University of Missouri
NCAA Championships
Three Tigers Nab Top Eight Finishes at Women's NCAA Championships
3/16/2018 7:36:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Seniors Sharli Brady (Burlington, Ky.) and Hannah Stevens (Lexington, Ohio) and junior Annie Ochitwa (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) all nabbed All-America first team honors during day three competition Friday 2018 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Sophomore Haley Hynes (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Missouri's 200 medley relay also earned honorable mention accolades during the finals session.
The Tiger sit 14th as a team with 72 points with one day of competition remaining.
KEY SWIMS
Brady claimed All-America first team honors in the 400 IM for the second consecutive season. The senior placed sixth in the race with a 4:04.12, a time that broke her own school record set in November's Mizzou Invite. Her placement also improved upon last year's NCAA finish, when she took seventh overall.
In the 100 fly, Ochitwa nabbed the first individual All-America first team honor of her collegiate career with an eighth-place finish. The junior, who finished ninth in the event as a freshman for Arizona in 2016, went a season-best 51.35 in the championship final, bettering her morning swim of 51.57.
Stevens also placed eighth in her event, the 100 back, for All-America first team honors of her own. She went 51.74 in the final for the second-straight first team accolade in the event and her fourth-consecutive season in the top 14.
Also earning All-America honors in the 100 back was Hynes, who took home her first career individual honorable mention honors after placing 13th. She dropped a 51.64 in finals for 13th, improving on her 29th-place NCAA finish from a season ago.
The Tigers also picked up big points in the 200 medley relay. The quartet of Hynes, freshman Lauren Savoy (Highland Village, Texas), Ochitwa and Stevens won the consolation final for in 1:37.16 for a ninth-place finish in the race.
UP NEXT
The fourth and final day of competition at the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships begins on Saturday, March 17 with preliminary swimming at 10 a.m. ET, preliminary diving at 12:15 p.m. ET and finals action at 6 p.m. ET.
MIZZOU RESULTS
400 IM
6. Sharli Brady (4:04.12 finals; 4:04.96 prelims)
100 Fly
8. Annie Ochitwa (51.35 finals; 51.57 prelims)
200 Free
28. Erin Metzger-Seymour (1:45.55)
45. Courtney Evensen (1:47.62)
54. Kira Zubar (1:48.77)
100 Back
8. Hannah Stevens (51.74 finals; 51.23 prelims)
13. Haley Hynes (51.64 finals; 51.90 prelims)
37. Kylie Dahlgren (53.33)
45. Sarah Thompson (53.71)
3-Meter
36. Kendra Kieser (282.6)
200 Medley Relay
9. Haley Hynes, Lauren Savoy, Annie Ochitwa, Hannah Stevens (1:37.16 finals; 1:37.18 prelims)
Players Mentioned
