Read more1How Kentucky Men's Swimming Put Together Best Season With Five NCAA Qualifiers02 May 2020Kentucky men's swimming qualified five swimmers to NCAAs in 2020, their most qualifiers in 10 years. When the NCAA Division I swimming and diving Championships were cancelled this year because of the coronavirus, it was a huge blow to all 516 swimmers that qualified for the meets. Texas and Cal lost...
Read more4NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel Approves 15-Meter Video Review Option in Swimming27 June 2019The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved allowing the option of video review to determine whether 15-meter violations were called accurately in men’s and women’s swimming on Wednesday. The rule is optional and will go in effect in the 2019-20 school year. The rule will be used during the regu...
Read more2Shaine Casas on Stunning Year: 'I Want People to Know I am Here'12 December 2019After winning a national championship to enter the realm of an elite swimmer, Shaine Casas has had one goal since then: to prove he belongs there. The Texas A&M sophomore put together a few of the fastest races in the country during the annual Art Adamson Invitational in his home pool. “There was .....
Read moreDaria Pyshnenko & Gus Borges Are Following in the Footsteps of their Olympian Parents, Two Decades After They Swam the Same Event in Atlanta24 January 2020Growing up as the child of an Olympic swimmer can be difficult, especially when both of your parents have reached the highest stage in the sport. That has been the case for Michigan juniors Gus Borges and Daria Pyshnenko. But what is interesting for both Borges and Pyshnenko is that their fathers sw...
Read more4Eddie Reese: Inside the Mind of One of Swimming's Greatest Coaches13 December 2019Eddie Reese has one of the most talented training groups in the entire world, and has had that for the better part of four decades, having been the head men's coach of the Texas swim team since the fall of 1978. In those 40 years as head coach, Reese has won 14 NCAA team titles. Getting dynasties st...
Read moreBobby Finke Surprised Even Himself With 14:12 1650 at SECs, But Will Miss Opportunity For Encore at NCAAs12 March 2020Editor’s Note: Bobby Finke and the rest of the college swimmers had their NCAA championship meets cancelled Thursday because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The following is a preview written before the meet was cancelled: For 14 straight minutes, Florida's Bobby Finke was at the center of atte...
Read more69NCAA Announces 2020 Swimming and Diving Championships to be Swum in Short Course Meters01 April 2019The 2020 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships will be swum in short course meters, according to a press release released Monday. The decision comes in light of the upcoming Olympic year where the majority of the swimmers competing at NCAAs will be focusing on training ...
Read moreHonoring & Celebrating the NCAA Men's Swimming Senior Class of 202023 April 2020Swimming World celebrates the NCAA men’s swimming senior class of 2020. The cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships caused many careers of senior student athletes to go unfinished as a lot of swimmers will have an asterisk next to their names in the history books due to the f...
Read moreMichigan's Charlie Swanson Continuing Comeback Trend18 December 2019Charlie Swanson has made mini-comebacks a theme. The Michigan senior bounced back from a devastating first race at the NCAA Championships to have a solid finish to the meet. He did the same thing at the Minnesota Invitational in December, finding a way to finish strong. “I wasn’t exactly where I wan...
Read moreRanking the Best Men's NCAA Division I Swimmers From 1-2515 October 2019The NCAA swimming and diving season has gotten off to a good start as the Division I landscape is starting to heat up as teams begin having serious dual meets in the month of October. Swimming World has ranked the 25 best men's and women's swimmers returning in Division I for the third straight year...
Read more2Official Psych Sheets For 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Finalized: Line at 2911 March 2020The official psych sheets for the 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships have been posted with the line being set at 29th place. Texas has the most qualifiers with 18. TICKETS ON SALE HERE Official Psych Sheets Relays Invited Teams Most Qualifiers: Texas, 18 Cal, 14 Florida, 13...
Read moreRyan Hoffer Leads Cal Sprint Group In Search of Repeat Title20 February 2020Cal's Ryan Hoffer saw a little speck of potential during the 200 free relay on the first full night of the NCAA Championships. That was enough of a confidence boost to see a breakthrough coming. “We had the 200 free relay and I had a pretty good split at 18.6. I was aiming to break 19, so after th.....
Read more1Cal's Trenton Julian Using Family Legacy as Challenge17 December 2019It can be tough living in the shadow of a parent. How about both parents? Trenton Julian grew up in a swimming household. His father Jeff Julian was a member of the national team and his mother Kristine Quance is an Olympic gold medalist. That is not one, but two tough paths to follow. But Cal junio...
Read more5NCAA Releases 2019-20 Division I Swimming and Diving Qualifying Standards26 June 2019The NCAA announced the A and B qualifying standards for the 2019-20 Division I Swimming and Diving Championships. The women's meet will be held in Athens, Georgia while the men's meet will be in Indianapolis, Indiana. The NCAA made the A standards quicker in every single event except the men's 200 I...
Read moreSwim Poll of the Week: Should the NCAA Division I meet be combined for men and women?13 February 2020This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday February 13, 2020, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Should the NCAA Division I meet be combined for men and women? The NCAA Division II & III meets are both co-ed championship meets that take place in...
Read moreCaio Pumputis Following Unprecedented Footsteps For Georgia Tech & Brazilian Swimming26 February 2020For the last decade or so, if you thought of Brazilian men’s swimming, the image of a sprinter came to mind. Whether setting world records, winning Olympic or Worlds gold, usually in freestyle, sprinters like Bruno Fratus and Cesar Cielo have long been the face of Brazilian swimming. When Caio Pumpu...
Read moreDrew Kibler Embracing New Mentality Heading into NCAAs, Olympic Trials25 February 2020Drew Kibler started his first NCAA championships by leading off the very first event of the meet. The Texas freshman and his Longhorn teammates went on to win the NCAA title in the 800 free relay and break the American record in the event. What an opening statement. But that is not where Kibler's mi...
Read more2Forde Siblings Aiming for 400 IM All-American Goals30 January 2020The 400 IM is one of the most grueling events in swimming, something most swimmers stay away from. But not the Forde family. Brooke and Clayton Forde have become two of the top 400 IM swimmers in the country and could become a rare sibling duo to accomplish something huge at the end of the season. B...
Read moreConfident Ricardo Vargas Chasing a Second Olympic Berth05 February 2020Politely, Ricardo Vargas turns the question around. Four years ago, Vargas was an 18-year-old vying for a spot in the Olympics that he regarded as a longshot dream. He was hardly an unknown commodity: He’d represented Mexico at the Youth Olympic Games in 2014 and the World Junior Championships in 20...
Read more32020 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Pre-Selection Psych Sheets: Casas in 400 IM Over 100 Back; Smith in 200 Free Over 400 IM10 March 2020The pre-selection psych sheets for the 2020 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships have been posted. The official psych sheet will be released on Wednesday. The line for the cut-off is usually around 29th or 30th place. Swimming World will publish the official psych sheet when it co...