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NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships
UCLA Group Gets Started Wednesday at NCAAs
March 14, 2018 | Swimming & Diving
COLUMBUS, Ohio โ Eight members of the No. 21 UCLA swimming and diving team will participate in the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships March 14-17 at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion on the campus of Ohio State.
Senior swimmers Katie Grover, Sarah Kaunitz and Margaux Verger Gourson will take part in their final meet on the largest stage in collegiate swimming. Juniors Emma Schanz and Sandra Soe will join them, as will sophomores Kenisha Liu and Amy Okada. Junior diver Eloise Belanger is back for her third NCAA Championships.
Live stats will be available HERE. Friday's finals will air on ESPNU, while Saturday's can be streamed on ESPN3. The remaining prelims and finals can be streamed at OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
Wednesday's lone event will get started at 3 p.m. (PT). Thursday will kick off with trials at 7 a.m. and conclude with finals at 3 p.m. Friday's events will begin a bit earlier, with 6 a.m. trials and 2 p.m. finals. Saturday will wind down with 7 a.m. trials and 2 p.m. finals.
Events will get underway Wednesday with the 800 Free Relay. Earlier this month, the UCLA quartet of Liu, Grover, Soe and Verger Gourson turned in a fifth-place time of 7:04.64 at Pac-12 Championships in Federal Way, Wash.
Thursday sees the 200 Free Relay beginning the day's finals at 3 p.m. Bruins Liu, Grover, Sarah Kaunitz and Okada set a new school record in the event versus USC last month. Individually, the 500 Free, 200 IM and 50 Free competitions will also take place before wrapping up with the 400 Medley Relay. Diving will also begin Thursday on the 1-meter springboard. Schanz will tackle the 200 IM, while Belanger will also make her first appearance of the meet.
Five individual swimming events (400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Free, 100 Breast and 100 Back) will have champions decided Friday. Grover will have a busy day, as the Atlanta native is scheduled to participate in the 100 Fly and 200 Free events. Liu will join her in the 200 Free. Three-meter diving featuring Belanger is also scheduled for Friday, as is the 200 Medley Relay.
The final day will consist of the 1650 Free, 200 Back, 100 Free, 200 Breast, 200 Fly, platform diving and 400 Free Relay events. Soe and Verger Gourson will take on the distance race, while Grover (200 Fly), Liu (100 Free) and Schanz (200 Breast) wrap up their time at the meet. Belanger will participate in her third event in as many days with the platform.
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