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Alabama swimming and diving head coach Margo Geer announced the addition of Andrew Hodgson on Tuesday as associated head coach. Hodgson joins the program with over 10 years of coaching experience, which includes spending the last five seasons at Northwestern as an assistant coach from 2018-20 and an...

By Emma Merrill, Swimming World College Intern Many swimmers experience a plateau at some point in their careers. Even worse, the plateau can often closely follow some of the fastest swims of their lives.  Some age-groupers are fast at a young age and then they might never drop much time again. The ...

Heading Into Retirement, Mike Bottom Was a Genius Managing Physical and Psychological Needs The environment inside Canham Natatorium will look different next year, due to the impending retirement of Mike Bottom as head coach at the University of Michigan. In time, the Big Ten Conference program will...

La Salle’s Raven Domingo Shares Glimpse of Hawaii with Keahikini Swimwear The COVID-19 pandemic gave Raven Domingo time to think, which revealed two important things. With pools in her native Hawaii closed, Domingo got a break from training with Hilo Aquatic Club. Instead, she and her teammates did ...

Leah Shackley Continues Meteoric Rise at Richmond Sectionals; Erin Gemmel, Thomas Heilman Look Sharp With the summer season just beginning, most of the summer sectional meets are yet to come. But the Eastern Zone Super Sectionals took place last weekend, May 18th-21, in Richmond, and the times were ...

Boston University Hires James Sica as New Head Coach James Sica has been hired as the new head coach of Boston University, switching sides of the city after six successful years at MIT. Sica joined the MIT staff in 2017, first as an assistant coach than the last two seasons as an associate head coac...

3 Habits To Adopt For Better Swim Practices Swimmers have an amazing ability to get better when they put in the correct work at practice. While most athletes use effort as a way to measure their success, they are not always using the right tools to ensure they are getting the most out of pr...

The Age Old Question: Lift Before or After Practice? For almost any dedicated swimmer of a certain age, dryland and weight routines are familiar concepts. They have become mainstays in club and college programs as they provide clear benefits to athletes; the most prevalent being explosive power and ...

Ithaca College Coach Kevin Markwardt Announces Retirement Ithaca College head swim coach Kevin Markwardt announced his retirement on Wednesday after 36 years at the helm of the men’s team. In all, Markwardt spent 42 years coaching at Ithaca, arriving in 1981 as an assistant. He has been in charge of...

Legendary Michigan Coach Mike Bottom to Retire Mike Bottom, Michigan’s long-time swimming and diving head coach, will retire effective Aug. 4, the school announced on Wednesday. Bottom is the head coach of the men’s and women’s teams in Ann Arbor. He will continue to lead the programs through the su...

Tracy Slusser Steps Down As Stanford Associate Head Coach Stanford Associate Head Coach Tracy Slusser has stepped down from her role with the Cardinal. Slusser has been a part of the Stanford program since 2012 and was promoted to associated head coach two years later. "It has been an absolute honor...

Smith College Director of Athletics Kristin Hughes announced the hiring of Devin Javens as the next head swim coach. Javens, who spent the last season as a graduate assistant coach with the Pioneers, is Smith's fourth head coach in program history. "We are very excited to have Devin as our next Head...

By Grant Anger, Swimming World College Intern Most swimmers don't continue to compete in college after high school for a variety of reasons. Maybe they weren't recruited or think they are too slow. The average high school swimmer believes that if they are not top five at a state meet, no college wou...

NCAA Rules Committee Proposes Team Diving, Competition Definition Changes The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Rules Committed put forth a set of proposals at its most recent meeting last week that includes changes to the definition of a” bona fide competition” and the possible adoption of...

Brian Barnes Hired as Duke Swimming’s New Head Coach Duke University on Monday announced the hiring of Brian Barnes as the program’s new director of swimming and diving. Barnes makes the in-state move from NC State, where he spent the last three years as the associate head coach. Barnes is the sixth...

Carlye Ellis Joins Navy as Assistant Coach to Women’s Team Carlye Ellis has been hired by the United States Naval Academy as an assistant coach to the women’s swimming team, the school announced Thursday. Ellis joins the staff of head coach John Morrison after two seasons at Duke. She was the recrui...

Claire Tuggle has announced she will transfer to USC from Virginia. Tuggle made the announcement on social media on Friday. "I want start this with a big thank you to the coaches and team at UVA and everything they have given me over the past year. With that being said I am so excited to announce I ...

University of Louisville swimmer Abdelrahman El-Araby was named as a recipient of the 2023 Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award by the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A). The N4A Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award honors stude...

Walsh Sisters, Alex and Gretchen, Release Second Collection of Sporti Swimsuits Taking their creative collaboration with Sporti Swim to new heights, the dynamic sister-duo, Olympic silver medalist Alex Walsh and U.S. national champion Gretchen Walsh, invite you to escape the ordinary and dive into t...

Peter Ward Announces Retirement After 25 Years at George Mason George Mason men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Peter Ward has announced his retirement after 25 years, the school announced Tuesday. Ward was hired in 1998 upon Mason’s founding of Division I swimming. He led the program to fou...