Men's @MizzouSwimDive Heads to NCAA Championships

3/21/2017 4:35:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving

2017 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Date/Time	Wed., March 22 - Sat., March 25 \| 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 men's swimming and diving team travels to Indianapolis, Indiana, to compete at the 2017 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, March 22-25, 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 seven individuals, ito the NCAA Championships, with five swimmers and two divers
The Tigers are also eligible to swim all five relays
Mizzou's NCAA qualifiers include Michael Chadwick, Hunter Fritter, Kyle Goodwin, Carter Griffin, Andrew Sansoucie, Mikel Schreuders and Fabian Schwingenschlogl
Joining the individual qualifiers at the meet are Sam Coffman, Nick Davis, Daniel Hein, and Luke Mankus, who are Mizzou's relay-only swimmers
Three different Tigers enter the meet with top five seeds at the Championships
Schwingenschlogl, the defending 100 breast national champion, is the top seed in the event and is seeded fifth in the 200 breast
Schwingenschlogl's 2016 title was the first in the history of the Missouri program
Chadwick is the four-seed in the 100 free and Sansoucie is the five-seed in the 100 fly
Last season, the Tigers finished a program-record eighth at NCAAs with 184 points, besting the previous best point total by 51.5 points
Chadwick, Goodwin, Griffin, Sansoucie, and Schwingenschlogl all enter the meet with previous individual All-America honors to their name. Chadwick and Schwingenschlogl own individual All-America first team honors, while Goodwin, Griffin and Sansoucie are All-America honorable mention honorees
Six of Mizzou's seven individual qualifiers have competed at NCAAs before, while Fritter is the lone Tiger making his Championship debut
Head Coach Greg Rhodenbaugh is in his seventh season at the helm of the Tigers. Under his direction, the men have posted their top five NCAA finishes ever, including a record eighth-place finish in 2016
The Tigers finished fifth at last month's SEC Championships with 771 points
At SECs, Mizzou notched five individual top three finishes, eight top five finishes and 10 top eight finishes
Additionally, the Missouri 400 medley relay earned runner-up honors at the SEC Championships to mark the highest relay finish at the meet in program history

ORDER OF EVENTS

Wednesday, March 22
6 p.m. ET - Finals
800 Free Relay

Thursday, March 25
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