NCAA Division III Championships: Kenyon Earns Six No. 1 Seeds, Emory Brings Most Swimmers
The NCAA Division III Championships for swimming and diving will return this season after a two-year layoff because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 meet was cancelled shortly beforehand at the onset of the pandemic, while Division III swimming did not have a season in 2020-21. But this year’s meet will be full-go from March 16-19 at the famed IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis.
Heading into this year’s meet, Division III powerhouse schools such as Kenyon, Denison and Emory are expected to stand out. On the women’s side, Denison and Emory will each bring 18 swimmers to the championships, while Emory and Johns Hopkins each have 18 men set to compete. In the competition, the only swimmer to own the top entry time in multiple events is Kenyon senior Crile Hart.
Hart has won five individual NCAA titles in her career, including both backstroke events in both 2018 and 2019 and the 200 IM in 2018. This year, Hart is seeded first in the 200 IM, 100 fly and 200 back. Kenyon also has the top time in three events on the men’s side: Bryan Fitzgerald in the 400 IM, David Fitch in the 100 fly and Yurii Kosian in the 200 back.
At the previous NCAA Division III Championships in 2019, the Emory women secured their 10th straight national title by just nine points over Kenyon, while the Kenyon men won by more than 100 points for a second consecutive win.
Check out the full women’s psych sheet here, and view the full men’s psych sheet here.
Women’s Top-Seeded Swimmers:
- 500 freestyle: Taryn Wisner, Denison
- 200 IM: Crile Hart, Kenyon
- 50 freestyle: Taylor Robey, Nazareth
- 400 IM: Augusta Lewis, Claremont MS
- 100 butterfly: Hart
- 200 freestyle: Mary Hufziger, Tufts
- 200 butterfly: Marie Fagan, Amherst
- 100 backstroke: Jessica Flynn, NYU
- 100 breaststroke: Edenna Chen, MIT
- 1650 freestyle: Margaret Menso, St. Kate’s
- 100 freestyle: Alexandra Turvey, Pomona-Pitzer
- 200 backstroke: Hart
- 200 breaststroke: Jordyn Wentzel, St. Kate’s
Men’s Top-Seeded Swimmers:
- 500 freestyle: Patrick Pema, Emory
- 200 IM: Jordan Rem, MIT
- 50 freestyle: Kevin Gillooly, Rowan
- 400 IM: Bryan Fitzgerald, Kenyon
- 100 butterfly: David Fitch, Kenyon
- 200 freestyle: James Lovette, Williams
- 200 butterfly: Frank Applebaum, Claremont MS
- 100 backstroke: Adam Janicki, MIT
- 100 breaststroke: Maxwell Chen, Johns Hopkins
- 1650 freestyle: Thomas Pritchard, NYU
- 100 freestyle: Liam McConnell, John Carroll
- 200 backstroke: Yurii Kosian, Kenyon
- 200 breaststroke: Jason Hamilton, Emory