Dennis Pursley

Alabama’s Dennis Pursley Announces Retirement from Coaching

Pursley has been head coach at Alabama since 2012, but his impact on the sport began decades earlier.

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2018-2019 NCAA Men’s Power Rankings: Final Edition

Conference Championships brought some major shakeups to our final edition men’s Power Ranks, though our #1 rank continues to be an uneasy split between Texas and Cal. 

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2018-2019 Men’s NCAA Power Rankings: February Edition

It’s the calm before the conference storm in our Power Rankings, with the uneasy split of #1 votes remaining identical to our last ranks.

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Alabama Celebrates Senior Day, Final Home Meet Friday

The hours spent at the Alabama Aquatic Center – the dives, the yards, the practices, the meets – have all been piling up for the Alabama swimming and diving teams’ 14 seniors and this weekend the last of those, the competition part of their AQC tenure, comes to an end.

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Dennis Pursley Doesn’t Use The Word ‘Taper’

Taper. Rest. Preparation. Drop tapers. Swim coaches have a million words to describe the art of resting, and often it seems every coach has a different definition of each term. But Pursley says the terminology truly does matter – at least in the mind of the athlete.

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WATCH LIVE: Alabama Opens 2018-19 Season vs. Delta State on Friday

In what has become an annual tradition, Alabama swimming and diving opens the 2018-19 season this Friday against Delta State at the Alabama Aquatic Center.

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CSCAA Announes Two Major Additions To 2018 Convention

The CSCAA is excited to announce two major additions to the 2018 Convention in Evanston, Illinois.

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Oslin, McKee, Scott Named Alabama Most Outstanding Swimmers

Alabama’s Connor Oslin was one of a trio of swimmers to win the Most Outstanding Swimmer Award at the Crimson Tide’s annual banquet.

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Dennis Pursley on rising Crimson Tide (Video)

it was Alabama that threw down for the 200 medley title, going 1:22.28 to come within .01 of the NCAA and U.S. Open records

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Commonwealth Youth Gold Medalist Zane Waddell To Join Alabama

Waddell is one of the top junior sprinters in the world

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College Swimming Previews: Is #10 Alabama the New SEC Sprint Capital?

NCAA champ Kristian Gkolomeev leads a loaded sprint crew at Alabama that’s only getting better.

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Alabama Swimming Duo Earns 2015 Men’s Capital One Academic All-America Honors

Anton McKee and Connor Oslin were two of only four sophomores to earn a place on Capital One/CoSIDA at-large teams.

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University of Alabama Returns to Power: a conversation with Coach Dennis Pursley

In two short years, Head Coach Dennis Pursley has taken the University of Alabama Swimming and Diving program from the bottom ranks of the SEC to the top fleet of the NCAA Division I Championships.

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2015 Alabama Rising Tide Swim Camps, Register Now

“Denny (Coach Pursley) taught me the relationship between work and reward.” Glenn Mills, co-founder of GoSwim.tv and U.S. Olympian.

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2014 Swammy Awards: Men’s NCAA Coach of the Year Dave Durden

Dave Durden is building a dynasty in Berkeley, California.

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