2018 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships - (Tag)

Florida's Caeleb Dressel continues to smash barriers by breaking yet another NCAA and American record, this time in the 100 free where he produced a 39.90. This makes Dressel the first and only swimmer to break 40-seconds in a 100 free, making for the third major barrier the Gator senior has broken ...

Caeleb Dressel has done it again. In the 50 free prelims at the men's NCAA championships, he swam a time of 18.11, nine hundredths under his previous American and NCAA records of 18.20. Dressel qualified first by more than a half-second, with NC State's Ryan Held taking second in 18.69. Third went t...

Carsten Vissering helped USC to a third-place finish in the 4x100 medley relay in 3:01.83 at the 2018 NCAA Championships. Vissering split a 50.90 on the breaststroke leg, marking his first time going under 51 seconds. The junior talked about his experience studying abroad, stating it gave him a much...

In tonight's 50 free A final Florida Gator Caeleb Dressel threw down yet another NCAA and American record with a 17.63 to win by nearly a second ahead of NC State's Ryan Held. Minnesota's Bowen Becker snuck into third with a 18.90. USC's Santo Condorelli touched first in the B final with a 18.99. Wa...

NC State's Anton Ipsen cruised to first in the men's 1650 free on the final night of the 2018 NCAA Championships. He posted a time of 14:24.43 for the win, ranking him seventh on the all-time list. The senior said it hasn't sunk in yet that his last collegiate swim was one for the books, but is plea...

By Dan D’Addona. While Caeleb Dressel is baffling the world with the way he dominates in the pool, there is another kind of long-term domination happening at the NCAA championships. Purdue diver Steele Johnson has been one of the biggest names in diving for years and hasn’t lost a step — even with a...

Florida senior Caeleb Dressel became the first man to break 18 seconds in the 50 free leading off the 4x50 free relay at the men's NCAA championships. Dressel posted a time of 17.81, annihilating the previous American and NCAA record of 18.11 he set in the prelims of the individual event. Florida en...

The race for the team title was tighter than expected and set us up for some intense match-ups throughout the final session of the 2018 Division I men's NCAA championships. Leading into tonight, the Indiana Hoosiers were in front with 325 points with the Texas Longhorns (306) and the California Bear...

Tonight's finals heat sheets have been released for the final session of the 2018 Division I men's NCAA championships. Once again we are slated for fast swimming and several NCAA and American records are on watch. The session opens up with the 1650 free fastest heat with NC State's Anton Ipsen headl...

The Texas Longhorns won their third straight NCAA title in men's swimming on Saturday night at the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships. The Longhorns saw four victories on Saturday night and an NCAA record in every single one of them. Clark Smith, Will Licon and Jack Conger ...

The NCAA Division I Men's Championships is underway. Throughout the course of the meet, Swimming World's chief photographer Peter H. Bick was on deck capturing the action and excitement. Managing editor Dan D'Addona was on deck shooting photos as well. Here are some photos from Day 3 finals: [galler...

To cap off a record-setting weekend, Florida's Caeleb Dressel became the first swimmer to ever crack 40 seconds in the 100 free. On the final night of the 2018 NCAA Championships, the senior posted a blistering 39.90 to break his own NCAA and American record. Dressel, whose 13th swim in three days w...

Purdue junior Steele Johnson risked it all tonight in the 3-meter diving A final when he changed his final dive at the last possible moment, resulting in a win with a score of 499.35. This marks Johnson's fifth career NCAA title. Johnson discusses injury, his short training period, divine interventi...

By David Rieder. Thursday night, Caeleb Dressel did enough to earn two standing ovations and even got on SportsCenter. That’s what happens when you not only become the first man to break 18 seconds in the 50-yard free but you annihilate 18 seconds—twice. The night after featured a bit of a scare, as...

Indiana's Ian Finnerty held off  the rest of the field on his way to breaking a pool record in a time of 1:50.17. Cal's Andrew Seliskar charged home in a blistering 28.91, though he ended up second in 1:50.42. Touching third was Florida Gator Mark Szaranek in a 1:51.71. Rounding out the A final was ...

Jan Switkowski had a busy night on day two of NCAA Championships, getting his first individual and relay national title. He split an 18.52 as the second leg of Florida’s winning 4x50 free relay and won the men’s 200 IM with a time of 1:39.54. He said he is happy his hard work has paid off and all of...

No, Dave Durden and his California Golden Bears did not come to the NCAA championships with their sights set on second place. No, it didn't make them feel much better that Texas' margin of victory over second-place Cal was 11.5 points, the smallest since 2002. "I just hope that they ran out of divin...

The Day 2 prelims at the NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships picked up just where the speed left off on Thursday. For Friday night’s final, Caeleb Dressel will be in the spotlight again. He has the top seed in the 100 butterfly in 44.37. Indiana’s Vini Lanza, Texas senior Joseph Sc...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. At the NCAA championships, Florida coach Gregg Troy had a story to tell about Caeleb Dressel. The story wasn’t about any of his American records or crazy heroics in the pool. It didn’t even have anything to do with any of Dressel’s swimming. In the pool, of course, Dr...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. Joseph Schooling was disgusted. In his signature event, the one in which he won Olympic gold one year earlier—the first-ever for Singapore in swimming—he was routed. On top of the world after dethroning Michael Phelps in the 100 fly in 2016, here was Schooling finishi...