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Photo Courtesy: Mike Comer/ProSwimVisuals.com AUSTIN – Southern Methodist University appeared to be the weaker team at this weekend’s two-day tri-meet against Texas and Arizona, but the Mustangs did not roll over after today’s action, surprising the crowd with a relay victory and several key swims t...

Editorial coverage for U.S. Senior Nationals proudly sponsored by Master Spas! IRVINE, California, August 7. Tucson Ford’s Matt Grevers, who missed out on Worlds in 2011 due to a poor performance at the 2010 selection meet, made sure he was headed to Kazan in 2015 by winning the 50 fly tonight in 23...

Texas is currently chasing its own record for the most event titles by a team at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships. Texas set the record with 11 victories in 2001. Most Event Titles In A Year: 11 – Texas - 2001 9 - Ohio State -1954 9 – Indiana – 1969 9 – Stanford – 1992 8 – Michigan – 1937 8 -...

NCAA Swimming Flashback: Texas Goes Six-Up in 100 Butterfly During 2015 Championship Rout At the 2015 Men’s NCAA Championships, the Texas domination was guaranteed from the very beginning. This was the last season before the 800 freestyle relay was shifted to Wednesday night, so the first finals ses...

By Michael J. Stott The gray skies over the McAuley Aquatic Center may well be a lingering effect from the fire in the water after the first two days of the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Championships. Records have fallen each day, highlighted by jaw-dropping performances by Florida’s Caeleb Dressel, R...

By Sarah Lloyd, Swimming World College Intern In a dogfight of a meet in Austin, Texas on Saturday January 9, the Texas men came up victorious against Georgia, while the Texas women lost a close fight. The men's meet between No. 1 Texas and No. 3 Georgia ended in a 170-110 win for the Longhorns, whi...

AUSTIN, Texas, March 6. THE Texas-Exs had a strong night at the American Short Course Championships with Laura Sogar owning one of the better swims of the night. Canyon's Abbey Weitzeil, Tamara Santoyo, Mik Ranslem and Sophie Fiscella raced their way to the first title of the night with a 1:33.44 in...

Texas showed off its butterfly depth on day three of the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational. In the morning, Joseph Schooling posted a 44.98, a NCAA ‘A’ time standard. Schooling did not swim in finals, and his teammate Jack Conger brought home the title with a time of 45.19. The Longhorns ended the rac...

TUCSON, Arizona, February 1. TEMPERATURES in the mid-50s and a brief rain shower might have kept the men’s and women’s teams from Arizona and Texas from swimming as fast as expected, but the Longhorns extended their lead from yesterday’s competition to win both meets. The Texas women won 196-157 whi...

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Arena Grand Prix - Santa Clara editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Arena USA. Visit ArenaUSA.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, take a look at some amazing photography in our Facebook photo gallery. SANTA CLARA, Calif...

AUSTIN, Texas, July 11. THE Austin stop of the Texas Senior Circuit witnessed some world-class swims tonight. Aggie Swim's Breeja Larson opened up the night with a sterling time in the women's 200-meter breast. She won in 2:25.18, which shot her right up to 16th in the SwimVortex world rankings. Blu...

By David Rieder On paper, Texas looks like the favorite to win the team title at the men’s NCAA championships this week. The psych sheet projections have the Longhorns scoring 408 points, which would put them ahead of NC State (377) and Florida (319). The win would be Texas’ second consecutive victo...

NCAA Championship editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Competitor Swim. Visit CompetitorSwim.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, make sure to check out our Facebook photo gallery for the latest images from the meet in A...

NCAA Championship editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Competitor Swim. Visit CompetitorSwim.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, make sure to check out our Facebook photo gallery for the latest images from the meet in A...

NCAA Championship editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Competitor Swim. Visit CompetitorSwim.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, make sure to check out our Facebook photo gallery for the latest images from the meet in A...

Photo Credit: Texas Athletics AUSTIN - Texas' Clark Smith and Jack Conger and Arizona's Bradley Tandy each posted nation-leading times in their respective individual events to highlight a fast first night of swimming at the Texas Invitational, held at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Au...

On the final day of the 2015 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational, Texas’ Clark Smith had one of the most impressive 15th-place finishes in history. Smith set a new American record in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 8:33.93. The thing is, he did it in the first part of the 1650-yard freestyle. Aft...

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott COLORADO SPRINGS - USA Swimming released the third of three major international team rosters today as it revealed the swimmers selected for the World University Games. In sum, 46 swimmers were named to Team USA for the meet that will take place in Gwangju, South Korea, ...

Hitting your taper as a team is what doing well at NCAAs is all about. One of the keys to winning any swimming championship, or improving the stock of your program for future recruits, is being able to do better than your seeds and that’s done by having your entire team hit their taper. University o...