TUCSON, Ariz. — Five Arizona swimmers punched their tickets to Federal Way, Washington, earning a spot at this year's Women's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
The women's championships will be held March 19-22 at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Washington. Qualifiers on the men's side, as well as qualifying divers, will be announced next week.
On the women's side, Lexi Duchsherer, Eleni Gewalt, Riley Botton, Julia Wozniak and Alyssa Schwengel will be competing for the Cats.
The 200 free relay team of Duchsherer, Botton, Wozniak and Schwengel swam an NCAA A Cut (1:26.92) at the Big 12 Championships last week. Their relay finish is the eleventh-best time in the nation.
Duchsherer will also be competing individually in the 50 free, being selected for the event after putting up a personal best and NCAA B Cut time (22.01) at the Big 12 Championships. This time by Duchsherer is the fifth best in program history.
Gewalt will represent the Wildcats in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events. At the Big 12 Championships, Gewalt swam personal bests and NCAA B Cuts in both events, finishing with the third-best time in program history in the 100 BR (59.01) and Arizona's ninth-best time in the 200 BR (2:11.19).
The preliminary and final rounds of the meet will be streamed on ESPN+..
Meet schedule:
- Day one finals: 200-yard medley relay | 9 p.m.
- Day one finals: 800-yard freestyle relay | 10 p.m.
- Day two prelims | 1 p.m.
- One-meter diving trials| 3:15 p.m.
- One-meter diving consolation finals | 8:15 p.m.
- Day two finals | 9 p.m.
- ????500-yard freestyle
- 200-yard individual medley
- 50-yard freestyle
- 200-yard freestyle relay
- One-meter diving
- Day three prelims | 1 p.m.
- Three-meter diving trials | 3:15 p.m.
- Three-meter diving consolation finals | 8:15 p.m.
- Day three finals | 9 p.m.
- 400-yard individual medley
- 100-yard butterfly 10. 200-yard freestyle
- 100-yard breaststroke 12. 100-yard backstroke
- 400-yard medley relay
- Three-meter diving
- Day four prelims | 1 p.m.
- Platform diving trials | 3 p.m.
- Day four prelims - 1650 freestyle | 6:45 p.m.
- Platform diving consolation finals | 8:15 p.m.
- Day four finals | 9 p.m.
- 1,650-yard freestyle
- 200-yard backstroke
- 100-yard freestyle
- 200-yard breaststroke
- 200-yard butterfly
- Platform diving
- 400-yard freestyle relay
