College

Notre Dame Swimming Captain Sarah Bender Earns Fulbright Scholarship

Bender, who ranks 5th all-time in the 200 breast (2:12.80) in Notre Dame program history, is the first student-athlete from Notre Dame to earn the Fulbright Scholarship.

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Junior Nationals Medalist Maddie Blackwell Commits to Dartmouth (2024)

Maddie Blackwell projects to make an immediate impact on Dartmouth’s free relays next season as the Big Green try to dig out of the bottom of the Ivy League.

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NCAA Qualifier Victoria Raymond Transferring From Tulane To Alabama

Raymond would have been the team’s fastest 200 butterflyer this past season and would have made the SEC A final of both fly events.

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Arizona High School Finalist Courtney Crawford To Swim at University of Idaho (2024)

Arizona state finalist Courtney Crawford, who specializes in breaststroke and IM, has signed to the University of Idaho for swimming.

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Evansville Hires Alum & Former Head Coach Toby Wilcox As Next Head Coach

Wilcox spent the last 13 years as head coach at Division III Birmingham Southern which closes its doors tomorrow, May 31st.

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NAIA Swimming & Diving Championships Move to Elkhart, Indiana for 2025-2026

The Elkhart Health and Aquatics Center in Indiana opened in 2019 and has spectator seating for 1,200, larger than the Columbus Aquatic Center in Georgia.

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Alabama Adds IM’er Sebastien Wenger For 2024-2025 Season

Wenger is from San Diego, where trains and competes year-round with the Sea to Desert Swim Association and attends Westview High School.

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Distance Specialist Brody Singley Sends Verbal To Auburn (2025)

Singley hails from Callahan, Florida, where he trains with the Episcopal AmberJax and is a rising senior at West Nassau High School.

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NCAA Division II Finalist Lutnya Bogdanova Transferring To Florida International

Bogdanova joins a strong FIU breaststroke group that was led by NCAA qualifier Christie Chue this past season.

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2024 NCAA Champion Zalan Sarkany Verbally Commits To Transfer To NC State

The reigning NCAA champion in the 1650 freestyle will join the impressive distance culture developed at NC State, led by coach Mark Bernardino.

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Texas UIL 6A State Champion, “BOTR” Sprinter Kayla Fu, is Headed to Penn in 2024-25

“Best of the Rest” sprint free/fly specialist Kayla Fu will begin her career at UPenn with Ivy A-final times in the 50/100 free and 100 fly.

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Canadian National Runner-Up Kesa Taivassalo Commits to South Carolina

Taivassalo ranked 2nd in the Canadian 15-16 age group in 2023 in the 200 breast and will bolster South Carolina’s breaststroke group upon her arrival.

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Virginia Hires Margaret Zagrobelny From Johns Hopkins As Assistant Coach

Zagrobelny has been with Johns Hopkins since 2018 and was promoted to associate head in 2022. The team’s coaching staff is now the same size as last year.

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NCAA First-Year Coach Update: Duke Women Earn Highest NCAA Finish in Program History

Duke women’s swimming and diving team earned the most points at NCAA Championships and ACC Championships in program history under Brian Barnes.

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Georgia Southern Graduate Assistant Emily Hetzer Joins Cincinnati As Assistant Coach

Hetzer swam at Auburn for five years and graduated in 2022 and 2023. She spent this past season with Georgia Southern as a graduate assistant.

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