2020 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships - (Tag)

It took one race to let Calypso Sheridan know she reached the next level. Hoping to make the finals at the NCAA championships last year in the 400 IM, the Northwestern swimmer from Australia put together the best race of her career, breaking school and Big Ten records to finish fourth in 4:01.35. Sh...

Katie Drabot was sure 2019 was going to be her year. It was, but it just took a while. Heading into the NCAA championships in March, Drabot was one of the top contenders in several events and looking to challenge for national titles. After All-American performances as a sophomore, it made sense that...

The NCAA swimming and diving season has gotten off to a swift 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 yea...

Stanford senior Katie Drabot was trying to wrap her head around the fact that she and her Cardinal teammates were not going to get a chance at swimming for an NCAA four-peat. It was something she and her teammates had trained for all season and wanted to prove they could accomplish. “We knew a four-...

After the upset of the world championships, Maggie MacNeil was at the high point of her career. The Canadian star stunned Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom to win gold in the 100-meter butterfly in Gwangju, South Korea, last July. Where to go from that high? More pioneering pace was MacNeil's answer. After .....

Sophie Hansson looked on as her sister, Louise Hansson, claimed two NCAA championships, turning heads with her stunning performances. But she wasn't the only Hansson to put together stunning performances at the NCAA championships. Sophie Hansson was just a freshman and finished third in both breasts...

Growing 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...

This 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...

The 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...

Swimming World celebrates the NCAA women'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...

Sierra Schmidt has been one of the top distance freestylers in the United States the last few years. In 2015, she won a gold medal in the 800 free for Team USA at the World Junior Championships and the Pan American Games. In 2016, she was a finalist at the Olympic Trials. Schmidt was the bronze meda...

When Ky-lee Perry needs a boost she goes back to the same quote. “You are the only one you can limit your greatness.” The quote has motivated Perry through injuries, disappointments and driven the NC State sprinter to huge success in the pool. “People get into that doubtful mindset. That quote ha...

CSCAA Division I Poll Stanford Women and Texas Men are ranked number one in the final CSCAA Top 25 Dual Meet Poll of the season. The Stanford women come full circle, sitting number one for the first time since the preseason poll was released. Same situations is true for Virginia as they are now back...

Olivia Johnson and Lilly Byrne made history for the Tulane Women's Swimming and Diving program by qualifying for NCAAs. Entering the 2019-20 season, the Tulane women's swimming and diving team had only ever qualified one swimmer to the NCAA Championships. By the conclusion of this year, the Green Wa...

Kate Douglass had her choice of just about every college in the country. She chose Virginia because of its raw potential. It reminded her of herself. “I really loved the school as a whole, the campus. I thought there was a very great balance between academics and athletics. The team atmosphere is .....

When Abbey Weitzeil exited the pool last season for the final time, she had to be pulled out of the water by her teammates. It was a Superwoman kind of performance. The Cal sprinter had injured her arm in the finish of the 200 medley relay, and still had a day of the meet to go. She had to anchor .....

Izzy Ivey couldn't wait to join her Cal teammates — and they couldn't wait to have her. So they didn't wait. Ivey graduated early from high school and joined the Golden Bears at the semester break last year. She earned multiple All-American honors and was part of the national title — and NCAA record...

The 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...

Florida’s Vanessa Pearl had high expectations going into her first collegiate postseason. Coming out of high school she was an A-Finalist at US Nationals in 2017 and a three-time SEC finalist as a freshman. But the grind of training for the SEC Championships, then the NCAA Championships takes a toll...

The NCAA has announced that future 2020 winter NCAA championships will be limited to essential staff and limited family in wake of the coronavirus pandemic. That includes the men's and women's swimming championships as well as basketball tournaments. NCAA President Mark Emmert released this statemen...