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What Makes a GREAT Coach? An Athlete and Coach Perspective The best coaches are people who are influential, motivational, supportive, caring, positive and willing to help their athletes. Many mentors might display some of these qualities, but it takes someone special to represent them all. Great coa...

University of Michigan senior Kathryn Ackerman will use her fifth year of eligibility to compete for Purdue University. Ackerman announced her decision on social media. "The last four years on this TEAM have been nothing short of incredible. Practicing, racing and competing for the Block M with my b...

Ali Truwit: Triumph Over Adversity and the Quest for Paralympic Glory Just after graduating from Yale University, Ali Truwit was the victim of a shark attack while on vacation in Turks & Caicos. Doctors and a teammate rushed to save her life and while she lost her foot and part of her leg, she has p...

Lawsuit Accuses Ex-Kentucky Coach Lars Jorgensen of Sexual Assault, School Accused of 'Complicity' Several few months ago, Lars Jorgensen resigned as head swim coach at the University of Kentucky with no reason given. But there was an investigation, which has now led to a lawsuit. The results of the...

Virginia junior Gretchen Walsh has been named the ACC Women’s Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year and is one of four finalists for the prestigious Honda Award. She is a Honda finalist for swimming and diving along with Virginia's Alex Walsh, Florida's Bella Sims and North Carolina's Aranza...

BYU Coach Shari Skabelund Announces Retirement After 37 Years Shari Skabelund announced her retirement on Monday after 37 years of part- and full-time coaching at BYU. Skabelund started out in Provo as a part-time assistant coach to the women’s team in 1987. She’s been there ever since, save for one...

Road to Paris: Fordham Has Helped Launch Nepal's Alexander Shah to Second Games The road to the Olympics takes swimmers from all over the world through the American college system. From far and wide, countries big and small, a litany of colleges can contribute to the 800 or so Olympic swimmers that’...

NAIA Institutes Restrictions on Transgender Females Competing in Women's Sports The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which includes 241 small colleges throughout the United States, has voted to restrict participation in women's sports competition to exclude transgender females begi...

Tanner Barton Named Head Coach of Bowling Green Tanner Barton has been named the head swimming and diving head coach of Bowling Green, the university announced this week. Barton spent the last four seasons as Division III John Carroll University in Cleveland. He’s the 11th head coach in Falcon swimm...

Texas A&M to Combine Men’s and Women’s Swimming Programs Texas A&M will combine the men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs, the school announced on Friday. The decision comes with regime changes on deck and upstairs. The action was taken by athletic director Trev Alberts, who was hired last ...

Leon Marchand Earns Third Straight Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year Nod Arizona State star Leon Marchand was named the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year for the third straight year, the conference revealed Thursday in its postseason men’s swimming awards. The NCAA champion Sun Devils made a clean sweep on the sw...

Brendan Burns, Phoebe Bacon Named Big Ten Swimmers of the Year Indiana’s Brendan Burns and Phoebe Bacon of Wisconsin were named the Big Ten Swimmers of the Year on Thursday by the conference. Indiana cleaned up the men's awards, with Ray Looze as the men’s and women’s swimming coach of the year, whi...

NCAA Men's Championships: 'Incredible' Swim Lands Jack Kelly Brown's First All-America Since 1944 If you Google, “Jack Kelly Brown University,” the first result will bring you to a midfielder on the Bears men’s lacrosse team. A suggestion will ask if you might’ve meant Jack Kelley, track and field s...

Credit to Cal as Destin Lasco, Liam Bell Lead Bears to Yet Another Top-Two Finish The Cal men could not pull off a third consecutive national title, falling by 79 points to a dominant performance from Arizona State. It would have taken miraculous performances from the Golden Bears plus disappointing...

NCAA Championships: History Was Made, But Who Was Watching? Both versions of this year's NCAA championships - women and men - were nothing short of amazing. Between the Walsh sisters (Alex and Gretchen), Leon Marchand and Josh Liendo (and more), records fell or were at least in jeopardy in the major...

Tim Murphy Won’t Return as Head Coach at Penn State Penn State announced on Tuesday that it will not renew the contract of men’s and women’s head coach Tim Murphy. Murphy was hired in 2013-14 and had spent 11 years at the helm in Happy Valley. "We would like to thank Tim for his service to Penn Stat...

Bonnie Dix Retires After 37 Years as Wellesley Head Coach Bonnie Dix announced her retirement after 37 years leading the swimming and diving program at Wellesley College. Dix, who also served as an associate professor, will stay on through the end of the academic year. She guided the Blue to 33 winn...

Bob Bowman Lands 'Dream Job' at Texas, Aiming to Build on Eddie Reese Legacy Bob Bowman did not need any convincing of this point at the podium in Austin Tuesday: There is no replacing Eddie Reese. But, the University of Texas’s new director of swimming and diving said at his introductory press conf...

From Norway to Towson, Brian Benzing's Silver Medal Strikes Blow for Mid-Majors Liam Bell set an American record and an NCAA record in the men’s 100 breaststroke Friday night at the NCAA Championships. He did not set the record for most excited swimmer at the wall at IUPUI Natatorium in the champion...

In His Words: Leon Marchand Reflects on Jaw-Dropping NCAA Champs (Videos) To think Leon Marchand would have been anything less than extraordinary at last week’s NCAA Championships would have been naïve. After all, he starred at last year’s edition of the meet, and has established himself as one of t...