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NCAA Reveals Fastest-Ever Qualifying Standards for 2027 Swimming Championships The NCAA swimming qualifying standards for the 2026-27 season have been released, with each event requiring quicker performances than ever before to gain consideration for the national meet. For the second consecutive sea...

A Letter to My College Coach  Dear Coach, As athletes, we spend so much of our careers chasing measurable things. We chase best times, national cuts, conference titles, All-American honors, and records. We learn to define success by numbers on a scoreboard and rankings on a psych sheet. For years, I...

Built to Win in Court, Paid for Downstream: The NCAA's New Eligibility Rule a Danger to Olympic Sports  The NCAA’s new five-year eligibility rule is built to win in court. The bill may land on Olympic sports.  By Alexander L. Ballard The NCAA Division I Cabinet’s unanimous approval last week of a fi...

Division III Albertus Magnus to ‘Pause Indefinitely’ Swim Program Albertus Magnus, a Division III program in Connecticut, announced this week it will indefinitely pause its swimming and diving program, citing low participation numbers. Albertus Magnus began a women’s swimming team in 2019 and expand...

Penn State Hires Mike Smiechowski from St. Bonaventure as Associate Coach Penn State on Thursday announced the hiring of Mike Smiechowski as an associate head coach. Smiechowski stepped down from his role as the head coach at St. Bonaventure for the job on head coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron’s staff. Smi...

MPSF Swimming and Diving Field Expands to 24 Teams The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation announced an expanded league slate for the 2027 MPSF Championships, with 16 women’s teams and eight men’s team competing. That is an increase from 10 women’s teams and six men’s from last season, and it’s the l...

Providence Hires Anthony Randall as Head Coach Providence on Tuesday announced the hiring of Anthony Randall as the program’s head swim coach and aquatics director. Randall arrives after five seasons as the head coach of the men’s and women’s programs at Marist. He replaces John O’Neill, who retired...

Lawsuit over Teri McKeever Abuse Allowed to Proceed A lawsuit brought by 18 former University of California swimmers alleging abuse by former coach Teri McKeever was allowed to proceed by a court last week. The case is being brought against the Regents of the University of California, alleging that ...

Cal Promotes Noah Yanchulis to Associate Head Coach; Maya Geringer Named an Assistant The California swimming & diving team has made changes to its coaching staff as announced by Director of Swimming & Diving Dave Durden on Monday. Noah Yanchulis has been promoted to Associate Head Coach and Cal alu...

Jake Shrum Hired by South Carolina as Associate Head Coach South Carolina on Friday announced the hiring of Jake Shrum as an associate head coach for the men’s and women’s team. Shrum spent the last four years at University of Virginia as an associate head coach before joining the staff of head coac...

Marshall Hires Phoebe Campbell as Head Coach Marshall on Thursday hired Phoebe Campbell as head coach of its swimming and diving program. Campbell arrives from Akron, where she was an assistant on the Zips’ MAC championship-winning side. She replaces Ian Walsh, who was hired earlier this month by Pi...

After a year experiment without B finals, the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Oversight Committee has decided to bring them back for 2027. The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) recommended several changes in April that were adopted by the commit...

College Swimming League Gives Coaches Unique Opportunity College Swimming’s biggest headline entering the 2026-27 season has made its proper introduction. After months of rumors and anticipation, the newly founded “College Swimming League” unveiled the 12 teams set to compete in its inaugural season...

The Silver Anniversary of UCLA Claiming First NCAA Women's Water Polo Crown By Alex Ellison There was an overwhelming level of excitement at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center on May 13, 2001. Stanford and UCLA were tied 4-4 with just 1:28 left on the clock when UCLA's Coralie Simmons broke free to go ...

North Carolina Names Gideon Louw and Kaersten Meitz to Coaching Staff The University of North Carolina swimming and diving program has added two elite assistant coaches in Gideon Louw and Kaersten Meitz to its staff, head coach Mark Gangloff announced Friday. Louw, a two-time Olympian who will serve...

As Disclosure Day Opens, a D-III Connection to Famed Director Steven Spielberg In celebration of Steven Spielberg's upcoming film Disclosure Day, opening on June 12, I thought it would be fun to highlight some of the results from Division III swimming from this past year in relation to the legendary...

Alabama Hires Ryan Purdy as Assistant Coach Alabama on Tuesday announced the addition of Ryan Purdy to the swimming and diving coaching staff. Purdy will serve as an assistant coach, replacing Michael White, who last week was hired by Arizona State. Prudy arrives on the staff of head coach Margo Gee...

Georgia Tech to Reprise Dual Meet Tournament for Second Season Georgia Tech on Tuesday announced that it will return its dual meet tournament for a second season, hosting seven other teams. Auburn, Florida State, Kentucky, Minnesota, Notre Dame, Penn State, and George Washington will join the Yellow...

Army Hires Scott Thacker as Director of Swimming and Diving Army on Monday hired Scott Thacker as its director of men’s and women’s swimming and diving. Thacker, who was previously at Virginia Military Institute, becomes the 11th head coach in Army men’s history and eighth for the women’s program. H...

Commentary: Growing Pains for College Club Swimming - Are Former NCAA Swimmers the Cause, or the Scapegoat? By David Chen During the 2026 TYR College Club Swimming National Championship, controversy arose about former varsity swimmers competing on behalf of Cal Poly Swim Club and UNC (Chapel Hill) C...