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Patrick Sammon, Aurora Roghair Lead Aquatics NCAA Elite 90 Recipients Arizona State’s Patrick Sammon and Aurora Roghair of Stanford were named the Division I swimming recipients of the NCAA Elite 90 awards. The awards were handed out at the NCAA championships at all levels this winter. Asger Hartvig...

Rex Maurer's Dream NCAAs Cause of Celebration for USC coach Lea Maurer There were no USC swimmers in the fastest heat of the 1,650 freestyle at the NCAA Men’s Championships Saturday night. You wouldn’t know that if your eyes were fixed on coach Lea Maurer and Trojans fifth-year Luke Maurer. Planted ...

In Panel Discussion, Lia Thomas Expresses ‘Grief Over Losing Access to My Sport’ Former Penn swimmer Lia Thomas described feeling “devastated” over the inability to compete in swimming in rare public remarks this weekend. Thomas, who has generally kept a low public profile in the media relative to t...

Virginia’s Claire Curzan, Gretchen Walsh Headline Honda Award Finalists The University of Virginia’s Claire Curzan and Gretchen Walsh lead four finalists for the 2025 Honda Award for Swimming and Diving, unveiled on Monday. The Cavaliers are joined by Texas swimmer Jillian Cox and Miami diver Chiara...

Can American Men Use NCAAs as Springboard to Long Course? It’s been almost eight months since a disappointing performance for the U.S. men at the Paris Olympics yielded only six individual medals and a lone gold in the 1500 freestyle from Bobby Finke. Four days of competition passed where no U.S. ma...

Senior Triumvirate Provides Impressive Marks Across 50-100-200 Freestyles at NCAA Champs During the recent NCAA Championships, three men appeared in the championship final of the 50-yard freestyle, 100 freestyle and 200 freestyle. This club represented an impressive combination of sprint skill share...

Nevada Hires Olympic Medalist Krysta Palmer as Diving Coach American Olympic medalist Krysta Palmer was hired Monday to replace her mentor Jian Li You as the diving coach at the University of Nevada. Palmer spent the last eight seasons as an assistant coach to You, who announced her intention to ret...

Hubert Kos, Carson Tyler Named CSCAA Men’s Swimmer, Diver of the Year Texas’s Hubert Kos and Carson Tyler of Indiana were named Men’s Division I Swimmer and Diver of the Year, respectively, by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America on Monday. Their mentors – Bob Bowman and Dr...

Bella Sims Found No Fault for Positive Test in September The International Testing Agency on Monday released a finding of no fault for American swimmer Bella Sims after she tested positive for a banned diuretic in September. The adjudication carries no penalty of ineligibility. Sims, a University of...

A Whole New World: Analyzing The Impacts of House vs. NCAA on Division II/III Over the past month, we’ve witnessed some of the greatest swimming in NCAA history. From personal bests to record swims to great team performances, March has encapsulated the greatness college swimming has to offer. But wi...

Streak Continues: Cal Earns 15th Consecutive Top-Two Finish at NCAA Championships The final standings were not decided until the bitter end, and Cal had to hold off a flurry of Indiana point-scoring in the breaststroke and diving events. Saturday evening, that meant 37 points in the 200 breast, led ...

Swims That Flew Under the Radar at the Men's NCAA Championships Last week, we covered swims that flew under the radar among the slew of historically fast times at the NCAA Women's Championships. This week, it was the turn of the men to swim for history in an exciting team battle. Wednesday The men's...

Hubert Kos’ Marchand Moments Instrumental to Texas Title Hubert Kos’ comparison of the 2025 NCAA Championships with the 2024 edition quickly tracks to the individual. “What stands out about this one,” Kos said, still dripping from his fully clothed dip in the diving well at the Weyerhauser King Coun...

The 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships concluded from Federal Way. Swimming World Chief Photographer Peter H. Bick was on deck to capture the moments of the meet. Here is a look at some of the moments from Day 4. [gallery type="slideshow" columns="1" size="full" ids="609200...

Hook' Em: Texas Captures 16th National Title Behind Hubert Kos, Bob Bowman and Reassembled Roster A seventh-place finish at last year's NCAA Men's Championships was a highly unusual result for a University of Texas team so accustomed to finishing atop the table. During the four decades in which Eddi...

Georgia’s Jake Magahey Finds Fifth Straight A Final in ‘Baby’ 500 Free Rewarding Jake Magahey calls the 500 free “my baby.” Like any baby, the nurturing process isn’t uniform or smooth. There have been sleepless nights, frustration, struggles to maintain context on a bad day. The Dacula, Georgia nat...

NCAA Men's Championships: Jordan Crooks Anchors in 39.36 as Tennessee Finishes With 400 Free Relay Record A historic era in sprint freestyle would conclude Saturday evening as the college career of Jordan Crooks concluded. Over the past three seasons, Crooks has achieved legendary times over 50 and ...

Bob Bowman Becomes First Men's Coach to Win Consecutive National Titles at Different Schools For the second consecutive season, Bob Bowman has guided a men's swimming team to a national championship. That achievement is by no means unprecedented — his predecessor at the University of Texas, Eddie Re...

NCAA Men's Championships: Indiana's Carson Tyler Stellar in Platform 3-Peat Carson Tyler needed merely a clean sixth and final dive Saturday night to clinch his third NCAA platform diving title. He delivered, as he has so often in his career, excellence. Tyler nailed his final dive for 90 points, on...

Georgia's Luca Urlando saw his 100 backstroke NCAA record broken on Friday, and he didn't want that to happen to his 200 fly record - and he wanted his first NCAA title. Urlando tied the meet record in prelims of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men's Championships in Federal Way, Washington, at 1:37.15 ...