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By Doug Mariboe AMY BALCERZAK (Sharon, Pa.), a former All-American swimmer and valedictorian at The Peddie School, capped off three months of FINA World Cup Short Course competitions by capturing first place points and prize money in the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke events and the 200m individual ...

GERMANTOWN, Maryland, February 9. KATIE Ledecky's national high school record in the 200 freestyle Saturday at the D.C. Metro high school championships had the crowd on its feet, posting a 1:42.38 in the final. In the video player below, watch the footage of Ledecky's amazing swim. Special thanks to...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 22. Olympians Aaron Peirsol, Diana Munz, Megan Quann and Scott Goldblatt all were winners tonight, on the fourth day of competition at the USA Swimming Spring National Championships, being held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Peirsol, who set a world record i...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. The winter high school swimming and diving season is beginning to wind down, but not before many athletes across the country take the blocks to take aim at some insanely fast USA high school swimming national records. The USA high school swimming rec...

SEWELL, New Jersey, February 23. THE Villanova women and Xavier men entered Saturday's finals session at the BIG EAST Swimming and Diving Championships as the respective leaders. Both teams made the leads stick. The Wildcats claimed their first BIG EAST title since 1996 with 842 points to sit atop t...

By Kate Walter, Swimming World Intern.  There’s nothing fans love to see more than two of their favorite athletes posing together for an Instagram photo. On the rare occasion when Olympic swimmers emerge from the pool to socialize, some of them have found time to hang out and even form friendships w...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 30. TWO of swimming’s most decorated coaches – Bob Bowman (Baltimore, Md.) and Teri McKeever (Berkeley, Calif.) – have been selected to lead the United States’ team as head coaches at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, USA Swimming announced at this month’s Nationa...

Courtesy www.usawaterpolo.com United States National Team coach John Vargas announced the members of the team that will compete in the XI FINA Water Polo World Cup September 28-October 3, 1999 in Sydney, Australia. The World Cup serves as a pre-Olympic test event, and includes the eight best teams i...

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...

AUBURN, ALA. - The No. 1-ranked Texas men's swimming and diving team posted a 136.50-103.50 victory over No. 4 Auburn, on Thursday night at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center in Auburn, Alabama. After falling to No. 6 Tennessee, 121-120 last Saturday, the Longhorns came back strong, winning eig...

* The Longhorns return to action this weekend when they travel to No.19 Texas A&M. Texas defeated the Aggies (238-131) the last time the two schools faced off on Jan. 26-27, 2001. The Horns are a perfect 22-0 vs. Texas A&M under the direction of head coach Eddie Reese (since 1979). * Texas was victo...

More then 60 male student-athletes from across all divisions and aquatic sports earned spots on the CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's teams this year. As shown below, some of the best minds in all of college are on the list. District 1 Winners NCAA Division I FIRST TEAM Swimming Mike Mosca HARVARD ...

Five international recruits have signed with the Florida State Seminoles. The Seminoles signed 11 swimmers in total. Swimming World looked into the Florida State recruiting class. Manuella Ribas Andrade Andrade is from Curitiba, Brazil and currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. She specializes ...

By Bill Hurd CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Jan. 27. THE University of Virginia men's and women's swimming and diving teams concluded the home dual meet portion of their respective schedules with victories over Duke on Saturday afternoon (January 27) at the UVa Aquatic and Fitness Center. The 11th-ran...

GREENSBORO, N.C., Feb. 6. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA senior Jamie Grimes (Olney, Md./Sherwood) and freshman Carlie Dykehouse (Gainesville, Fla./Trinity Prep) have been selected as the Atlantic Coast Conference men's and women's Swimmers of the Week, respectively, for their performances in UVa...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, February 22. IN what will likely be one of the closest finishes in the 114 years of the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships, Loyola Blakefield defeated defending champion Peddie School for the boys’ team title by 7.5 points. Germantown, on the other ...

COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 26. THE 14th-ranked Virginia women's swimming and diving team kept it perfect dual meet record intact with a 131-111 victory over South Carolina Saturday (January 26) at the Carolina Natatorium. The 12th-ranked UVa men weren't as fortunate as the Cavaliers fell to the ei...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 23. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of America's annual awards banquet is always a star-studded affair, at least in terms of the Who's Who of college swimming. This year's event was no exception, with some legendary names in attendance to accept several awards. Tim We...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., Feb. 17. HOPING to emulate its men's basketball team, which is top-ranked nationally and favored to win this year's Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, the UNC Lady Tar Heels showed their collective "heels" to the rest of the conference here this weekend by sweeping...

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 29, THE University of Texas men's and women's swimming and diving teams will host the 2000 Texas Invitational on Friday-Sunday, December 3-5 at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. On Friday and Saturday, preliminaries will be held at 10 a.m. with finals set for ...