USA Swimming Confirms Indianapolis Will Host 2024 Olympic Swimming Trials, 2022 NCAA Men’s Division I Championships: Photo Gallery, Maggie Mac Neil Will be Graduate Transfer at Cal, University of Arizona Swimmers Write Letter to NCAA on Lia Thomas, and The Bob Bowman Redshirt Experiment Paid Major Dividends For Arizona State

Maggie Mac Neil Will be Graduate Transfer at Cal

Olympic gold medalist Maggie Mac Neil will take her extra year of NCAA eligibility out west.

Mac Neil announced she will be a graduate student at Cal and swim one year for the Golden Bears.

“I’m so beyond excited to announce that I will be moving out west to finish up my NCAA eligibility. I feel so lucky to be able to pursue a masters degree at the University of California Berkeley, while continuing to swim at the highest level! Happy to be moving away from the snow for this new chapter!”

University of Arizona Swimmers Write Letter to NCAA on Lia Thomas

Following last week’s NCAA Women’s Championships, when Penn swimmer Lia Thomas captured the NCAA title in the 500 freestyle and swam in two other championship finals, members of the swimming community continue to issue public statements on the controversial presence of Thomas, a transgender female, at the women’s meet. The latest comments come from a group of University of Arizona swimmers that includes longtime head coach and USA Swimming national team director Frank Busch and 2008 Olympian Lacey Nymeyer, plus others from the Wildcats’ 2008 national championship group.

The Bob Bowman Redshirt Experiment Paid Major Dividends For Arizona State

The date was July 26, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic was roaring, and the day-to-day operations of – well, everything – were changing by the hour. No, make that by the minute. There was no continuity in the world. No way to predict the days ahead – let alone weeks and months into the future. Uncertainty was king.

So, Bob Bowman made a move.