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Seven Notable NCAA Performances From Midseason Invitationals; Luca Urlando Tops the List As the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun. In what felt like a blur, the college swim season has reached its halfway point, with most teams wrapping up their midseason meets. Swimmers threw down a pl...

A Look at the NIL Landscape in Swimming The NCAA approved Name, Image, and Likeness compensation in 2021, opening the door for collegiate athletes to earn money through endorsements and sponsorships. When it comes to NIL, football and basketball dominate the headlines. Swimming, on the other hand, d...

Virginia Shows Off Lineup Pursuing Six-Peat, With Claire Curzan and Anna Moesch Starring At the conclusion of the 2024-25 college swimming season, Virginia graduated two of the most accomplished collegiate swimmers ever. During her four years with the Cavaliers, Gretchen Walsh rewrote the record boo...

World Championships, Day 7 Finals: Kaylee McKeown Rides Blazing Back Half to 200 Back Title, Third-Fastest Time Ever There's no stopping Kaylee McKeown in international backstroke finals. The 24-year-old Australian has a winning streak in the 100 and 200 back dating back to the Tokyo Olympics, and s...

Eddie Reese Texas Showdown, Session 2: Gretchen Walsh Blasts Historic Relay Splits, Third-Fastest 100 Fly Ever It's become standard operating procedure for Gretchen Walsh: whatever meet at which the University of Virginia senior is racing, records will be threatened. That was the case Friday evening...

Ahead of U.S. Trials, the Top-15 Female Swimmers in the Country With the U.S. Trials for this summer's World Championships coming up in less than a week, it is time to assess the best American female swimmers. We previously discussed the top-15 men, and now we will rank the top-15 American female sw...

The month of March is an exciting time across the nation for swimming as collegiate and age group swimmers alike look to wrap up their short course seasons with fast times. While half of college swimming was coming to a head with the 2017 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in In...

TYR Sport Signs Olympic Medalist Claire Curzan At just 17-years-old, Claire Curzan is a rising victor in the water. A 15x Individual NAG record holder and the youngest female athlete to hold an American Record, Curzan has been a facet on the national stage for years.  She exploded onto the internati...

The Top Returning Finishers From the NCAA Championships in 2025-26 Season A large contingent of top performers departed college swimming at the conclusion of last season. Gretchen Walsh concluded her astounding four years representing the University of Virginia by matching or lowering the fastest ti...

NCAA Women’s Championships Pre-Cut Psych Sheet: Virginia Holds 11 Top Seeds in Walsh Sisters' Finale The pre-cut psych sheets for the upcoming NCAA Women's Championships were released Tuesday morning. These are not the final entry lists for the meet, which will be held March 19-22 at Weyerhaeuser Ki...

Women's 100 Back (Amy Bilquist) Defending her top seed from her prelims swim this morning, Scottsdale Aquatic Club swimmer Amy Bilquist is the 2019 national champion in the women's 100 back with a time of 59.64. After coming back from a recent hand injury, the Cal-Berkeley swimmer demonstrated resil...

The 2020 socially distanced virtual US Open continued Friday night from nine different sites across the United States as many of the best American swimmers got their first taste of long course racing in many months. Sarasota, San Antonio, Greensboro, and Huntsville had two overall winners on the nig...

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 the men contending for collegiate titles in the splash-and-dash in this year's.....

U.S. International Team Trials: Torri Huske Fights Through COVID to Nail Down 100 Fly Win; Claire Curzan Shines, Too When the entry lists for the USA Swimming International Team Trials were released, eyes darted to the tantalizing lineup for the women’s 100-meter butterfly. At the top of event’s ent...

World Championships, Day 8 Prelims: Leon Marchand 7th in 400 IM We’ve reached the final day of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, another chance for the trajectories of Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand to intersect. Both the Canadian teen and the French star were the leading lights of the Paris...

Virginia Women Kick Off Post-Walsh Era With Loaded Roster Pursuing Another Title On the way to a fifth consecutive national title last March, the University of Virginia women did not have to worry about maximizing every last point at the NCAA Championships. On the contrary, their win was a forgone c...

ACC Championships, Day 5: Virginia Women, Cal Men Wrap Up Dominant Conference Titles The ACC Championships concluded Saturday evening with the University of Virginia women winning another conference crown amid an era of national dominance while the California men claimed the men's title in their fir...

USA Swimming today announced the names of 83 youth swimmers who will represent the 2019-2020 U.S. National Junior Team. The team increases in size by 16 swimmers from last year’s National Junior Team and is made up of 46 women and 37 men. "Looking at this roster, there is a lot to be excited about,....

The final session of the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships have plenty to watch. Sure, Virginia has locked up a fifth consecutive title, but records will be under fire, and the battle for the 2-3-4 trophies are still going strong. Click here for the final night heat shee...

U.S. Open Prelims: Caeleb Dressel Comes Out Strong with 51.83 in 100 Fly Based on the evidence of Thursday, Caeleb Dressel’s U.S. Open looks less sluggish than sluggish to start. The five-time Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo rectified a B final placement in prelims Thursday by blasting a time of 21.9...