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By Andy Ross. With the 2018-19 school year underway, many teams are getting their toes wet with fall training as we dive into a new season. Last year, the Stanford women won their second straight national title and won all five relays, putting themselves amongst the talks of the greatest NCAA teams ...

The Texas women's swimming & diving team swam to four school records in the first two nights of the Texas Invitational. Madisyn Cox was right in the middle of all of them. Cox won the 200 IM (1:52.83) in an NCAA "A" cut. Cox's time was the fastest in the nation this season. The 10-time All-American ...

The tri-meet featuring host Texas and challengers Indiana and Florida is taking on an exciting format, with the first day of the meet running the usual dual meet schedule in long course meters. The second day of the meet will feature the same events, but in short course yards. With teams putting a s...

Katie Ledecky continued to make distance swimming look easy as she swam a 3:59.25 in the 400 freestyle on Saturday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in April, which is her 20th time under the 4:00 mark. Ledecky finished well in front of the reigning Olympic bronze medalist Leah Smith at 4:06.37, wh...

By David Rieder. It’s fairly atypical for the results of a college dual meet to turn into the top swimming news story of the weekend—particularly with an Arena Pro Swim Series meet going on concurrently. But one such meet did Saturday as the Texas women defeated Georgia by a score of 171-124. Just a...

15-year-old Chinese rising star Li Bingjie swam a 4:06.87 to win the 400 free on Saturday night at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Austin. Li was looking Ledecky-esque in her swim as she was well ahead of the rest of the swimmers in the final with NC State senior Hannah Moore finishing second at 4:11.48....

The third morning of the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series in Bloomington kicked off bright and early after a climactic night of competition on Friday. Katie Ledecky made her return after putting up one of the best performances in the world last night in the women's 400 free, while Zane Grothe sought a monop...

Photo Courtesy: David Farr VERACRUZ - Venezuela nearly ran the gold medal table on Wednesday night at Central American and Caribbean Games swimming in Veracruz, Mexico. Venezuela's Andreina Pinto tracked down the women's 800-meter free meet record in 8:39.49, clearing her 2010 mark of 8:40.51.  That...

By Jason Tillotson. Pros and collegiate stars clashed again as night three of the 2017 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational commenced in Austin. While no records were broken, many of the nation's fastest times this year were surpassed tonight in the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. After winning...

In a Friday afternoon NCAA swimming showdown at Casey Aquatic Center in Raleigh, N.C., the NC State Wolfpack and Texas Longhorns faced off for the third straight year. In the end, neither meet was all that competitive in the team race, as the Texas women and NC State men each scored big wins. Women'...

By David Rieder. A season ago, Stanford sprinter Simone Manuel and diver Kassidy Cook each took redshirt years to focus on their Olympic preparations, and superstar Katie Ledecky deferred enrollment for the same reason. At the NCAA championships, the 200 free relay team that appeared to have won a n...

The final morning of action from the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series at Austin featured a new lineup as the 50 stroke shootouts will make an appearance later on tonight at finals. Michael Andrew is the only swimmer that is the top seed in more than one event as he leads the 50 free and 50 fly heats. The 40...

By Dan D’Addona. Texas continued its California invasion by taking on No. 1 Stanford in front of a crowd of 1,800-plus. The huge crowd got its money’s worth as seven pool records fell and the top-ranked Cardinal held off the No. 4 Longhorns 161-137. Stanford freshman Katie Ledecky had two pool recor...

The psych sheets for the final stop of the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series at Clovis have been released. The meet will be a little light on the entries with a lot of the big names skipping the meet to prep for the World University Games, World Championships and Pan American Games. Some of the big names on ...

As foretold by the heat sheets, Katie Ledecky dominated the competition in the 800 free at the 2019 TYR Pro Swim series in Bloomington. There was just one question that lingered before she took her mark–What magic did she have in her today? Quite a bit. Despite a long four days of competition, Ledec...

Katie Drabot took it all in the women's 200 fly in one of the most climactic events of the meet. Despite leading seventeen-year-old Regan Smith by half a second at the 150, the race came down to the final stroke, where Drabot finished long and touched in just 0.01 ahead of Smith. Surging past the re...

Michael Andrew, Lilly King, Ian Finnerty, and Margo Geer joined forces to post the fastest mixed relay of the TYR Pro Swim Series at Bloomington, dropping a 1:43.35 to beat the quartet of Gabby DeLoof, Devon Nowicki, Nic Fink, and Simone Manuel (1:46.46). Lisa Bratton, Andrew Wilson, Sarah Gibson, a...

Jay Litherland, a notorious IM swimmer, may have another event on the docket come 2020. Dropping a 1:57.99 in the 200 fly on Day 2 of the TYR Pro Series in Bloomington, Litherland cinched a decisive win to establish his presence in a new race. Upsetting Corey Gambardella (1:58.49), Litherland slashe...

The Toyota US Open, which is set to begin next week November 12 – 14, will be split across nine different sites in order to lessen travel for swimmers and coaches and participate safely in a less crowded environment while still racing in a competitive format. The final psych sheet for San Antonio ha...

Weathering the Storm at Big 12s, Texas's Evie Pfeifer Out for More at NCAAs For all the things that Evie Pfeifer and her University of Texas teammates endured in 2020, a snow-pocalypse ahead of the 2021 Big 12 Championships seemed excessive. Four days without running water in her swimmers’ house, ot...