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La Salle University head swimming and diving coach Jamie Platt announced his resignation on Monday, after accepting the position of executive director at Middle Atlantic Swimming. Platt, a former student-athlete with the Explorers, spent 18 seasons as a coach at La Salle University and recently comp...

Recent Grad Caroline Pape Starts Coaching Career at George Washington George Washington on Monday hired Caroline Pape as an assistant coach, on the heels of the completion of her career at Georgia Tech. Pape swam for the Yellow Jackets from 2021-25, in spring freestyle and butterfly events. She swam...

The La Salle men’s swimming and diving team, which was slated to be discontinued at end of this academic year, has been granted “a pathway to restore” the program, according to a letter to alumni. The letter, shared with Swimming World, cites a “positive and productive dialogue” with La Salle presid...

Davidson senior Elise Lankiewicz kicked off the night with her second set of meet, conference, and pool records in as many days. Her time of 4:43.49 broke her own records set last year. Likewise, George Mason's Sydney Fisher broke the conference, meet, and pool records in the 50 freestyle for the se...

Fordham Adds Olympic Trials Qualifier Harry Homans as Assistant Coach Fordham on Tuesday hired former USC swimmer Harry Homans as an assistant coach to Tom Wilkens. A native of Barrington, R.I., Homans completed his career at USC for four seasons after starting at the University of Georgia in 2019-2...

La Salle University became the seventh Division I school this offseason to cut its swimming and diving program, as the school announced Tuesday that is is cutting its men's program among seven sports at the conclusion of academic year. La Salle will also cut baseball, men's and women's tennis, men's...

With Freestyle Swimwear, D1 Swimmer Aspires to Better Female Swimsuits Audrey Tirrell spent most of her life in a swimsuit. That was enough time to know all the ways in which they didn’t serve her. A competitive swimmer since age seven, first at Nation’s Capital Swim Club and then at Fordham Univers...

George Washington Swim Coach Brian Thomas Resigns Brian Thomas last week announced his resignation as the head coach of George Washington’s swimming and diving program. Thomas was hired in 2018 and has been at the helm for six seasons. In addition to piloting the team through the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Road to Paris: Fordham Has Helped Launch Nepal's Alexander Shah to Second Games The road to the Olympics takes swimmers from all over the world through the American college system. From far and wide, countries big and small, a litany of colleges can contribute to the 800 or so Olympic swimmers that’...

Peter Ward Announces Retirement After 25 Years at George Mason George Mason men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Peter Ward has announced his retirement after 25 years, the school announced Tuesday. Ward was hired in 1998 upon Mason’s founding of Division I swimming. He led the program to fou...

Temarie Tomley Joins Georgia Tech Staff as Assistant Coach Temarie Tomley has joined the coaching staff at Georgia Tech as an assistant coach, the Yellow Jackets announced on Wednesday. Tomley spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at George Washington. She was a member of NCAA-qualifying ...

2022 Atlantic 10 Championships: George Washington Sweeps Titles in Divergent Fashions There’s no wrong way to win a title, George Washington showed last weekend at the 2022 Atlantic 10 Championships. On the men’s side, the Colonials claimed their fifth title in six years by winning 14 events, placin...

Saint Louis Hires Hall of Famer Ryan McCoy as New Head Coach Saint Louis University on Tuesday hired Ryan McCoy as its new head coach. McCoy was a standout for the Billikens, inducted to the Billiken Hall of Fame in 2024. McCoy was most recently an assistant coach at Illinois State during the 2024-2...

On the final night of competition, the George Washington men successfully pulled off the upset, winning the men's team championship with 562.5 points. The Massachusetts men won seven out of the last nine conference championships up until this year, where they finished third. The La Salle men placed ...

George Washington has won the last three men’s Atlantic 10 Championships. Duquesne has won the last two women’s crowns. But after day two of the 2020 Atlantic 10 Championships at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, the team standings point to new champs if things continue. George Washington leads the w...

Steve Potsklan Swaps Fordham for SUNY Maritime as Head Coach Former Fordham University head coach Steve Potsklan has switched his addresses in the Bronx, hired Monday as the head coach of SUNY Maritime College. Potsklan stepped down from Fordham with little fanfare on Aug. 22. (Fordham has not, as o...

George Washington Sweeps Atlantic 10 Championships for Second Straight Year George Washington won the men’s and women’s Atlantic 10 Championships for the second straight year, at SPIRE Institute in Ohio. It’s the second straight title for the women’s team, while the men are on top for the third cons...

The year before seniors like Gemma Atherley, Jackie Torrez and Lynn Zhang arrived at George Washington, the Colonials finished ninth at the Atlantic 10 Championships. They’ve improved their placement at the conference meet every year since, and Saturday represented the pinnacle. George Washington cl...

George Washington senior Andrea Bolognesi broke the first records of the night in the men's 100 butterfly. His time of 46.91 broke the meet and conference records set by St. Louis's Ryan McCoy. McCoy set those records this morning in 46.97. In the women's 200 freestyle, Davidson's Elise Lankiewicz b...

Though ‘Blindsided’ by Cuts, La Salle Men’s Swimming Fighting Hard to Survive Daniel Johnson had a job interview scheduled for the afternoon of Sept. 29. So the La Salle men’s swimming captain handed off the duty of hosting the informal squad Zoom meeting to a teammate, a way they’ve been keeping to...