Read moreMorning Swim Show: Steady Growth Presents Challenges, Opportunities for Springfield (Ohio) YMCA Swimming25 June 2014PHOENIX, Arizona, June 25. TODAY'S edition of The Morning Swim Show continues our special two-part series looking at two swimming programs in cities named Springfield. Today's show takes us to Ohio and the Springfield YMCA team there. YouTube Measures Views Only For Episodes Watched On YouTube Subsc...
Read moreTritonWear Set Of The Week: Aerobic Speed03 February 2016TritonWear is the proud sponsor of the Set Of The Week. This week’s TritonWear Set Of The Week is from Coach Jeff Rapp, a graduate assistant coach at Springfield College who is currently completing a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology. This is a high intensity set that is described as developing “aerobic ...
Read moreDivision III Championship Preview: The NEWMAC19 February 2019Championship season is officially in full swing. With NCAA Division III teams competing in over 30 different conference championship meets, it's tough to keep track of them all, but Swimming World will offer a preview of the action at the country's fastest and deepest meets. Here's a glimpse at what...
Red Silvia Dies07 July 1998A legend in swimming, Coach Charles E. "Red" Silvia died in his home in Springfield, MA on June 16, 1998. He was 87. "Red Silvia was a coaches coach. In the 1970's, there were 700 college coaches in the United States and more than half of them were Silvia's college swimmers. Red was ahead of his tim...
Read moreCrescent Valley Girls, Springfield Boys Named Oregon 5A State Champions17 February 2019The 2019 Oregon 5A State Swimming Championships took place on Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Tualatin Aquatics Center in Beaverton, Ore. Crescent Valley won their first girls' team title since 2011, finishing the meet with 79 points ahead of West Albany (49) and North Bend (41). Springfield earned the cha...
Read moreDivision III Preview: The Final Dual Meet Stretch30 January 2019This weekend is the final big dual meet weekend of the 2018-2019 NCAA Division III season. A few teams will have one final dual next weekend, but most are off and resting, or taking their non-conference squad to an Invite. Next weekend Johns Hopkins will race at the Nike Cup, the year-end meet for t...
NCAA Div. II: DRury Drubs Delta State28 January 2001SPRINGFIELD, MO., Jan. 27. DRURY COLLEGE proved why it is one of the perennial powerhouses in Division II Swimming & Diving, as the Panthers handed Delta State a 281-184 combined team loss Saturday. The Lady Statesmen fell 81-149 and slip to 7-4 on the season, while the Statesmen were defeated 103-1...
Read moreDivision III Diving Regionals: MIT and Chicago Women Qualify Four Each for NCAAs04 March 2019At this weekend's four NCAA diving regional meets 24 men and 29 women qualified for the 2019 NCAA Division III Championships, to be held March 20-23 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Chicago and MIT women had impressive showings, each qualifying four divers to nationals, the highest number of any p...
Read moreDivision II Drury Takes Down Division I Missouri State in Springfield Showdown23 January 2014SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, January 23. MOST cities in the United States can’t boast two collegiate swimming and diving teams that are equally matched, but that is what Springfield, Mo., can claim. With NCAA Division II champions Drury and Division I Missouri State in the city limits, the residents of th...
Read moreGetting to Know First-Time NCAA Division I Men's Qualifiers: Missouri State's Uvis Kalnins17 March 2014SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, March 17. AFTER a week of highlighting first-time NCAA qualifiers for the women's swimming and diving championships, we're starting to feature some of the men who will be racing at the biggest meet of the season for the first time. Our daily series of Q&A articles continues th...
Read moreYMCA Nationals Produces 4 Olympic Trial Cuts; Katrina Konopka Sets National Record In 50 Free06 August 2015YMCA Nationals finished their fourth day of competition at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana with four Olympic trial cuts and one national record. In the women's 400 Freestyle, 16 Year old Abbey Erwin from Downtown Boise Idaho outpaced Emily Ilgenfritz (17) from York PA, and Lauren Soleo...
Read moreNearly 80 Aquatics Athletes Dot CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's Teams 15 May 2014Aquatics athletes definitely put a hurting on the rest of the field when it came to claiming spots on the CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's teams this year. Nearly 80 female student-athletes from across all divisions made their way onto the district teams as shown below. District 1 Winners NCAA D...
Read moreDivision III Recap: MIT Continues NEWMAC Title Streaks26 February 2019The MIT men won the NEWMAC title for the eleventh straight year while the women claimed their ninth straight. Continuing their upward trends from last year, the men from the US Coast Guard Academy finished second and the women from Wheaton College were runner up. Men Jack Bauer of WPI was named the ...
Read moreMore Than 60 Aquatics Athletes Make CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's Teams15 May 2014More 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 ...