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The 2022 NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships Penn swimmer Lia Thomas became the first known transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I championship on Thursday. Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta...

The 2022 Pac-12 Women’s Championship concluded with the Day 4 finals session from Federal Way, Washington, as the Stanford Cardinal claimed the conference championship. The session included the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke and 200 butterfly before moving to the early heats of the ...

Los Angeles Olympic Qualification Procedures Present New Obstacles for American Swimmers Around the world, the qualification process for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles will look different than in previous years. Swimmers aiming to qualify for the newly-added 50-meter stroke events will have t...

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...

When the familiar voice of swimming announcer Sam Kendrick called out that Stanford had won the NCAA title in the 800 free relay, everyone looked at the board to see their winning time of 6:47.22. Everybody except Stanford anchor Brooke Forde, who continued to swim an extra 50. Better to be safe tha...

Turkey's Viktoria Zeynep Gunes grabbed another World Junior record with a win in the women's 200-meter IM at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. Gunes hit the wall in 2:11.03 as she crushed the meet record of 2:12.32 set by Ruta Meilutyte, and cleared her own World Junior mark of 2:11.46 from ...

NCAA Women’s Division I Championships: Huske, Ruck, Smith, Forde Dominate for Stanford in 800 Free Relay After a ninth-place finish last season, Stanford is looking for a quick jump back to the top at the Women's NCAA Championships, and this Cardinal squad is buoyed by the addition of three Olympian...

By Giulia Filocca, Swimming World College Intern. With the 2018 Phillips 66 U.S. Nationals drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on all this week had to offer. From record-breaking performances to unexpected scratches, this meet sent sizeable tremors across the swimming world. It left die-hard fa...

Brooke Forde: 'I Will Not Have a Problem Racing Against Lia Thomas at NCAAs' A handful of U.S. National Team swimmers and past Olympic gold medalists have given their opinion on whether transgender swimmer Lia Thomas deserves to be permitted to compete in women's events on the NCAA level, but none o...

Grace Oglesby, Allie Raab, and Michael Taylor were among the big winners at the Eastern Junior Nationals held this past weekend at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. After their wins on the final evening of competition, this trio and other event champions took the time to speak with Swimming World's David Rie...

Team USA Memory Lane: From Verbal Commitment to Olympic Stage From the excitement of committing to college to the thrill of being named to the U.S. Olympic Team, Swimming World likes to cover it all.  So, what about when those former college commits qualified for Tokyo? Say less. Buckle up, because ...

The psych sheets for the 2020 Pac-12 Women's Championships have been released and there are a lot of strong events on the docket. Stanford will be looking to earn a fourth consecutive conference championship, while Cal and USC will look to play spoiler. The meet begins Wednesday in Federal Way, Wa.....

The 2022 Pac-12 Women’s Championship continued with the Day 3 prelims session from Federal Way, Washington. The session includes platform diving, the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke. Stanford took the early lead on Wednesday night by winning the 200 medley r...

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-...

After shattering the World Record in the 1500 and the U.S. Open mark in the 400 freestyle, Katie Ledecky will be back in the water on the final night of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series Indianapolis in the 800 distance. She owns the top seed in the event as does Club Wolverine's Felix Auboeck who will b...

It took one race to let Calypso Sheridan know she reached the next level. Hoping to make the finals at the NCAA championships last year in the 400 IM, the Northwestern swimmer from Australia put together the best race of her career, breaking school and Big Ten records to finish fourth in 4:01.35. Sh...

The fourth-ranked Stanford women's swimming and diving honored its senior class with a resounding 176-86 victory over No. 23 Arizona, Saturday at the Avery Aquatic Center. The win moves Stanford to 4-0 on the season, and 3-0 in Pac-12 duals. Stanford won all 14 swimming event against the Wildcats an...

Brooke Forde posts response to wildfires and climate change in 2020. The year 2020 has been seemingly one disaster after another world wide, but especially in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc everywhere, leaving health, sports and political discord in its wake. Racial tensi...

The Event Lineup of Team USA For the Tokyo Games; Home-State Breakdown The squad that will represent the United States at the Olympic Games in Tokyo is currently taking part in training camp in Hawaii. Here is a reminder of who will swim which individual events when the Games get underway later this...

The 2022 Pac-12 Women’s Championship continued with the Day 3 finals session from Federal Way, Washington. The session includes platform diving, the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke and the 400 medley relay. Stanford took the early lead on Wednesday night by ...