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Men's Swimming and Diving Heads to Greensboro for NCAA Championships

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou men'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 24-27 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. Competition gets underway Wednesday evening with the 800 free relay. Thursday through Saturday, swimming prelims begin at 9 a.m. CT and finals at 5 p.m. CT Diving prelims begin at 11:15 a.m. CT on Thursday and Friday and 11 a.m. CT on Saturday. Additionally, early heats of the 1650 free are slated to begin at 2:45 p.m. CT on Saturday.

2021 NCAA MEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Date / Time  Wednesday, March 24 - Saturday, March 27
 Prelims: 9 a.m. CT | Finals: 5 p.m. CT
 Location  Greensboro, N.C. | Greensboro Aquatic Center
 Live Results  Swimming | Diving
 Live Video  Wednesday: Finals
          Thursday: Prelims | Finals
 Friday: Prelims | Finals
 Saturday: Prelims | Finals
 Meet Info  Mizzou Meet Notes

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou men'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 24-27 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. Competition gets underway Wednesday evening with the 800 free relay. Thursday through Saturday, swimming prelims begin at 9 a.m. CT and finals at 5 p.m. CT Diving prelims begin at 11:15 a.m. CT on Thursday and Friday and 11 a.m. CT on Saturday. Additionally, early heats of the 1650 free are slated to begin at 2:45 p.m. CT on Saturday.

TIGER TIDBITS

  • ESPN3 will broadcast every session of the Championships
  • The Tigers qualified seven individuals to the Championships, five swimmers and two divers.
  • Mizzou's qualifiers include juniors Jack Dahlgren, Jack Dubois and Danny Kovac, sophomores Carlo Lopez and Ben Patton and freshmen Takuto Endo and Daniel Wilson. 
  • Joining the individual qualifiers are relay-only swimmers Kevin Hammer, Kyle Leach, Grant Reed and Frederik Rindshoej.
  • Dahlgren and Kovac are now both three-time NCAA qualifiers, while Dubois and Lopez claimed their second career invites.
  • Endo, Patton and Wilson all qualified for NCAAs for the first time in their careers.
  • Kovac enters the Championships seeded third in the 200 IM, fourth in the 100 fly and 10th in the 200 fly.
  • The Tigers finished sixth at last month's Southeastern Conference Championships.
  • At the last competed NCAA Championships in 2019, Missouri finished tied for 11th with 105 points.
  • Missouri has placed in the top 16 at NCAAs in six out of the last seven competed Championships, including a program-record finish of eighth in 2016.