Three weeks, three emails, all from coaches - good coaches - asking for my input as they struggle through a season of challenges, anxiety, and depression ... among both their team and themselves.
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This year's CSCAA / TYR Top 25 Division III Pre-Season Poll puts the Denison men and Emory women in the top spots. Denison finished the 2018-2019 season ranked first in the men' poll while Emory ended last season ranked second, behind the Denison women.
DI Polls have Texas Men and Cal Women at Number 1
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By Alice McCall
Compared to other Division I collegiate sports, swimming and diving seems to have a definite gender imbalance within head coach roles. According to the Tucker Center of The University of Minnesota, in season 2018-2019 only 16% of head coaches in swimming were female.
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McGee Moody is well underway in his 13th season as Head Coach at the University of South Carolina. We managed to chat with the Gamecock leader about his experiences leading up to this point. McGee, an East Carolina Pirate graduate of ’98, was fortunate enough to begin his coaching career in his backyard, but through the years this career has allowed him to coach at some of the most respected programs in the nation. Take a read to find out some hidden facts you may not have known about the South Carolina Head Swimming and Diving Coach, and what he has to say about serving on the CSCAA Board of Directors.
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The CSCAA/TYR Top 25 Division II November Poll has the UCSB men and the Queens women at number one.
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TYR Top 25 Dual meet poll for Division III has been released. The Kenyon men and Johns Hopkins women are ranked in the top spot. Both were ranked number two in the preseason poll last month.
Read MoreThe November CSCAA / TYR Top 25 Division I Swimming and Diving Polls arrive just as teams prepare for mid-season invitationals. With three more weeks of racing in the books, the committee rewarded the University of Texas men University Florida women with number one rankings. The Longhorn men move past the defending NCAA Champion G
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LIG Solutions, a division of Lighthouse Insurance Group, announces a partnership with College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) (CSCAA) to offer its members, their families, their employees, and others committed to the CSCAA mission access to exclusive healthcare insurance coverages.
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St. Thomas University (STU) Athletics is growing the Bobcat Athletic roster launching three new sports programs in Fall 2020, adding Men's & Women's Swimming & Diving and Men's Wrestling. The announcements come a year after the University added football.
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Held in even-numbered years, the FISU America Games are a multi-sport event similar to the Pan-American Games for FISU member-countries. BTI Events, managing partner for the US-IUSF, is seeking teams interested in representing the United States at the 2020 Games in Merida, Mexico.
Read MoreThe second TYR Top 25 Division I poll is in the books . After two weeks worth of meets since the preseason poll was released (October 9), the committee saw enough evidence to keep the California men at number one. Also remaining in their preseason position are the Texas (2) and NC State (3) men. Missouri (4) and Indiana (5) climb into the top five. The Florida Gators moved into the top spot on the women’s side, after convincing road wins against Minnesota and Missouri. The Stanford women drop one spot to number two this week, while the Lady Vols made the largest climb from number 15 to number three after beating preseason #2, Virginia in Knoxville. Auburn and California take fourth and fifth on the women’s side.
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In the NCAA’s latest release of academic success, swimming and diving stood at the top of their class. According to the NCAA, both men’s and women’s swimming and diving both posted the highest federal graduation rates among all Division I sports with at least 100 sponsoring institutions.
Read MoreThe CSCAA/TYR Top 25 Division II Preseason Poll list Queens University of Charlotte in the number one spot for both the men and women. The Royals carry their momentum into this season as they also finished the 2018-2019 season on top of both polls.
Read MoreThis year's CSCAA / TYR Top 25 Division III Pre-Season Poll puts the Denison men and Emory women in the top spots. Denison finished the 2018-2019 season ranked first in the men' poll while Emory ended last season ranked second, behind the Denison women.
The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) released the first TYR Top 25 Dual Meet Swimming and Diving Poll of the 2019-2020 season. Unique to the other polls, the preseason poll includes both teams that have competed and those still waiting to race in their first meet of the year.
Read MoreBy Greg Earhart
Whether filling a trophy case, generating donation or tuition dollars, or creating transformational experiences each of us adds value to our campus. Simultaneously, we're becoming increasingly disposable with the number of college coaches fired rising for the third straight year. A handful of firings were performance-related and a few more the result of the coach’s own failings. The majority, though, were the result of behavioral issues on the team, staff insurrection or both.
Jeff Hegle is beginning his 19th season on deck with St. Cloud State. In his 18 completed seasons, Hegle has led the Huskies to numerous NCAA Division II Championship meets, consistently finishing among the best in the country and a plethora of accolades in the classroom. In 2015 Coach Hegle was elected to the CSCAA Board of Directors with the goal of“[...] giving back to college swimming on a larger scale and representing Division II.” In May, Coach Hegle will complete his third term on the Board.
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Coaches rarely get the opportunity to address crisis management until it’s too late. In May of 2019, Brian Curtis of Paradigm Four Consulting offered CSCAA member coaches a glimpse of the crisis management process and how coaches can prepare for it.
Read MoreStonehill College has announced that it will add women’s swimming as its 22nd varsity athletic program with the first season of competition planned for the 2020-21 academic year.
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