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The Virginia swim team returned Saturday with a long course time trial in Charlottesville a day after swimming a short course intrasquad meet on Friday night. After six months away from racing, the Cavaliers opened up the 2020-21 season with some solid times as we enter the season of the coronavirus...

The University of Virginia returned to competition on Friday afternoon as the Cavaliers and their pro group put down some solid September times after the COVID-19 summer. Conger, who is one of the post-grads swimming with coach Todd DeSorbo, swam a 1:41.61 in the 200 butterfly in his first official ...

Strip Iowa of NCAA Champs Now! Disregard For Eliminated Programs Grows Despite the return of Big Ten football, and the subsequent financial boost that will be realized, the University of Iowa has no intention of retaining any of the programs it will cut after the 2020-21 school year. A loss of reven...

Four members of the University of Iowa women's swimming and diving team are challenging the University's announcement to cut the swimming and diving program - both men and women, at the end of this academic year. The four members are Sage Ohlensehlen, Christina Kaufman, Alexa Puccini and Kelsey Drak...

As the Big Ten returns to football, questions surround the cutting of four sports by the University of Iowa. Iowa had previously used the lack of football revenue as a major reason that four sports, including swimming and diving, would be eliminated. Iowa athletic director Gary Barta announced on Au...

Villanova swimming & diving head coach Rick Simpson announced this week the hiring of Laura McGlaughlin as an assistant coach to complete the Wildcats staff for the coming year. McGlaughlin is a 2013 graduate of Villanova who previously worked on the team’s coaching staff and administratively in the...

The Pac-12 Conference announced Thursday night that it will resume the football, basketball and winter sports seasons, with swimming & diving to commence “consistent with the NCAA season dates for those sports.” The Pac-12 had postponed the fall season and delayed the winter season through Jan. 1, 2...

Pac-12 Announces Abbreviated Football Season; What Will Happen With Swimming? Following the Big Ten Conference's decision to reverse field and conduct a football season, various news outlets announced on Thursday night that the Pac-12 Conference will play a seven-game football season beginning in No...

Morgan Kraus was ready to build off of a successful freshman season and help Ohio State defend its Big Ten championship. Now, she can’t even train with her team. In fact, she isn’t even in the same state, training with Michigan Lakeshore Aquatics for a hopefully short time. Because of the COVID-19 p...

The Big Ten Conference Administrator's Council has determined that with the exception of football, men's and women's basketball, and men's and women's ice hockey, there shall be no competition prior to January 1, 2021, in an email to swim and dive coaches obtained by Swimming World. "The Administrat...

At Miami University, Quarantine Meant Tough Start for International Swimmers By Madison Hoehn, Swimming World Intern  For several international members of Miami University's swimming and diving program, their first few weeks in the United States proved difficult. From August to early September, Miam...

7 Swim Meet Tips for Spectator Cheering Squads By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern For any swimmer’s cheering squad, and maybe especially for parents, there is nothing more thrilling than stepping into the viewing gallery of a competitive swimming pool, breathing in the chlorinated atmosphe...

How Virginia is navigating a start to the college season in the uncertainties of a COVID-19 world. As a new school year gets underway during a global pandemic, it seems harder than ever to imagine what a "normal" swimming and diving season will look like. For Virginia, which last year was the top se...

Daniel Leyson has been all over the world for water polo, including an appearance at the Olympics—the highest level of competition for his sport. Along the way on a career that has taken him from club coaching with Rose Bowl to collegiate stops at his alma mater, USC (Class of ’92), and UCLA, to pla...

Switching Things Up: The Best Cure for an Event Funk By Mark McCluskey In life, you might feel stuck in the daily grind and are searching for a way out. In swimming, you can also feel stuck in your training with little insight on how to progress and improve. One of the hardest things for a swimmer t...

William & Mary’s statement announcing that it would cut swimming and diving included large, verbatim passages lifted from an earlier statement regarding athletics cuts made by Stanford. The similarities were first reported by SwimSwam, which received an admission from William & Mary athletic directo...

The Inner Workings of a Swim Family By Jennifer Yoo Every swimmer knows the amount of time that their sport requires. As you spend countless numbers of hours in and out of the pool with the same people, they start to become your second family. Swimmers cherish their swim families and often make life...

4 Myths About Swimming By Natalia Kaczor “What sport do you play?” “I swim.” “Oh that’s fun; I swim in my pool all the time!” We have all been in a similar situation before. The frustration that builds up when hearing this is evident on our faces. Should we be offended, or just laugh it off? Swimmin...

Wagner College announced Wednesday that it will add men’s swimming and diving as its 26th intercollegiate varsity sport. The Seahawks will begin competition in the 2021-22 season as a member of the Northeast Conference, which last week announced it will begin sponsoring men’s swimming and diving as ...

A Personal Look at the Differences Between American and Australian College Swimming By Tara Draper, Swimming World Intern College swimming is a breed unlike all others. It's such a different environment from Australian swimming, and I was often very confused by the entire concept. Traveling over to ...