Mizzou Swimming & Diving Set for NCAA Championships

Thursday, March 18

Greensboro, N.C.

All Day

University of Missouri

NCAA Championships

3/17/2021 3:32:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

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.