The Powerlist

Florida State Gets Verbals From International Sprinters Rogic, Lavotha

The Florida State men will be bringing in some international sprint talent next fall now that Hungary’s Oszkar Lavotha and Croatia’s Kristofer Rogic have announced their verbal commitments to join the Seminoles.

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Mizzou Hosts All Missouri Schools at the 2016 Show-Me Showdown

Mizzou’s Michael Chadwick was a double winner for the Tigers on the way to Men’s and Women’s titles at the 2016 Show-Me Showdown.

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Auburn’s Grant Schenk To Represent SEC At NCAA Leadership Forum

Auburn swimmer Grant Schenk will be heading to Baltimore, Maryland next month to represent the SEC at the NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum.

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UGA Men and Women Defeat UNC at Chapel Hill

The University of Georgia men’s and women’s teams emerged victorious against the North Carolina Tar Heels in both teams’ first dual meet of the season.

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#20 Recruit Regan Barney Decommits From Georgia, Verbals To Princeton

Junior National silver medalist and #20-ranked recruit Regan Barney has rescinded her commitment to the University of Georgia and has instead verbally committed to begin the application process with Princeton.

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NCAA In Violation, College Athletes Will Still Not Be Paid

As the monetary value of an athlete’s name, image and likeness (NIL) rights has skyrocketed in recent years, the National Collegiate…

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Contract Worker Dies Dismantling Rio Olympic Facilities

During the dismantling of the Rio 2016 Olympic facilities, one man died from electrocution and another lost his leg due to crashing in the beach volleyball arena. Both victims were outsourced workers hired to help dismantle the Olympic facilities.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Neidigh Spoils Runge’s Home Debut

Perhaps the most impactful transfer heading into this NCAA season was former NCAA record-holder Cierra Runge heading from Cal to Wisconsin (by way of Tempe after an Olympic redshirt year at ASU). But Auburn’s Ashley Neidigh spoiled Runge’s big Badger debut with a pair of distance wins on the road.

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Kara Lynn Joyce Signs With Play Like a Girl

Three-Time Team USA Olympian and co-star of the documentary “Touch the Wall” Kara Lynn Joyce joins the Play Like a Girl Foundation as Chair of the Executive Leadership Council

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College Swimming Previews: #1 Texas Men Wrangling Threepeat Dynasty

The Longhorns are in the hunt for an NCAA threepeat this season, and they have very few weaknesses.

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Juba to Move on From Denmark After Short Course World Championships

Nick Juba will lead the Danish National Team for the final time at the 2016 World Short Course Championships…

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54.7 100 Backstroker Ava Howard Commits to San Diego State

Howard should have an immediate scoring impact when she arrives at SDSU, as her time in the 100 back (54.78) would’ve been good enough to make the top 16 at the Mountain West Championships last season.

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Pitt Begins Season Saturday Against Boston College and Georgia Tech

Saturday afternoon’s meet provides an early test for Pitt against two programs that it will challenge for positioning in the ACC when the conference championships come up in late February.

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What Swimming Gives You in Return

I kept asking myself what the point of pushing myself to the very extreme of my physical and mental limits if I wasn’t even going to get anything out of it

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Freestyler Colter Carman Stays In State; Commits To Texas Longhorns

Distance freestyler Colter Carman has made his verbal commitment to stay in state and join the defending NCAA champion Texas Longhorns next fall.

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