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The Sites and Dates for the 2026 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships As we inch closer to the start of the collegiate season, Swimming World is providing a look at where the NCAA will conduct its 2025-26 championships. At the Division I level, the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center will serve as the hos...

Asterisk Needed: Symbol Would Define Lia Thomas' Unfair Advantage at NCAA Championships * * * See those symbols above? They’re known as asterisks, but you probably knew that. In mathematics, they can be used as a multiplication sign. They’re used when letters are omitted from an offensive word, typi...

The NCAA has released its 2024 championship qualifying standards for Division I and Division II programs. The times have continued to creep faster. Automatic "A" qualifying standards are calculated with the three-year average of eighth place for each event. Provisional "B" standards are calculated u...

ESPN airing NCAA Water Polo Championship 3pm PST Stanford, Calif. – Same pool, same rivals, same trophy on the line – but with just enough change on both benches to make the 2025 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship feel wide open. On Sunday afternoon at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center, UCLA and USC ...

Allowing Lia Thomas to Compete At NCAA Championships Would Establish Unfair Setting The competition is scheduled for March 16-19, 2022. The site is the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. A tantalizing Virginia-Stanford battle for the team title is expected. Maggie MacNeil should chase several individual r...

NCAA Women's Championships Has Featured Limited International Influence The look Swimming World recently published about the past three editions of the NCAA Men's Championships revealed competition highlighted by international flavor. From 2023-25, athletes from 17 countries have produced a top-thre...

Hubert Kos, Torri Huske, Claire Curzan Have Decisions to Make After NCAA Schedule Change Over the past several years, Hubert Kos and Torri Huske have established themselves securely among the world's best swimmers, both having secured individual Olympic gold medals in Paris along with numerous other...

A Look at the International Flavor of the Past Three NCAA Championships (Men's Edition) The first set of midseason invitationals wrapped up over the weekend, with several stellar performances highlighting competition across the United States. At the Texas Invitational, the Longhorns' Will Modglin lo...

How NCAA Champions Have Performed at Their Midseason Competitions: The Numbers Are Interesting As the weather begins to chill, the holiday season has arrived. It’s a time of relaxation and cheer, a break from the pressures of the world. That is, except for swimmers.  In the swimming world, the start...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Click here to view our new interactive digital format! Everything seems to be on target for a colossal clash at men’s NCAAs between last year’s top two teams, Cal and Arizona State. The Golden B...

By David Rieder. No, there is no long course World Championships in 2018. It’s that awkward middle year between Olympic cycles where the world’s best swimmers will never all be in the same pool at the same time. So for this year, there will be no definitive answer of “Who is the best?” The good news...

BERKELEY, CA., Nov. 23. TOP-ranked Stanford and second-seeded UCLA advanced to the semi-finals of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation water polo tournment here today in first-round action. However, sixth-seeded and host Cal's Golden Bears upset third-seeded USC, 5-3, to put paid to the Trojan...

Voice for the Sport: The Best Time of Year Commentary by Joel Shinofield, CSCAA Executive Director Some people look forward to March Madness, but I look forward to Championship Month. In just about every corner of the country, you can find a swimming and diving conference championship meet in Februa...

By Abby Boone, Swimming World College Intern No swimmer begins a race thinking they want to come in last place. Every swimmer has goals - times to beat and things to achieve. For many collegiate swimmers, the main goal is to make the NCAA Championships. A conference meet is an excellent place to per...

MULTNOMAH, Oregon. MOUNTAIN VIEW'S powerful Cougars clawed their way to both the girls' and boys' 4A state championship swimming and diving titles here on February 17. GIRLS' EVENTS On the girls' side the Cougs were paced by senior sprinter-backstroker Marisa Kozak, who won the 1...

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 4. WE had a few records broken, some new records that are set to be broken and a star swimmer recognized for her record-setting performances. Let’s not waste any more time shall we? We start our countdown of the top five swimming headlines of the week at number five. Last we...

Speed Blast From the Past: Caeleb Dressel Clocks 17.63 in 50-Yard Freestyle As the competition drought continues due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the world, it has been frustrating to go month to month without witnessing some top-flight performances. Sure, there have been a handful, suc...

Which Schools Have Captured the Most NCAA Team Championships? This year's NCAA Championships will be vastly different, thanks to changes intended to streamline the championship meets. In addition to changes to the schedule, consolation finals have been eliminated. Now, the ninth through 16th-place f...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 19. THE third-ranked University of Texas men's swimming and diving team is favored to win the men's Big 12 Championships, to be held Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 20-23, at the Student Rec Center Natatorium in College Station, Texas. The preliminaries will start at 10...

This season, a handful of swimmers have already achieved an "A" cut and are qualified for the NCAA Championships in March. In individual events, "A" cuts are calculated using the three-year average of the eighth-fastest time in each event. In relays, it's the three-year average of the 16th-fastest t...