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College Swimming League Announces TV Deal with ESPN; Broadcast Dates Set The College Swimming League (CSL) and ESPN today announced a multi-year media rights agreement that makes ESPN the exclusive home of CSL competition in the United States and Canada. Under the agreement, all six regular-season m...

Passages: Jack Roney, Former NC State Assistant Coach, 39 Jack Roney, a former swimmer at NC State and assistant coach at his alma mater, died on July 6. He was 39 years old. Roney was the program record holder in the 200 breaststroke in his time at the school, graduating in 2009. He served as an as...

Duquesne Hires Carolyn Bolden Santee as Assistant Coach Duquesne University of Tuesday announced the hiring of Carolyn Bolden Santee as an assistant coach. Santee joins after serving the last two seasons as a graduate assistant at Division II power University of West Florida. Santee was part of all ...

Arizona State’s Jonny Kulow Wins Big 12’s Bob Bowlsby Award Arizona State men’s swimmer Jonny Kulow was the only male winner of the Big 12’s annual Bob Bowlsby Award, announced on Tuesday. Kulow is the only male winner of the ward this year, joining TCU basketball player Olivia Miles and Cincinnati ...

Kelly Lennon Joins Louisville As Assistant Coach On Tuesday, the University of Louisville announced that Kelly Lennon has been hired as an assistant coach. Lennon most recently spent five seasons on the staff at Army West Point from 2021-26, serving as an assistant coach for three seasons before bei...

Why NCAA Swimming Championships Switching to Yet Another Event Order in 2027 Another new event order will await swimmers at next season's NCAA Championships, albeit a lineup bearing more resemblance to the traditional one from 2025 and before. For the 2026 season, nine of 13 events ended up on diffe...

Rob Collins Promoted to Associate Head Coach for Club Relations and Athlete Development at Tennessee Thanks to his significant impact on the program and Tennessee's recruiting efforts, Rob Collins has been promoted to Associate Head Coach for Club Relations and Athlete Development for the Tennessee ...

Miami Adds Klaudia Nazieblo as Assistant Coach The University of Miami Thursday hired Klaudia Nazieblo to the staff of its women’s swimming and diving program. Nazieblo has spent much of the last decade at Virginia Tech, where she swam from 2014-2018 and where she has been an assistant coach since 2...

Kentucky Hires Ben Keast as Assistant Coach Kentucky on Thursday announced the hiring of Ben Keast as an assistant coach on the staff of head coach Bret Lundgaard. Keast spent the last three seasons at SwimMAC Carolina in Charlotte as an assistant coach with the high performance training group. That...

Pitt Hires Austin Pillado as Associate Head Coach The University of Pittsburgh this week announced the hiring of Austin Pillado as associate head coach of the swimming and diving team. He joins the rebuilt staff of Director of Swimming and Diving Katie Kasparzak and head coach Ian Walsh. “I would li...

Falling in Love with Swimming Again - From the Outside  There comes a point for many swimmers when the love story with the sport changes.  For some, it happens after retirement. For others, it begins during college, after years of chasing times, standards, and expectations. The black line that once ...

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has named over 2,230 swimmers and divers to its Scholar All-American Team presented by Fitter & Faster Swim Camps for the 2025-26 season. To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes must have earned a GPA of 3.5...

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) is proud to announce its Spring 2026 Scholar All-America Teams presented by Fitter & Faster Swim Camps, recognizing 714 teams from 418 institutions for their outstanding academic achievement during the spring semester. Collective...

Is Distance Swimming Dying? Top Coaches Discuss Future of the Events Katie Ledecky’s gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London is a moment that will last a lifetime. A rising star at the time, Ledecky stunned the world, cutting through the water with a ferocious ease....

Virginia Atmosphere Has Lifted Italian Sara Curtis to Career-Best Marks Gretchen Walsh - World-record holder. Kate Douglass - Olympic Champion. Alex Walsh - Olympic Medalist. Claire Curzan - American-record holder. The list could go on, and these athletes could be accompanied by other descriptors. T...

NCAA Reveals Fastest-Ever Qualifying Standards for 2027 Swimming Championships The NCAA swimming qualifying standards for the 2026-27 season have been released, with each event requiring quicker performances than ever before to gain consideration for the national meet. For the second consecutive sea...

A Letter to My College Coach  Dear Coach, As athletes, we spend so much of our careers chasing measurable things. We chase best times, national cuts, conference titles, All-American honors, and records. We learn to define success by numbers on a scoreboard and rankings on a psych sheet. For years, I...

Built to Win in Court, Paid for Downstream: The NCAA's New Eligibility Rule a Danger to Olympic Sports  The NCAA’s new five-year eligibility rule is built to win in court. The bill may land on Olympic sports.  By Alexander L. Ballard The NCAA Division I Cabinet’s unanimous approval last week of a fi...

Division III Albertus Magnus to ‘Pause Indefinitely’ Swim Program Albertus Magnus, a Division III program in Connecticut, announced this week it will indefinitely pause its swimming and diving program, citing low participation numbers. Albertus Magnus began a women’s swimming team in 2019 and expand...

Penn State Hires Mike Smiechowski from St. Bonaventure as Associate Coach Penn State on Thursday announced the hiring of Mike Smiechowski as an associate head coach. Smiechowski stepped down from his role as the head coach at St. Bonaventure for the job on head coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron’s staff. Smi...