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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...

‘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...

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...

By David Rieder. No, there is no long course World Championships in 2018. It’s that awkward middle year between Olympic cycles where the world’s best swimmers will never all be in the same pool at the same time. So for this year, there will be no definitive answer of “Who is the best?” The good news...

Allowing Lia Thomas to Compete At NCAA Championships Would Establish Unfair Setting The competition is scheduled for March 16-19, 2022. The site is the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. A tantalizing Virginia-Stanford battle for the team title is expected. Maggie MacNeil should chase several individual r...

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 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...

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...

STANFORD, California, April 17. DR. Rick Schavone announced his retirement Thursday after 36 seasons as Stanford's head diving coach. One of the nation's premier diving instructors, Schavone is the architect of the Cardinal diving program while taking the team to unprecedented heights during his tim...

By Abby Boone, Swimming World College Intern No swimmer begins a race thinking they want to come in last place. Every swimmer has goals - times to beat and things to achieve. For many collegiate swimmers, the main goal is to make the NCAA Championships. A conference meet is an excellent place to per...

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...

ESPN, NCAA Agree to Eight-Year Rights Deal Worth $920 million ESPN and the NCAA on Thursday announced a new eight-year rights agreement to broadcast championship events, including swimming. The deal begins in September and runs through the end of the 2031-32 academic year. It covers events on broadc...

ESPN airing NCAA Water Polo Championship 3pm PST Stanford, Calif. – Same pool, same rivals, same trophy on the line – but with just enough change on both benches to make the 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship feel wide open. On Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center, UCLA and USC ...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, March 27. WITH the absence of three of the USA’s biggest Olympic stars and the retirement of half a dozen more, the stage is set for a changing of the guard at the 2001 USA Swimming Spring National Championships, in Austin, Texas, March 27 - April 1. The meet will also ser...

By Phillip Whitten EAST MEADOW, N.Y. March 15. EIGHTEEN year-old University of California freshman, Natalie Coughlin, rocketed to an American record leading off Cal's 400 yard medley relay in the final event of this morning's prelims on Day One of the Women's NCAA Div. I Swimming and Div...

PHOENIX, Arizona, February 28. AMERICAN record breaker Breeja Larson joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show to look back on what fueled her success at the Southeastern Conference championships. Larson, who broke her own American record in the 100 breast last week at the SEC meet, says littl...

This season, a handful of swimmers have already achieved an "A" cut and are qualified for the NCAA Championships in March. In individual events, "A" cuts are calculated using the three-year average of the eighth-fastest time in each event. In relays, it's the three-year average of the 16th-fastest t...

A Statistical Look at Texas' 17th NCAA Championship The year was 1981 and under the direction of third-year coach Eddie Reese, the University of Texas captured its first NCAA championship. The title followed a runnerup showing the previous year and established the Longhorns as a force on the collegi...

NCAA Championships: Proposed Changes in Meet Format, Qualification Tabled Until New Committee Begins The NCAA has tabled discussion on proposals surrounding the national championship swimming and diving meet. There will be a new Division I Swimming and Diving Committee that will be announced this fa...

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. “...