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By Olivia McKelvey, Swimming World College Intern.  As the college championship season has come to a close, Swimming World had the opportunity to sit down with a unique type of student-athlete to get their take on how their day-to-day college routines have differed from others. Q&A sessions with swi...

Starting today, Swimming World will post previews of the six conferences that will send teams to the 2018 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Tournament, to be held November 29 – December 2 at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. Look to SW for in-depth stories and game recaps of all the action from this year’s excit...

Air Force Swimmer Madelyn Letendre Among Rhodes Scholars Recipients Air Force Academy swimmer Madelyn Letendre is among 32 American collegians to be awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 2023-24. The native of Monument, Colorado, is using an aspiring pilot who is using her studies to devise ways to strengt...

Mountain West to Add Men’s Swimming Championships in 2026-27 The Mountain West Conference is adding men’s swimming and diving (as well as men’s soccer) as a sponsored sport in the 2026-27 academic year. The conference made the announcement Wednesday. It’s a reinstatement of the sport, which the conf...

Coach Casey Converse, Swimmer Chris Knaute Named to Air Force Athletics Hall of Fame Swimming and diving coach Casey Converse and swimmer Chris Knaute are among six inductees to the Air Force Athletics Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022. Converse spent 29 years coaching the Air Force men’s and women’s swi...

Colleen Murphy has been named the head coach of the Air Force women’s swimming team, as announced today by Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton. Murphy just completed her fifth season at the Academy. After serving as an assistant coach her first four years, Murphy was the team’s associate head coach i...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor The 2018 NCAA men’s season begins next month, with reigning NCAA champion UCLA opening play on September 1 with a match against Fresno Pacific at Spieker Aquatic Center. Starting next week, Swimming World will preview the six conferences that will send...

By Emma Foster, Swimming World College Intern The WAC Championships wrapped up on February 28 at the Palo Alto Aquatic Center in San Antonio, Texas. Pool conditions left swimmers, coaches, and fans alike with a nasty case of chlorine cough due to cold weather which would not allow for open-door vent...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor PRINCETON, NJ. The Harrison family is an inspirational story because of their collective devotion to water polo as well as a tradition of military service that stretches back four generations. I first met Josh Harrison in December of 2016 when Harvard ...

The Air Force women’s swimming and diving team, along with head coach Colleen Murphy, have announced Athena Miller as the new assistant swim coach for the upcoming 2017-18 season. "I am honored and excited for not only the opportunity to work for and represent the United States Air Force Academy, bu...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK., Feb. 16 MEET RECORDS fell in all 12 events contested on the second day of competition at the Mountain West Conference Championships, being held in Oklahoma City. Conference mark tumbled in 11 of those 12 events as Brigham Young University took a commanding lead in the women's...

LOS ANGELES, July 22. BEFORE becoming president, a certain former "leader of the Free World" toiled in Hollywood as an actor. Perhaps his most memorable line came in a movie about a long-deceased football coach that went something like this: "Win one for the Gipper." Well, Dr. Ron Karnaugh didn'...

2022 Mountain West Championships: Relay Depth Helps San Diego State Reclaim Title San Diego State won four of the five relays at the 2022 Mountain West championships, unseating UNLV to win its third title in four years. The Aztecs scored a championship record 1,541.5 points in College Station, Texas...

Long-time Air Force swimming coach Keith “Casey” Converse has announced his retirement effective June 30, 2017. Converse is in his 29th season of coaching at the Academy. A 1976 US Olympian and NCAA Champion swimmer at the University of Alabama, Converse began his tenure in 1988 as the first civilia...

Brooks Curry, Maggie Mac Neil Post Wins as LSU Triumphs in Denver The LSU Tigers swim teams were in Denver Saturday for a three-team meet also featuring the University of Denver and the Air Force Academy, and the SEC visitors easily took down their rivals with a handful of quick swims. The big names...

The Air Force women's swimming and diving team is proud to welcome 14 members of the Class of 2022, as announced today by head coach Colleen Murphy. The class arrived at the Academy on June 28 for in-processing. “We are very excited to welcome the class of 2022 to the Academy and our swimming team,....

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 24. BYU's men's and women's swimming and diving teams showed that higher altitude was not an obstacle to success, as both teams handily beat the Air Force Academy, Thursday. BYU's men's team won 12 of 13 events to win 144-94. The win improves the Cou...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com. Tianna Jorgenson will become an Air Force Cadet next year, making a verbal commitment to enter military serv...

MIAMI, Dec. 13. THE University of Denver men's swimming team won nine of 11 events on their way to a convincing 148-44 win over the University of Miami yesterday afternoon. The Denver women, who won only two events, suffered their fourth dual meet loss of the season 140-64. Leading the way for D...

The Air Force Academy's men's swimming and diving program announced its 2018-19 schedule, according to head coaches Rob Clayton and Stan Curnow, Tuesday, August 21. The Falcons will host six home events on the year. The Falcons open the year with at the Horsetooth Open Water Swim, Sept. 9, up in For...