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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, 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:...

West Virginia Adds Lauren Cassano as Associate Head Coach The University of West Virginia announced on Monday that it has hired Lauren Cassano to the staff of head coach Vic Riggs. Cassano was an assistant coach at Saint Francis University in Pennsylvania last year. She oversaw the sprint and distan...

By Sarah Noll, Swimming World College Intern.  West Virginia is best known for its country roads and beautiful scenery. When people think of swimming in West Virginia, they might not even imagine a pool so much as a river. However, the swimming community in West Virginia is growing rapidly. While it...

AUSTIN, Texas, February 28, LILY Moldenhauer made good on her prelim performances today at the Big 12 swimming and diving championships, posting two meet records in finals. After a 51.55 in the 100 backstroke prelims to erase the meet and school record held by Kathleen Hersey since 2009, Moldenhauer...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Feb. 18. THE UNIVERSITY of Pittsburgh men and the Notre Dame women each captured its fifth consecutive BIG EAST Championship tonight at the 2001 BIG EAST swimming and diving championships, being held at the Goodwill Games Swimming Center. The Panthers won the men's competition w...

AUSTIN, Texas, February 27. THE Texas Longhorns continued to dominate tonight at the Big 12 men’s and women’s swimming and diving championships, winning all but one event. Only one automatic qualifying time for the NCAA championships posted on the scoreboard tonight, and that came in the final event...

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 ...

West Virginia Adds Canadian Olympian Sydney Pickrem As Assistant Coach Canadian Olympian Sydney Pickrem is joining West Virginia as an assistant coach, the school announced on Thursday. Pickrem will compete in Paris at her third Olympics. She won bronze in the medley relay in Tokyo to go with seven ...

West Virginia Transfer Mackenzie Pagett Leads Penn State Sweep of Mountaineers West Virginia transfer Mackenzie Pagett won a pair of events Saturday to lead Penn State to a sweep over the Mountaineers. The margin was similar in both meets, with the women scoring a 189-91 victory and the men prevaili...

West Virginia Invitational: Wins Spread Evenly on Opening Day If parity is your thing, then the West Virginia Invitational is the meet of choice this week. The 10 events on the opening day were won by swimmers from five different schools, with four schools evenly divvying up the relay victories. Whi...

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...

The Mountaineers of West Virginia University swimming and diving teams held their senior day ceremonies on Saturday, February 1st. This represented the last regular season meet the team would host this season. Both Mountaineer teams were victorious over the visiting Colonials of George Washington Un...

Mia Cheatwood, Ada Szwabinska Lead West Virginia to Tri-Meet Sweep Mia Cheatwood and Ada Szwabinska won two individual events and two relays apiece as West Virginia swept a tri-meet against Iowa State and Villanova Saturday. West Viginia bested Villanova, 173.5-125.5 and Iowa State, 191-108. Villano...

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...

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage (recruiting, results, state championships, etc.) on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website Agonswim.com West Virginia University head coach Vic Riggs announced the Mountaineers’ recruiting hull for the 2015-2016 s...

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...

By Jessica Drogemuller, Swimming World College Intern Brenau Women, West Virginia Tech Men Rule the ASC The 2014-2015 collegiate swim season has wrapped for the Appalachian Swimming Conference. After a rough conference meet last year, it was exciting to see how this year would go and ASC swimming di...

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...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 29. THE University of Virginia men's and women's swimming and diving teams are hosting five other teams in the 2000 Cavalier Invitational Thursday, November 30 through Saturday, December 2 at the UVa Aquatic and Fitness Center. The other teams competing in the invi...