{"id":638182,"date":"2026-03-06T17:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=638182"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:48:43","slug":"shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Verge,<\/strong> who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Verge\u2019s retirement is effective June 30. The 1989 graduate of Ship has been at the helm of his alma mater since the 1998-99 season, with a one-year hiatus in 2009-10 to serve as the university\u2019s assistant director of athletics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a wonderful journey,&#8221; Verge said <a href=\"https:\/\/shipraiders.com\/news\/2026\/3\/4\/womens-swimming-head-mens-and-womens-swimming-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a press release<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been very blessed over the years as a coach to experience some euphoric moments with some wonderful student-athletes. I&#8217;ve always been very proud of the commitment my teams have put into striving for great academic success. Personally, one of the things I feel the best about is that I&#8217;ve never missed a graduation in all my years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/ncaa-division-ii-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA Division II Coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Verge has led the Division II program to prominence in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. His women\u2019s teams have finished in the top five in the conference on 15 occasions, including four top-three finishes. The men\u2019s teams have nine top-four and five top-three finishes in the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Verged coached seven All-American swimmers, all on the women\u2019s side, led by 2004 graduate <strong>Erin Goodhardt,<\/strong> a 17-time honor. He mentored more than 25 qualifiers for women\u2019s NCAAs, including seven honorable mention All-Americans from 2009-12, and three men were named honorable mention All-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve enjoyed my teams lately more than I did years ago; I&#8217;ve probably gotten softer,&#8221; Verge said. &#8220;It has made it a lot of fun these last few years especially. But it&#8217;s just time. I think I&#8217;ve just run out of gas to give it my everything every day which the team deserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verge has coached for 36 years at the college level, starting in 1989 as an assistant at Edinboro. After three years there, he spent two seasons as an assistant at Northern Arizona and one at Arizona State. He was named the head coach at Ashland University in 1995, holding that position for three years.<\/p>\n<p>He swam for Shippensburg from 1986-89, serving as a co-captain as a senior for a team that finished fourth at NCAAs, the highest finish in program history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement Tim Verge, who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":638183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[71510,60373,128256,137504],"class_list":["post-638182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-ncaa-division-ii-coverage","tag-psac","tag-shippensburg","tag-tim-verge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tim Verge, who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of the season.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tim Verge, who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of the season.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdoctormd\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\"},\"headline\":\"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/\"},\"wordCount\":382,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"NCAA Division II Coverage\",\"PSAC\",\"Shippensburg\",\"Tim Verge\"],\"articleSection\":[\"College\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/\",\"name\":\"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00\",\"description\":\"Tim Verge, who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of the season.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: Shippensburg University\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\",\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\"},\"description\":\"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement","description":"Tim Verge, who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of the season.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement","og_description":"Tim Verge, who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of the season.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sportsdoctormd","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/"},"author":{"name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3"},"headline":"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement","datePublished":"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/"},"wordCount":382,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg","keywords":["NCAA Division II Coverage","PSAC","Shippensburg","Tim Verge"],"articleSection":["College"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/","name":"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg","datePublished":"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-07T00:48:43+00:00","description":"Tim Verge, who has been the head coach at Shippensburg University for 27 years, announced his intent to retire at the end of the season.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: Shippensburg University"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/shippensburg-head-coach-tim-verge-announces-retirement\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Shippensburg Head Coach Tim Verge Announces Retirement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3","name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer"},"description":"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: Shippensburg University","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShippVerge.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-2G1g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638184,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638182\/revisions\/638184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}