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NCAA Championships: Day Four Heat Sheets; Wide-Open Field in 200 Individual Medley The University of Texas heads into the final day of the NCAA Championships in Atlanta with a 9.5-point advantage over Florida in the chase for the team title. The Longhorns have accumulated 340.5 points through three ...

‘The Biggest Bummer:’ NCAA’s Experimental Cut of B Final Met with Widespread Criticism Thursday night should’ve been a celebration for Chloe Braun, but it ended up looking different than what she had expected. As a junior in 2025, Braun became the first swimmer from UC San Diego to qualify for the N...

ESPN airing NCAA Water Polo Championship 3pm PST Stanford, Calif. – Same pool, same rivals, same trophy on the line – but with just enough change on both benches to make the 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship feel wide open. On Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center, UCLA and USC ...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Click here to view our new interactive digital format! Everything seems to be on target for a colossal clash at men’s NCAAs between last year’s top two teams, Cal and Arizona State. The Golden B...

Asterisk Needed: Symbol Would Define Lia Thomas' Unfair Advantage at NCAA Championships * * * See those symbols above? They’re known as asterisks, but you probably knew that. In mathematics, they can be used as a multiplication sign. They’re used when letters are omitted from an offensive word, typi...

The Sites and Dates for the 2026 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships As we inch closer to the start of the collegiate season, Swimming World is providing a look at where the NCAA will conduct its 2025-26 championships. At the Division I level, the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center will serve as the hos...

PHOENIX - This is the Poll of the week for Wednesday April 8, 2015 sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know Which American Record swim was the most impressive at the Womens NCAA Championships? The results are in and they are no too surprising. 60% of the v...

The NCAA has released its 2024 championship qualifying standards for Division I and Division II programs. The times have continued to creep faster. Automatic "A" qualifying standards are calculated with the three-year average of eighth place for each event. Provisional "B" standards are calculated u...

ESPN, NCAA Agree to Eight-Year Rights Deal Worth $920 million ESPN and the NCAA on Thursday announced a new eight-year rights agreement to broadcast championship events, including swimming. The deal begins in September and runs through the end of the 2031-32 academic year. It covers events on broadc...

How NCAA Champions Have Performed at Their Midseason Competitions: The Numbers Are Interesting As the weather begins to chill, the holiday season has arrived. It’s a time of relaxation and cheer, a break from the pressures of the world. That is, except for swimmers.  In the swimming world, the start...

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, May 28. KONGZHENG "KZ" Li, former diving coach at the University of Michigan, has been named as the head diving coach at the University of Louisville, according to Cardinal head coach Arthur Albiero. Li just concluded his fourth season as the head diving coach for the 12-time N...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, February 11. THE USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, a collection of excellence in the sport of water polo, returns in 2014 to induct four deserving individuals in conjunction with the USAWP National Awards Dinner. Legendary UC-Irvine Men's Water Polo Coach Edward Newland, Sou...

The NCAA has joined most American sports leagues in cancelling events, wiping out winter championships as well as spring events in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thursday’s announcement includes the cancellation of the Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships due to be held later in Marc...

Which Schools Have Captured the Most NCAA Team Championships? This year's NCAA Championships will be vastly different, thanks to changes intended to streamline the championship meets. In addition to changes to the schedule, consolation finals have been eliminated. Now, the ninth through 16th-place f...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 21. PENN State leading the women's Big 10 Swimming & Diving Championship? Why, you might as well say Joe Paterno has gone to the NFL! Yet after the completion of Day 2's splashing at the Canham Natatorium on the campus of the University of Michigan, fourth-year Coach B...

In Debate Over Lia Thomas, There Is an Urgent Need For Civil Discourse and Humanity Want to get something immediately out of the way. As it pertains to this article, I don’t give a damn what Lia Thomas does in the pool. Not right now, at least. Don’t care about her times. Don’t care about the points...

Allowing Lia Thomas to Compete At NCAA Championships Would Establish Unfair Setting The competition is scheduled for March 16-19, 2022. The site is the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. A tantalizing Virginia-Stanford battle for the team title is expected. Maggie MacNeil should chase several individual r...

Off Historic ACCs, Virginia Tech's Youssef Ramadan Ready for First NCAAs When Youssef Ramadan saw the time on the scoreboard at the ACC Championships – 44.32 seconds in the men’s 100 butterfly – no one was as shocked as him. The Virginia Tech freshman was in the midst of a strong meet, yes, and the ...

Let the Countdown Begin: A Look At the Returning NCAA Champions With 2022 now upon us, the countdown to the NCAA Championships has started. The women’s championship meet is scheduled for March 16-19 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, with the men participating in their championship competitio...

This commentary by Steven V. Selthoffer, was originally published over 2 years ago. Swimming World thought it was worth republishing in light of Michael Phelps and Anthony Ervin making the 2016 USA Swimming Olympic Team ------- Michael Phelps stepped up on the blocks with a smile on his face during ...