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The 2021 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina will be fascinating for swimming fans to watch. We are entering the month of June, and there still has been no live sports in the United States since mid-March when basketball, swimming, and many others had to pull...

The 2021 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Iowa City, Iowa will be fascinating for swimming fans to watch. We are entering the month of June, and there still has been no live sports in the United States since mid-March when basketball, swimming, and many others had to pull the plug on ...

Three East Carolina swimmers announced they would be continuing their swimming careers after ECU cut swimming and diving. When East Carolina University cut its swimming and diving programs last month, the athletes that chose to continue their swimming careers elsewhere would immediately be eligible ...

Tracy Menzel, assistant men's and women's swimming coach at Kenyon College for the last three seasons, is DePauw's selection as head women's swimming and diving coach and aquatics director. She replaces Shea Davisson who resigned to become associate director of athletics at Southwestern University. ...

Harvard's Dean Farris will be back in Cambridge this fall after taking an Olympic redshirt year that was disrupted by the COVID-19 cancellations. Farris, who was training down in Austin, Texas this past season under legendary coach Eddie Reese, will be swimming for Harvard this coming season in what...

Swimmer Chandler Bray and soccer forward Alyssa Howell are the University of Florida's nominees for the 2019-20 Brad Davis Southeastern Conference Community Service Leaders of the Year. As Florida's nominees, each receive $5,000 postgraduate scholarships. Next week, the league announces the overall ...

The Pac-12 Conference announced Tuesday that it will allow for voluntary in-person athletic workouts for all sports to commence on June 15, per a release. Each individual campus will need to allow such activities to take place where permissible by relevant government entities. The decision was made ...

NCAA qualifier Kristen Stege of East Carolina has decided to transfer to the University of Tennessee, she announced in March shortly after the season ended. Stege, primarily a distance freestyler, will be joining a strong Tennessee squad that was seeded to finish second at NCAAs this season, which w...

Carson Foster made the difficult decision to say goodbye to the Mason Manta Rays on Thursday as he told Swimming World he will be moving early to Austin, Texas to get a jump on his college life at the University of Texas. Foster made an Instagram post thanking head coach Ken Heis and the Manta Rays ...

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Division I coaches have banded together to slash costs and identify ways to make swimming more sustainable in response to the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, coaches have voluntarily given back more than $6.2 mil...

East Carolina Swimming and Diving seeking help from the community. East Carolina University recently cut four athletics programs - women's & men's tennis and women's & men's swimming and diving, as part of the school’s budget restructuring efforts from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, past...

Former Duke swimming alumna Teri Conklin was named to the 2020 Top Women Wealth Advisors list, Forbes released in April. Following her career at Duke, Conklin joined UBS, a global firm providing financial services, and is currently the Senior Vice President in Wealth Management. Conklin was tabbed 1...

Midland University announced Tuesday that it will add men’s and women’s diving programs and hired Peter Charles as its diving coach. Midland is an NAIA program in Nebraska that began offering swimming in 2017. Its men’s team placed four at the 2020 NAIA Championships with its women’s team 20th. The ...

Wheeling University has appointed Nova Southeastern University Assistant Coach and five-time All-American Daniel Murphy to lead its men's and women's swimming programs. Murphy spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach with the Sharks working primarily with IM and distance groups. During his...

University of Kentucky swimmer Asia Seidt has been named the female recipient of the 2019-20 Southeastern Conference H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced Tuesday. LSU basketball player Skylar Mays joins Seidt as the male recipient of the honor. ...

Swimming coach Rod Harman, whose former pupils include three Olympians and 62 high school All-Americans, died Friday at age 93. Harman had coached until just last year and was regarded as the oldest active coach in the state. He founded the Tualatin Hills Swim Club in Beaverton, Oregon, where the Ha...

The USC Trojans picked up a big NJCAA transfer on Sunday night in Billy Cruz Zuniga out of Iowa Central Community College. Cruz is a sprint freestyler originally from Canada, who also represents Mexico internationally. His best times of 19.10 and 43.53 in the 50 and 100 freestyle should make him a v...

The NCAA Division I council voted to permit Division I student-athletes in all sports to participate in voluntary athletics activities beginning June 1, including swimming as long as local, state and federal COVID-19 protocols are followed. The vote of the Division I Council occurred electronically...

The NCAA Division II President's Council voted on a teleconference this week to make reductions for the 2020-21 school year regarding number of contests for each sport. This means the maximum and minimum number of competitions will be lower in the 2020-21 school year only because of financial restri...

Dave Durden (From May's Swimming World Magazine) Dave Durden, University of California and U.S. national team coach, simply refers to himself as a swim coach. But he’s also a leader, an expert at maximizing performance, removing doubt, instilling confidence and navigating young men through demanding...