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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...

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...

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...

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...

Richmond Women, George Washington Men Continue Winning Streaks at A-10 Championships At the A-10 Championships this weekend in Hampton, Va., the University of Richmond women and George Washington University men added to their conference title winning streaks. Richmond won for the 17th year in a row,...

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...

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 ...

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...

By Lianne McCluskey, Swimming World Intern. Day 2 of the Atlantic 10 Championships brought outstanding performances, beginning with George Washington's Moritz Fath setting a new meet, conference and pool record in the 500 Freestyle at SPIRE Institute on Thursday night. The George Washington Colonial...

By Lianne McCluskey, Swimming World Intern. The George Washington Colonial Men and Duquesne Duke Women declared their championship titles on the final day of the 2019 Atlantic 10 Swimming & Diving Championships. This is the seventh consecutive win for the Colonial Men and the second consecutive win ...

By Caitlin Daday. The Atlantic 10 swimming championships returns this year to the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Beginning Wednesday night, the Richmond women and George Washington men will seek to defend their titles from last year. The Richmond women have won the conference title every year sinc...

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...

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...

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...

The 2018 Atlantic 10 Championships kicked off tonight at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. The George Washington men's and women's teams began the meet in record-breaking fashion. The men broke their own meet and conference records set last year with their time of 1:27.47. The women's team matche...

Friday’s third day of the Atlantic 10 Swimming and Diving Championships had a little of everything, including three meet records and a potential championship-altering relay decision. At the end of Day 3, George Washington leads defending champ Duquesne in the women’s race, while a relay DQ means Geo...

Olympic Medalist Tom Wilkens Named Head Coach at Fordham Fordham University this week named American Olympic medalist Tom Wilkens its interim swimming and diving head coach. The 47-year-old native of New Jersey won bronze in the men’s 200 individual medley at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He served a...

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...

Saint Louis Removes Interim Tag on Mary Woods as Head Coach Saint Louis University on Monday named Mary Woods the head coach of the men’s and women’s swimming teams. Woods takes over for Jim Halliburton, who resigned last August. She had served as the interim head coach for the 2022-23 season. It’s ...

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, ...