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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 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...

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 ...

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...

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 Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. At the NCAA level of swimming, swimmers can participate in thirteen different individual events. Some of these events can clearly be defined as sprint events; for example, the 50 free can take the best men no more than 19 seconds, and the women no mo...

VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 1. WITH all but one of Canada’s swimming medalists from the 2010 Commonwealth Games now retired, this week’s Canadian nationals will be searching for new talent to put the country on the medal podium multiple times in Scotland this summer. With Brent Hayden, Julia W...

By Bill Bell APRIL 8. WHEN Australian triple Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe set the world record in the 800 free during last week's Australian Nationals/World Championship Trials in Hobart, he joined a rather exclusive group -- consisting of a mere two other swimmers -- who have ever held worl...

NEW YORK, N.Y., April 20. THE honors keep on pouring in for Kim Black. Today the Georgia senior was named the Verizon Academic All-America Fall/Winter Women¹s At-Large Team Member of the Year, as announced by Verizon and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). She was also name...

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...

After Trials, Illness Setbacks, Luca Urlando is Ready and Realistic for 2022 Luca Urlando didn’t have the summer of 2021 he dreamed of. November and December weren’t great, either, to be honest. But for a soon-to-be 20-year-old, Urlando is beyond his years in practice handling adversity. Some of it ...

By Peter Baugh, Swimming World College Intern With NCAA Championships and Olympic Trials around the corner, some of the nation’s fastest swimmers competed at the Southeastern Conference Championships in Columbia, Missouri Feb. 16-20. A number of swimmers talked to the media after their races. Here’s...

By David Rieder Anyone who visited the McAuley Aquatic Center this past weekend hoping to watch some fast swimming got exactly what they were looking for. A U.S. Open record – the fastest time ever – was recorded in eight of the 13 individual events contested at the men’s NCAA championships, twice i...

DURBAN, South Africa, April 10. CHAD Le Clos was a double winner tonight at the South African nationals, taking the gold in sprint and distance events. Sebastien Rousseau also got his name on the Commonwealth Games roster with a runner-up finish in the 400 IM final. Women 100 fly final Marne Erasmus...

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...

Split analysis for the 500 SCY freestyle is sponsored by LumaLanes. Race Context At the 2020 SEC swimming and diving championships, Florida Gator sophomore Kieran Smith shocked many in the swimming world when he broke Zane Grothe's American record in the 500 freestyle. Until this meet, most saw Smit...

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...

Louise Hansson: The Best of Both Worlds By David Rieder Swedish swimmer Louise Hansson never envisioned herself swimming in college in the United States. But as she prepares for this month’s women’s NCAAs, the University of Southern California senior says that moving to the U.S. was the best thing ....

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 6. SWIMMING legend John Naber is among the six NCAA Silver Anniversary Award recipients announced today by the NCAA Honors Committee. The Silver Anniversary Award recognizes former student-athletes who have distinguished themselves since completing their college athletics careers ...

Steady Diet of Racing at Florida Putting Joshua Liendo in Position for 2024 The messaging from Swimming Canada through 2020 and into 2021 highlighted a dearth of racing, even by COVID-19 pandemic standards. One of the last major nations to hold its trials for the Tokyo Olympics and one of the most h...