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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...

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...

Ranking the Top NCAA Division I Women's Swimmers For 2020-21 From 1-25 As a new college season approaches (hopefully), Swimming World wanted to unveil its preseason top 25 Division I women's swimmers ahead of the 2020-21 campaign. This season is unlike any other we have ever had, as many questions s...

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...

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...

Lia Thomas, Brooke Forde Among 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Nominees NCAA champion Lia Thomas and American Olympian Brooke Forde were among the nominees for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year, released Thursday. [caption id="attachment_499997" align="alignright" width="336"] Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bic...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. As the NCAA season begins to wind down and anticipation begins to build for the multitude of conference championships, all culminating with the NCAA Championships themselves, all eyes turn to the pool to watch swimmers achieve some amazing feats in t...

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...

In a race that was dubbed fairly pedestrian this morning after it took a 4:40 to make the A-Final of the 500 freestyle at NCAAs and a 4:43 to get a second swim, it was a 1-2-3 sweep by three of the toughest women in the entire NCAA championships with Virginia's Paige Madden leading from the outset a...

Stanford's Brooke Forde, the Pac-12 Woman of the Year for the 2021-22 athletics season, has been named one of nine finalists for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, the NCAA announced Thursday. The nine finalists consist of three student-athletes from each NCAA division. Each was selected for her...

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-...

Ranking the 10 Best Performers From the NCAA Women's Championships The 2021 NCAA Division I women's Championships last month were the first national level championship meet in more than a year and swimming fans throughout the United States rejoiced. The Virginia Cavaliers won their first team title ...

By Benny Liang, Swimming World College Intern. After seeing the results of this year's Winter Jr. Nationals, I think it can be agreed that there is some serious talent developing at the prep level. For each event at the 2016 NCAA Division I Championships, there was at least one swimmer from Winter J...

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. Before the Stanford women secured the commitments of three high-profile recruits in the span of two hours Mo...

By David Rieder. For a week at Nationals filled with unexpected results, no result was more shocking than the women’s 400 IM, where Ally McHugh, best known for her abilities in distance freestyle, touched first, and Brooke Forde came in second, leaving Olympians Melanie Margalis and Leah Smith in th...

By David Rieder. This past weekend, three months after the Olympic Games, USA Swimming reintroduced itself to the college dual meet. No, the USA College Challenge was not the first time the U.S. National team had taken on college foes head-to-head. It had just been a while. “In the fall of 1993, we ...

The first session of the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships kicked off with some fast swims at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Tokyo. The meet runs from Aug 9-14 and features the following federations: Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, People's Republic of China, Cook Isl...

Great Britain had a huge 1-2 finish in the women's 400-meter IM as Rosie Rudin led the way with a meet record at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. Rudin topped the finale for gold with a time of 4:39.01 to break Ella Eastin's meet record of 4:40.02 from the 2013 edition in Dubai. Rudin's tea...

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 ...

Penn Teammates Express ‘Full Support’ for Lia Thomas Members of the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swimming and diving team this week released a statement in support of teammate Lia Thomas. The statement was first reported by ESPN, and a copy of the full statement was provided to Swimming Worl...