Missouri
NCAA Championships
Women's @MizzouSwimDive Heads to NCAA Championships
3/14/2017 2:51:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
| 2017 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships | |
| Date/Time | Wed., March 15 - Sat., March 18 | Prelims 10 a.m. ET | Finals: 6 p.m. ET |
| Location | Indianapolis, Ind. | IU Natatorium |
| Live Results | Swimming Results | Diving Results |
| Live Video | Prelims & Wednesday/Thursday Finals | Friday/Saturday Finals |
| Meet Info | Championship Central | Mizzou Meet Notes |
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou women's swimming and diving team travels to Indianapolis, Indiana, to compete at the 2017 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, March 15-18, at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI. Competition gets underway Wednesday evening with the 800 free relay. The remaining three days, swimming prelims begin at 10 a.m. ET (9 a.m. CT) and finals at 6 p.m. ET (5 p.m. CT). Diving prelims being at 12:30 p.m. ET (11:30 p.m. CT) on Thursday and Friday and 12:15 p.m. ET (11:15 p.m. CT) on Saturday.
| TIGER TIDBITS |
- Mizzou qualified 12 individuals, including a program-record nine swimmers, to the NCAA Championships. The nine swimmers bested the old high of seven set in 2016
- The Three Tiger divers at the meet are also a program-best
- The Tigers are also eligible to swim all five relays
- Mizzou's NCAA qualifiers include Alexa Beckwith, Sharli Brady, Haley Hynes, Jennifer King, Nadine Laemmler, Madeline McKernan, Erin Metzger-Seymour, Lauren Reedy, Katharine Ross, Hannah Stevens, Ellie Suek and Kira Zubar
- Joining the individual qualifiers at the meet are Courtney Evensen, Maddie Gehrke, Rachel Hayden, and Victoria Trost, who are Mizzou's relay-only swimmers
- Stevens enters NCAAs seeded seventh in the 100 back following a runner-up finish in the event at SECs
- Brady, Laemmler, McKernan, Reedy, Ross and Stevens all enter the meet with previous All-America honors to their name. Laemmler, McKernan and Ross all own individual All-America first team honors, while Brady and Reedy are All-America honorable mention honorees
- Five Tigers, Beckwith, Hynes, King, Metzger-Seymour and Suek, earned their first NCAA Championships berths in 2017
- Head Coach Greg Rhodenbaugh is in his seventh season at the helm of the Tigers. Under his direction, the the women have posted their top four NCAA finishes ever, including a record 11th-place finish in 2016
- The Tigers finished sixth at last month's SEC Championships, highlighted by Reedy's 1-meter title
- In addition to Reedy's first-place finish, Missouri notched seven top-five individual finishes at SECs, including two from Reedy and two from Stevens
| ORDER OF EVENTS |
Wednesday, March 15
6 p.m. ET - Finals
800 Free Relay
Thursday, March 16
10 a.m. ET - Prelims
200 Free Relay
500 Free
200 IM
50 Free
400 Medley Relay
12:30 p.m. ET
1-Meter Prelims/Consolation Final
6 p.m. ET - Finals
200 Free Relay
500 Free
200 IM
1-Meter
400 Medley Relay
Friday, March 17
10 a.m. ET - Prelims
400 IM
100 Fly
200 Free
100 Breast
100 Back
12:30 p.m. ET
3-Meter Prelims/Consolation Final
6 p.m. ET - Finals
400 IM
100 Fly
200 Free
100 Breast
100 Back
3-Meter
200 Medley Relay
Friday, March 18
10 a.m. ET - Prelims
200 Back
100 Free
200 Breast
200 Fly
400 Free Relay
12:15 p.m. ET
Platform Prelims/Consolation Final
3:45 p.m. ET
1650 Free early heats
6 p.m. ET - Finals
1650 Free
200 Back
100 Free
200 Breast
200 Fly
Platform
400 Free Relay
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