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ESPN airing NCAA Water Polo Championship 3pm PST Stanford, Calif. – Same pool, same rivals, same trophy on the line – but with just enough change on both benches to make the 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship feel wide open. On Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center, UCLA and USC ...

Olympic champion and record holder Michael Phelps has been named the No.1 athlete of the past 25 years by ESPN. The sports network released its decision in a video. Phelps became a household name when he won a record eight Olympic gold medals in 2008 in Beijing. In his career, his is a five-time Oly...

NCAA Women’s Water Polo Final to be Broadcast on ESPNU USA Water Polo and the NCAA are partnering with ESPN to televise the 2025 NCAA women’s water polo final in May. The final, on May 11 at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, will be broadcast live on ESPNU and ESPN+. Internationally, it will be ava...

NCAA Swimming Has a Chance to Emerge From Turbulent Waters in Stronger Position [caption id="attachment_604195" align="alignright" width="450"] Rose is All Smiles[/caption] BERKELEY, Calif. — The sky hung heavy with gray clouds over Spieker Aquatics Complex, a fitting backdrop for the Cal Men’s Swim...

By Julia Cunningham, Swimming World College Intern Swimming is an expensive sport. If you want to be good, you have to own the latest suit technology, you have to constantly replace broken goggles, you have to travel to get to meets. There is no denying that all of those costs are worth it once you ...

The great Mark Spitz will be featured Friday, June 4 @ 7:30 pm PDT on ESPN as the 20th century's 33rd greatest athlete.

Two-time Paralympian Becca Meyers was crowned Best Female Athlete with a Disability at the 25th ESPY Awards yesterday. This is the second time that she has won the award in 2015. Meyers won the award for her performances at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where she took home three gold medals (400 free S1...

Swimming superstar Katie Ledecky was named to ESPN's list of the 20 most dominant athletes of the year. The panel of experts started by "grading the athletes by the strongest performance measures available in their sport over their most recently completed season, including timed scores, earnings and...

USA Swimming announced that ESPN will televise the FINA World Cup (December 1 and 2) in College Station, Texas. The 1 hour tape-delayed broadcast will be the 6th time this year that a swimming competition has been televised (previous 5: 1998 World Championships, 1998 NCAA Men's Championships, 1998 N...

Scholastic Sports America will air a segment about swimming on Monday, March 16 @ 12:30pm PST on ESPN. Other broadcast times: March 19 @ 2:30am PST, March 23 @ 12:30pm PST, March 26 @ 2:30am PST.

BROOKLYN, NY. Today, for the first time this season, the Pac-12 Networks will broadcast a men’s water polo match, an occasion worthy of both celebration and inquiry. Celebration because of the high production values of Pac-12 broadcasts. Questions are also fair game. More than halfway through the se...

NCAA Div. I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships is scheduled to air on ESPN March 23 at 2 pm ET NCAA Div. I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships is scheduled to on ESPN April 4 at 2 pm ET

NEW YORK, Dec. 19. ESPN will broadcast the World Cup III meet this Friday, Dec. 21, at 3:00 pm EST. Check your local listings for the date and time of the broadcast in your area. World Cup III, which was held in East Meadow, N.Y., Nov. 27-28, featured two world records by Natalie Coughlin, 19, Swimm...

A College Swimming Playoff? What About This Approach For the Future? With the College Football Playoff Committee releasing their final rankings of the season last month, four teams were identified as the best in the land and given the opportunity to contend for the national championship. It got the ...

ESPN, NCAA Agree to Eight-Year Rights Deal Worth $920 million ESPN and the NCAA on Thursday announced a new eight-year rights agreement to broadcast championship events, including swimming. The deal begins in September and runs through the end of the 2031-32 academic year. It covers events on broadc...

Seahawks' DK Metcalf Found Love for Swimming Thanks to Russell Wilson En route to the West Division title and a berth in the NFC playoffs, the Seattle Seahawks benefitted from the pool. An ESPN story on Friday highlighted the dynamic between quarterback Russell Wilson and wide receiver DK Metcalf, a...

Not long after losing major sponsors Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren, Ryan Lochte has been dropped by skin-care firm Syneron-Candela and mattress firm Airweave. Syneron-Candela is the parent company of Gentle Hair Removal, who was one of Lochte's top four sponsors going into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Co., June 1. USA SWIMMING and the Lingner Group, who produces the NCAA broadcasts for ESPN, have teamed together to produce Splash TV, the first lifestyle magazine show on swimming to debut in the United States. The premier episode airs this Monday, June 4, at 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. E...

by Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, Texas, March 22. NATALIE Coughlin was crowned Queen of American swimming tonight, after an unprecedented display of awesome speed and unparalleled dominance. The University of California sophomore swam the fastest 50 yard backstroke split in history, twice broke the Americ...

By Mary Wagner (Courtesy of USA Swimming, with additional comments by Phil Whitten) EAST MEADOW, N.Y., Nov. 29. THE final night of the 2001 FINA World Cup in East Meadow, N.Y., was a night of encores for a number of U.S. swimmers. And Natalie Coughlin led the way by setting a world record in the 100...