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NCAA Men's Championships: Bobby Finke Dominates 1650 Freestyle; Fifth-Fastest Time Ever Despite 'Sloppy' Swim Florida senior Bobby Finke has become the dominant distance swimmer in the United States over the past few years, and he added his second straight NCAA title in the 1650-yard free Saturday n...

Matt Grevers Swims 45.7 100 Back, Brooks Fail Hits 4:15 500 Free at Arizona Invite The Arizona Wildcats swimming and diving team opened up their season Thursday night with the Arizona Invitational in Tucson with in-state foe Grand Canyon across the pool deck. 35-year-old Matt Grevers, chasing his th...

Caspar Corbeau Wins Breaststroke Showdown, Five Top-Ranked Times on Final Night of Minnesota Invitational At last season's NCAA Championships, Minnesota's Max McHugh, Cal's Reece Whitley and Texas' Caspar Corbeau finished first, second and fourth, respectively, in the 200 breast. Their showdown Satu...

Luke Hobson Crushes 500 Free NAG Record Again, Breaks 4:10 in Race with Brooks Fail at Minnesota Invite The star of the Minnesota Invitational thus far has been Texas freshman Luke Hobson, a Reno-native who owned best times of 1:35 in the 200 free and 4:16 in the 500 free prior to his first midseaso...

Speedo Sectionals Four Corners concluded this evening with night four of finals. Jeffco Hurricanes won with an overall team score of 647.5. Highlands Ranch Aquatics finished in second place as a team with 617 points, 608 of which were scored by the women's team. Third place overall went to Universit...

The three-mile Gatorman race in La Jolla Cove is the most prestigious race in the La Jolla Rough Water Swim event, with some of the best in the United States braving the rocks and waves in southern California for the country’s largest open water event. Past winners of the three-mile swim include Chi...

The 2019 Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions wrapped up its final night of competition in Mission Viejo. After a grueling four days of competition, the athletes exhibited resilience and grit, finishing strong in a stellar show of endurance. With an eclectic 14-event lineup, the country's be...

By Dan D'Addona. The No. 3 Stanford women won 15 of 16 events and cruised to a 223-77 victory over No. 13 USC on Saturday. The two best races of the day came in the breaststroke events. Stanford's Grace Zhao won the 100 breaststroke (1:00.72), edging USC's Riley Scott (1:00.80). Zhao (2:09.88) also ...

Arizona's David Schlicht, making his season debut after an Olympic redshirt last season, won the 400 IM on day two of the Arizona Invite in Tucson with an impressive swim of 3:40.93. That swim puts him third in Division I this season behind Carson Foster (3:35.27) and Shaine Casas (3:38.22) and is j...

Louisville senior Nick Albiero used a stellar last turn to win the 200 butterfly on Saturday night at the NCAA swimming and diving championships in Greensboro with a 1:38.64, lowering his own best time by 0.01 to put himself fifth all-time in the event. Albiero was trailing Cal's Trenton Julian for ...

NCAA Swim Meet of the Week Saturday February 8 was deemed "rivalry day" in college basketball with many great and intense rivalry games being played across the country with North Carolina - Duke, Purdue - Indiana, and Michigan State - Michigan. The same was true for the pool this weekend for NCAA sw...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault Non-subscribers can download this issue here - only $.99 for a limited time! In this issue of SW Biweekly, read about how the summer of international long course racing turned out a new powerhouse.....

Short course yards American record holder Kieran Smith barely took a hard stroke in the heats, cruising to a 3:48.06 as he controlled the pace of heat six of seven. Smith pulled Arizona grad Chris Wieser along with him in his heat at 3:48.84, along with his fellow Florida Gator teammate Trey Freeman...

USC swimmers Calypso Sheridan, Alexei Sancov and Sean Wang each posted a pair of wins during USC swimming and diving's victory over the Wildcats on Friday (Nov. 5) in Tucson, Ariz. The men won 198-102, while the USC women won the dual 191-109. Both squads advance to 2-0 on the season after defeating...

Competition continued this evening in Lewisville for Western Zone Speedo Sectionals: Four Corners. Highland Ranch sits in first place for overall team scores with 512 points. Jeffco Hurricanes follows with a total of 496 points, and University of Denver Hilltoppe rounds out third place overall with ...

Cal swimmers got off to a quick start by winning both relays on night one. The Bears hope to remain on top with Andrew Seliskar, Trenton Julian, Sean Grieshop and Nick Norman taking four of the top eight seeds going into this morning's 500 free, though Brooks Fail of Arizona hopes to keep the top se...

By David Rieder. At his junior year NCAA championships, Andrew Seliskar was a national title waiting to happen—or at least it seemed that way. He went into the 200 IM final as the top seed, only to end up fifth in the fastest final in history. He was the top seed again the next day in the 400 IM, on...

2021 Pac-12 Men's Swimming Championships Day Two Heats Day Two Heats, Houston Texas Meet Page Live Results How to Watch Ups, Mids, Downs California 9, 9, 1 Stanford 8, 6, 4 Arizona 5, 3, 5 USC 1, 4, 7 Utah 1, 1, 6 The 2021 Pac-12 men's swimming championships continued Monday from Houston as the team...

The 2020 Pac-12 Men's Championships kicked off with a short session that involved just two relays. The 800 free relay and 400 medley relay comprised the session. Cal is the defending champion and got off to a strong start with an win in the 800 free relay, but disqualified the 400 medley relay, as ....

Brooks Fail Joins USC as Assistant Coach to Round Out Lea Maurer’s Staff Brooks Fail was hired this week as an assistant coach at USC, the final hire for Lea Maurer in his first staff as full-time head coach of the Trojans. Fail is fresh off his NCAA swimming career, an 11-time All-American at the U...