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Memorial Day Weekend: The Story of Charles Jackson French - A Hero For Our Time On January 19, 2020, the United States Navy announced it was naming a new aircraft carrier after African American WWII war hero “Dorie” Miller. The announcement came more than 78 years after the events at Pearl Harbor th...

Carlye Ellis Joins Navy as Assistant Coach to Women’s Team Carlye Ellis has been hired by the United States Naval Academy as an assistant coach to the women’s swimming team, the school announced Thursday. Ellis joins the staff of head coach John Morrison after two seasons at Duke. She was the recrui...

Navy Sweeps Army, Including Four-Point Thriller in Women’s Meet The United States Naval Academy swept a weekend Star Series dual meet with the United States Military Academy, Navy eking out a four-point win on the women’s side. The meet in Annapolis is a reversal of last year, when Army claimed its ...

Navy to Name Destroyer After Swimming Hero Charles Jackson French The United States Navy on Wednesday announced that it will name a ship after Charles Jackson French, a World War II hero who swam his shipmates to safety. The announcement was made by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro during a key...

Mitchell Schott Breaks Michael Phelps Pool Record as Princeton Sweeps Quad Meet Mitchell Schott took down the United States Naval Academy pool record of Michael Phelps set in 2009 Friday as Princeton swept a quad meet Friday and Saturday. Schott went 1:32.72 in the 200 free. That downed the mark of ...

West Virginia Invitational: Navy Men, West Virginia Women Take Team Crowns The West Virginia women’s team and Navy men’s team claimed titles at the West Virginia Invitational this weekend. Navy scored 2,358 points to run away with the men’s title, despite the host winning all three men’s relays on t...

Army Sets 13 Program Records in First Sweep of Navy Since 1988 Army delivered a Star Series meet to remember Thursday night, setting 13 program record and 12 Crandall Pool marks in a sweep of Navy. The Army women claimed a 169-131 victory. The men followed with a 192.5-107.5 decision. It’s the first...

For the past two years, Bucknell has boasted the East’s best player but that has not translated into titles. In 2017 the Bison were upset by upstart Wagner, and in 2018 they dropped the Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference East (MAWPC) title match in overtime when George Washington scored a miracle go...

In a lost story exposed by the International Swimming Hall of Fame Historian Bruce Wigo, the Charles Jackson French World War II story has found new life and calls for his decoration by the US Navy.   In a letter written on May 17th, 2021 by Congressman Don Bacon to the Honorable Thomas W. Harker, A...

Feature by Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, May 26. WE remember on this Memorial Day weekend the lives of those who fought valiantly for the United States in military action. The toll that the two World Wars took on the global population extended beyond the battlefields, with the Olympic Movement tak...

HONOLULU, HI - Allen Stack, a gold medalist in swimming at the 1948 Olympics, died at the age of 71. Stack, who died at his home on September 19, won a gold medal in the 100m backstroke in 1948. He also swam on the U.S. team in the 1952 Olympics. Stack held six world records and 22 American records ...

The 2019 men’s NCAA season kicked off last weekend with tournaments hosted by the Air Force Academy, Brown, the Naval Academy and UC San Diego. This was not a soft launch; by themselves the Gauchos of UC Santa Barbara looked to upset the prognosticators at the Collegiate Water Polo Association (who ...

Action in Division III is heating up, with a few eager teams getting things rolling already, and the rest coming in the next few weeks. This weekend Emory and Johns Hopkins take on significant competition while Kenyon will get back to racing in a relay meet. Divisional Duel The biggest meet of the w...

By Dan D’Addona. Army-Navy week ends with one of the most iconic football games in the country. It began on Saturday with one of the closest swim meets in the history of the rivalry. Like in football, Navy had held the upper hand in the rivalry recently, the Midshipman winning the past 25 Star Meets...

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, February 23. NAVY crowned eight more champions on Saturday evening to close the 2014 Patriot League Swimming & Diving Championships much as they started it on Wednesday night. It turns out that the lighter schedule on the opening night at Lejeuen Hall was just a tuneup for the M...

Passages: A Tribute to Who Was Lost in the Swimming World in 2020: Part 2 (July-December) The world of swimming endured a number of notable passages in 2020, individuals who enriched the sport in the pool and on deck. In 2020, we lost some of the sports coaching pioneers around the globe. Many of th...

Kevin Houseman A Cut, Brady Samuels Record Wraps up Purdue Invite Brady Samuels of Purdue set a program record to wrap up the final two days of the Purdue Invite, which wrapped up Saturday. Samuels went 45.66 in the 100 butterfly, setting the Purdue record. Andrew Legenfeld had held the program reco...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill swimming and diving teams competed against the visiting Naval Academy teams on Saturday. Both Tar Heel squads came out victorious over the Midshipmen in a competitive Division 1 matchup. Scores UNC men - 160, Navy men - 140 UNC women - 163, Navy women ...

COVID Protocols Cancel College Meets, Including NC State-North Carolina The NC State swimming and diving program will no longer make the trip to rival North Carolina on Friday, Jan. 14 for its originally-scheduled dual meet against the Tar Heels. The decision comes due to COVID-related protocols wit...

Cheryl Murray Has Turned to Masters Swimming For Enjoyment and Competition Despite age, some people still have the desire to get back in the pool, whether it be to keep fit or make friends. Some do it to compete, and some do it win. Cheryl Murray, 69, is retired U.S. Navy. In 2017, she traveled to B...