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NCAA Men's Championships: Texas-Cal Showdown Coming Down to the Wire (Finals Heat Sheet) The Texas Longhorns took a 55.5-point lead over Cal entering the final day of the NCAA Men's Championships while Indiana was only 8.5 points behind the Golden Bears. As expected, the title will come down to the ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Florida Crushes 400 Medley Relay Field By Three Seconds; NC State Claims American Record A meet that began in disastrous fashion has stabilized, and the Florida Gators put on a huge performance Friday to jump from sixth to fourth in the team competition. Josh Liendo grabbed...

NCAA Men's Championships: Luke Hobson Crushes 200 Free Record With 1:28.33, Guiliano Secures Texas 1-2 No mystery remains as to the identity of the top 200 freestyler in the United States. Over the past three seasons, Luke Hobson has become a dominant force in the prototypical middle distance event ...

NCAA Men's Championships Preview: You Can Count on Cal Amid all the changes that have happened since last year’s NCAAs — jumpstarted by Arizona State’s national championship coach, Bob Bowman, replacing legendary Eddie Reese at Texas as head coach — some things remain the same: In March, the Cal men...

NCAA Men's Championships: Olympic Medalists and Short Course World Champs Set to Shine Eight years ago, Caeleb Dressel turned his first Olympic appearance, in which he qualified for one individual final and captured two relay gold medals, into college swimming stardom. He had won NCAA titles as a fr...

'Limitless' Virginia Cavaliers Sail to Fifth Consecutive Women's National Title This season, the University of Virginia coaching staff under eighth-year leader Todd DeSorbo took on the preposterous task of motivating a team considered a lock to win a national title. Superstar sisters Gretchen Walsh ...

NCAA Championships, Day 4: Emma Sticklen Clips NCAA Record For Third Straight 200 Fly Title On the first four occasions in which she swam in the NCAA final of the 200 butterfly, Emma Sticklen never led at any intermediate splits, but she still came away with two national titles. Her first win in 202...

NCAA Championships, Day 4: Gretchen Walsh Hammers 44.71 100 Free For Record in Last Individual College Swim Falling short of a best time in her first individual final frustrated Gretchen Walsh, even if she was just 12-hundredths shy of her own American and NCAA records in the 50 freestyle. Later in ...

NCAA Championships, Day 4: Jillian Cox Dominates 1650 Free For Second Title as Texas Takes Over Second Place It took until the final third of the 500 freestyle final for Texas freshman Jillian Cox to overtake her Olympic-medal-winning challengers and claim the NCAA title. But the fastest heat of the...

Walsh Watch: Gretchen Dominant Across Short Course Yards All-Time Rankings During her four years representing the University of Virginia Cavaliers, Gretchen Walsh has bludgeoned the record books short course yards. She has walloped the American, NCAA and U.S. Open records in the 50 freestyle, 100 fr...

NCAA Women's Championships, Day 3 Finals: Virginia Caps Off Dominant Night With Second-Fastest 400 Medley Relay Ever Three individual winners from Friday evening teamed up to put on a show of dominance in the 400 medley relay, the sort of performance college swimming fans have come to expect from th...

NCAA Women's Championships, Day 3 Finals: Claire Curzan Touches Out Bella Sims By One Hundredth For 100 Back Triumph A pair of versatile Olympians swam in the middle lanes in the 100 backstroke final, split by tiny margins at each intermediate split. Claire Curzan flipped first after one length and ...

NCAA Women's Championships, Day 3 Finals: Alex Walsh Dominates 100 Breast, Jumps to No. 3 All-Time With Title in Fifth Event During her undergraduate years, Alex Walsh was a key contributor to four team titles for the University of Virginia while winning eight individual NCAA titles between the indi...

NCAA Women's Championships, Day 3 Finals: Caroline Bricker Pulls Ahead of 400 IM Field on Breaststroke Leg to Score Upset Win The field assembled in the NCAA final of the 400 IM included two swimmers who won Olympic medals in the meters version of the event at the Paris Olympics, Virginia's Katie Gr...

NCAA Women's Championships: 27 Teams Secure Friday Evening Swims But Team Status Quo Unchanged (Heat Sheet) None of the results from Friday morning's preliminary session at the NCAA Women's Championships changed the notion that Virginia is in prime position to win its fifth consecutive national titl...

NCAA Women's Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Emma Weyant, Bella Sims Rebound to Set Up Title Shots The Friday morning prelims session at the NCAA Women's Championships in Federal Way, Wash., opened with a bang as Gretchen Walsh lowered her own American, NCAA and U.S. Open records in the 100 butterfly ...

NCAA Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Gretchen Walsh Knocks 14-Hundredths Off 100 Fly Record Her first individual final of the 2025 NCAA Championships left Gretchen Walsh frustrated. She finished 12-hundredths off her own American, NCAA and U.S. Open records in the 50 freestyle, blaming poor execution ...

NCAA Women's Championships: Five Events on Deck Friday Morning (Heat Sheet) After three individual swimming finals, one diving final and the 200 freestyle relay Thursday evening, the NCAA Women's Championships will continue Friday morning in Federal Way, Wash., with action in the 400 IM, 100 butterf...

NCAA Women's Championships: Gretchen Walsh Ties 50 Free Record, Leads Virginia to 200 Free Relay Win Over Spirited Louisville Surge Immediately after her victory in the 50 freestyle earlier in the evening, Gretchen Walsh admitted she was slightly disappointed to have fallen short of her best time, e...

NCAA Women's Championships: Gretchen Walsh Clocks 20.49 to Win 50 Free Title; Curzan Makes it Virginia 1-2 The unstoppable Gretchen Walsh has her seventh individual NCAA title, the latest win marking her second consecutive dominant offering in the 50 freestyle. The Virginia senior was 18-hundredths ...