@MizzouSwimDive Men Tie for 11th at NCAA Championships

Saturday, March 30

Austin, Texas

All Day

University of Missouri

NCAA Championships

@MizzouSwimDive Men Tie for 11th at NCAA Championships

3/30/2019 9:00:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving

AUSTIN, Texas. – The Mizzou men's swimming and diving team tied for 11th in the team standings at the 2019 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, held March 27-30, at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center in Austin, Texas. The Tigers finished with 105 points to tie Tennessee and and only one point behind 10th-place Virginia. The team placement marked the fourth top 11 finish in program history, all accomplished over the last five seasons.

Missouri closed the Championships with two All-America honorable mention honors on Saturday, senior Mikel Schreuders (Oranjestad, Aruba) in the 100 free and in the 400 free relay.

Over the four-day meet, the Tigers scored in all five relays for only the third time in program history and set two school records. Individually, Schreuders claimed one first team and one honorable mention All-America accolades, while senior Jordan O'Brien (Naperville, Ill.) took home first team honors. Senior Kyle Goodwin (Aurora, Colo.) won two honorable mention honors and senior Luke Mankus (Keller, Texas) had one as well.

KEY PERFORMANCES

Schreuders concluded his Mizzou career with a 10th-place finish in the 100 free for his third individual All-America honor as a Tiger. The senior clocked a career-best 41.88 in prelims and went 42.08 in the consolation final. Overall, Schreuders claimed two first team and four honorable mention All-America accolades at the 2019 Championships, upping his career total to three first team and 11 honorable mention honors.

In the final event of the meet, Missouri's 400 free relay of Schreuders, freshman Danny Kovac (Fort Collins, Colo.), Mankus and freshman Jack Dahlgren (Victoria, Minn.) went 2:50.94 in the consolation final to take 12th and earn All-America honorable mention honors.

Mizzou also received finishes of 19th, 20th and 21st in the 200 back. Junior Daniel Hein (Sycamore, Ill.) led the way with a personal best 1:41.08 for 19th, followed by Dahlgren in 20th in 1:41.20 and junior Nick Alexander (St. Louis, Mo.) in 21st with a time of 1:41.22.

In the 1650 free, Jacob Wielinski (Mounds View, Minn.) clocked a 14:56.46 for 26th, and freshman Jack Dubois (Alpharetta, Ga.) dropped 15 seconds off his previous personal best, swimming a 15:00.26 to move into second all-time at Mizzou in the event and place 31st.

In the 200 fly, junior Micah Slaton (Austin, Texas) placed 24th after a swim of 1:42.90. Additionally, freshman Ike Khamis (Richmond, Ind.) took 33rd on platform after a total of 272.25, and O'Brien was 38th in the 200 breast in 1:56.15.

QUOTABLES

Mizzou Interim Head Coach Andrew Grevers
"This meet was just like our whole season. We committed ourselves to a process of giving our best effort on a daily basis, gauged our success on our effort and not necessarily the outcome, and we were a complete and total success this weekend due to our effort. The results are a wonderful byproduct of that but I'm so proud of each and every one of our men and women for everything they did this season to give their best when we asked for it. Overall, I'm extremely proud."

2019 MIZZOU ALL-AMERICANS

First Team
Daniel Hein - 400 Medley Relay
Caleb Hicks - 400 Medley Relay
Danny Kovac - 400 Medley Relay
Jordan O'Brien - 100 Breast, 400 Medley Relay
Mikel Schreuders - 200 Free, 400 Medley Relay
Micah Slaton - 400 Medley Relay

Honorable Mention
Nick Alexander - 200 Medley Relay
Jack Dahlgren - 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay
Jack Dubois - 800 Free Relay
Kyle Goodwin - 1-Meter, 3-Meter
Daniel Hein - 200 Medley Relay
Danny Kovac - 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay
Kyle Leach - 200 Free Relay
Giovanny Lima - 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay
Luke Mankus - 50 Free, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay
Jordan O'Brien - 200 Medley Relay
Mikel Schreuders - 100 Free, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay