University of Missouri
NCAA Championships
Men's @MizzouSwimDive Set for NCAA Championships
3/20/2018 12:56:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving
| 2018 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | |
| Date/Time | Wed., March 21 - Sat., March 24 Prelims: 10 a.m. ET | Finals: 6 p.m. ET (Friday - 5 p.m. ET) |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minn. | Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center |
| Live Results | Swimming Results | Diving Results |
| Live Video | Wednesday: Finals Thursday: Prelims | Finals Friday: Prelims | Finals Saturday: Prelims | Finals |
| Meet Info | Championship Central | Mizzou Meet Notes |
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou men's swimming and diving team travels to Minneapolis, Minn., to compete at the 2018 NCAA Mmen's Swimming and Diving Championships, March 21-24, at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota.
Competition gets underway Wednesday evening with the 800 free relay. Thursday through Saturday, swimming prelims begin at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m. Diving prelims being at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and Noon on Saturday. Early heats of the 1650 free are slated to begin at 3:45 p.m. on Saturday. Live streams of all preliminary sessions and Wednesday and Thursday finals will be available on BTN2Go, while Friday and Saturday finals will be broadcast on ESPN3.
TIGER TIDBITS
- Mizzou qualified seven individuals, with six swimmers and one diver
- Missouri's qualifiers include juniors Kyle Goodwin, Mikel Schreuders and Jacob Wielinski, sophomores Nick Alexander, Daniel Hein and Giovanny Lima and freshman Carter Grimes
- Joining the individual qualifiers are relay-only swimmers Sam Coffman, Jordan O'Brien, Grant Reed and Micah Slaton
- Two Tigers enter the meet with top 14 seeds. Wielinski is seeded 11th in the 1650 free and Schreuders is seeded 14th in the 200 free
- Goodwin is the only Tiger who enters the meet with individual All-America honors to his name. He claimed honorable mention honors on platform as a freshman in 2016
- Three Tigers, Coffman, Hein and Schreuders, have all earned All-America honorable mention honors as part of Mizzou relay teams in past seasons
- Goodwin and Schreduers both claimed their third-straight NCAA Championships invites
- Mizzou's five other individual participants all earned individual NCAA bids for the first times in their careers
- Grimes became the fourth male freshman swimmer in Rhodenbaugh's tenure to earn an NCAA invite, joining Schreuders (2016), Carter Griffin (2014) and Eegan Groome (2012)The Tigers finished fifth at the 2018 SEC Championships with 794.5 points
- At SECs, Wielinski earned runner-up honors in the 1650 free
- Head Coach Greg Rhodenbaugh is in his eighth season at the helm of the Tigers. Under his direction, the the men have posted their top six NCAA finishes ever, including a record eighth-place finish in 2016
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