Six Tritons Land Berths To NCAA Division II Swimming Championships – University of Missouri

ST. LOUIS – Six student-athletes from the University of Missouri-St. Louis males’s and girls’s swimming groups have earned berths to compete on the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships subsequent month in Evansville, Ind. The picks for the meet had been introduced Wednesday night by the NCAA.

All six of the qualifiers reached the meet in particular person occasions on the nationwide competitors, which runs March 10-14 on the Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind.

Justice Beard earns her third straight berth to the National Championship stage after incomes first workforce All-America honors final 12 months within the 500, 1,000 and 1,650-yard freestyle occasions. She completed second within the 1650 final season, fourth within the 1000 and fifth within the 500 and swam the anchor league of the 400 free relay squad.

Beard enters this 12 months’s championship meet as the highest seeded swimmer within the 500, 1000 and 1650 free occasions and is ninth within the 200 free. She earned an automated qualifying time within the first three occasions.

Audrey Lantz is making her third look on the nationwide stage after qualifying final 12 months within the 200 and 400 freestyle relays. This season she is seeded thirteenth within the 50 free, twenty second within the 100 fly and forty third within the 100 free.

Ella Lantz joins her sister, Audrey, in making her third look on the nationwide championships. She competed within the preliminary races of the 100 and 200-yard backstrokes inserting twenty eighth within the 200 again and thirty first within the 100 again. E. Lantz enters the nationwide meet seeded seventeenth within the 100 again with a time of 55.29.

Romina Itzkovich is making her second look on the NCAA Championships after swimming within the 200 free relay finally 12 months’s meet. She is seeded seventeenth within the 200 particular person medley heading into the championships.

Uxue Ortiz de Pinedo makes her first look on the nationwide stage qualifying within the 200 breast the place she is seeded twenty second within the occasion.

Aaron Wicklund returns to the nationwide championship stage after qualifying for nationals in 2024. He is seeded twenty first within the 200 breast, twenty fifth within the 400 IM and thirty sixth within the 200 IM.

UMSL’s girls’s workforce will swim in all 5 relays on the nationwide meet. Those relays are the 200 free, 400 free, 800 free, 200 medley and 400 medley.