The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), on behalf of Division I swimming & diving, is calling on the NCAA Council to exempt swimming and diving from Proposal 2018-93 when it comes up for a vote this week.
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The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America has selected 274 swimmers and divers to its Division I All-America team. Four teams each had twelve first-team selections. They included the Stanford women along with the men's teams of Indiana, Texas and California.
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Brad Shively of Washington University in Saint Louis and Jess Book of Kenyon College have been named CSCAA Division III Swimming Coaches-of-the-Year for men and women respectively. The duo were selected by their peers following the 2019 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Greensboro, NC. Chicago's Becky Benson was named women's Diving Coach-of-the-Year while Lake Forest's Nathan Lightman took home the men's honor.
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Salem College will add a women's swimming program, with Tim Hillen being named head coach. In doing so, Salem becomes the fourteenth institution to add the sport in time for the 2019-20 season. At present, twenty-one new teams (twelve men, nine women) will dive into competition next Fall.
Read MoreThe College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) have selected Kristin Walker, Daniel Dozier, Mona Groteguth, Alice McCall, Nathan Hardingand Daniel Burke.to receive the Jean Freeman Scholarship. The scholarships are given annually to six assistant coaches whose exceptional contributions have brought recognition to their college or university, and whose leadership, integrity, honesty, competitive attitude and personal graciousness epitomize those characteristics reflected by Jean Freeman, longtime women's swimming coach at the University of Minnesota.
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Queens University of Charlotte's Polina Lapshina and Marius Kusch lead the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA)'s Division II All-America team. The pair were named women's and men's swimmers of the year and join 259 other swimmers and divers from forty institutions on the list. The CSCAA also selected an additional 133 student-athletes from an additional ten schools to its honorable mention team.
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The 2019 CSCAA Convention and Banquet will mark the end of USMMA Head Coach Sean Tedesco's tenure on the CSCAA Board of Directors. Before he leaves, we sat down with Sean to talk swimming and diving, his favorite convention talks and what he does off deck.
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The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) selected their NAIA All-America team.. In total, 67 men and 70 women were selected.
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March 6, 2019 - The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) have released their fourth TYR Top 25 Dual Meet Swimming and Diving Poll of the 2018-19 season. The Queens University men and women kept their number one positions from last month.
Read MoreMarch 6, 2019 - The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) have released their third TYR Top 25 Dual Meet Swimming and Diving Poll of the 2018-19 season. The Denison men and women claimed the number one spot for the final.
Our sport is not a zero-sum game. On the contrary. It is healthiest when we have a diversity of programs competing for and contributing something of value for their institution. For some institutions, that means a NCAA or conference championship trophy, while at others it means posting the department’s APR.
Read MoreFebruary 25, 2019 - The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) have released the final men's TYR Top 25 Dual Meet Poll of the 2018-19 swimming and diving season. The California men held their spot at #1.
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Youngstown State will add a men's swimming and diving program as well as a women's lacrosse team in the near future, Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Ron Strollo announced on Monday.
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Fighting to keep your job or preserve your program can be soul-crushing. Our losses are painful and public – there for everyone to see. At the same time our victories – out of fear that they are simply luck or merely temporary - remain hidden and are rarely acknowledged. That means we only learn from our failures. This month, however, I met several coaches whose efforts are having a transformative effect in their department and on their campus. Of these, I’d like to share three examples who illustrate the influence that each of us can create.
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A few days ago, I received I received a small book of poems from a friend: If God Invented Baseball by E. Ethelbert Miller. “Oh Good,” I thought, “Just in time for Spring Training.” What a surprise when I looked inside.
Read MoreFebruary 13, 2019 - The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) have released the final women's TYR Top 25 Dual Meet Poll of the 2018-19 swimming and diving season. The Stanford women have taken over the #1 position.
Read MoreThe CSCAA announced that seven conferences had 100% of their swimming and diving teams selected as Scholar All-America teams. Every member of The American Athletic Conference, Big 12, Big East, Colonial Athletic Association, Missouri Valley, Northeast and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference- 161 teams in all - received Scholar All-America honors by earning GPAs of 3.00 or higher for the Fall Semester.
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January 29, 2019 - The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) have released their third TYR Top 25 Dual Meet Swimming and Diving Poll of the 2018-19 season. The Denison men and Kenyon women claimed the number one spot.
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January 29, 2019 - The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) have released their fourth TYR Top 25 Dual Meet Swimming and Diving Poll of the 2018-19 season. The Queens University men and women took over the number one position after their showings this past month.
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