2025 NCAA Division III Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

2025 NCAA DIII Swimming and Diving Championships

March 19-22, 2025
Location: Greensboro Aquatic Middle, Greensboro, NC
Instances: Prelims 10:00 AM / Finals 6:00 PM (ET)
Defending Champs: Kenyon girls (1x) & Emory males (3x)
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Welcome to the ultimate prelims session of the 2025 NCAA Division III Championships. The crew race is de facto heating up on the ladies’s aspect. NYU leads MIT by simply 20 factors, so placements might be key on this prelims session. As a reminder, right here’s the place the crew scores stand as of final night time:

Ladies (High 5)

NYU – 368
MIT – 348
Kenyon – 315
Denison – 278
Emory – 267

Males (High 5)

Denison – 298
Emory – 250.5
Chicago – 211
NYU – 190.5
Kenyon – 183

It will likely be a comparatively brief session this morning, and we’ll get began with the shortest occasion of this morning. Kaley McIntyre (NYU) will look to finish the dash free sweep within the 100 free. She already lowered her personal nationwide document at her convention championship meet, so count on one other dominant efficiency from her. The boys’s 100 additionally appears to be thrilling. The 50 free noticed 10 males break 20 seconds in prelims, so if the pace carries over we might see a good cutoff to make the A last.

We’ll then transfer into the 200 again, the place Kate Augustyn (MIT) and Sophia Verkleeren (Williams) will conflict for the ultimate time of their collegiate profession. Augustyn beat Verkleeren for the primary time within the last final 12 months, and has already gained the 100 again at these championships. Verkleeren has swept the IMs at these championships, together with setting a nationwide document within the 400 IM. The boys’s 200 again has a trio of athletes with 1:44 entry instances, led by Tufts’ Eric Lundgren.

Jennah Fadely (Kenyon) has the highest time within the 200 breast, although it’s her senior teammate Gabriella Wei who gained the occasion final 12 months. This occasion might be key for Kenyon in the event that they need to preserve themselves within the dialog for the crew title. The boys’s occasion is narrowly led by Liyang Solar (Emory), simply forward of Denison’s Elijah Venos.

This morning can even characteristic the prelims of the 400 free relay, girls’s 3-meter diving, and the early heats of the 1650.

Ladies’s 100 Yard Freestyle – Prelims

Males’s 100 Yard Freestyle – Prelims

Division III Report: 42.98, Oliver Smith (Emory), 2018
2024 Champion: 43.26, Djordje Dragojlovic (Kenyon)

Ladies’s 200 Yard Backstroke – Prelims

Division III Report: 1:55.67, Crile Hart (Kenyon), 2018
2024 Champion: 1:55.98, Kate Augustyn (MIT)

Males’s 200 Yard Backstroke – Prelims

Division III Report: 1:41.17 Tanner Filion (Whitman), 2023
2024 Champion: 1:43.40, Alex McCormick (WashU)

Ladies’s 200 Yard Breaststroke – Prelims

Division III Report: 2:10.06, Jordyn Wentzel (St. Kate’s), 2022
2024 Champion: 2:11.70, Gabriella Wei (Kenyon)

Males’s 200 Yard Breaststroke – Prelims

Division III Report: 1:50.80, Andrew Wilson (Emory), 2017
2024 Champion: 1:54.26, Derek Maas (NYU)

Ladies’s 400 Yard Freestyle Relay – Prelims

Division III Report: 3:18.46, Emory (F. Muir, C. Cheng, M. Ong, M. Taylor), 2018
2024 Champion: 3:20.59, Pomona-Pitzer (S. Wang, A. Turvey, Okay. Gould, V. Mello)

Males’s 400 Yard Freestyle Relay – Prelims

Division III Report: 2:53.59, Kenyon (D. Somers, Z. Turk, C. Ramsey, I. Richardson) 2012
2024 Champion: 2:54.52, Kenyon (D. Dragojlovic, M. Krtinic, D. Brooks, A. Dobric)