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The Centennial Conference Tuesday announced that it is suspending all intercollegiate athletics for the fall semester in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. For a sport like swimming, which takes place across the fall and spring semesters, the season is not officially cancelled, but fall competitions ar...

The University of Florida women's swimming and diving team and head coach Jeff Poppell officially announced the addition of Annette Schultz to the program as a transfer on Monday afternoon. Schultz joins the Gators after spending her first two collegiate seasons at the University of Louisville, and ...

Harvard University announced on Monday that it will only bring up to 40% of students to campus this fall, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. First-year students will be allowed to learn on campus "to adjust to college academics and to begin creating connections with faculty and other classmates," according...

5 Things Coaches Should Know About Recruiting in a Virtual World A swarm of butterflies flutters through your stomach and your heart races. You tap on your spiral notebook and scan your checklist one last time. Why are you so nervous? You’ve done your research and more importantly, no one can see yo...

Northern Arizona Diver Aly Jones Battling Back After Setbacks Contributed by Northern Arizona Athletics Early on in her life, Northern Arizona University diver Aly Jones knew she wanted to be a surgeon. So much so that her parents, even in jest, wondered what might be wrong with their daughter. "I w...

UMass Dartmouth announced Wednesday that men’s and women’s swimming and diving are among eight varsity athletic program to be cut. The decision is reportedly not related to coronavirus budget reductions. The programs cut include women’s equestrian, men’s golf, men’s lacrosse, co-ed sailing and men’s...

Boise State University will be eliminating baseball and its swimming and diving programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a release sent out by Boise State. The decision will save the university an estimated $3 million. “This is one of the hardest decisions athletic departments have to mak...

When Katie Robinson was named as the head coach for Northwestern Swimming and Diving this spring, there was a sense of relief she saw on the faces of the swimmers. Robinson had been upgraded from the associate head coach role that she held the last two years, as the Wildcats saw tremendous improveme...

The Pac-12 announced today a series of initial steps to promote social justice and combat racism, including the creation of a new head of diversity and inclusion position at the Conference.  The Pac-12 also announced the formation of a social justice & anti-racism advisory group composed of a cross ...

LSU Swimming and Diving’s Steve Mellor was named Associate Head Coach on Wednesday, after spending six seasons as Assistant Coach. “This is certainly long overdue for Steve,” said LSU head swim coach Dave Geyer. “His commitment to the team, department, and university has been appreciated ov...

Arkansas women’s swimming and diving head coach Neil Harper has announced the hiring of assistant coach Petra Martin to the 2020-21 coaching staff. Martin joins the Razorbacks after serving as a volunteer assistant coach last season for the Ivy League runner-up Princeton men’s program. Petra Martin ...

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) is calling on the NCAA to limit recruiting in the upcoming year. In a letter to members of the NCAA’s Student-Athlete Experience Committee (SAEC) and Division I Council Coordination Committee (CCC), the association requested an extension of...

Vision for NCAA Virtual Championship During COVID-19 Era By Bob Groseth, Guest Author Berkeley, California, 1:52 p.m. Pacific time, March 22, 2022. Bjorn Carlson can’t even hear himself think as he stands behind Lane 4 for the final event of the final meet of the 2022 NCAA Dual Meet Championships. T...

The Rutgers women's swimming and diving program welcomes former letterwinner and two-time All-American Casmera Wick back "To The Banks" as an assistant coach, it was announced on Friday. Wick has compiled 11 seasons of coaching on the pool deck along with working alongside USA Swimming on the club l...

Kai Bathurst has announced he will transfer to Cal from Indiana. Bathurst is a butterfly specialist that made the 2020 Big Ten Championship final in the 200 butterfly as well as the 200 freestyle. He made the announcement on Instagram: "I’m super stoked to announce my transfer to swim at the Univers...

UPDATE: The University of Connecticut will officially cut men's swimming, along with three other sports, after the 2020-21 school year as part of an overall plan to cut four athletic programs from the school. The university is trying to erase a $10 million deficit brought on by the coronavirus pande...

Jaylon Nixon, a rising sophomore diver at Southern Connecticut State University, was killed in a car accident Sunday. He was 18 years old. Nixon was involved in a two-car accident in his hometown of Meriden, Conn., around 4 a.m. Sunday. He was ejected from his vehicle as it rolled over, and Nixon wa...

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said he believes most athletes in the conference would be safer training on campus than at home, according to a report from USA Today and AZ Central Sports. Scott said in an interview that Pac-12 athletes will be tested when they return to campus for COVID-19 and for ...

The NCAA closed its office on Friday, in recognition of June 19, or "Juneteenth," the date nationally celebrated as the commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, the NCAA said in a release. NCAA President Mark Emmert announced the decision in a message to membership and NCAA emplo...

Louisville head coach Arthur Albiero held a virtual press conference on Thursday to discuss how his swimmers have returned to the pool in Phase I of re-opening after the COVID-19 shutdown. Thus far, only the undergrad swimmers at the University of Louisville have been allowed to return to practice, ...