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Idaho Names Wei Wei Head Diving Coach

Wei, a former Chinese National Diving Team member, has spent the majority of her coaching career at the Los Angeles Diving Club and UCLA.

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George Washington Adds Gabi Trainor To Staff As Assistant Coach

Trainor comes to GW from Mount St. Mary’s, where she served as an assistant coach on the men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams last season.

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Cal Men’s Inaugural ACC Season To Feature Three Matchups With Stanford

The Golden Bears will face off with ACC rival Stanford twice during the fall semester (once in a tri-meet with ASU) and again in the spring.

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Cal Women Announce 2024-25 Schedule For Debut ACC Season

The California women’s team begins its first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference at the annual Queen of the Pool at Cal Poly on Sept. 20.

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UMBC Swim & Dive Names Brennan Morris New Assistant Coach

Morris comes to UMBC from Bucknell where he was an assistant coach since September of 2022.

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Ohio State Swim & Dive Releases 2024-25 Schedule

The Buckeyes will officially kick off the season against Kentucky and Akron, and will have a marquee Big Ten matchup with Michigan in mid-January.

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Sacred Heart Names Hammarlund, Nieto & Sanchez Captains For 2024-25

Meghan Hammarlund, Rosemery Nieto and Melanie Sanchez were named this season’s captains for the Pioneers, who begin their season on Sept. 22.

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Miami (OH) Adds Kevin Menke, Charlie Retter To Swim & Dive Staff

Charlie Retter will serve as the RedHawks’ diving coach, while Kevin Menke joins the program as an assistant swimming coach.

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Six Named To International Paralympic Committee Athletes’ Council

Among the six elected was Portugal’s Lenine Cunha, who becomes the first athlete with an intellectual impairment to join the Council.

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No. 2 Cal Men Split Games At Triton Invite

After roaring to a 4-0 start to the season, Cal was upended by No. 13 Pepperdine 21-20 in sudden victory overtime to close out the Triton Invitational.

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No. 4 USC Men’s Water Polo Whips Up Two Wins To Open 2024

Six Trojans score their first USC goals in wins over Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton at the Triton Invitational.

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Offense Powers Cal Men’s Water Polo On Opening Day

The Golden Bears kicked off the season by claiming a pair of wins over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 19-8 and No. 6 UC Irvine, 20-14 at the Triton Invitational.

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Rutgers Swim & Dive Announces 2024-25 Schedule

The Scarlet Knights’ schedule features seven meets, including a trio of home dates and matchups with four Big Ten rivals.

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Former LSU Head Coach Jeff Cavana Dies At 67

Cavana, who served four seasons as head coach, took the lead role on staff in August of 2000 after serving as an assistant coach for 10 seasons.

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Queens (NC) Promotes Elliot Ptasnik To Associate Head Coach

Ptasnik, who spent the 2023-24 season as an assistant coach with the Royals, has over 15 years of coaching experience under his belt.

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