Men's Swimming and Diving Heads to Greensboro for NCAA Championships
3/23/2021 2:49:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving
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.
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