Michigan
NCAA Championships
Michigan Set to Compete at NCAA Championships
3/22/2022 1:59:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving
» Michigan qualified five swimmers and one diver for the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
» Gal Groumi is the highest-ranked Wolverine, in any event, in the 200 IM -- ranked eighth.
» Michigan is coming off of a third-place finish at the Big Ten Championships and looks to improve on its 12th-place finish at last year's NCAA Championships.
THIS WEEK
Wed-Sat., March 23-26 -- at NCAA Championships (Atlanta, Ga.)
Championships Central
Wednesday, March 23 -- at NCAA Championships, 6 p.m.
TV: ESPN3 | Live Results: Swimming / Diving | Live Video
Thursday, March 24 -- at NCAA Championships, 10 a.m./6 p.m.
TV: ESPN3 | Live Results: Swimming / Diving | Live Video: Prelims / Finals
Friday, March 25 -- at NCAA Championships, 10 a.m./6 p.m.
TV: ESPN3 | Live Results: Swimming / Diving | Live Video: Prelims / Finals
Saturday, March 26 -- at NCAA Championships, 10 a.m./6 p.m.
TV: ESPN3 | Live Results: Swimming / Diving | Live Video: Prelims / Finals
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Six members of the University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team are slated to compete at the 2022 NCAA Championships, Wednesday through Saturday (March 23-26), at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga. The action begins with the 200-yard medley relay on Wednesday at 6 p.m. For the remaining three days, preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. with finals at 6 p.m.
Graduate student Ross Todd, seniors Will Chan, Jared Daigle and Patrick Callan, sophomore Jake Mitchell and freshman Gal Groumi will all compete for the Wolverines. U-M will also field five relay teams.
Live championship coverage will air on ESPN3 for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday.
Schedule of Events and Michigan Invited Participants
Wednesday, March 23 (6 p.m.)
200-yard Medley Relay
800-yard Freestyle Relay
Thursday, March 24 (10 a.m./6 p.m.)
500-yard Freestyle: Patrick Callan, Jake Mitchell
200-yard IM: Gal Groumi, Jared Daigle
50-yard Freestyle: Will Chan
One-meter Diving: Ross Todd
200 Freestyle Relay
Friday, March 25 (10 a.m./6 p.m.)
400-yard IM: Jared Daigle, Jake Mitchell
100-yard Butterfly: Gal Groumi
200-yard Freestyle: Patrick Callan
100-yard Breaststroke: Will Chan
Three-meter Diving: Ross Todd
400-yard Medley Relay
Saturday, March 26 (10 a.m./6 p.m.)
1650-yard Freestyle: Jake Mitchell
200-yard Backstroke: Jared Daigle
100-yard Freestyle: Patrick Callan
200-yard Breaststroke: Will Chan
200-yard Butterfly: Gal Groumi
Platform Diving: Ross Todd
400-yard Freestyle Relay
Scoring Format
The top eight times (places 1-8) in each preliminary race will advance to the evening's finals and earn NCAA All-America (the only exception is the 1,650-yard freestyle, which is a timed final). The next eight times (places 9-16) will swim in the 'B' final and earn NCAA All-America honorable mention. The top 16 finishers will score points for their team.
NOTE: A change to the schedule involves relays. All relays will be timed finals instead of the traditional prelims-finals cadence. Each heat will have only four relays with one empty lane separating each team.
NCAA Championships Tidbits
History: U-M has won 12 NCAA championships (1937-41, 1948, 1957-59, 1961, 1995, 2013), the second-most of any collegiate swimming and diving program behind Texas. The Wolverines won an additional seven before the NCAA officially sanctioned the sport in 1937 (1927-28, 1931-32, 1934-36). Michigan also is the only program in the country to win national titles under four different head coaches -- Mike Bottom, Matt Mann, Jon Urbanchek and Gus Stager.
Champions: In its history, 110 U-M athletes have accounted for 166 national individual, diving or relay championships. The last swimmer, diver or relay to win a national title came in 2019 from Felix Auböck in the 1,650-yard freestyle.
Last Time Out
Big Ten Championships (Feb. 16-19): The Wolverines finished third at the Big Ten Championships (Feb 23-26) in West Lafayette, Ind. Michigan had two Big Ten champions in Groumi in the 200 IM and in Daigle in the 400 IM. Mitchell finished second in the 1650 free, 500 free, and the 400 IM, while Groumi also picked up a second-place finish in the 200 fly and a third-place finish in the 100 fly.
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