In response to the financial impact COVID-19 is having on higher education and intercollegiate athletics, Division I swimming and diving coaches have banded together to slash costs and identify ways to make our sport more sustainable. To date, our coaches have voluntarily given back more than $6.2 million dollars from budgets for the coming year. The process is not easy, but we are more than just competitors. We are educators and stewards of a sport that has taught us the value of sacrifice and the importance of being a team player.
Read MoreRick Walker, head coach of Southern Illinois University, has been selected to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Executive Board of the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA).
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The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has unveiled a list of nine candidates for its Board of Directors and one for its Executive Board. The candidates include five men and five women representing each NCAA Division. This year's election, which will take place online, will fill two divisional vacancies and a newly-created administrative position established last year. Members of the Board of Directors serve a two-year term and are eligible for up to three terms
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Long Island University announced today that it was establishing men's swimming as a varsity intercollegiate sport beginning in Fall 2020. In doing so Long Island becomes the tenth institution to add the sport for the upcoming season.
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Clark Campbell has history with the Jayhawks at Kansas University. After giving up his eligibility as an NCAA swimmer to be a pro triathlete, he wanted to give back to a field that had given so much to him. Accepting a graduate assistant position at KU after completing his undergraduate degree it was the start of his coaching career; making stops at West Virginia Wesleyan, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Evansville. Campbell shares that swimming has allowed he and his family to love something collectively and he will be forever grateful for the sport.
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Roger Von Jouanne, an accomplished Boeing engineer and Walter Rogers, III a notable broadcast journalist have been awarded the Charles McCaffree Award by the Executive Board of the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA). Rogers and Von Jouanne, both Southern Illinois University graduates, were selected in recognition of their accomplishments outside of the pool.
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