Nine Michigan Swimmers Earn Berths to NCAA Championships
3/4/2020 1:45:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Nine members of the University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team received individual qualifying berths to the NCAA Championships on Wednesday (March 4), the NCAA announced. The Championships will take place March 18-21 in Athens, Georgia.
The team will be comprised seniors Chloe Hicks, Vanessa Krause and Miranda Tucker; juniors Daria Pyshnenko and Sierra Schmidt; sophomores Olivia Carter, Victoria Kwan and Maggie MacNeil; and freshman Kaitlynn Sims. All five relays also qualified for the meet.
The Wolverines enter this year's NCAA Championships on the heels of back-to-back top-four team finishes, taking fourth in 2018 and third in 2019. The program has never had three consecutive top-four or top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships. The last time the program had three consecutive top-10 finishes came between 1997-99 (6th, 7th, 7th).
Michigan Selection with Seeding
50-yard Freestyle: Maggie MacNeil (4th), Daria Pyshnenko (12th)
100-yard Freestyle: Maggie MacNeil (4th), Daria Pyshnenko (14th)
200-yard Freestyle: None
500-yard Freestyle: Sierra Schmidt (11th), Kaitlynn Sims (14th)
1,650-yard Freestyle: Sierra Schmidt (4th), Kaitlynn Sims (5th)
100-yard Backstroke: None
200-yard Backstroke: Chloe Hicks (20th)
100-yard Breaststroke: Miranda Tucker (3rd)
200-yard Breaststroke: Miranda Tucker (15th)
100-yard Butterfly: Maggie MacNeil (1st), Olivia Carter (17th), Vanessa Krause (34th)
200-yard Butterfly: Olivia Carter (7th), Victoria Kwan (14th), Vanessa Krause (20th)
200-yard IM: Olivia Carter (24th)
400-yard IM: Victoria Kwan (33rd)
Relays
200-yard Freestyle Relay: 10th (1:27.87)
400-yard Freestyle Relay: 8th (3:11.94)
800-yard Freestyle Relay: 15th (7:01.22)
200-yard Medley Relay: 2nd (1:34.21)
400-yard Medley Relay: 4th (3:27.68)
Divers can qualify based on finishes in all three events at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, held next week (March 12-14) in Lexington, Kentucky. The Wolverines have sent at least two divers to the NCAA Championships in each of the last four years. This year, Zone C is allocated 23 qualifying spots: seven on one-meter, six on three-meter and 10 on platform.
ESPN3 will provide live streaming coverage for each of the evening sessions Wednesday through
Saturday. All sessions not part of ESPN's broadcasts will be streamed live on the NCAA Swimming and
Diving Championships microsite at www.georgiadogs.com. Tape delayed coverage of the women's
championships will be broadcast on ESPNU at 10 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, April 1.
Players Mentioned
