UC Santa Barbara will be represented by four swimmers at the USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships which will take place from Wednesday, Aug. 6-Sunday, Aug. 10 at the William Wollett, Jr., Aquatics Center, the home pool of Gaucho gold medalist Jason Lezak.
UC Santa Barbara women's swimmers Sophia Yamauchi and Allie Knight each earned Individual Honorable Mention Scholar All-America for 2013-14, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America announced Friday.
The UC Santa Barbara women's swimming and diving team program was honored with a CSCAA Scholar All-American Team award after recording a collective 3.13 GPA over the winter quarter, it was announced today.
Matt Macedo, former head men's swimming and diving head coach at UC San Diego, has been hired as Assistant Coach for the men's and women's swimming and diving programs at UC Santa Barbara, head coach Gregg Wilson announced today.
A total of twenty-three student-athletes have committed to join the UC Santa Barbara Swimming and Diving teams for the 2014-15 season by signing National Letters of Intent, head coach Gregg Wilson announced Thursday.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara women’s swimming and diving team has earned Scholar All American honors from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. This is the second consecutive year in which Santa Barbara has garnered the accolade.
On the heels of an amazing run at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Women’s Swimming Championships, senior Andrea Ward is set to represent UC Santa Barbara at the NCAA Division I Swimming Championships this week in at the Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis.
Senior Andrea Ward took home swimmer of the year for the 2013-2014 season. Head Coach Gregg Wilson took home Coach of the Year honors. The Gauchos placed second to UC Davis in the MPSF Championships.
The UCSB women's swim and dive team sit in third place after day three of the conference championships. Senior Andrea Ward set a school record in the 100 butterfly, swimming a 51.92 in preliminaries.
The UCSB women's swim and dive team concluded day two of the MPSF Championships in second place with 209 points, 11 points behind leader UC Davis. Senior Andrea Ward set a school record in the 500 freestyle (4:46.99).
The UCSB women's swim and dive team got off to a fantastic start on Wednesday night in Monterey Park, Calif. The women swept the 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay, the only two women's events of day one.
The UCSB women's swimming and diving team will be competing at East Los Angeles Community College from February 19-22 in the MPSF Swim & Dive Championships.
Senior Andrea Ward took Female Athlete of the Week honors for the fourth time this season. She took home four event victories against Cal Poly en route to a dual meet win, 183-110.
For the first time in many years, both the men's and women's swim teams are ranked in the top 50 across the nation in Division 1. They each come in at the 45th spot according to the Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com rankings.
The UCSB women's swimming team had mixed results over the weekend. On Friday the Gauchos fell to UC Davis, 126-174. On Saturday, they rebounded and defeated UOP 156-105.
The UCSB women's swimming and diving teams will be competing on Friday at UC Davis. Following the dual meet, the women will head to Stockton to compete against University of the Pacific.
Gauchos compete in a pair of duals over the weekend as the divers head to UCLA for a diving invite. University of Nevada Reno (women only) will be coming into town on Friday, while UNLV competes on Saturday.
After setting a trio of school records at last weekend's Texas Invite, senior Andrea Ward has been named the MPSF Female Athlete of the Week, as announced by the conference.
UCSB women's swimming team competed against ten other schools in a two session day in Las Vegas. Junior Heren Alanis highlighted the action finishing with a school record in the 500 yard freestyle.