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Olympic gold medalist and former Stanford women's head coach Lea Maurer, who guided the Cardinal for seven years, has been named USC men's and women's swimming associate head coach, first-year Trojan head coach Jeremy Kipp announced today. Maurer and is the newest addition to Kipp's staff, which als...

La Salle University head swimming and diving coach Jamie Platt announced his resignation on Monday, after accepting the position of executive director at Middle Atlantic Swimming. Platt, a former student-athlete with the Explorers, spent 18 seasons as a coach at La Salle University and recently comp...

More dominoes are beginning to fall with fall college sports being canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Patriot League will not participate in fall sports this season because of the virus, the league announced on Monday. The Patriot League consists of the Naval Academy, Bucknell, Lehigh, t...

Petitions have been started to save the Dartmouth College and UMass Dartmouth swimming programs cut at both of those schools this month. More than 4,000 people have signed the petition for UMass Dartmouth, whose men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs were cut July 1. The petition was started...

39 Thoughts All Swimmers Have During the 200 Butterfly By Sophia Chiang, Swimming World College Intern We're pretty sure everyone is terrified of the 200 butterfly. Well, except for Michael Phelps, maybe. But let's just make it clear that Phelps is absolutely the exception and not the rule. Even if ...

The Pac-12 announced Friday that fall sports will observe a conference-only schedule in 2020, following the announcements by other major conferences this week. The Pac-12’s announcement comes on the heels of similar moves by the ACC and Big Ten. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, less travel is hope...

NESCAC announces cancellation of fall sports. After the Ivy League made a monumental decision to cancel its fall sports season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the question was raised if other major conferences would follow suit and do the same. In a statement released Friday, the Division III New Englan...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Friday July 10, 2020, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Do you agree with the CSCAA's request to prohibit on-campus recruiting until March 2021? The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) is ca...

Wingate Swimming and Diving announced two new promotions. Wingate University vice-president and director of athletics Steve Poston and head Wingate Swimming coach Kirk Sanocki announced a pair of promotions this week. Greg Doyle has been named the associate head coach for women's swimming and aquati...

The fate of college sports during the COVID-19 pandemic is unclear, and the picture got murkier with a pair of decisions made Thursday. The Big Ten Conference announced that if it is able to participate in fall sports, it will do so via conference-only schedules. The announcement comes on the heels ...

Dartmouth announced on Thursday that it will eliminate five varsity athletic, and several staff positions, including men's and women's swimming. Dartmouth concluded the change would give school more flexibility in admissions, reducing the number of recruited athletes in incoming classes by 10%. The ...

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) named 1,479 swimmers and divers to Scholar All-American Team for the 2019-20 season. The award recognizes students who achieved a grade point average of 3.50 or higher and were invited to compete at their respective national c...

The Ivy League officially decided on Wednesday to postpone its fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will not entertain any sports beginning play until after Jan. 1, 2021. The decision, which was expected, was reported by CBSSports.com's Jon Rothstein, and confirmed by the conference in a re...

The Centennial Conference Tuesday announced that it is suspending all intercollegiate athletics for the fall semester in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. For a sport like swimming, which takes place across the fall and spring semesters, the season is not officially cancelled, but fall competitions ar...

The University of Florida women's swimming and diving team and head coach Jeff Poppell officially announced the addition of Annette Schultz to the program as a transfer on Monday afternoon. Schultz joins the Gators after spending her first two collegiate seasons at the University of Louisville, and ...

Harvard University announced on Monday that it will only bring up to 40% of students to campus this fall, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. First-year students will be allowed to learn on campus "to adjust to college academics and to begin creating connections with faculty and other classmates," according...

5 Things Coaches Should Know About Recruiting in a Virtual World A swarm of butterflies flutters through your stomach and your heart races. You tap on your spiral notebook and scan your checklist one last time. Why are you so nervous? You’ve done your research and more importantly, no one can see yo...

Northern Arizona Diver Aly Jones Battling Back After Setbacks Contributed by Northern Arizona Athletics Early on in her life, Northern Arizona University diver Aly Jones knew she wanted to be a surgeon. So much so that her parents, even in jest, wondered what might be wrong with their daughter. "I w...

UMass Dartmouth announced Wednesday that men’s and women’s swimming and diving are among eight varsity athletic program to be cut. The decision is reportedly not related to coronavirus budget reductions. The programs cut include women’s equestrian, men’s golf, men’s lacrosse, co-ed sailing and men’s...

Boise State University will be eliminating baseball and its swimming and diving programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a release sent out by Boise State. The decision will save the university an estimated $3 million. “This is one of the hardest decisions athletic departments have to mak...