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COLUMBIA, Mo. - A program-record seven members of the Mizzou women's swimming team earned invitations to the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, the NCAA announced on Wednesday. Redshirt senior Abby Duncan (Champlin, Minn.), senior Anna Patterson (Plano, Texas), juniors Nadine Laemmler (Wackersdorf, Bavaria, Germany) and Katharine Ross (Des Moines, Iowa) and sophomores Sharli Brady (Burlington, Ky.), Hannah Stevens (Lexington, Ohio) and Kira Zubar (Chaska, Minn.) will all represent the Tigers at the Championships, March 16-20, in Atlanta, Ga.

The seven individual swimming invitees are a women's program best, bettering the old high of six set in 2009. Missouri is also eligible to swim all five relays: the 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay. The Tigers' relay-only swimmers will be announced at a later date.

Missouri's divers will vie for NCAA Championship bids next week at the NCAA Zone D Diving Championships, March 7-9, in College Station, Texas.

Duncan earned her fourth career NCAA bid and second at Mizzou after making the cut during her freshman and sophomore seasons at Auburn. She earned berths in both the 200 breast (seeded fifth) and 100 breast (seeded seventh) and can also swim the 200 IM at the meet. As a redshirt junior in 2015, Duncan earned two individual honorable mention All-America honors after placing 11th in the 200 breast and 13th in the 100 breast.

Ross made it a perfect three-for-three in Championship invitations after bids in three events, the 100 breast, 200 breast and 200 IM. She enters the meet ranked fourth in the 100 breast, an event she earned All-America honorable mention honors as both a freshman (13th overall) and a sophomore (14th). Ross is coming off a strong SEC Championships where she claimed Mizzou's first-ever swimming title with a win in the 100 breast. The junior also enters the meet seeded 19th in the 200 breast and 22nd in the 200 IM.

Earning her third NCAA Championships berth is Patterson, who last qualified as an individual in 2014. She made the meet in the 50 free after dropping almost half a second in the event at the SEC Championships. Patterson is also eligible to swim the 100 fly and 100 free at the event.

Brady claimed her second straight Championships berth with invites in the 200 fly and 400 IM, where she is seeded 17th and 28th, respectively. Last season, Brady became the first Mizzou freshman swimmer to earn multiple individual All-America honors in program history after finishes of 12th in the 200 fly and 13th in the 400 IM at the 2015 NCAA Championships.

Mizzou will be well represented in the backstroke events, as both Laemmler and Stevens earned bids in both the 100 and 200 back.

Stevens, earning her second berth in as many seasons, enters the NCAA Championships seeded 20th in the 100 back and 23rd in the 200 back. She claimed honorable mention All-America honors in the 100 back a year ago after placing 14th in the event at the Championships.

In her first season competing at Missouri, Laemmler earned her second career NCAA invite after she garnered a berth last season as a sophomore at Western Kentucky. The junior is seeded 18th in the 200 back and 22nd in the 100 back and is eligible to swim the 200 IM as well at the Championships.

Zubar will make her first individual appearance at the NCAA Championships this season after qualifying in the 500 free. The sophomore missed an invite in the 1650 free as well by one spot but can swim that event and the 200 free at the meet.