wall in...

International Trio Has Brought Scene-Shifting Influence to NCAA Women's Swimming In the current era of college swimming, the dominant men’s programs blend domestic and international talent to assemble their rosters. Last season, seven out of 13 individual titles at the NCAA Championships went to swi...

A Better Way to Teach Swimming Balance and Body Position For the last 85 years, swim training has had plenty of tools to build fitness. The harder part has always been teaching what creates speed in the first place: body line, balance, and alignment that hold up under fatigue. Dual Boards are built....

Olympic champion and former Cal Golden Bear Missy Franklin was elected to the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday. The Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame (BASHOF) Class of 2026 Enshrinement Dinner, presented in part by KNBR 680 AM, will be held on Thursday, May 14 at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in...

Cyndi Gallagher Named 2026 Winner of Richard E. Steadman Award The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) proudly announces Cyndi Gallagher as the 2026 recipient of the prestigious Richard E. Steadman Award. The honor is conferred annually to a swimming or diving coach in...

College Swimming Reset (Men's Butterfly and IM): Luca Urlando, Ilya Kharun Chasing Titles The college swimming season has entered its home stretch. January features the final dual meets of the season before conference championships in February and the NCAA Championships in March. Prior to the holida...

In the midst of winter training, a time generally spent with hours of grueling work in the pool, there is often one highlight that helps pull a tired swimmer into the holiday spirit: training trips. For college swimmers, winter break is rarely a true vacation. Instead, it’s one of the more demanding...

The SEC announced its weekly swimming and diving awards on Tuesday, Jan. 13. Here is a look at the honorees: SEC Men’s Swimmer of the Week: Luca Urlando, Georgia Georgia’s Luca Urlando, a graduate student from Sacramento, Calif., collected four first-place finishes in Saturday’s victory over No. 12 ...

College Swimming Reset (Men's Backstroke and Breaststroke): No Stopping Hubert Kos The college swimming season has entered its home stretch. January features the final dual meets of the season before conference championships in February and the NCAA Championships in March. Prior to the holiday break...

Mark Bernardino Voted 2026 National Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy Winner Mark Bernardino, former head coach of the University of Virginia swimming and diving teams and associate head coach at North Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina, has been awarded the 2026 National ...

Israeli International Star Anastasia Gorbenko Provides Immediate Spark to Louisville The debut of Anastasia Gorbenko as a Louisville Cardinal was brief over the weekend, but the Israeli Olympian made the most of her first race at the NCAA level. As Louisville defeated Missouri, Gorbenko registered a...

College Swimming Reset (Men's Freestyle): Liendo, Maurer, Sarkany Set to Defend Titles The college swimming season has entered its home stretch. January features the final dual meets of the season before conference championships in February and the NCAA Championships in March. Prior to the holiday b...

Alabama Takes Down Georgia Tech in Saturday Dual Meet The Alabama Crimson Tide welcomed Georgia Tech's swimming and diving teams to Tuscaloosa this week, and the home team was victorious. The women won 233-66 while the men's score was 205-93. In the women's 400 medley relay, Alabama's team of Emily ...

6 Reasons Why A Training Trip Is Not A Vacation With many college programs recently venturing away from campus for a winter training trip, Swimming World offers this article from the archives. By Seren Jones, Swimming World College Intern Both swimmers and non-swimmers agree that it's a bummer colle...

Mitchell Schott Breaks Michael Phelps Pool Record as Princeton Sweeps Quad Meet Mitchell Schott took down the United States Naval Academy pool record of Michael Phelps set in 2009 Friday as Princeton swept a quad meet Friday and Saturday. Schott went 1:32.72 in the 200 free. That downed the mark of ...

Kennedi Dobson, Luca Urlando Triple as Georgia Downs Florida State and Arkansas The Georgia Bulldogs won three dual meets Saturday with the Florida State Seminoles plus the Arkansas Razorback women in town. The women won 170-116 against Florida State while scoring a 169-124 win over Arkansas. The Ra...

The Purdue women's swimming and diving team defeated Illinois in a Big Ten dual meet on Saturday, Jan. 10, at home. The Boilermakers won the meet 194-101. The Boilermakers started with a win in the 200 medley relay as Abby Marcukaitis, Meghan Sharma, Lara Phipps and Hannah Hill got to the wall in 1:...

SEC Dual Meet Goes to Missouri Women, Kentucky Men After competing against Louisville Friday, the Missouri Tigers finished their trip to the Bluegrass state Saturday with a dual meet against the Kentucky Wildcats. The Missouri women earned a 180-120 win while Kentucky, fresh off sweeping Notre Dame ...

The UCLA swimming and diving team opened the 2026 portion of the season with an emphatic 179-101 win over Iowa at the Spieker Aquatics Center. The Bruin divers also had a strong showing on day one of the Bruin Diving Invitational. In the dual with Iowa the Bruins earned event wins in 13 of 15 events...