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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .....

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...

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-...

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...

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 ...

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...

The 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...

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 .....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...