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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...

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...

This year's women's NCAA championships - to be held this week beginning on Wednesday in Atlanta, Ga. - should feature a really tight team race that goes down to the wire on the final day. But while you pay attention to the team standings Friday watch out as well for some big-time records to be in je...

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...

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...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, February 11. FOR the first time since announcing a leave of absence from his job as head coach of the University of Arizona's men's and women's swimming teams last October, Eric Hansen has spoken publicly about the reasons behind his departure in the Sioux City Journal. Hansen grew...

Hubert Kos, Torri Huske, Claire Curzan Have Decisions to Make After NCAA Schedule Change Over the past several years, Hubert Kos and Torri Huske have established themselves securely among the world's best swimmers, both having secured individual Olympic gold medals in Paris along with numerous other...

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...

Speed Blast From the Past: Caeleb Dressel Clocks 17.63 in 50-Yard Freestyle As the competition drought continues due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the world, it has been frustrating to go month to month without witnessing some top-flight performances. Sure, there have been a handful, suc...

Cal's Trenton Julian Seeking Spectacular Finish to Senior Season Entering his senior year Pac-12 championships, Trenton Julian couldn’t wait to race. It was the first time in around a year that the Cal men’s team was set to compete in a three-day, suited prelims/finals meet. “I kind of went into the...

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...

The NCAA has announced future host sites for all of its championships from 2019 until 2022. According to this new schedule, the Division I NCAA swimming championships will be returning to some familiar locales over the next few years. Future DI hosts include the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Cen...

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...

By Phillip Whitten LOS ANGELES, March 6. IN a stunning, unexpected and unprecedented decision, the NCAA's Championship/ Competition Cabinet reversed an earlier decision by the NCAA Swimming Rules Committee that had disqualified at least three swimmers from the women's NCAA Championships due ...

PALO ALTO, CA., Dec. 1 -- TOP-ranked Stanford, 20-1, will be gunning for its ninth NCAA men's water polo championship when it hits the pool against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen here this afternoon in the first semi-final match of the 2001 NCAA Collegiate Championship. The other semi...

By Phil Whitten AUSTIN, Texas, March 21. ON each of the three days of Women's NCAAs, SwimInfo.com will be providing event-by-event coverage of prelims and finals as they occur. We're about to get under way here, on a sunny first-day-of Spring morning. Stanford is the pre-meet favorite, but t...

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...

OXFORD, Ohio, March 15. THE Lords reign! Kenyon's lady Lord swimmers and divers, stung last year by their first NCAA Division III Championship title loss in 18 years to intra-state, and arch-rival Denison -- coached by former Kenyon All-America Greg Parini no less -- have come back to dominate t...

Commentary by David Rieder GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 1. WHAT a meet. The past three days in Greensboro have brought one of the fastest men’s ACC meets ever, with meet records falling in seemingly every other event. Individually, Pavel Sankovich has been the star, earning individual wins in t...