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NCAA Considering Pushing Division I Swim & Dive Championships Into April

The NCAA Championships could be pushed back into April as of 2027 to allow the competition to be held after March Madness.

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LEN U23 Champion Emma Sticklen on Breaking Through This Summer in the Long Course Pool

The Texas All-American walks us through what she gained from each competition as well as what has made the training environment so special in Austin this year

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Former Swimmer Renee Riccio To Be Inducted Into WVU Sports Hall of Fame

Riccio, who died in 2021 after a battle with melanoma, was the first WVU swimmer to be a two-time All-American in the same season during her career (1989-93).

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World Juniors, Pan American Games Will Be NCAA Championship Qualifying Events

The NCAA Swimming & Diving Committee has now approved five national and international championships as qualifying events for the 2024 NCAA Championships. (Above: JoJo Ramey)

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Olympian Caspar Corbeau Leaving Texas, Will Train In Amsterdam Under Mark Faber

Corbeau, who has been Texas’s best breaststroker for the last four years, will not be using his fifth year of eligibility in the NCAA.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 51% Think SEC Will Be Swimming’s Most Competitive Conference

With Texas set to join Florida and other elite programs in the SEC, SwimSwam readers believe the conference will be the best swimming has to offer.

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NCAA Releases 2024 Championship Standards, Long Course Conversion Formula

The majority of men’s events have seen the ‘A’ cut get faster, while only a handful of women’s races got quicker and one got significantly slower.

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David Johnston Taking Olympic Redshirt, Will Return to Texas in 2024-25

David Johnston is taking an Olympic redshirt year, but he says he’ll ultimately return to Texas instead of turning pro after Paris 2024.

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Arizona State, Arizona, Utah Leaving Pac-12 for Big 12; Oregon, Washington Join Big Ten

Arizona, ASU, and Utah are expected to be approved as Big 12 members within the next day, which would leave the Pac-12 with just four schools remaining.

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Pac-12 Appears Headed for Collapse After Grant of Rights Agreement Falls Through

Pac-12 presidents failed to get a Grant of Rights signed during a meeting Friday morning, signaling an impending collapse for the “Conference of Champions.”

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Kelly Pash on Going from World Trials to US Pro Champs: “It was a little tricky”

The incoming UT 5th year admitted that after the US World Trials last month, she was pretty emotionally and physically exhausted.

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TCU Promotes Alice McCall To Associate Head Coach

McCall has been with the Horned Frogs for the past two seasons, arriving at TCU as an assistant coach and men’s recruiting coordinator in 2021.

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Carson Foster and Luke Hobson Reflect on “Up and Down” World Championships

Both swam more races than they ever had at a big international meet with Foster swimming 3 individual events and Hobson swimming the 200 free individually

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D1 Swimming & Diving Committee Approves Long Course Qualifying for 2024 NCAA Champs

The NCAA D1 Swimming & Diving Committee made the 2023-2024 college season decision a bit easier for swimmers like the new top US sprinter, Jack Alexy (above).

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Cincinnati Hires Former Kentucky Volunteer Assistant Scott Stern as New Assistant Coach

After one season as a volunteer assistant at Kentucky, Scott Stern is headed to the University of Cincinnati as an assistant for the new Big 12 program.

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