Articles by Sophie Kaufman

2024-25 NCAA Digest: SIU Rewrites Conference Record Books To Open Invite Season

SIU broke a slew of MVC conference records at their A3 Performance Invite to get invite season started in style. Plus, D3 chat!

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Top Three Times In Each NCAA Event Before Midseason Invites: Women’s Edition

Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh is the only woman to own multiple top times in the NCAA ahead of the first round of midseason invites.

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2026 Top 20 Recruits Alyssa Sagle and Virginia Hinds’ Swim 200 Back PBs At NOVA Senior Classic

Alyssa Sagle and Virginia Hinds, top 20 recruits in the class of 2026, dueled in the 200 back at the NOVA Senior Classic and both logged PBs.

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Summer McIntosh Closes Out Post-Olympic Return to Racing With Bests In 100-Yard Back/Breast

Summer McIntosh, 18, swam two personal bests in the 100-yard back/breast to close out her return to racing after a sensational Olympics.

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Brown Wins Tri-Meet, Penn Freshman Kayla Fu Sets 100 Fly Program Record

Brown swept Penn and Bryant but Penn walked away with a new program record on the books thanks to freshman Kayla Fu’s 53.19 in the 100 butterfly.

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Michael Phelps Will Put His Golf Skills To The Test On TNT’s ‘The Match: Superstars’

Michael Phelps, Olympic legend and avid golfer, will test his skills on the links in TNT’s all-celebrity edition of ‘The Match: Superstars’ on Nov. 21-22.

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Eleanor Sun Sets Pool Record As Princeton Defends Cannon Trophy In Win Over Rutgers

Princeton sophomore Eleanor Sun broke the Rutgers’ 200 IM pool record as she helped the Tigers keep the Cannon Trophy for a fourth-straight year.

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Olympic Gold Medallist Nathan Adrian Joins Season 3 Of ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test’

Nathan Adrian has been announced as part of the season three cast for FOX’s reality challenge show Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.

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Open Water Nationals Qualifier Jackson Scheiber Commits To Minnesota For Fall 2025

Open Water Nationals qualifier Jackson Scheiber has committed to bringing his distance freestyle talents to the University of Minnesota beginning fall 2025.

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SwimAtlanta’s Cade Anderson Commits To Duke University’s Class of 2029

SwimAtlanta’s Cade Anderson, who specializes in backstroke and IM, has officially signed to be a part of Duke University’s class of 2029.

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Eloise Williamson Flips Commitment From Wisconsin to Stay In State And Swim For Texas A&M

USA Swimming Scholastic All-American Eloise Williamson has signed on to swim for Texas A&M after originally sending her verbal commitment to Wisconsin.

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Iowa High School State Champion Grace Hoeper Commits To Indiana For Fall 2025

Iowa high school state champion in the 50 and 100 freestyle Grace Hoeper has committed to swim collegiately for the Indiana Hoosiers beginning in fall 2025.

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Eight Columbia Pool Records Fall As Princeton Tigers Men Defeat Lions

Mitchell Schott (pictured) broke the Columbia 200 fly pool record and swam the 2nd best time in Princeton history (1:42.22) to help the Tigers beat the Lions.

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CSCAA Announces Division III Hall of Fame Class of 2025

Nancy Bigelow (pictured left) is part of the newly announced Division III Hall of Fame Class of 2025. The class will be the second inducted into the hall.

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Max Garbacz Shines At MAC A3 Performance Invite, Moves Up Boys 13-14 Rankings In Four Events

14-year-old Max Garbacz had a strong weekend at MAC’s A3 Performance Invite, moving up the boys’ 13-14 rankings in 4 events, highlighted by a 3:56.50 400 IM.

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