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A Statistical Look at Texas' 17th NCAA Championship The year was 1981 and under the direction of third-year coach Eddie Reese, the University of Texas captured its first NCAA championship. The title followed a runnerup showing the previous year and established the Longhorns as a force on the collegi...

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 ...

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 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...

‘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, 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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Peter Baugh, Swimming World College Intern With NCAA Championships and Olympic Trials around the corner, some of the nation’s fastest swimmers competed at the Southeastern Conference Championships in Columbia, Missouri Feb. 16-20. A number of swimmers talked to the media after their races. Here’s...

STANFORD, California, April 17. DR. Rick Schavone announced his retirement Thursday after 36 seasons as Stanford's head diving coach. One of the nation's premier diving instructors, Schavone is the architect of the Cardinal diving program while taking the team to unprecedented heights during his tim...

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...

Torri Huske Leads Swimmers With Big Decisions to Make For NCAAs Lineup The upcoming NCAA Championships will be unlike any in history: no consolation finals, diving finals split between two segments and a new lineup of races making its debut next month. Swimmers and coaches have been aware of those c...

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...

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...

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...

By Diana Pimer, Swimming World College Intern The first week of February is already upon us. For college swimmers, this means that conference championships are quickly approaching. Shortly after come NCAA Championships, along with many regional, age group, sectional and national meets across the cou...

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