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Florida and California both win relay events on Day 1 of the men’s swimming and diving championships

Mar. 27, 2024 22:52 PM EDT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Florida won the first event of the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships on Wednesday night, and the Gators are tied with California for the first-day lead in the team standings. The Gators opened the meet by capturing the 200-yard medley relay with a...

Virginia women win fourth straight NCAA swimming and diving championship, Walsh collects 7 golds

Mar. 24, 2024 00:37 AM EDT

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Virginia won the women's swimming and diving championships on Saturday night at the Jack Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium. It was the fourth straight title for the top-ranked Cavaliers, who scored 527.5 points to finish well ahead of the 441 scored by...

Virginia women add four titles on Day 3 of the NCAA swimming and diving championships

Mar. 22, 2024 23:01 PM EDT

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Virginia won three individual events and a relay on Friday night to remain atop the leaderboard going into the final day of the women’s swimming and diving championships at the Jack Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium. Gretchen Walsh set American, NCAA, and...

Virginia wins three events on Day 2 of the NCAA women's swimming and diving championships

Mar. 21, 2024 23:47 PM EDT

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Gretchen Walsh broke her own collegiate, American and US Open record in the 50-yard freestyle and her sister Alex Walsh took the 200 IM on Thursday night to help Virginia move into first on the team leaderboard in the women's swimming and diving championships. ...

Defending champ Virginia wins the first event at the NCAA women's swimming and diving championships

Mar. 20, 2024 22:45 PM EDT

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Defending champion Virginia won the first event of the NCAA women's swimming and diving championships, and Florida took the first-day lead on Wednesday. The Cavaliers opened the meet by capturing the 200-yard medley relay, an event they won last year, with a time...

Olympic great Perkins warns doping-allowed Enhanced Games are 'borderline criminal'

Mar. 18, 2024 22:31 PM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Olympic great and Australian Sports Commission chief Kieren Perkins says “someone will die” if a multi-sport event that he called “borderline criminal” and which allows banned performance-enhancing substances goes ahead. The Enhanced Games have...

College swimmers, volleyball players sue NCAA over transgender policies

Mar. 15, 2024 13:53 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022. ...

'Totally cold' is not too cold for winter swimmers competing in a frozen Vermont lake

Feb. 24, 2024 16:00 PM EST

NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone's good time but for winter swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border, there's nothing better. The 10th annual Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival...

American Hunter Armstrong gets 2 more medals on final day of swim worlds. Israeli swimmer is jeered

Feb. 18, 2024 15:20 PM EST

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — American swimmer Hunter Armstrong helped himself to two more medals on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Sunday, winning the men's 4x100 medley relay with the United States team after taking the silver in the men’s 50 backstroke. ...

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko jeered by crowd at swim worlds in Qatar

Feb. 18, 2024 13:39 PM EST

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was jeered by some of the crowd after finishing second in the women's 400-meter medley on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Sunday. The 20-year-old Gorbenko was making poolside comments moments...