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

By David Rieder. Ryan Murphy was behind. It was unusual, unnerving even, to see the world’s most dominant backstroker trailing. His freshman year, he had won the 100 back NCAA title by a hand’s length over Penn State’s Shane Ryan, but nobody had come close since. But at this year’s championships, th...

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...

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...

Tonight's 200 medley relay A final saw USC out-touch Pac-12 rival Cal-Berkely for the win with a pool record of 1:21.82, largely due to Carsten Vissering's 50 breast split of 22.58, which is among the fastest splits in history. California's squad was composed of all American swimmers, which made the...

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 ...

By Dan D’Addona. After two days of Caeleb Dressel opening the eyes of the entire swimming world at the NCAA championships, the Florida junior wasn’t done. Dressel’s final individual race of the meet brought an audible gasp from the crowd in Indianapolis on Saturday. Swimmers, Olympians, fans, coache...

The 4x100 medley relay A final featured Indiana's squad of Gabriel Fantoni (45.59), Ian Finnerty (50.33), Vini Lanza (44.53) and Blake Pieroni (40.62) swam a time of 3:01.07 to break their own pool record from this morning while NC State's team of Coleman Stewart (44.74), Jacob Molacek (52.32), Ryan...

The NC State squad of Ryan Held (41.05), Justin Ress (40.62), Jacob Molacek (41.02) and Coleman Stewart (41.62) produced a 2:44.31 to break their own American and NCAA records, which they set during this morning's prelims. That 41.05 lead-off leg for Held puts him fifth all-time in the 100 free. Tak...

Texas junior Townley Haas swam a 4:08.60 to take the win in the A final, just under the pool record that second place-finisher, Felix Auböeck (4:09.03), set this morning. NC State's Anton Ipsen (4:09.13) took third, also under the old pool record. Also in the A final was Stanford's Grant Shoults (4:...

By David Rieder. Take a deep breath. Over the past two weeks at the women’s and men’s NCAA swimming championships in Indianapolis, the American and/or NCAA record went down in 14 PLUS events as the Stanford women and Texas men stormed to dominant team championships. You’ve seen the times and what it...

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...

Indiana's Blake Pieroni became the first man to break 1:30 in the 200 free leading off the 4x200 free relay at the NCAA championships, putting up a time of 1:29.63. The Hoosiers held the lead until the anchor, but NC State's Justin Ress put his team in front and gave them the first title of the meet...

Steele Johnson pushed through his ankle injury, which kept him out of competition for a whole 12 weeks, by securing a win on the 3-meter board for Purdue with a score of 499.35. Johnson, during the final moments, changed his dive list to increase his degree of difficulty, enabling him to earn enough...

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...

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...

Texas freshman Austin Katz set a pool record on his way to winning the 200 back A final in a time of 1:37.53. This moves Katz ahead of Tyler Clary for third on the all-time list. Fellow Longhorn John Shebat took second with a 1:37.94 while USC's Patrick Mulcare touched in third with a 1:38.43. Round...

Florida's Caeleb Dressel continued to improve this morning by throwing down the fastest 50 free relay split in history with a 17.30. This helped Florida's 4x50 medley relay earn the third spot heading into tonight while USC will take ownership of lane four in tonight's A final. Other notable swims c...

The University of Texas men, guided by legendary coach Eddie Reese, won their fourth straight and 14th overall NCAA team title tonight by scoring 449 points over California (437.5) and Indiana (422). The Texas men were facing heavy disadvantages heading into this meet with no potential breaststroke ...

By David Rieder. In an alternate universe, there was a moment in Minneapolis when breaking records became effortless, when vaunted barriers in the sport of swimming were felled, one after another. It’s a world where man can not only break but crush 18 seconds in the 50 free, 1:30 in the 200 free and...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Every year heading into the NCAA Championships, we see countless swimmers come from lower seedings and have a breakout meet to place highly and score big points for their teams. The following is a list of the Top Five NCAA Division I swimmers most li...