Building on the success of its women's swimming and diving program, the Allan Hancock College associate dean and athletic director Kim Ensing announced the addition of men's swimming and diving for the 2019-20 academic year. It is the second addition to the CCCAA, following Hartnell’s addition of men’s and women’s teams in April. It also marks the fourteenth new men’s team to add the sport for the 2019-20 season. An additional nine women’s programs will dive in as well.
Read MoreUSA Swimming has released an update to the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy (MAAPP) that will provide a collective sigh of relief for college coaches getting ready to begin recruiting tomorrow, June 15th.
Read MoreCSCAA Announces Joe Dykstra and Brad Shively to the Board of Directors.
Read MoreThe College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has publishedits Scholar All-America Eligibility List. Nearly 2,500 swimmers and divers are eligible for first-team honors by way of participating in the NCAA, NAIA or NJCAA National Championships. Another 1,915 are candidates for second-team honors based on their reaching an individual NCAA ‘B’ standard or participating in a NCAA diving qualifying event.
Read MoreHere is a list of TEAM Scholar All-America Applications received thus far.. The deadline for applications is June 14, 2019.
Read MoreThe Executive Board of the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has selected Dr. Brian Casey for its Charles McCaffree Award. The McCaffree Award is presented annually to an individual connected to the sport of swimming who has achieved outstanding success outside of the pool.
Read MoreEddie Sinnott, the longtime men’s swimming coach at Southern Methodist University has been selected by his peers for the 2019 National Collegiate Scholastic Trophy.
Read MoreThe College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) Executive Board of Directors has selected Barbara Jahn as its 2019 Richard E Steadman Award winner. Jahn will be recognized at the 59th Annual CSCAA Awards Banquet on May 6th in Myrtle Beach. For forty-four years Barb Jahn has brought a relentless positive attitude to the pools, fields, gyms and classrooms at UC Davis. She has been the women’s Head Swimming Coach for 43 seasons and has led the Aggies to five conference titles since their transition to Division I a decade ago.
Read MoreIn 2015 McKendree University announced the hiring of Jimmy Tierney to launch a new swimming and diving program for men and women in southern Illinois. Jimmy began his journey that fall at a school with no aquatics history and just a drawing of a new pool.
Read MoreThe CSCAA has named MIT’s John Benedick as its 2019 Franklin Award Winner. Benedick will be recognized at the 59th Annual CSCAA Awards Banquet on May 6, 2019.
Read MoreOne of the perks of working Pete Casares’ swim camp is that each week he takes you to go get fresh Maine lobster. They’ve got those big tanks where you get to choose your crustacean. What you don’t do though is let your kids near the tank because the next thing you know they’ve given each lobster a name.
Now that lobster isn’t dinner. It’s a character from the Little Mermaid. The voice of today’s student-athlete is stronger than ever.
The Executive Board of the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has named Nancy Bigelow as its 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Bigelow will be recognized at the 59th Annual CSCAA Awards Banquet on May 6, 2019 in Myrtle Beach.
Read MoreHartnell College in Salinas, California will reinstate men’s and women’s swimming and diving. The decision will bring the CCCAA up to fifty men’s and fifty-seven women’s programs and follows a years worth of research by the college.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBrad 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.
Read MoreSalem 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.
Read MoreQueens 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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