Eleven U-M Swimmers Earn Berths to NCAA Championships
3/4/2021 5:05:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
• Psych Sheet
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Eleven members of the University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team received individual qualifying berths to the NCAA Championships on Wednesday (March 3), per an official announcement from the NCAA. The Championships will take place March 17-20 in Greensboro, N.C.
Earning invites are senior Sierra Schmidt; juniors Olivia Carter, Victoria Kwan, Maggie MacNeil and Caroline Sisson; sophomores Megan Glass, Kaitlynn Sims and Mariella Venter; and freshmen Kathryn Ackerman, Claire Donan and Sophie Housey. All five relays qualified for the meet.
Senior Daria Pyshnenko chose to retire and will not compete in the upcoming NCAA Championships.
Prior to last year's postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wolverines scored top-four team finishes in back-to-back years, 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 from 1997-99 (6th, 7th, 7th).
Michigan's selections with seeding:
50-yard Freestyle: Maggie MacNeil (2nd)
100-yard Freestyle: Maggie MacNeil (3rd)
200-yard Freestyle: Sophie Housey (25th), Megan Glass (33rd)
500-yard Freestyle: Kaitlynn Sims (15th)
1,650-yard Freestyle: Sierra Schmidt (5th), Kaitlynn Sims (7th), Caroline Sisson (29th)
100-yard Backstroke: None
200-yard Backstroke: Mariella Venter (27th)
100-yard Breaststroke: None
200-yard Breaststroke: None
100-yard Butterfly: Maggie MacNeil (1st), Olivia Carter (8th)
200-yard Butterfly: Olivia Carter (3rd), Victoria Kwan (37th), Sophie Housey (40th)
200-yard IM: Olivia Carter (20th)
400-yard IM: Kathryn Ackerman (16th), Victoria Kwan (25th), Claire Donan (41st)
Relays
200-yard Freestyle Relay: 9th (1:27.99)
400-yard Freestyle Relay: 4th (3:11.61)
800-yard Freestyle Relay: 10th (7:01.36)
200-yard Medley Relay: 13th (1:36.34)
400-yard Medley Relay: 9th (3:29.84)
Divers can qualify based on finishes in all three events at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, Sunday through Tuesday (March 7-9) in Lexington, Ky. 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.
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