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

After the NCAA swimming championships were canceled because of the coronavirus, the emotional toll of the monumental decision began to rise. Anger. Sadness. Disappointment. Devastation. While everyone seemingly is on the same page about this having to happen, it still is devastating to athletes miss...

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...

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...

Editor's Note: Beata Nelson and the rest of the college swimmers had their NCAA championship meets cancelled Thursday because of the coronavirus outbreak. The following is a preview written before the meet was cancelled: Beata Nelson stepped up on the blocks just hoping to get a good start to her NC...

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...

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-...

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...

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 .....

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...

The pre-selection psych sheet for the 2019 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships have been released. The official psych sheet will be released on Wednesday. The line for the cut-off is usually around 36th or 37th place. Swimming World will publish the official psych sheet when it...

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 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...

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...

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 psych sheets for the 2020 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships have been finalized with the line set at 37 & 38. The meet will be held two weeks from today at the University of Georgia. Stanford is the three-time defending champion but will have its hands full with Virginia ...

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...

Caravaggio was famous for his spotlight effect in his paintings. It added a dimension return to normal subject into a masterpiece. The spotlight is on Miranda Tucker this year, and she is looking to finish with a masterpiece. Tucker, a Michigan senior, knows all about Caravaggio and his masterpieces...

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...

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 .....