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Tennessee senior Sean Lehane is having a superior first half of the collegiate swim season, posting consistently fast times in the 200 backstroke in his bid to possibly unseat Ryan Murphy as NCAA champion. In today’s dual meet against Louisville, Lehane swam the fastest non-championship time of his ...

CLEARWATER, Florida, March 26. MICHAEL Andrew took down yet another National Age Group record, this time in the 200 IM, while 16-year-old Aiden Burns put on a show in the 1000 free and then gave Andrew all he could handle in the 200 IM during the first night of racing at the NASA Junior National Cha...

American Record Book Getting Overhaul: King, Banic, Fink All Set Marks The American record book will be in need of exhaustive editing following what transpired at the International Swimming League Grand Final at the Duna Arena in Budapest. Standards seemingly flew from all angles and strokes, includ...

CLEARWATER, Florida, March 28. TIDE Swimming’s Harrison Pierce picked up his fourth and fifth individual titles of the meet, and Simone Manuel won the 50 fly and 100 back during the third night of racing at the NASA Junior National Championship Cup in Clearwater. Sarasota’s Vien Nguyen, who is havin...

A fitter, strong and faster Emma McKeon has sent a strong message to her opponents after it was revealed today that the four-time Rio Olympic medallist had clocked her fastest ever butterfly relay splits during a Gold Coast Training Camp this week. [caption id="attachment_461900" align="alignright" ...

The No. 4/16 Florida Gators split their final dual meet of the season against the no. 9/12 Tennessee Volunteers on Friday at the Jones Aquatics Center. Florida's fourth-ranked men's squad played spoiler to Tennessee on its Senior Day, defeating the Volunteers 178-122. The 16th-ranked Florida women f...

The Tennessee swimming and diving teams started their two-day meet road trip with a dual meet against Southeastern Conference rival Missouri in Columbia, and came away with overall wins in the men’s and women’s dual meets. Tennessee’s freestyle depth helped them win on both sides. The women won hand...

CLEARWATER, Florida, March 27. MICHAEL Andrew broke two more 13-14 National Age Group records in the 50 free and 100 fly and Santa Clara's Aiden Burns just missed out on another in the 500 free during the second night of racing at the NASA Junior National Championship Cup in Clearwater. Andrew now h...

By Dan D’Addona. The No. 10 Florida men defeated No. 20 Tennessee 183-111, while the women's meet came down to the final event, the 400 free relay. No. 15 Tennessee won that last relay, sneaking by the 20th-ranked Gators 151-149. Tennessee’s Kira Toussaint, Madeline Banic, Erika Brown and Micah Boho...

The SEC meet continued with Thursday’s Day 3 preliminaries. Here is a look at who made the finals: Women’s 400 IM Texas A&M’s Sydney Pickrem took the top seed in the 400 IM, finishing in 4:05.98 — three seconds ahead of South Carolina’s Emma Barksdale (4:08.28). A&M’s Bethany Galat took the third se...

As Florida's Caeleb Dressel stood atop the podium after the 100-yard freestyle at the Mizzou Aquatic Center in Columbia, Missouri, he did the iconic Gator chop. The sophomore led the Florida men to a team win at the Southeastern Conference Championships, winning three individual events and setting t...

By Dan D’Addona. It is always exciting when a meet comes down to the final relay. The tension builds slowly with every event until the pool deck is ready to explode. The No. 15 Tennessee women won that final relay against No. 20 Florida to win Saturday's dual meet 151-149 — one of the closest meet o...

Tennessee's Madeline Banic has been named a 2019 Wilma Rudolph Award winner by the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A). Banic was joined by her fellow honorees, Sunkyu Paul Bin from the University of Maryland, Noelle Lambert from UMass-Lowell and Magg...

With the women’s NCAA Championships just days away, thirteen individual titles, five relay crowns and one team championship will be up for grabs at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga. With the departure of reigning NCAA swimmer of the year Missy Franklin and star sprinter Simone Manuel taking...

By Dan D’Addona. While most of the meets across the country the first week of the new year were low-key, one SEC rivalry heated up. It wasn't a training trip meet. It wasn't a meet against a mid-major, it was a good, old fashioned conference rivalry. And it turned out that the rivalry was pretty eve...

Madeline Banic, a National Champion relay swimmer and 12-time All-America selection, joined the University of Missouri swimming and diving staff in an assistant coach role, Head Coach Andrew Grevers announced. Banic spent the 2022-23 as a volunteer assistant coach at her alma mater, Tennessee. "I am...

CLEARWATER, Florida, March 29. SIMONE Manuel of First Colony lowered her own American record in the women’s 100 free, while phenom Michael Andrew lowered two of his own National Age Group records in the 100 breast and 100 free tonight as the NASA Junior National Championship Cup came to a close in C...

The No. 1 Georgia women continue to trail after day three of the Southeastern Conference Championships. The Bulldogs are third in total team points with 584.5 and currently rank behind Texas A&M (657.5) and Tennessee (645.5). On the men's side, Florida leads with 723 points. The Gators are followed ...

There were plenty of meets in the SEC to keep track of this week, most notably, Florida earning a historic win at Georgia. But there were fast swims in other meets across the conference, too. Tennessee sweeps Alabama The Tennessee swimming and diving teams earned their first wins of the season Frida...

By David Rieder. The SEC, ACC women's and Big Ten women's championships are all in full swing at this point, but the ACC, entering the final day of competition, gets the bulk of the attention in today's notebook. Mallory Comerford steps up her game in the 200 free at ACCs. We don't hand out the Luma...