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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

NCAA Women's Championships Has Featured Limited International Influence The look Swimming World recently published about the past three editions of the NCAA Men's Championships revealed competition highlighted by international flavor. From 2023-25, athletes from 17 countries have produced a top-thre...

Prior to the third night of finals at the men's NCAA Championships in Atlanta, Ga., Louisville head coach Arthur Albiero joined Swimming World's David Rieder to discuss his team's impressive performance in the day's preliminaries, where Nolan Tesone, Carlos Claverie and Grigory Tarasevich all qualif...

The latest issue of Swimming World is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Swimming World March 2020 features Swedish Olympian swimmer Louise Hansson- the second year captain of University of Southern California will be on the short list for headliners at this month’s women’s NCA....

NCAA Appears to Give Lia Thomas Green Light to Compete at Championships Although the NCAA declined to confirm on Tuesday whether Lia Thomas has officially been given the green light to compete at the NCAA Women’s Championships, it appears the University of Pennsylvania swimmer will race at the meet ...

DURBAN, South Africa, April 10. CHAD Le Clos was a double winner tonight at the South African nationals, taking the gold in sprint and distance events. Sebastien Rousseau also got his name on the Commonwealth Games roster with a runner-up finish in the 400 IM final. Women 100 fly final Marne Erasmus...

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...

Split analysis for the 500 SCY freestyle is sponsored by LumaLanes. Race Context At the 2020 SEC swimming and diving championships, Florida Gator sophomore Kieran Smith shocked many in the swimming world when he broke Zane Grothe's American record in the 500 freestyle. Until this meet, most saw Smit...

Texas Bolsters Sprint Contingent With Transfer of Speedster Cameron Auchinachie The University of Texas has bolstered its sprinting group with the addition of Cameron Auchinachie to the roster. Auchinachie, who formerly competed at the University of Denver, will be a graduate student and take advant...

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...

August 20. The NCAA education outreach staff has prepared this set of questions and answers to assist NCAA member institutions to educate their student-athletes about banned drugs, to review drug-testing procedures, and to help institutions to maintain compliance with the NCAA drug-testing program. ...

By Abby Boone, Swimming World College Intern No swimmer begins a race thinking they want to come in last place. Every swimmer has goals - times to beat and things to achieve. For many collegiate swimmers, the main goal is to make the NCAA Championships. A conference meet is an excellent place to per...

This early in the U.S. collegiate season, expectations of outstanding times are low. That’s why Peter Kropp’s 52.13 in the 100 breast last weekend in Duke’s first dual meet of the season caused a big ripple in the college ranks. The time is just five hundredths of a second slower than the automatic ...

TORRES SETS AMERICAN RECORD AT OLYMPIC TRIALS INDIANAPOLIS, August 9. DARA Torres blasted to a new American record in the women’s 100 meter fly, and Ed Moses established a new Olympics Trials mark in the men’s 100 breast to highlight preliminary action on the first day of the U.S. Olympic Swimming T...

CHINA's Liu Limin, who has been attending school at the University of Nevada in Reno, returned to China on March 22 to begin training with the Chinese National Team, according to the University of Nevada web site, www.nevadawolfpack.com. Her departure came only days after she won both butterfly ...