Tag: Chris Guiliano

Notre Dame suspends men’s swimming program for at least one year

Tough day for the athletic department.

In late June, Notre Dame announced it was looking at issues within its men’s swimming and diving program. Fresh off [autotag]Chris Guiliano[/autotag] winning a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, the investigation has been completed.

It was discovered that there was a rampant gambling culture within the men’s swimming program that did not abide by NCAA rules. Concluding that the culture did not reflect Notre Dame’s values and to prevent this from happening again, athletic director [autotag]Pete Bevacqua[/autotag] has announced that the men’s swimming program will be suspended for at least one academic year.

The coaches were exonerated after the investigation revealed that the team members concealed their activities from them. The decision also will not affect the women’s swimming team or either diving team.

The timing of this announcement gives team members wishing to transfer before the start of the school year the ability to do so. However, those who took part in the gambling would be subject to any eligibility penalties handed down to them regardless of whether they transfer.

This is a crushing blow for a program that just had a terrific season, placing in the top 10 at the national championships, not to mention Guiliano’s Olympic success. However, the law had to be laid down. Hopefully, a program with much higher integrity will emerge and ultimately be successful in the distant future.

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Photos of Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano winning first Olympic gold

Congrats, Chris and the rest of the team!

Through the first full day of competition at the 2024 Olympics, the U.S. won only one gold medal. Fortunately for Notre Dame fans, one of their own was involved with that.

[autotag]Chris Guiliano[/autotag], who still swims for the Irish, won his first Olympic gold medal and the first gold medal for the U.S. in Paris. He did with the help of teammates Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel. Together, they won the 4×100-meter freestyle relay in 3 minutes, 9.28 seconds, missing the world record by a measly 1.04 seconds. Australia won the silver, and Italy took the bronze.

Guiliano swam the second leg of the relay and had to battle from behind. However, it was he who gave his team the lead, one it would not relinquish and only continue to build. It was the fourth time in five Olympics the U.S. has won gold in this event.

Here are some images from a memorable day for Guiliano:

Notre Dame swimming coach named assistant for U.S. Olympic team

The story for Notre Dame’s swimming team at the U.S. Olympic trials was Chris Giuliano.

The story for Notre Dame’s swimming team at the U.S. Olympic trials was [autotag]Chris Giuliano[/autotag]. He qualified for at least five events in Paris with possibly more to come. If he had any concerns about not being around someone from his collegiate team, he need not worry any longer.

Irish swimming coach [autotag]Chris Lindauer[/autotag] has been named an assistant coach for the U.S. team. This is a nice honor for somebody coming off his second season with the Irish and having led the program to an all-time best 10th-place finish at the national championships. An achievement like this does not go unnoticed, nor should it.

To see Giuliano in action and results of Lindauer’s tutelage, at least in an assistant coach capacity, the swimming competition will take place throughout the first week of the Olympics, running from July 27 to Aug. 4. The thought of Giuliano celebrating a gold medal with Lindauer moments after winning it has to warm every Irish fan’s heart.

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Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano wins 100 freestyle at U.S. Olympic trials

Go for the gold in Paris, Chris!

Notre Dame’s [autotag]Chris Guiliano[/autotag] always will remember the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Largely overlooked going into the 100-meter freestyle, the reigning ACC Swimmer of the Year surprised everyone by dominating the event. It culminated with a win in the final with a time of 47.38 seconds. Here’s the final in its entirety:

A surprising number of Irish fans made the trip, and they made their feelings about Guiliano’s victory loud and clear:

This victory qualifies Guiliano for his first spot on the U.S. team for the Paris Olympics. The U.S. has won gold in this event in two of the past three Olympics. Caeleb Dressel took the gold in Tokyo, but his third-place finish in Giuliano’s triumph means he won’t get a chance to defend that medal.

Guiliano also qualified for the 4×100 relay team simply by finishing in the top four. His teammates will consist of Dressel, Jack Alexy and Hunter Armstrong.

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Olympic Trials Qualifier Parker Macy Selects Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s swimming program now has six members of the class of 2025.

Notre Dame’s swimming program now has six members of the class of 2025. The latest came earlier this week when Parker Macy of Irvine, California, announced his verbal commitment to the Irish. Notre Dame also has received commitments in the aforementioned class from Chris Guiliano, Owen Grimaldi, Andrew Guziec, Max Myers and Nick Tommasone.

The Olympic Trials qualifier made the following Instagram post as his announcement:

While swimming for Irvine High School, Macy has been a finalist for the CIF Southern DI Section Championship four times, twice apiece in the 100-meter breaststroke and the 200 individual medley. As a sophomore, he placed sixth in the latter event and ninth in the former. Both were improvements from his previous showing in the championships.

Macy is a club swimmer for Irvine Novaquatics. Besides making the Olympic Trials cut in the 200 breaststroke, he was a finalist in three events in the most recent Toyota U.S. Open. He had six personal best times at the College Station Sectionals and, last year, competed in three events at the Phillips 66 Nationals.

 

Top Swimming Recruit Chris Guiliano Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame suffered a blow in April when Zach Yeadon, an All-American distance swimmer, entered the NCAA transfer portal after three years.

Notre Dame suffered a blow in April when Zach Yeadon, an All-American distance swimmer, entered the NCAA transfer portal after three years. A month later, there’s some good news to be had. It won’t help the program right away, but there’s more hope for the future now.

Chris Guiliano, the top sprint swimmer from the Class of 2021 who had yet to commit anymore, has verbally committed to Notre Dame. During his junior season at Daniel Boone High School in Douglassville, Pennsylvania, he won a state championship in the 200-yard freestyle. He might have won more events were it not for the cancelation of the rest of the meet.

There’s a good reason Guiliano is regarded as Notre Dame’s top recruit from the Class of 2021. He’s already putting up times that would blow past most of the team. His personal best of 20.27 seconds in the 50 freestyle would have been the second-best on the Irish, his 1:351.81 would have been third, and his 44.29 in the 100 freestyle would have been fourth. For an Irish team that struggled in sprint events last season, Guiliano can’t arrive in South Bend soon enough.