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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...

Indiana sent plenty of swimmers of the NCAA Championships this year. But only Max Scott ended up at the men’s basketball Final Four. Scott, a sophomore on the men’s swim team, was selected by the school to sing the national anthem before Baylor and Houston tipped off the men’s Final Four in Indianap...

Lance Asti has stepped down as the associated head coach of the Tennessee swimming and diving program, the university announced Tuesday. Asti spent nine seasons with the Volunteers. He is moving on to “pursue outside professional interests.” His resignation is effective April 30. Asti’s work has bee...

Anthony Nesty adds women's head coaching duties after three successful seasons as the head coach of the men's team, Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin announced on Tuesday. The men's program has won the Southeastern Conference championship all three seasons under Nesty and finished third at t...

Oakland’s men’s and women’s swimming team each captured their eighth straight titles at the Horizon League Championships this weekend. The Golden Grizzlies were just that, having put the women’s meet away by late in Day 2, the final margin near 400 points. The men’s team race was slightly closer, wi...

Villanova’s women’s swimming team won the Big East Championship for the eighth consecutive year, and the Xavier men claimed a third straight title at the meet that concluded Saturday night. Villanova pulled away on the final night, opening up a 68-point margin for the title. Xavier had long since pu...