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Gophers Take On the 2019 NCAA Championships
3/26/2019 11:13:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Championships Central | Live Results: Swimming | Diving
Video Links: All Preliminaries, Diving Consolation Finals | (Finals): Wednesday (ESPN3) | Thursday (ESPN3) | Friday (ESPN3) | Saturday (ESPN3)
Nine Minnesota swimmers and divers are set to compete at this week's men's NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. Five Gophers will contest in individual events and three relays will look to bring in points for the Maroon and Gold. Minnesota finished fifteenth at the 2018 NCAA Championships, the team's best finish since 2010-11.
The meet will take place from Wednesday, March 27-Saturday, March 30, with
Wednesday's 6 p.m. CT finals of the 800 freestyle relay starting the meet. The next three days will begin with prelims at 10 a.m. CT and finals at 6 p.m. CT with ESPN3 streaming the final session each night. The Gophers will begin their Championships on Thursday, when Minnesota will have representatives competing in the 50 Free, the 200 Free Relay, the 400 Medley Relay and in one-meter diving.
Bowen Becker returns to his fourth and final NCAA Championships where he will compete as an individual in the 50 and 100 Freestyle. He is seeded in the top-five in both events and looks to improve upon his third (50 Free) and fourteenth (100 Free) place finishes from the 2018 NCAA Championships. The senior will also swim on the 200 Freestyle Relay team, which is seeded seventeenth.
Freshman Max McHugh is making his NCAA Championships debut as he is slated to compete as an individual in the 100 and 200 Breaststroke. He is seeded third and sixth in the respective events. McHugh will also compete on the 200 and 400 Medley Relay teams, for which he will swim the breaststroke leg.
Senior Nick Yang will compete in all three diving events at the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive season. In 2018 he finished within the top 20 for all three events, most-notably taking fifth in the platform competition with a score of 423.55 and earning All-American honors.
Alan Leblang joins his fellow senior diver in the one-meter, three-meter and platform diving competitions at this year's NCAA Championships. He is making his third appearance at the NCAA Championships and hopes to best last year's finishes of 46th on three-meter and 20th on platform.
Jeremy Moser rounds out the Minnesota divers who secured spots at the 2019 NCAA Championships. Moser qualified for his first NCAA Championships after winning the platform competition with a score of 706.25 at the Zone D Diving Meet earlier this month. His twelfth-place finish in the three-meter competition automatically qualified him to compete in that event as well by way of his platform berth.
The Gophers will send three relays to the NCAA Championships, two of which qualified after swimming 'A' cut times at the Big Ten Championships at the end of February. Matt Thomas, Tom Donker, Eitan Yudashkin and Tuomas Pokkinen will compete alongside the previously mentioned Gophers as they look to score points for Minnesota via the relays.
The eight fastest times in each preliminary race, including relays, will advance to the finals in the evening session and automatically earn NCAA All-America honors (the only exception being the 1,650-yard freestyle, which is a timed final). The next eight fastest times (the ninth to sixteenth-fastest) will swim in the evening's 'B' final and earn NCAA All-America honorable mention honors. All top-16 finishers will earn points for their Universities.
Recapping how the Gophers qualified for NCAAs:
Big Ten Championships (Feb. 20-23): The Golden Gophers finished fifth at the Big Ten Championships, with senior Bowen Becker defending his 2018 B1G title in the 50 Freestyle and becoming a back-to-back B1G Champion in the event. He also became the B1G Champion in the 100 Freestyle after swimming 'A' cut times in both races. Freshman of the Year Max McHugh took silver in both the 100 and 200 Breaststroke, also qualifying from dual 'A' cuts.
NCAA Zone D Diving Championships (March 11-13): Jeremy Moser (three-meter, platform) Alan Leblang (one-meter, three-meter, platform) and Nick Yang (one-meter, three-meter, platform) qualified for the NCAA Championships by virtue of their finishes at the NCAA Zone d Diving Championships in Austin, Texas.
NCAA Selections and Seeding:
50-yard Freestyle:
Bowen Becker (5th) 19.00
100-yard Freestyle:
Bowen Becker (3rd) 41.53
100-yard Breaststroke:
Max McHugh (3rd) 51.08
200-yard Breaststroke:
Max McHugh (6th) 1:52.40
One-meter Diving (12-dive score):
Alan Leblang - 655.10
Nick Yang - 602.60
Three-meter Diving (12-dive score):
Nick Yang - 726.25
Alan Leblang - 711.15
Jeremy Moser - 683.05
Platform Diving (12-dive score):
Jeremy Moser - 706.25
Alan Leblang - 689.10
Nick Yang - 643.95
Relays
200-yard Freestyle Relay: 17th (1:17.24)
200-yard Medley Relay: 23rd (1:24.62)
400-yard Medley Relay: 14th (3:05.46)
Video Links: All Preliminaries, Diving Consolation Finals | (Finals): Wednesday (ESPN3) | Thursday (ESPN3) | Friday (ESPN3) | Saturday (ESPN3)
Nine Minnesota swimmers and divers are set to compete at this week's men's NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. Five Gophers will contest in individual events and three relays will look to bring in points for the Maroon and Gold. Minnesota finished fifteenth at the 2018 NCAA Championships, the team's best finish since 2010-11.
The meet will take place from Wednesday, March 27-Saturday, March 30, with
Wednesday's 6 p.m. CT finals of the 800 freestyle relay starting the meet. The next three days will begin with prelims at 10 a.m. CT and finals at 6 p.m. CT with ESPN3 streaming the final session each night. The Gophers will begin their Championships on Thursday, when Minnesota will have representatives competing in the 50 Free, the 200 Free Relay, the 400 Medley Relay and in one-meter diving.
Bowen Becker returns to his fourth and final NCAA Championships where he will compete as an individual in the 50 and 100 Freestyle. He is seeded in the top-five in both events and looks to improve upon his third (50 Free) and fourteenth (100 Free) place finishes from the 2018 NCAA Championships. The senior will also swim on the 200 Freestyle Relay team, which is seeded seventeenth.
Freshman Max McHugh is making his NCAA Championships debut as he is slated to compete as an individual in the 100 and 200 Breaststroke. He is seeded third and sixth in the respective events. McHugh will also compete on the 200 and 400 Medley Relay teams, for which he will swim the breaststroke leg.
Senior Nick Yang will compete in all three diving events at the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive season. In 2018 he finished within the top 20 for all three events, most-notably taking fifth in the platform competition with a score of 423.55 and earning All-American honors.
Alan Leblang joins his fellow senior diver in the one-meter, three-meter and platform diving competitions at this year's NCAA Championships. He is making his third appearance at the NCAA Championships and hopes to best last year's finishes of 46th on three-meter and 20th on platform.
Jeremy Moser rounds out the Minnesota divers who secured spots at the 2019 NCAA Championships. Moser qualified for his first NCAA Championships after winning the platform competition with a score of 706.25 at the Zone D Diving Meet earlier this month. His twelfth-place finish in the three-meter competition automatically qualified him to compete in that event as well by way of his platform berth.
The Gophers will send three relays to the NCAA Championships, two of which qualified after swimming 'A' cut times at the Big Ten Championships at the end of February. Matt Thomas, Tom Donker, Eitan Yudashkin and Tuomas Pokkinen will compete alongside the previously mentioned Gophers as they look to score points for Minnesota via the relays.
The eight fastest times in each preliminary race, including relays, will advance to the finals in the evening session and automatically earn NCAA All-America honors (the only exception being the 1,650-yard freestyle, which is a timed final). The next eight fastest times (the ninth to sixteenth-fastest) will swim in the evening's 'B' final and earn NCAA All-America honorable mention honors. All top-16 finishers will earn points for their Universities.
Recapping how the Gophers qualified for NCAAs:
Big Ten Championships (Feb. 20-23): The Golden Gophers finished fifth at the Big Ten Championships, with senior Bowen Becker defending his 2018 B1G title in the 50 Freestyle and becoming a back-to-back B1G Champion in the event. He also became the B1G Champion in the 100 Freestyle after swimming 'A' cut times in both races. Freshman of the Year Max McHugh took silver in both the 100 and 200 Breaststroke, also qualifying from dual 'A' cuts.
NCAA Zone D Diving Championships (March 11-13): Jeremy Moser (three-meter, platform) Alan Leblang (one-meter, three-meter, platform) and Nick Yang (one-meter, three-meter, platform) qualified for the NCAA Championships by virtue of their finishes at the NCAA Zone d Diving Championships in Austin, Texas.
NCAA Selections and Seeding:
50-yard Freestyle:
Bowen Becker (5th) 19.00
100-yard Freestyle:
Bowen Becker (3rd) 41.53
100-yard Breaststroke:
Max McHugh (3rd) 51.08
200-yard Breaststroke:
Max McHugh (6th) 1:52.40
One-meter Diving (12-dive score):
Alan Leblang - 655.10
Nick Yang - 602.60
Three-meter Diving (12-dive score):
Nick Yang - 726.25
Alan Leblang - 711.15
Jeremy Moser - 683.05
Platform Diving (12-dive score):
Jeremy Moser - 706.25
Alan Leblang - 689.10
Nick Yang - 643.95
Relays
200-yard Freestyle Relay: 17th (1:17.24)
200-yard Medley Relay: 23rd (1:24.62)
400-yard Medley Relay: 14th (3:05.46)
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