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West Virginia Adds Canadian Olympian Sydney Pickrem As Assistant Coach Canadian Olympian Sydney Pickrem is joining West Virginia as an assistant coach, the school announced on Thursday. Pickrem will compete in Paris at her third Olympics. She won bronze in the medley relay in Tokyo to go with seven ...

Miami Ohio Hires Samantha Pitter as Head Coach Samantha Pitter is the new coach of Miami Ohio, coming over from the University of Pittsburgh to replace Hollie Bonewit-Cron. Bonewit-Cron in May was hired for the head job at Penn State, and the RedHawks have drawn upon another Pennsylvania school for ...

4 Characteristics That Define a Great Leader Sports grow athletes into extraordinary people and strong leaders. As a swimmer, you learn leadership qualities and skills that you will carry with you for the rest of your life. All teams have leaders, but great leaders are the people who make a differen...

The USC men's and women's swim team has hired Keith Dawley to the position of assistant coach, head coach Lea Maurer announced on Monday, July 8. "We are excited to have Keith joining the USC family. He has experience that will certainly elevate our team in every area, but we are most excited about ...

Motivational Monday: Swimming with Teens Helped Make Swimming Fun Again When I came home from college in May, I was burned out. I knew that if I wanted to hit the goals I set for myself for my senior season, I had to train often this summer. However, I was so emotionally, mentally and physically dra...

Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh Earns ACC’s Mary Garber Award Gretchen Walsh has added to her bundle of honors by winning the ACC’s Mary Garber Award as the conference’s female student-athlete of the year on Wednesday. She is just the third Virginia athlete to win the award and joins rarefied air, in bask...

Dara Torres Adds Bruno Darzi as Boston College Associate Head Coach Bruno Darzi is the first hire for Dara Torres as the associate head coach at Boston College, the school announced Wednesday. Darzi has spent more than three decades coaching, including with Torres as well as Olympians Vlad Polyakov ...

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has named over 2,000 swimmers and divers to its Scholar All-American Team for the 2023-24 season. To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes must have earned a GPA of 3.5 or higher and participated in their na...

‘I Want to Build’: Dara Torres Embraces Challenge of Boston College Coaching Job Coaching was never the plan for Dara Torres. But then again, it also wasn’t the plan. So much so that when a friend asked Torres if coaching might be in her future once her daughter went off to college, the Olympian’s a...

A cornerstone of Stanford’s run of three consecutive NCAA titles from 2017-19 is coming back to The Farm, as Kim Williams ’19 returns as the newest addition to the Cardinal coaching staff, announced by head coach Greg Meehan on Thursday. It’s an exciting day for our program to announce Kim Williams ...

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...