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West Virginia Hires Matt O’Neill as Head Diving Coach West Virginia has hired Matt O’Neill as the head diving coach, returning to his alma mater, the school announced this week. O’Neill has spent the last six years at Harvard, powering the Crimson to 15 NCAA qualifiers and three All-Americans. Harva...

Big 12 Championships, Night 1: Post-Texas Era Dawns With Biggest Field The 57th and 58th Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships will bestowed this week, to the top men’s and women’s team in the conference. For the first time since 2012, they will go to a team that isn’t Texas. For the first time s...

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...

Big 12 Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Erin Gemmell Poised for 200/500 Double Texas freshman Erin Gemmell delivered a gutsy swim in the 500 free Wednesday night to claim her first Big 12 Championship. She’s after another title in the 200 free on Thursday. Gemmell set the top time in the 200 free at 1:...

Big 12 Championships, Day 2 Prelims: Kelly Pash, Erica Sullivan Lead Texas Women  There will be little to stop Texas from filling the podium at the Big 12 Championships this week, and Wednesday’s prelims opener at the Aquatics Center at Mylan Park is showing that from the get-go. Erica Sullivan took...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we're ...

Mia Cheatwood Sets Program Record as Mountaineers Sweep West Virginia Invitational Mia Cheatwood set a program record in winning the 100 breaststroke as West Virginia swept both titles at the West Virginia Invitational this weekend. The Mountaineers won both meets comfortably, their 2,147 points eas...

Former West Virginia Coach Vic Riggs Hired to Lead D2 Lenoir-Rhyne Vic Riggs, formerly the head coach of West Virginia, is returning to college coaching at Division II Lenior-Rhyne, the school announced Tuesday. Rigs spent 17 seasons at West Virginia, coaching 48 NCAA qualifiers and 17 All-Americans...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 19. THE University of Pittsburgh men and the University of Notre Dame women are set to defend their titles at the 2002 BIG EAST Swimming and Diving Championships. The event will be held at Nassau County Aquatics Center in Uniondale, N.Y. on February 21-23. The Panther men and ...

Ohio State men’s swimming head coach Bill Wadley and diving head coach Justin Sochor announced the program’s 2015-16 competition slate on Monday. The competitive schedule encompasses 12 home events, including the Ohio State Invitational Nov. 20-22. Per tradition, the Buckeyes will kick off the seaso...

West Virginia Adds James Washbish as Assistant Coach West Virginia on Tuesday announced the hiring of James Washbish as an assistant coach. He joins the Mountaineers after spending the last two seasons as an assistant at the University of Ohio. “I am very pleased to welcome James and Kathryn to the ...

AUSTIN, Texas, March 1. IT's pretty much a foregone conclusion that both the men and the women of the Texas Longhorns will win the Big 12 Conference titles with former rival Texas A&M now in the SEC, but that doesn't make the wins any less sweet when you consider some of the fast times going up on t...

Kelly Straub set the Notre Dame platform diving record, her second straight week with a program record, as the Fighting Irish lead West Virginia after day one of a two-day meet. The No. 18 men’s team has a commanding 141-45 lead, while the 18th-ranked women are up 99-67. Straub scored 273.45 points ...

Robert Raymond "Ray" Riordon, who founded the swimming program and Towson University and coached it for 30 years, died on April 23. He was 87 and living in Millsboro, Delaware. Riordon arrived at what was then Towson State in 1964, coaching cross country for three seasons. When Burdick Pool (then ca...

Max Matteazzi Wins Three Races as Pitt Brawls Past West Virginia, George Washington Max Matteazzi won three individual events over a two-day meet at Trees Pool, leading Pittsburgh to wins over West Virginia and George Washington. The Pitt men claimed victories of 210.5-89.5 over GW and 227-70 over i...

NCAA Division II TOP TIMES MEN 50 Freestyle(Auto: 20.99 Consideration: 21.62) 1 J-Berry Ouachita 19.97 2 D-Belleville MO-Rolla 20.48 3 L-Mansfield CSU-Bakersfield 20.99 4 T-Austin UC-Davis 21.00 5 V-Serafimov Drury 21.16 6 T-Albert West Chester 21.17 7 P-Seitz Wheeling Jesuit 21.17 8 J-Whitaker Delt...

COVID-19 Cancels College Competitions This Weekend: Florida State-Texas A&M and More Several college meets have been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic this weekend. Thursday’s meet between No. 18/RV Florida State and No. 22/24 Texas A&M has been canceled out of caution, due to the recent spi...

PHOENIX, Feb. 21. THE latest list of the Boys' High School Top 50 Times, compiled by Bob Klapthor, is out today. The list includes all performances through February 18. The newest rankings include the results of the state championships of Iowa, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, Georgia and West Vir...

Notre Dame and West Virginia will swim each other in a virtual meet Friday and Saturday, after each school had previously scheduled meets cancelled due to opponents’ COVID-19 protocols. Notre Dame was scheduled to swim Pittsburgh, which paused its program while waiting out COVID-19 protocols. Minnes...

Penn State Men Post Road Victory Over West Virginia; Will Roberson Shines Ranked 25th in the College Swimming Coaches Association preseason poll, Penn State won its second straight meet to open the season with a 161-132 victory over West Virginia on Saturday. Full Results Penn State Press Release To...