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By Dan D’Addona. When Katie Ledecky put on a Stanford swim cap for the first time, it was a good bet that Stanford is going to win. But the Cardinal have won a lot in the past, last year, nearly winning the NCAA championships. When that cap came on, the real winner was college swimming as a whole. L...

By Dan D'Addona. The No. 3 Stanford women swam through a hail storm and earned 192-100 win over No. 20 Arizona at Avery Aquatic Center on Friday afternoon. Sophomore Ella Eastin won three events and senior Kassidy Cook swept the diving events to lead the Cardinal (4-0, 3-0 Pac-12) in its first meet ...

Worlds Diving: China Adds Two More Golds as Bacon-Cook Miss bronze by .6 Points China added a pair of medals in competition on Monday, moving them to 7-for-7 at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen captured the 3-meter women’s springboard competition, while L...

Photo Credit: David Farr PALO ALTO - The Stanford swimming and diving teams picked up two victories Saturday afternoon as both the men's and women's teams downed Wisconsin at Avery Aquatic Center. The Cardinal women came out on top, 145-91, while the men earned a 148-90 victory. Stanford swept both ...

By Dan D’Addona. The top teams in the Pac-12 will be invaded by the Texas Longhorns this week as three of the top 10 women’s teams in the nation will clash in dual meets in California. It begins on Friday when Texas swims at Cal. The Longhorns enter the week with the No. 7 ranking by the College Swi...

Kassidy Cook, Sarah Bacon Secure Another National Title, Worlds Spot Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon teamed up to win a national title on Friday, claiming the women’s 3-meter synchro crown at the 2023 USA Diving Nationals. They were one of two champions crowned on the third night of the eight-day event...

Divers Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon met at a young age. They quickly discovered that it wasn’t just their names that went together (I mean how can you beat Cook-Bacon?). They became friends despite living in different parts of the country and kept that friendship going while competing against each o...

By Dan D'Addona. Katie Ledecky just continues to impress. Her exploits at the Olympics were impressive enough, even to casual swim fans and Team USA fans that cheer for swimming once every four years. She has continued to impress at the collegiate level. It was hard to top her setting so many pool a...

USA Diving has announced the 91 athletes who have qualified to be part of the 2020 USA Diving High Performance Squad. This program was built to help USA Diving’s athletes achieve their best and to create a clear path for developing athletes who aspire to have international and Olympic success. The H...

USA Diving will be sending nine athletes to the 2021 FINA World Cup to take place in Tokyo, Japan May 1-6, 2021. Among the athletes are 2016 Olympians Kassidy Cook, Michael Hixon and Jessica Parratto as well as newly crowned NCAA Div. 1 Champions Sarah Bacon, Andrew Capobianco and Brandon Loschiavo....

Paris Olympics: Sarah Bacon, Kassidy Cook Claim Synchro Silver for First U.S. Medal The first American medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics belongs to Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook. The U.S. 3-meter women’s synchro pair kicked off Paris with silver in the event at the Paris Aquatics Centre, the first med...

By Dan D’Addona. Stanford’s first national championship in 19 years was expected, but it didn’t become real until the final relay. As senior Lia Neal dove in for the anchor leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay, following Simone Manuel, Katie Ledecky and Janet Hu, the moment began to hit the Cardinal....

If you're reading this post, congratulations. You've made it through two days of bad predictions I'm sure will end up completely wrong. But I may as well finish this off. The final evening of the women's NCAA championship meets will feature five individual finals and the 400 free relay to wrap thing...

By Dan D’Addona. There is a rivalry unlike many others in the nation, especially in the Pac-12 — especially in the pool. On Wednesday, the Cal-Stanford rivalry gets a much-anticipated reboot at Stanford for the annual men's triple-distance meet. Cal’s Ryan Murphy will bring his experience as defendi...

Brandon Loschiavo (Huntington Beach, Calif./West Lafayette, Ind.) and David Dinsmore (New Albany, Ohio/Miami, Fla.) won men’s synchronized 10-meter while 2016 Olympian Kassidy Cook (The Woodlands, Texas) returned to competition to win women’s synchronized 3-meter with Sarah Bacon (Indianapolis, Ind....

Former University of Texas star Alison Gibson and partner Krysta Palmer punched their ticket to the Tokyo Olympics by posting a 28-point victory on Thursday evening in the finals of the Women’s Synchronized 3-meter Springboard competition at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Diving. Gibson and Palmer b...

Kassidy Cook will make her return to the Olympics, while NCAA and national champion Sarah Bacon will join her for the first time. The duo earned spots on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team with a victory in women’s synchronized 3-meter Monday at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Cook and Bacon were the first tw...

By Dan D'Addona.
 Kassidy Cook experienced the monumental high that comes with being an Olympian. But when the diver returned to Stanford as a junior, following Rio, everything was a challenge. Cook, now a senior, took the entire school year off to prepare for the Olympic trials, which paid off with...

By Dan D'Addona. After two amazing weekends packed with four meets and record-breaking performances, the Stanford and Cal women's swim teams will have two weeks off before their epic showdown to close out the Pac-12 regular season on Feb. 11. It is hard to wait two weeks for that! These two teams wi...

By Dan D'Addona. This was the meet everyone was waiting for: No. 1 Stanford vs. No. 2 Cal. A meet packed with Olympians and national champions had some huge moments as Stanford used five pool records to win at Cal, which set two more pool records, 177-123 on Saturday. Stanford (8-0, 7-0 Pac-12) capp...