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Mizzou Swimming & Diving Set for NCAA Championships

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou women's swimming and diving team head to Greensboro, N.C., this week to compete at the 2021 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, held March 17-20 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. Missouri opens competition 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 11:30 a.m. CT on Thursday and Friday and 11:15 a.m. CT on Saturday.

2021 NCAA WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Date / Time  Thursday, March 18 - Saturday, March 20
 Prelims: 9 a.m. CT | Finals: 5 p.m. CT
 Location  Greensboro, N.C. | Greensboro Aquatic Center
 Live Results  Swimming | Diving
 Live Video  Thursday: Prelims | Finals
 Friday: Prelims | Finals
 Saturday: Prelims | Finals
 Meet Info   Mizzou Meet Notes

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou women's swimming and diving team head to Greensboro, N.C., this week to compete at the 2021 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, held March 17-20 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. Missouri opens competition 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 11:30 a.m. CT on Thursday and Friday and 11:15 a.m. CT on Saturday.

TIGER TIDBITS

  • ESPN3 will broadcast every session of the Championships
  • The Tigers qualified nine individuals to the Championships, seven swimmers and two divers.
  • Mizzou's qualifiers include seniors Sarah Thompson and Amanda Smith, juniors Kayla Jones, Megan Keil and Sarah Rousseau, sophomores Katrina Brathwaite, Meredith Rees and Savana Trueb and freshman Jane Smith. 
  • Joining the individual qualifiers are relay-only swimmers Amy Feddersen, Alex Moderski, Sierra Smith and Molly Winer.
  • Thompson is now a four-time NCAA qualifier, while Keil, Rees and Trueb claimed their second career invites.
  • Brathwaite, Jones, Rousseau, Amanda Smith and Jane Smith all qualified for NCAAs for the first time in their careers.
  • Mizzou has two Tigers who enter NCAAs as top eight seeds in their respective events.
  • Thompson is seeded third in the 50 free and seventh in both the 100 free and 100 back.
  • Keil is seeded eighth in the 50 free.
  • The Tigers finished seventh at last month's Southeastern Conference Championships.
  • Trueb claimed the SEC women's platform title in February to become the first Tiger diver to win an SEC platform crown. 
  • At the last competed NCAA Championships in 2019, Missouri finished 22nd with 51 points.
  • Missouri has placed in the top 15 at NCAAs the six out of the last eight competed Championships, including a program-record finish of 11th in 2016.