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NCAA Division II Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Agata Naskret Chasing More Records A year ago, as a Colorado Mesa junior, Agata Naskret set the NCAA Division II record in the women’s 100 backstroke. This year, as a senior at West Florida, she’s lowered it once in-season and once at the meet off the f...

UMass Dartmouth Reinstates Men’s Swimming Six Years After Cut Six years after cutting men’s swimming and diving, UMass Dartmouth announced this week it will reinstate the program. UMass Dartmouth discontinued men’s and women’s swimming in July 2020, part of eight axed programs. It reinstated women’s...

NCAA Division II Championships, Day 3 Finals: Kristina Orban Wins 100 Fly and 200 Free as Nova Southeastern Leads Kristina Orban set herself an impressive double Thursday night. The Nova Southeastern sophomore duly delivered. Orban won the 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle as the Sharks moved to a com...

Marshall Swimmers File Title IX Suit over Program Cut Athletes from Marshall University’s women’s swimming and diving program filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the university infringed on their rights under Title IX in cutting their program. The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court ...

NCAA Division II Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Kristina Orban Positioned for Double One of the big pieces in Nova Southeastern’s pursuit of a fourth straight NCAA Division II title is Kristina Orban. And Thursday is the big day for the sophomore in the water, with two individual events. Orban came t...

Where is the Power? A Look at the NCAA Championships Invitees (All Divisions) by Conference Conferences are the backbone of college swimming. From the heated competition at dual meets, to the intensity of a conference championship meet, the contention between conference opponents is central to the s...

NCAA Division II Championships, Night 2 Finals: Maurice Grabowski Wins 50 Free, Powers Relay Record Maurice Grabowski had a heck of a night at the NCAA Division II Championships on Wednesday. The Lynn junior clocked in at 18.97 seconds, a rare Division II swim under 19 seconds, then led of Lynn’s NC...

Dan Marella Has Interim Tag Removed to Lead Pepperdine Program Dan Marella has had the interim tag removed to become the full-time head coach of Pepperdine women’s swimming and diving. The school made the announcement on Tuesday. Marella had served as interim head coach since December, when Ellie Mo...

NCAA Division II Championships, Day 2 Prelims: Emilia Ronningdal Looks to Regain IM Crown As a freshman in 2023, Emilia Ronningdal burst onto the Division II scene by winning the 200 individual medley at NCAAs. She finished third and fifth the last two years. But in the first prelims session of the ...

NCAA Division II Championships, Night 1: Tampa Sets 800 Free Relay Record The NCAA Division II Championships are a slow burn, with just the 800 freestyle relay to start the meet Tuesday night, the first of five days at Evansville’s Deaconess Aquatic Center. It was a record-setting start, with Tampa ...

NCAA Men’s Championships Pre-Cut Psych Sheet: Texas Favored for Repeat Title The pre-cut psych sheets for the upcoming NCAA Men’s Championships were released Tuesday. These are not the final entry lists for the meet, which will take place March 25-28 in Atlanta. Only a select number of athletes will...

NCAA Division II Championships Preview: Two Sides of Meet a Study in Contrasts The NCAA Division II Championships kick off on Tuesday with two wildly different fields on the men’s and women’s sides, to say nothing of the question of title defense. Rather notoriously, there is no reigning men’s champ...

The Role of a Captain on a Swim Team: How To Be An Effective Leader A swim captain is a leader and mentor within a swim team.  They are responsible for fostering a positive team culture and helping to organize and motivate team members. They may also help the coach lead the team in a warmup or run a...

Yamato Okadome, Nate Germonprez Lead Resurgent NCAA Men's Breaststroke Fields The upcoming NCAA Men's Championships, set to take place in Atlanta at the end of the month, will see significant turnover in the breaststroke events compared to the 2025 season. Six of last year's eight A-finalists from b...

Change at the Top as Indianapolis Leads CSCAA Division II Poll The March edition of the CSCAA Division II poll brought a change at the top, with Indianapolis jumping Drury by two points. On the women’s side, Tampa remains ensconced in the top spot, though its margin over Nova Southeastern was a slim...

CSCAA Dual Meet Poll: Virginia, Texas Atop Final Standings Virginia’s women’s team and the Texas men finish the season where they started it: Atop the CSCAA Dual Meet polls. Each team got the maximum points in the poll released this week, Texas with 400 on the men’s side and Virginia at425 on the wo...

CSCAA Division III Polls: NYU Women Rise to No. 1 ahead of NCAAs There’s change near the top of both of the final CSCAA Division III polls, released this week, with NYU ascending to the top of the women’s poll and a top-three shakeup on the men’s side. NYU had been third in the February poll. But wi...

Tufts Announces $50 Million Olympic-Sized Aquatic Center Tufts University on Friday announced plans to build an Olympic-sized pool and aquatic center in its Boston-area home. The aquatic center is slated to be built in Medford and will be finished by the fall of 2028. It will be located adjacent to ...

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 the season. Verge’s retirement is effective June 30. The 1989 graduate of Ship has been at the helm of his alma mater si...

Northwestern's Oliver Kos Enhancing Family's Impressive Efforts in Pool Swimming has always been a familial sport, with younger siblings frequently following older brothers and sisters into the pool. From the decks of summer-league clubs to scholastic competition to the Olympic stage, a shared last ...