Roland Julian

Melvin Stewart lived to swim. It's no different 17 years after he swam his last lap for Tennessee.

How do you replace an Olympic silver medalist, NCAA champion and SEC swimmer of the year?

When coach John Trembley's Tennessee Vols open their 2008-09 season Thursday in their first swim meet at the new Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center Pool, he expects the team to embark on a campaign that will be an improvement on ...

Jim Rumbaugh, a five-time All-American while swimming for the University of Tennessee, is the new head coach of Pilot Aquatic Club.

Working almost every day for 35 years with Ted Riggs was like going fishing.

UT Student Aquatic Center - the Biltmore Estate of swimming in the Southeast when it opened in 1967 - has been forsaken for a new model.

A 30-year layoff merely whetted Bob Christiansen's appetite for diving. The Tennessee Vol of the mid-1970s never won an SEC or NCAA championship, but last year he dominated 1-meter and 3-meter springboard diving at the Spring Masters National Championships in ...

Swimming in uncharted water is becoming custom for Christine Magnuson of Tennessee.

About a dozen of Nolan Morrell's relatives and almost as many friends are planning to watch the Tennessee junior swim the next three days in the NCAA championships at Federal Way, Wash.

Aleksa Akerfelds can thank her baby sitter of more than a dozen years ago for her success in swimming.

Lauren LeRoy has come a long way since her freshman season as diver for the Tennessee Lady Vols.

When Michael Muscari was a grade-school tyke, he was fascinated by his sister and her cheerleading friends at West View Elementary School in Morristown.

What a way to finish the dual-meet season, especially in a meet that likely was to be the last for the Tennessee Lady Vols at UT Student Aquatic Center.

Here one second and - Poof! - gone the next.It was no wonder they called Carl Widseth "The Spook." The 6-foot-4, 180-pounder's quick feet allowed him to slither and dart between defenders like few Tennessee basketball fans have seen.

Completion of the $24 million Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center on the University of Tennessee campus and its official opening have been put on hold because of honeycomb-like cavities beneath the pool.

Mel Stewart spends his days writing scripts for Hollywood.

Jonas Persson is a long way from home.The sprint freestyler from Malmo, Sweden, logged lots of miles before landing at the University of Tennessee. Also quite a few months.

Lost ... and found. Tennessee women's swim coach Matt Kredich lost his best swimmer before he left the University of Richmond to coach the Lady Vols.

What's the trick to turning $1 million into a possible national championship in football?