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The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Click here to view our new interactive digital format! Everything seems to be on target for a colossal clash at men’s NCAAs between last year’s top two teams, Cal and Arizona State. The Golden B...

CSCAA Recommends Return of B Finals, Further Adjustments to NCAA Championships Expect to see consolation finals back on the program at next year's Division I NCAA Championships, but the meet will not simply return to the 2025-and-earlier status quo. A working group established by the College Swim Co...

Texas men’s swimming head coach Eddie Reese has seen a lot of great performances in a career spanning more than four decades. His athletes have set world and American records, made many Olympic teams and won NCAA titles by the truckload. Perhaps current sophomore Clark Smith’s performance Friday at ...

By Peter Baugh, Swimming World College Intern University of Texas sophomore Joseph Schooling hates losing. But, if he has to come in second to someone, it would be teammate Jack Conger, a junior. “Outside the pool we’re great friends, but at meets we kind of just do our own thing,” Schooling said. “...

The NCAA has released its 2024 championship qualifying standards for Division I and Division II programs. The times have continued to creep faster. Automatic "A" qualifying standards are calculated with the three-year average of eighth place for each event. Provisional "B" standards are calculated u...

‘The Biggest Bummer:’ NCAA’s Experimental Cut of B Final Met with Widespread Criticism Thursday night should’ve been a celebration for Chloe Braun, but it ended up looking different than what she had expected. As a junior in 2025, Braun became the first swimmer from UC San Diego to qualify for the N...

NCAA Division I Championship Meets Will Switch Men's, Women's Weeks Every Other Year The NCAA will change its Division I championship schedule in the future. The women's meet will continue to be a week before the men's in odd years, but starting in 2028, the men's meet will be first in even years. T...

Ninth-Place Finishers from NCAA Championships Weigh in on Absence of B Finals Haakon Naughton still remembers the experience of qualifying for his first B-final at the NCAA Championships in 2025. The crowd, flashing with the bright colors of every school. The tense atmosphere. The fierce competition...

Lessons with the Legends: Mike Peppe Sponsored by Dolfin Swimwear Swimming World continues a series in which top coaches share some of the secrets of their success. The March issue of Swimming World Magazine highlights the many accomplishments of Coach Mike Peppe of Ohio State. Last March when Texas...

This early in the U.S. collegiate season, expectations of outstanding times are low. That’s why Peter Kropp’s 52.13 in the 100 breast last weekend in Duke’s first dual meet of the season caused a big ripple in the college ranks. The time is just five hundredths of a second slower than the automatic ...

By Peter Baugh, Swimming World College Intern Will Licon, a junior at Texas, qualified for the U.S. National Team in both the 200-meter breaststroke and the 200-meter individual medley. As a sophomore, Licon won three events at the NCAA National Championships. This is Licon's first year on the natio...

NCAA Appears to Give Lia Thomas Green Light to Compete at Championships Although the NCAA declined to confirm on Tuesday whether Lia Thomas has officially been given the green light to compete at the NCAA Women’s Championships, it appears the University of Pennsylvania swimmer will race at the meet ...

The Sites and Dates for the 2026 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships As we inch closer to the start of the collegiate season, Swimming World is providing a look at where the NCAA will conduct its 2025-26 championships. At the Division I level, the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center will serve as the hos...

CSCAA Survey: College Coaches Overwhelmingly Support Return of B Finals to NCAA Championships If the majority of Division I swimming and diving coaches have their way, the absence of consolation finals from the NCAA Championships will be one-and-done. The College Swim Coaches Association of America ...

Which Schools Have Captured the Most NCAA Team Championships? This year's NCAA Championships will be vastly different, thanks to changes intended to streamline the championship meets. In addition to changes to the schedule, consolation finals have been eliminated. Now, the ninth through 16th-place f...

This commentary by Steven V. Selthoffer, was originally published over 2 years ago. Swimming World thought it was worth republishing in light of Michael Phelps and Anthony Ervin making the 2016 USA Swimming Olympic Team ------- Michael Phelps stepped up on the blocks with a smile on his face during ...

MULTNOMAH, Oregon. MOUNTAIN VIEW'S powerful Cougars clawed their way to both the girls' and boys' 4A state championship swimming and diving titles here on February 17. GIRLS' EVENTS On the girls' side the Cougs were paced by senior sprinter-backstroker Marisa Kozak, who won the 1...

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 4. WHEN the University of Michigan swam a 6:09.85 in the 800 freestyle relay last Wednesday at the Big 10 swimming and diving championships, it set the table for a dominating performance by the Wolverines at the conference meet. And while we highlight the Wolverines on today...

After Trials, Illness Setbacks, Luca Urlando is Ready and Realistic for 2022 Luca Urlando didn’t have the summer of 2021 he dreamed of. November and December weren’t great, either, to be honest. But for a soon-to-be 20-year-old, Urlando is beyond his years in practice handling adversity. Some of it ...

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...