Big Ten

NCAA Finalist Mackenzie Looze to Return to Indiana for 5th Year

Mackenzie Looze scored 70 individual points at 2022 Big Tens. In each of her first four years at Indiana, she has made at least two Big Ten A finals.

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Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Woolsey, Indiana’s First NCAA Swimming Champion, Dies

Hawaiian Bill Woolsey was an NCAA and Olympic champion who after retirement founded a learn-to-swim methodology taught throughout Hawaii and California.

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Analyzing the New NCAA Power Five Television Markets

Since the Big Ten’s recent expansion is thought to be fueled by Fox, it’s worth examining how the realigned Power Five now stacks up in terms of TV markets. 

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USC, UCLA Unanimously Approved as Big Ten Members for 2024

UCLA AD Martin Jarmond acknowledged longer travel distances, but he said that the resources afforded by Big Ten membership could help solve that problem.

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2021 NCAA A Finalist Nikola Acin to Transfer to Michigan for 5th Year

Acin recently competed at the 2022 World Championships for Serbia where he anchored their men’s 4×100 freestyle relay that finished eighth.

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USC, UCLA Reportedly Leaving Pac-12 for Big Ten

The geography of the new Big Ten – which will actually include 16 schools – now stretches nearly 2,800 miles from Los Angeles to New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Illinois Adds Head Diving Coach Tricia Grant to Coaching Staff

Grant spent the last five seasons at Bowling Green State University. She spent her collegiate career at Oakland University.

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Stanford Women, Harvard Men Lead Division I GPAs for Spring 2022 Semester

The entire top 10 of the women’s NCAA Division I Championship meet also earned Scholar All-America Status, led by Stanford’s team GPA of 3.83.

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Ohio State Promotes Mike Hulme to Associate Head; Add Katie Trace as Assistant

Trace (above) spent the last five seasons as an athlete for the Buckeyes. Hulme has spent the last seasons as an Ohio State assistant.

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Summer Juniors Qualifier Jack Madoch Stays In-State, Commits to Wisconsin Badgers

Verona Area Swim Team’s Jack Madoch has a Summer Juniors time in the 50 free and his current high school is less than 7 miles away from his future campus.

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Arkansas 6A Record-holder Lienfang Yu Announces Verbal Commitment to Wisconsin

Lienfang Yu, a Summer Juniors qualifier in the 100 breast and 200 breast, has verbally committed to Wisconsin for 2023-24.

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Backstroker Stuart Seymour Commits to Northwestern

Elmbrook Swim Club backstroker Stuart Seymour, a rising high school senior, has committed to join Northwestern’s Class of 2027.

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Indiana Swim Coach Ray Looze Receives A Raise to $330,000 Per Year

Ray Looze is now one of the highest-paid swimming coaches in the country after receiving another contract upgrade from Indiana.

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Summer Juniors Qualifier Josean Massucco Sends Verbal to Michigan

Josean Massucco, a freestyle and butterfly specialist from Tennessee, has announced his commitment to the University of Michigan for the 2023-2024 season.

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4x NCAA Championship Qualifier Luciana Thomas to Transfer to Nebraska for 5th Year

Thomas qualified for NCAAs in all four of her years at Notre Dame and has the potential to be a huge boost to Nebraska at the conference and national levels.

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