Diving

FINA has announced the re-scheduling of the FINA Diving World Cup for the new dates of May 1-6, 2021. The competition will take place in Tokyo, as originally planned, and will serve as both a qualification and test event for the Olympic Games, taking place from July 23-August 8, 2021 in the Japanese...

Texas diver Jordan Windle announced via Instagram Monday that he will return for a fifth year at the University of Texas. Windle is fresh off leading the Longhorns to their 15th national title. Tuesday, he was named the national diver of the year by the College Swim Coaches Association of America. W...

Purdue senior Brandon Loschiavo scored 469.05 points to win the platform diving title on Saturday night in Greensboro as he went 1-2 with fellow Boilermaker Ben Bramley (450.20). Loschiavo won ahead of defending champ Jordan Windle of Texas, who missed his third dive and ended up fourth at 422.75 be...

Indiana's Andrew Capobianco successfully defended his 3m national title on Friday night at the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships in Greensboro with 505.20 points. Capobianco last won the title as a freshman in 2019 as he won ahead of Texas' Jordan Windle (484.60), the winner...

Just when it looked like Cal might pull away early, the Texas Longhorns saved their best performances for last on Thursday, and made a statement that they weren’t going anywhere. A dominant performance on 1-meter diving and the 400 medley relay turned a 67-point deficit to 27 down heading into Day 3...

Texas' Jordan Windle led a huge 1-2 with Longhorn freshman Noah Duperre in the finals of 1m diving as Windle won at 435.60 ahead of Duperre's 405.45 to pick up 37 huge points for Texas in their pursuit of a 15th national title. Texas closed the gap to 33 points behind Cal Berkeley as they also picke...

Indiana freshman Tarrin Gilliland won the platform diving title on Saturday night at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Greensboro with 338.40 as she won ahead of Arizona junior Delaney Schnell (331.80) and Purdue's Maycey Vieta (316.80). Vieta was joined in the fina...

Minnesota Sarah Bacon backed up her 1m diving title on Friday night at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Greensboro with a win in the 3-meter springboard as the only to break 400 with 408.60. Bacon won her first 3-meter title at NCAAs as she now has four individual ...

Minnesota senior Sarah Bacon won her third straight 1-meter diving title on Thursday at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships with 357.20 points to back up her titles from 2018 and 2019. Bacon is now the second swimmer to win the 1-m diving title at least three times as sh...

Michigan State senior diver Amanda Ling was honored as the recipient of the Elite 90 award for the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championship. Ling, an English major, has a perfect 4.0 GPA, and was presented with the award prior to the evening session at the Championship in Greens...

Alexei Vlasenko, head of Russia’s water polo, diving and synchronised swimming federations and a member of the Russian Olympic Committee's executive board, has been arrested over suspected fraud. Vlasenko, who is also chairman of the FINA diving technical committee and a member of the LEN bureau, fa...

The NC State swimming and diving program and head diving coach Yahya Radman have mutually agreed to part ways, as announced by head coach of the program Braden Holloway. "I am appreciative of Yahya's contributions to our program over the last seven seasons," said Holloway. "He has displayed a tremen...

Jordan Windle was prepared to help bring Texas another NCAA title. The 2020 NCAA Championships was poised to be an epic showdown between Texas and Cal. Windle knew that diving could make the difference in a meet that tight. But the meet was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and Windle and hi...

The full list of diver qualifiers for the 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s & Men's Swimming and Diving Championships has been announced with 75 women and 63 men advancing to Greensboro, North Carolina. On the women's side, defending 1m champ Sarah Bacon from 2019 is returning to win her third straight t...

Australian Olympic gold medalist diver Matthew Mitcham discussed his battle with a “crippling” drug and alcohol addiction in an interview with the BBC. The 32-year-old Australian won a gold medal in the 10-meter platform diving at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Not only was he the first Australian ma...

Greg Louganis, one of the greatest divers of all-time if not the greatest, appeared on Orlando Duque's podcast to talk about dealing with the post-Olympic blues. Louganis won four Olympic gold medals in his career, winning the 10m and 3m events in the 1984 and 1988 Games. Listen to the podcast here ...

Duke’s Seamus Harding Jr. has been selected as the ACC Men’s Diver of the Week and fellow Blue Devil Ellie Winslow has been named the ACC Women’s Diver of the Week. A freshman from Hillsborough, New Jersey, Harding Jr. scored a 357.08 on platform and a 347.55 on the 3-meter in the meet against UNC W...

Kelly Straub set the Notre Dame platform diving record, her second straight week with a program record, as the Fighting Irish lead West Virginia after day one of a two-day meet. The No. 18 men’s team has a commanding 141-45 lead, while the 18th-ranked women are up 99-67. Straub scored 273.45 points ...

Passages: A Tribute to Who Was Lost in the Swimming World in 2020: Part 2 (July-December) The world of swimming endured a number of notable passages in 2020, individuals who enriched the sport in the pool and on deck. In 2020, we lost some of the sports coaching pioneers around the globe. Many of th...

USA Diving announced the tentative schedule for the 2021 USA Diving Regional, Zone and National Championships. The championship events will begin with the various Regional Championships around the country the weekends of April 30 – May 2 and May 7–9, 2021. These events will lead into USA Diving Zone...