Oles set for MIAC Swimming & Diving Championships in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The St. Olaf College males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups will compete on the four-day Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Swimming & Diving Championships held Wednesday by way of Saturday on the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatic Center.

The convention meet will start on Wednesday night with a preliminary spherical of the lads’s one-meter diving at 6 p.m., adopted by finals of that occasion, plus the lads’s and ladies’s 200-yard medley and 800-yard freestyle relays. The finals session will begin at 7:30 p.m. on opening night time. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday’s schedules will include morning prelim periods at 10:30 a.m. and night championship periods at 6:30 p.m.

All tickets will as soon as once more be bought and bought on-line by way of ResidenceTown Ticketing. There is not going to be money gross sales on the venue; nevertheless, spectators should buy tickets utilizing a cell gadget at any time, together with whereas on the venue. To buy tickets at any time, click on the MIAC’s HomeTown Ticketing site.

“All-session” tickets will grant admission to all seven periods of the Championships. Adult passes are $73, and scholar passes are $31. (Note: $3 ResidenceTown Ticketing payment included; further comfort and bank card charges can be added throughout checkout.) Children ages 5 and underneath don’t require a ticket. Those eligible for scholar tickets embody people at the moment enrolled in faculty, highschool, center faculty, and elementary faculty. Student ID is required the place relevant.

Single-session tickets are additionally accessible for buy on-line solely. Single-session grownup tickets are $12 every, whereas scholar tickets are $6. (Note: further ResidenceTown Ticketing comfort and bank card charges can be added throughout checkout). Children ages 5 and underneath don’t require a ticket.

As a reminder, glass is strictly prohibited contained in the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatic Center. Please don’t deliver any glass water bottles or vases into the venue.

All periods of the championships can be streamed freed from cost on the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center’s YouTube channel. Live outcomes can even be updated online on the completion of every occasion.

Coming off a third-place end final season, the St. Olaf girls enter the MIAC Championships with 17 top-six seeds in particular person occasions and 5 top-two seeds within the relays. The Oles’ maintain the highest seed instances within the 400-yard medley relay (3:55.43), 200-yard freestyle relay (1:37.10), and 400-yard freestyle relay (1:37.10) and are second within the 200-yard medley relay (3:32.82) and 800-yard freestyle relay (7:54.13).

Senior Paige Steenblock is the No. 1 seed within the 200-yard particular person medley (2:09.58), 400-yard particular person medley (4:34.14), and 200-yard breaststroke (2:25.08). She is a three-time All-MIAC honoree in all three of these occasion, the two-time defending convention champion within the 400 IM, and can look to defend her title within the 200 IM.

Sophomore Olivia Small is the highest seed within the 100-yard backstroke (57.04) and 200-yard backstroke (2:05.95) after successful the convention title within the 200 again and ending second within the 100 again as a primary 12 months. Junior Katie Homme holds top-two seeds within the 200-yard freestyle (1st, 1:55.36), 50-yard freestyle (2nd, 23.73), and 100-yard freestyle (2nd, 51.63) after successful MIAC titles within the 50 and 100 freestyles final season.

Sophomore McKenna Hultgren is the No. 2 seed within the 100-yard butterfly (59.49) and 200-yard butterfly (2:12.16), coming off a third-place end final season within the 200 fly. St. Olaf additionally had six girls’s diver qualify on the one-meter board and 4 on the three-meter board.

After ending fifth final season, the St. Olaf males have 9 top-five seeds individually and three top-three relays coming into the meet. The Oles are seeded second within the 200-yard medley relay (1:35.09) and 400-yard freestyle relay (3:11.33), whereas sitting third within the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:26.60).

Senior Aiden Yung heads to the meet with the highest seed within the 200-yard breaststroke (2:05.93), the No. 3 seed within the 200-yard particular person medley (1:57.22), and the No. 4 seed within the 400-yard particular person medley (4:15.71). Yung is a two-time top-four finisher within the 400 IM and was within the high 5 within the different two occasions final season.

Senior Nick Starcevich is the No. 2 seed within the 50-yard freestyle (21.21), 100-yard freestyle (47.27), and 100-yard breaststroke (58.72) after ending because the convention runner-up within the 50 and 100 freestyles final season. Junior Jack Homme additionally holds high 5 seeds within the 50-yard freestyle (fifth, 21.66), 100-yard butterfly (4th, 51.74), and 100-yard freestyle (fifth, 47.59).