Men's @MizzouSwimDive Head to Austin for NCAA Championships
3/26/2019 3:40:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving
2019 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships | |
Date / Time | Wednesday, March 27 - Saturday, March 30 |
Prelims: 10 a.m. CT | Finals: 6 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 men's swimming and diving team head to Austin, Texas, this week to compete at the 2019 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, held March 27-30 at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on the campus of the University of Texas.
- 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 begin at Noon each day and early heats of the 1650 free are slated to begin at 3:45 p.m. on 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 a team record 14 individuals to NCAAs, with 12 swimmers and two divers.
- Mizzou's qualifiers include seniors Kyle Goodwin, Luke Mankus, Jordan O'Brien, Mikel Schreuders and Jacob Wielinski, juniors Nick Alexander, Daniel Hein, Caleb Hicks, Giovanny Lima and Micah Slaton, and freshmen Jack Dahlgren, Jack DuBois, Ike Khamis and Danny Kovac.
- Joining the individual qualifiers are relay-only swimmers Anthony Ashley, Kyle Leach, Grant Reed and Alex Walton.
- Goodwin and Schreuders are now four-time NCAA qualifiers, Alexander, Hein, Lima and Wielinski claimed their second invites, and Dahlgren, DuBois, Hicks, Khamis, Kovac, Mankus, O'Brien and Slaton qualified for the first time in their careers.
- Goodwin, Schreuders and Wielinski all enter NCAAs with individual All-America honorable mention honors to their names. Last year Schreuders took 10th in the 200 free, while Wielinski was 13th in the 1650 free. Additionally, Goodwin placed 13th on platform as a freshman in 2016.
- Mizzou placed a program-high second at the 2019 Southeastern Conference Championships.
- Last season, the Tigers placed 23rd at the NCAA Championships with 29 points
- Missouri has placed in the top 16 at NCAAs five times over the last six seasons
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