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CHRISTIANSBURG, Virginia, January 18. THE Virginia Tech men's swimming and diving team swept Harvard and Wisconsin and beat Virginia for the first time in more than 32 years as the Hokies wrapped up a two-day dual meet this afternoon. Meanwhile, Virginia women swept all three of their dual meets ove...

By Andy Ross, Big Ten Beat Writer Dylan Bosch is the lone top seed for the Michigan Wolverines as they placed enough bodies in the finals to be able to sustain their 150 point lead. The real battle is for second as Ohio State had a slim margin after three days over Indiana. The fourth place battle i...

Anthony Marcantonio, a 19 year old former member of the University of Virginia Swimming & Diving team, has filed a 10 count lawsuit against his five former teammates. According to an article in the Charlottesville Daily Progress, the suit includes allegations related to hazing that occurred in the f...

By Andy Ross, Big Ten Beat Writer Michigan collected three individual wins on Saturday night at the 2016 Men's Big Ten Championships from West Lafayette, Indiana and cruised to its sixth straight team title. The Wolverines also clinched their 40th overall Big Ten championship crown and have swept th...

The B1G men’s championship meet continued with the Day 3 morning session of preliminaries for individual events. Ohio State's Matt McHugh took the top seed in both the 100-yard butterfly and 100 backstroke. Here is a look at who made the finals: 400 IM Michigan freshman Charles Swanson took the top ...

Commentary by David Rieder GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 1. WHAT a meet. The past three days in Greensboro have brought one of the fastest men’s ACC meets ever, with meet records falling in seemingly every other event. Individually, Pavel Sankovich has been the star, earning individual wins in t...

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Matias Koski can say he’s beaten one of history’s best in the 200 freestyle, taking down Ryan Lochte in the event Friday in Athens, Ga., at the USA Swimming sectionals. Koski, who was raised in the United States but represents Finland internationally, made a big push in his long course standing in t...

ORLANDO, Florida, March 18. THE women kicked off the 2014 National Club Swimming Association short course junior nationals with thrilling ties for first place in two of the three events they contested tonight. The lead changed hands three times in the eighth of eight timed final heats in the women’s...

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 4. WE bring you four interviews from the deck of last week’s Atlantic Coast Conference men’s swimming championships on today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show, conducted by Swimming World correspondent David Rieder. Virginia Tech head coach Ned Skinner talks about the ingre...

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott CHARLOTTESVILLE - Virginia Swimming, for the second year in a row, has had a high-profile student-athlete suspension as head coach Augie Busch has pulled five student-athletes from competing during the rest of fall 2014 semester. In a release today, Virginia confirmed t...

RALEIGH, North Carolina, February 2. THE University of Virginia and North Carolina State University swimming and diving teams swam to a split in their dual meets yesterday afternoon, with the Virginia women and NC State men coming out on top. Leah Smith (500 and 1000 free), Courtney Bartholomew (100...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, February 9. VIRGINIA'S Leah Smith and JB Kolod broke school and pool records while Laura Simon added a third pool record as the University of Virginia swimming and diving teams swept Pittsburgh on Senior Day yesterday afternoon. Smith posted a sizzling time of 9:33.29 in w...

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, January 25. NORTH Carolina and Virginia, two teams that should figure prominently in next month’s ACC championship, met today in a very close dual meet. Both meets came down to the final event, the 400 free relay. By that time, the Virginia women had a 146-135 lead, and ...

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 1. IN one of the most entertaining conference championships this season, the Virginia Tech men's squad held off a some big time final-day firepower by the N.C. State Wolfpack to take home the title. It proved to be a historic night for the Hokies, considering they h...

Ali Deloof led the women's 100-meter free in prelims of the final day of the Long Course Speedo Sectionals in Athens, GA. Deloof posted a 56.03 to claim the top seed for tonight's finals. Lauren Earp finished second with a 56.26, dropping .46 seconds off her entry time of 56.72. Andrea Kneppers roun...

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, July 18. A day after Katie Ledecky lit up the 200 free, Leah Smith turned in a world-class effort in the 400 free at the Potomac Valley Senior Championships. Leah Smith set a lifetime best in the women's 400-meter free with a sizzling time of 4:06.93. Not only did it beat the...

Lauren Earp moved up to claim first in the women's 100-meter free with a 56.00 during finals of day four of the Long Course Speedo Sectionals in Athens, GA. Ali Deloof finished second with a 56.15, while Alexia Zevnik took third with a 56.46. Michael Chadwick claimed first in the men's 100-meter fre...

By Dan D’Addona. After a relatively slow start to the new year, the Big Ten will have plenty of action this week. Wisconsin will swim against USC in a nationally ranked battle (more on that in the Pac-12 weekly preview), and most of the teams will be in action. The marquee matchup in the Big Ten thi...