University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Bruins Qualify Three Swimmers for 2020 NCAA Championships
March 04, 2020 | Swimming & Diving
LOS ANGELES – Three members of the No. 24-ranked UCLA swim and dive program have earned qualification to the 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, it was announced on Wednesday.
The three Bruins to make the cut included sophomore Claire Grover (50 free), senior Kenisha Liu (200 free), and senior Amy Okada (200 fly).
The championships will be held Mar. 18-21 at the Ramsey Center in Athens, Georgia. The University of Georgia will serve as host.
A total of 322 participants (281 swimmers and 41 divers) will compete in the championships. Swimmers qualified for the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events in which they entered. Divers will be determined by performances at the Zone Diving Meets March 9-14. The complete list of swimmers competing in the championships is available at www.usaswimming.org/ncaa. Selected divers will be announced Sunday, March 15.
ESPN3 will provide digital broadcast coverage for each of the evening sessions Wednesday through Saturday. All sessions not part of ESPN's broadcasts will be streamed live on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships microsite at www.georgiadogs.com. Tape delayed coverage of the women's championships will be broadcast on ESPNU at 10 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, April 1.
All three Bruin qualifiers will be making return trips to NCAAs.
Liu, a senior from Chino, Calif., is UCLA's highest-rated seed at NCAAs, as she is No. 18 in the 200 free with her time of 1:44.37 at Pac-12s. This is her third consecutive year competing in the 200 free at NCAAs.
Grover will be competing in the 50 free for the second consecutive year after placing 22nd at 2019 NCAAs with a time of 22.25. She is the No. 29 seed entering this season with her season-best time of 22.13 set at the Ohio State Invitational.
Okada, a member of Bruin NCAA relay teams in both 2018 and 2019, earned her first individual qualification this year with a personal best of 1:55.93 in the 200 fly. She will be the No. 33 seed in that event.
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