Women's @MizzouSwimDive Set for NCAA Championships

Wednesday, March 20

Austin, Texas

All Day

Missouri

NCAA Championships

3/19/2019 4:33:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

2019 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Date / Time	Wednesday, March 20 - Saturday, March 23
	Prelims: 9 a.m. CT \| Finals: 5 p.m. CT
Location	Austin, Texas \| Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
Live Results	Swimming \| Diving
Live Video	Wednesday: Finals
	Thursday: Prelims \| Finals
	Friday: Prelims \| Finals
	Saturday: Prelims \| Finals
Meet Info	Championship Central \| Mizzou Meet Notes

TIGER TIDBITS

The Mizzou women's swimming and diving team head to Austin, Texas, this week to compete at the 2019 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, held March 20-23 at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on the campus of the University of Texas.
Missouri opens competion at the Championships on Thursday, with swimming prelims at 9 a.m. CT and finals at 5 p.m. CT, with the same schedule on Friday and Saturday. Diving prelims is slated for Noon CT Thursday - Saturday.
ESPN3 will broadcast each finals session, while all preliminary action (and diving consolation finals) will be broadcast on TexasSports.com/watch.
The Tigers qualified seven individuals to the championships, six swimmers and one diver.
Mizzou's qualifiers include seniors Payton Conrad, Kylie Dahlgren, Courtney Evensen and Annie Ochitwa, juniors Haley Hynes and Jennifer King, and sophomore Sarah Thompson.
Joining the individual qualifiers are relay-only swimmers Kayla Jones, Megan Keil, Sammie Jo Porter and Emily Snyder.
Ochitwa is now a four-time NCAA qualifier (two at Arizona and two with Missouri), Hynes earned a bid for the third year in a row and Dahlgren, Evensen, King and Thompson claimed their second career invites.
Conrad qualified for NCAAs for the first time in her career, with a berth on platform.
Ochitwa earned invites in three events, the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly.
Dahlgren and Hynes both claimed bids in two events, Dahlgren in the 100 back and 200 IM and Hynes in the 50 free and 100 back.
Conrad (platform), Evensen (1650 free) and King (200 back) all qualified in one event.
Mizzou has three Tigers who enter the NCAA Championships as top 16 seeds in their respective events.
Ochitwa is ninth in the 100 fly, 13th in the 100 free and 16th in the 50 free
Hynes and Thompson are both top 16 seeds in the 100 back, as Hynes enters at ninth and Thompson at 14th.
Ochitwa and Hynes both enter the meet with individual All-American honors to their name. Ochitwa claimed first team honors in the 100 fly a year ago and honorable mention accolades in the same event as a freshman at Arizona in 2016, while Hynes earned honorable mention honors in the 100 back last season.
The Tigers finished seventh at last month's Southeastern Conference Championships.
Last season, Missouri finished 15th at the NCAA Championships with 86 points.
Missouri has placed in the top 15 at NCAAs the last four seasons and six of the last seven years, including a program-record finish of 11th in 2016.