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.