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The No. 4 Hoosier men (7-0) recorded the team's 20th-straight dual meet victory, taking down No. 8 Michigan, 170.5-129.5. The win for the IU men's team at Michigan is the first since the 1980-81 season. Indiana's Blake Pieroni led the way for the Hoosier men, winning three individual events. The sen...

By Dan D’Addona. ANN ARBOR — The Michigan swimming program has big plans for the end of the season. The Wolverines are ranked in the top 10 in the country in both the men’s and women’s polls and looking to keep the momentum going into the Big Ten Championships and NCAA Championships. Michigan capped...

By Michael J. Stott. Several years ago,the PGA embarked upon its “These Guys are Good” campaign promulgating the talent of its membership. The NCAA has a similar award called the Elite 90. It is conferred upon “the individual reaching the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level wh...

By Dan D'Addona. The Big Ten Conference dual meet season is winding down with just a handful of meets on this final week before teams begin to prepare for the Big Ten Championships. The biggest meet is one of the best rivalries in sports — Michigan vs. Michigan State. Now, in all honesty, it has not...

After shattering the World Record in the 1500 and the U.S. Open mark in the 400 freestyle, Katie Ledecky will be back in the water on the final night of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series Indianapolis in the 800 distance. She owns the top seed in the event as does Club Wolverine's Felix Auboeck who will b...

Chris Swanson Gives Penn Its First NCAA Title With Blazing Final 50 in the 1650 With the NCAAs being cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Swimming World wanted to take a trip down memory lane and re-live some races from the 2016 NCAAs in Atlanta to fill the void of no live swimming. Tod...

Connor Jaeger and Jordan Wilimovsky set the pace in 1500 free final. Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look ...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. The counterweight to the IOC’s and FINA’s longtime inju...

By Robbie Dickson, Swimming World College Intern Now that the men's NCAA Championships are over, it is time to reflect back on the record-breaking weekend and determine which race was the most exciting. Many would argue that it would be the 100 butterfly, where Florida's Caelab Dressel upset Texas' ...

Stanford stand-out Katie Ledecky and Michigan's PJ Ransford are among the athletes highlighted by the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America Division I At-Large Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Both Ledecky and Ransford were also selected as the 2018...

Behind a combined six wins from seniors Evan White, PJ Ransford and Tristan Sanders, the No. 7-ranked University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team swept No. 16 Ohio State (157-143) and No. 19 Virginia Tech (196-104) in a championship-like environment on Saturday (Jan. 20) inside the McCorkl...

NCAA Swimming Flashback: The Greatest College Distance Race Ever Most non-hardcore swimming fans find watching a mile-long race boring. TV broadcasts like to take commercial breaks during the 1500-meter or 1650-yard freestyle, and excitement around the race is toned down compared to upcoming relay s...

By Robbie Dickson, Swimming World College Intern The question people in the sport of swimming ask after the Olympics are over typically is, "Will there be a post-Olympic depression?" The 2016-2017 NCAA season should have buried all these speculations by now. A majority of the conference meets that h...

In London in 2012 Connor Jaeger was sixth in the 1500. Saturday morning, he was the only swimmer under 15 minutes, clocking a 14:58.59. That was his season's best, good for 14th in the world this year. Jordan Wilimovsky swam a 14:53.12 at the Mesa stop of the Arena Pro Swim Series. That time put the...

By Dan D'Addona. The University of Michigan women’s swim team won the Georgia Fall Invitational on Sunday. The No. 4 Wolverines concluded the three-day meet with 991.5 points. No. 5 Georgia was second with 833, edging No. 6 Cal (830). No. 16 Virginia took fourth with 633.5, followed by No. 25 UCLA (...

The men's 1500 free is one of the most wide open races on the schedule next week at the Phillips 66 US National Championships in Indianapolis. Both Connor Jaeger and Jordan Wilimovsky, the United States' two Olympic qualifiers in the event last summer, won't be competing in Indy, leaving the door wi...

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The Big Ten Conference office announced its annual postgraduate scholarship recipients on Thursday. Two students competing in intercollegiate athletics from each of the 14 Big Ten institutions who plan to continue their education at a graduate degree program were each awarded a $7,...

By Dan D'Addona. The Big Ten season is gearing up for a full month of conference showdowns. The first one begins Saturday as Indiana faces Michigan in Ann Arbor. Much of the focus has been on the Michigan women this year, who have been near the top of the national rankings for most of the season. Th...

After some fast swims in the 1500 on night one, the second finals session of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series from Columbus, Ohio will feature the 100 Fly, 400 Free, 200 Breast and 100 Free. Michael Andrew and Margo Geer led the way this morning after posting the fourth fastest 100 Free times by America...

By Dan D’Addona. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The format was unprecedented: A “tripleheader” of dual meets between two top-level opponents. Best 2-out-of -3 wins, but the Michigan swimming and diving team swept Louisville in all three sessions in both the men’s and women’s meet. But facing Louisville wasn’t t...