2023 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships – Fan Guide

2023 NCAA Division III Girls’s and Males’s Swimming and Diving Championships

The 2023 NCAA Division III Girls’s and Males’s Swimming and Diving Championships start Wednesday, March 15, in Greensboro, North Carolina. After a two-year hiatus as a result of coronavirus pandemic, the Kenyon ladies and Emory males have gained the 2022 titles. It was the Owls’ first ladies’s title since 2009 and broke Emory’s streak. This was Emory’s second males’s title within the present’s historical past; in any other case, the title had been gained by Kenyon (34 occasions) or Denison (5 occasions) yearly since 1980.

Group Factors Estimates – Girls (no dives)

The highest ten groups within the ladies’s psychological classification, excluding diving, together with distance competitions and relay races, are as follows:

Denison College – 482
Kenyon School – 402
Emory College – 351
Tufts College – 309
Williams School – 247
New York College – 238
Massachusetts Institute of Expertise – 235
Pomona Pitzer – 206
College of Chicago – 190
Hope School – 128

Within the ladies’s occasion, Denison and Emory arrive with a full roster of 18 swimmers. Emory has two divers coming into the qualifying spherical, whereas Denison has one diver. Kenyon brings in 16 swimmers; Chicago, 14 swimmers and two divers; NYU, 13 swimmers and two divers; Tufts, 13 swimmers; Johns Hopkins, 12 swimmers; Williams, 11 swimmers and a diver; MIT, 11 swimmers and three divers.

Occasions to Watch

500/1650 free video games

Denison’s Taryn Wisner And Kristin Cornish He was a Johns Hopkins freshman after they gained the respective nationwide titles within the free 500 and 1650, each final 12 months. Enemies 2022 are the very best seeds in distant free occasions this 12 months. Cornish is available in with the very best seeded occasions of 4:48.37/16:29.52; Wisner is in second place with 4:49.12/16:34.89. Denison’s Tara Witkowski And Quinn BrownTufts’ Madeleine Dunn And Claire BrennanAnd Caitlin Marshall NYU’s share represents potential threats to Wisner and Cornish’s 1-2 finishes.

Particular person Mixes

Williams sophomore sophia verkleeren With Claremont-Mudd-Scripps senior, each 200 IM (2:00.56) and 400 IM (4:17.24) are entered with main occasions Augusta Lewis He completed second (2:00.69) at 200 and third (4:19.41) at 400. Lewis completed second within the 400 final 12 months and third within the 200. Jordyn Wentzel, St. Fifth 12 months from Kate’s, it is also a favourite at each occasions. The 2022 runner-up, who’s under the match document of 1:57.82 within the 200, is tenth on this occasion (2:02.90). Final 12 months, he competed in each 100 chests on Day 3, however this time he is swimming within the 400 IM, inserting second with 4:17.50.

200 Backstroke

MIT sophomore Kate Augustyn (1:57.84), Hope sophomore Sara Kraus (1:57.94) and Williams’s Verkleeren (1:57.99) each seeded with sooner occasions than their A-finals eventually 12 months’s championship. 5 extra swimmers arrive with insemination occasions under 2:00: Kaley McIntyre And Jessica Flynn of NYU, isabel huang Emory’s, Ithaca’s Sonia Mlakarand Kenyon olivia smith.

100 Breaststrokes

Kenyon sophomore Jennah FadelyThe 2022 bronze medalist is the one competitor to enter with a time below 1:00 (59.98), however will face a powerful problem from the defending champion Edenna Chen (1:01.09). 2022 A finalists Alexandra Gill By Pomona-Pitzer (1:01.59), Kinsey Brooks by Mary Washington (1:01.99) Christina Chen Denison (1:02.18) and Amanda Wager Williams (1:02.62) are all within the high 8.

Group Factors Estimates – Males (no dive)

The highest ten groups on the boys’s psychology record, excluding diving, together with distance occasions and relay races, are as follows:

Emory College – 412.5
Kenyon School – 371
College of Chicago – 262.3
Massachusetts Institute of Expertise – 252.5
Denison College – 240
Williams School – 214
New York College – 178.5
Tufts College – 177.5
Washington College St. Louis – 169
Johns Hopkins College – 156

In males’s, Emory is on the high of the course with 18 swimmers and one diver coming into the match. Denison follows with 15 swimmers and three divers; Kenyon, 12 swimmers and three divers; Williams, 12 swimmers and one diver; Chicago, 11 and two divers; Johns Hopkins, 11 swimmers; MIT, 10 swimmers and one diver; NYU, 10 swimmers; TCNJ, 10 swimmers; and WashU, 10 swimmers.

Occasions to Watch

500 Freestyle

2022 fourth place finisher Pat Pema of Emory was seeded with the quickest time within the 500 frees (4:22.82), 2.3 seconds sooner than final 12 months’s remaining. Defending champion Bryan Fitzgerald Kenyon ranks sixth (4:25.97). NYU senior Thomas Pritchardthird and WashU junior final 12 months Mason KelberHe completed second and third this time with 4:24.70 and 4:24.71, which was sixth in 2022.

Particular person Mixes

Kenyon veteran Fitzgerald can be the reigning champion within the 400 IM and comes with a finest seeding of three:52.21 this 12 months. The following six contributors, little Pomona-Pitzer Larry Yu (3:53.15), WashU sophomore Danny Sibley (3:54.33), Emory sophomore Benjamin ThorsenTCNJ sophomore Ryan Higgins (3:54.46), Denison sophomore Lucas Conrads (3:54.59) and a Johns Hopkins freshman Matthew Hartshorn (3:54.64) He might dethrone the 2022 gold medalist.

In 200, Denison senior Richard Kurlich (1:47.25) and senior Johns Hopkins Kyle Wu (1:47.25) are the one contenders seeded under 1:48. In final 12 months’s remaining, Wu completed third and Kurlich eleventh. The following six seeds are separated by solely .33: Oliver Chalet Williams, Chicago kyle garciaMIT’s Jaden Luo, Jaeden-Hans Yburan NYU, Chicago’s Garrett ClasenAnd Joseph Castagno of Johns Hopkins.

200 Butterflies

School of Connecticut sophomore Justin Finkel (1:45.31) and Chicago junior Jesse Ssengonzi (1:45.32) High of the participant at 200 fly. Ssengonzi had been runner-up a 12 months in the past; Finkel completed eleventh. There are new faces within the subject this 12 months with first-year college students. lion inn NYU (1:46.33), Avery Clap Hopkins (1:46.55) and Matthew Walker Ranked third to fifth in WashU (1:46.71). Claremont-Mudd-Scripps junior Frank ApplebaumThe defending champion is in eleventh place with 1:47.69.

100 Backstroke

seniors Tanner Filion Whitman (46.74), Nathan Berry Bates (46.82), Liam Mcdonnell John Carroll (46.95) and Adam Janicki He leads the sphere at 100, most from MIT (46.99), which have been A finalists a 12 months in the past.

100 Breaststrokes

Jacob Meyer (53.23) and Jason Hamilton (53.63) of Emory, Alexandre Grand’Pierre Bowdoin (53.66) and Denison’s Kurlich (53.93) and Elijah Venos (53.96) are all below 54 and may make for an thrilling 100 meme finale.