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UNLV Hires Pat Ota on Permanent Basis as Head Coach UNLV on Friday made it official that Pat Ota will remain on as the team’s head coach after he had been the interim since May. Ota has been on staff with the Rebels for eight seasons. He was elevated to the interim job last month when Ben Loorz was ...

Trevor Maida Tapped by Texas as Assistant to Lead Sprint Group Trevor Maida has been hired as an assistant coach by Bob Bowman at the University of Texas to lead the Longhorns sprinters. Maida will arrive in Austin in August. He spent 2023-24 as an assistant coach at Louisville, his latest stop in t...

West Virginia Hires Alum Michael Walker as Associate Head Coach New West Virginia coach Brent MacDonald on Monday hired former Mountaineer Michael Walker as an associate head coach. Walker swam in Morgantown from 2005-09, a team captain in the 2007-08 season. He helped lead the Mountaineers to the B...

Manhattan Hires Brian Hansbury as Head Coach Manhattan on Monday announced the hiring of Brian Hansbury as its head swimming and diving coach. Hansbury is relatively short on college coaching experience, but he has a long history in the greater New York City area, in the high school and club scene. ...

Cleveland State Hires Trent Richardson as Men’s and Women’s Head Coach Cleveland State this week named Trent Richardson the new head coach of its men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams. Richardson was an assistant coach last year, helping the men finish third and the women fifth at the Horizon ...

Wellesley Names Dawn Dill as Swimming Head Coach Wellesley College this week hired Dawn Dill as the head coach of its swimming and diving team. Dill spent last season as an assistant coach at Harvard University, helping lead the Crimson to a runner-up finish at the Ivy League Championships. Dill had...

After a stunning performance at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials last week, the Notre Dame swimming and diving program got some stunning news. Notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua informed the athletic staff via email that an external review of potential "culture issues" within the men's swimm...

Swimming for Late Brother, Louisville’s Tommy Bried has Unforgettable Trials Four times Tuesday at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, Tommy Bried got a chance to step up to the blocks. Each time, the well-coiffed Louisville senior needed look no further than high on his hip ...

U.S. Olympic Trials: With a Green Wave on Hand, Notre Dame Swimming Enjoyed a Meet for the Ages It was an historic week at the Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis for the Notre Dame Swimming program.  Led by rising senior Chris Guiliano, the Notre Dame swimmers put together performances that had...

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) proudly announces the selection of 722 teams from 417 institutions to the Scholar All-America Team for the Spring 2024 semester. These teams, representing a total of 17,162 student-athletes, were chosen based on their outstandin...

Excitement, Grief Track Carson Foster to Paris, Jake Foster to Med School Carson Foster has long characterized his journey in swimming through the lens of his siblings. For most of his growth in the sport, Hannah Foster and Jake Foster were alongside him. Now Carson is the last Foster standing, with...

Sean Schimmel is First Hire for New Penn State Coaching Staff Sean Schimmel was hired as an associate head coach by Penn State, the first hire for new coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron. Schimmel has decades of experience. He’s been on the coaching staff at Arkansas, Maryland, LSU, Georgia and Miami, as well...

Washington State Adds Tylor Mathieu As Assistant Coach Washington State on Thursday hired Tylor Mathieu as an assistant coach on Russell Whitaker’s staff. Mathieu graduated from the University of Florida in 2023 and spent last season as a student manager for the swimming and diving teams. A six-time...

Five-Time Olympian and four-time Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres has been named the head swimming and diving coach at Boston College.  In the midst of Olympic Trials taking place at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Torres made the announcement on her personal social media. “Hello from Olympic Tr...

Peter Richardson Returns to Arizona as Associate Head Coach Peter Richardson was hired late last week by Arizona as an associate head coach, returning to the program he was at from 2019-22 for new coach Ben Loorz. Richardson guided the distance program over that time before heading across the Pac-12...

8 Dead Giveaways of a Swimmer; Some Looks Cannot Be Avoided! Whether you always throw your hair up in a messy bun after practice, or you radiate the smell of chlorine, all swimmers have distinct qualities, making it pretty clear what sport they do. Read below to see eight features that scream ‘swimm...

Todd DeSorbo Leading UVA Swimmers Into Olympic Trials, U.S. Women Into Paris Whether it’s mentoring his University of Virginia swimmers or coaching the U.S. women’s Olympic team this summer in Paris, Coach Todd DeSorbo has one goal in mind: helping his athletes perform their very best. In the seven ...

South Carolina Adds Jason Calanog as Associate Head Coach South Carolina on Thursday announced the hiring of Jason Calanog as an associate head coach for the men’s team. Calanog switches his address within the SEC, having spent nine years at Texas A&M, most recently as an associate head coach since ...

Where Did They Go?  The Disappearance of the Elite Water Polo/Swimming Dual-Sport Athlete By Russ Hafferkamp and Jeff Moulton In Part I of this article (The Century of the Elite Water Polo/Swimming Dual-Sport Athlete (swimmingworldmagazine.com), we showed that the United States produced an impressiv...

LSU Hires Siena Head Coach Brogan Barr as Assistant Coach LSU on Thursday hired Brogan Barr away from her role as the head coach at Siena College to become an assistant coach. Barr was hired in 2020 by Siena to lead its women’s program. The native of Colorado surpassed program-bests for school recor...