The Cleveland State University men's and women's swimming & diving teams both had their best finishes in recent years during the 2017-18 season. Below are highlights and notes from this past season: 

• Molly McNamara was named the Horizon League Female Scholar-Athlete for the 2017-18 Winter Season. Student-athletes from the sports of basketball, swimming & diving and indoor track & field were eligible for this prestigious honor.
• Cleveland State hosted the Horizon League Championships for the first time since 2014.
• The Cleveland State men finished second at the League meet with 665.5 points. They trailed the top spot by 66 points, the closest margin of victory in the past five years.
• The CSU women finished in third place with 586 points, only seven points out of second place. It was a two-place improvement from a year ago and a four-spot bump from two seasons ago.
• Both the men's and women's teams posted their highest point total at the HL meet since 2013.
• Molly McNamara was named the Horizon League Women's Swimming & Diving Female Athlete of the Year.
• Head coach Paul Graham was named Women's Swimming Coach of the Year.
• McNamara's honor was just the second ever by a Viking while Graham's accolade was the first such award in program history.
• Graham helped the Viking women finish three spots higher than projected in the preseason poll while claiming his second Coach of the Year honor in the Horizon League.
• McNamara won two individual titles at the League Championships, both in NCAA qualifying times. She broke the League record in the 200 butterfly (1:57.69) while becoming the first Viking woman to win that event more than once.
• McNamara broke school records in all three of her individual events (100 fly, 200 fly, 200 IM) and became just the third woman this century to sweep the butterfly titles at a HL Championship.
• Senior Tobie Zeller won the 100 breaststroke title while swimming it for the final time as a collegian. She was in fourth place at the halfway mark but rallied to win.
• The Cleveland State women broke school records in nine of the 18 swimming events at the 2018 League meet.
• In addition to McNamara, junior Cassandra Oltman broke the school record in both backstroke events before senior Jamie VanDewerker went on to surpass Oltman's mark in the 100 back. Freshman Lexie Kostelnik broke the school record in the 1650 freestyle.
• The CSU women also broke school records on the 200 medley relay (Oltman, Gracyn McQueary, McNamara and Jamie VanDewerker), the 400 medley relay (VanDewerker, Zeller, McNamara and Gabriella Marinelli) and the 800 freestyle relay (Irena Weclawiak, Meghan Bobick, Claudia Zido and Marinelli).
• The CSU men surpassed NCAA qualifying standards in eight different events at the League meet.
• Junior Jared Stergar (100 breast, 200 breast, 200 IM) and freshman Dominik Niedzialek (100 back, 200 back) both surpassed NCAA 'B' standards in multiple events.
• Junior Jason van der Touw (200 free) and sophomores DJ Arslanian (100 fly) and Tyler Stevenson (100 breast) all achieved 'B' cuts while freshman Matt Akers (1-meter diving) reached the Zones standard.
• The CSU men won the 800 freestyle relay in a new school-record time at the HL Championships. Van der Touw, Erwan Mahoudo, Niedzialek and Sean Mulvin surpassed expectations as they were seeded fourth entering the event.
• Niedzialek broke the school record in the 200 backstroke at the League meet.
• Freshman Matt Akers competed at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships at Ohio State in both the 1-meter and 3-meter events.
• Jason van der Touw won a pair of weekly honors from both the Horizon League and CollegeSwimming. D.J. Arslanian won two HL Swimmer of the Week awards while Matt Akers (two) and Curtis Roden (one) combined for three weekly diving accolades from the League.
• Molly McNamara earned five Horizon League Swimmer of the Week honors this past season, the most by any League swimmer, male or female. She also took home four weekly awards from CollegeSwimming.
• Freshmen Lexie Kostelnik and Erica Henrichsen were named Horizon League Women's Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively, in mid-December.
• The Cleveland State men won the Magnus Cup for the fourth consecutive year with 1,432 points. CSU's 328-point margin of victory was the largest in the history of the event.
• The CSU women finished 4th of 15 teams at the Magnus Cup, finishing a single point out of third place. CSU's 908 points were the highest by the program at the meet since 2013—a meet that only featured seven women's teams.
• Three Viking men won four individual races at the Magnus Cup: DJ Arslanian (200 butterfly), Dominik Niedzialek (200 backstroke) and Jason van der Touw (100 freestyle and 200 freestyle).
• Molly McNamara won the 200 butterfly at the Magnus Cup in a NCAA 'B' standard while Matt Akers surpassed the NCAA Zones standard in the 1-meter event at the Magnus meet.
• Cleveland State hosted the largest Magnus Cup meet to date, with 10 men's teams and 15 women's squads competing.
• The CSU men went 6-1 in dual action against Horizon League foes while the women's squad was 5-3.
• For the fourth consecutive semester, both the CSU men's and women's programs were named Scholar All-America Teams by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America. The Vikings had the second-highest GPA's in the League on both the men's and women's sides.
• Cleveland State had seven male student-athletes and five female student-athletes—both League highs—named to the Horizon League's All-Academic Team.
• DJ Arslanian, MacJilton Lewis, Sean Mulvin, Curtis Roden, Jared Stergar, Tyler Stevenson and Grant Wethington were the Viking men to earn the honor.
• Morgan Massie, Molly McNamara, Cassandra Oltman, Jamie VanDewerker and Claudia Zido earned All-Academic honors for the CSU women.
• Dave Guinther, a former CSU swimmer and ardent supporter of the program, earned a Cleveland State University Distinguished Alumni Award in early October.
• Prior to the season, Hannah Mattar was added to the staff as an assistant coach. She was a 13-time All-American at Ashland, won her conference's swimmer of the year honor and was a two-time Academic All-American.