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Cal Baptist Men Repeat, Rice Women Win MPSF Open Water Championships The Cal Baptist men’s team won its second straight MPSF Open Water Championship on Saturday, while the Rice women claimed their first title. CBU scored 135 points to lift the title again at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California ...

Olympian Mark Chay Named Secretary General of Singapore Olympic Committee Olympic swimmer Mark Chay has been named the secretary general of the Singapore National Olympic Committee, it announced on Tuesday. Chay’s appointment will be effective April 1. He succeeds Chris Chan, who is retiring from th...

Longtime rivals BYU and Utah decided to kick their seasons off with an unscored friendly relay competition in Salt Lake City. BYU Press Release: A non-scored friendly relay meet against rival Utah on Saturday at the Ute Natatorium in Salt Lake City continued a strong showing by BYU's swim and dive t...

Led By Ilya Kharun, Arizona State Dominates Big 12 Awards In its first year in the Big 12, Ilya Kharun and Arizona State dominated the Big 12 Awards, with five individuals taking home honors on Wednesday. Kharun was named men’s swimmer of the year. Herbie Behm was recognized as both men’s and women’...

Hayden Palmer Returns to BYU as Assistant Coach Hayden Palmer has returned to his alma mater BYU as an assistant coach, the school announced on Monday. Palmer began his career in Provo in 2009, concluding in 2015 after a two-year mission in Samoa. The 2010 Mountain West 400 individual medley champio...

Big 12 Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Erin Gemmell Poised for 200/500 Double Texas freshman Erin Gemmell delivered a gutsy swim in the 500 free Wednesday night to claim her first Big 12 Championship. She’s after another title in the 200 free on Thursday. Gemmell set the top time in the 200 free at 1:...

Big 12 Championships, Night 1: Post-Texas Era Dawns With Biggest Field The 57th and 58th Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships will bestowed this week, to the top men’s and women’s team in the conference. For the first time since 2012, they will go to a team that isn’t Texas. For the first time s...

Mizzou Invitational: Three Wins on Final Day Help Missouri Women to Title Missouri won three events on the final day of the Mizzou Invitational Friday to pick up the team win. The Tigers scored 1,050 points, ahead of TCU’s 837 and FIU’s 837. TCU won the men’s team competition without the benefit of ...

After ACL Tear, Dominican Republic’s Josue Dominguez on a Mission in Tokyo Josue Dominguez’s choice of which dream to pursue wasn’t much of a choice when he sat down to think about it in 2015. Dominguez had gravitated toward the pool from a young age in the Dominican Republic. He was electrified by ...

Big 12 Championships, Night 4: Joleigh Crye Ends Arizona State Sweep Hopes Night 4 of the Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships dawned with every swimming gold medal having been taken home by an Arizona State swimmer. That streak came to an end Friday night at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic...

Utah Swimming and Diving won 13 out of 15 events as both the men’s and women’s teams topped BYU this evening in an exhibition relay meet. “I am really pleased with the performance of the team tonight,” said Utah head coach Joe Dykstra. “I think the energy on deck was very good and I charged the team...

The transfer portal has become vital to the new world of collegiate athletics. Coaches and teams nationwide have been forced to evolve and use the portal, as it's now an integral part of all NCAA sports. For the numerous athletes who transfer, the results of their success vary. But every year, we se...

Texas A&M Sweeps Two-Day Tri-Meet Against TCU and BYU The Texas A&M Aggies hosted intercollegiate competition for the first time this season over the weekend and proved dominant against a pair of teams from the Big 12, Texas Christian University and Brigham Young University. Friday Women's Scores: T...

Photo Courtesy: BYU Athletics THE WOODLANDS, Texas, September 25. Ryan Sorensen, a breaststroker out of The Woodlands Swim Team in Texas, will be headed to Brigham Young University as part of the Class of 2015. Sorensen, ranked 13th in the State of Texas by CollegeSwimming.com, is a developing breas...

BYU swimmers set both the men’s and women’s 100 breaststroke records at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championships Friday night. On the women’s side, Katie McBratney went 1:00.10, setting a BYU record. She unseats the league record set by Kionna Clayton of Hawaii at 1:00.36 in 2019. It’s a...

Cooper Deryk set the Ute Natatorium record in the 100 butterfly for the second time in as many meets Saturday to lead Utah to a 179-121 win over BYU. Deryk stopped the clock at 47.14 seconds in the 100 fly, downing the mark he set a week ago in a dual meet with Colorado Mesa. Deryk also won the 50 f...

Hawaii’s women’s team won its fifth consecutive (sixth overall) title at the MPSF Championships that concluded Saturday, while the BYU men’s team claimed its fifth title and first since 2016. Meet Page Full Results The BYU men put forth a dominant performance, scoring 885.50 points to outdistance Ha...

Out of the Pool: Mark Chay on Journey from BYU, Joining Singapore’s Parliament and Esports Mark Chay’s career since graduating BYU has taken him all over the world. In the pool, Chay represented Singapore at two Olympic Games. Out of it, he’s worked just about everywhere. He’s worked for a national ...

Big 12 Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Emma Sticklen Starts Texas Top Seed Parade Two (2!) events at the Big 12 Championships Thursday night went to swimmers not from the University of Texas. Normal service was restored on Friday. Five of the six events have a Longhorn having earned the middle lane in...

Big 12 Championships, Day 2 Prelims: Kelly Pash, Erica Sullivan Lead Texas Women  There will be little to stop Texas from filling the podium at the Big 12 Championships this week, and Wednesday’s prelims opener at the Aquatics Center at Mylan Park is showing that from the get-go. Erica Sullivan took...