INSIDE MEN���S SWIMMING
BY MARK BENNETT
@BadgerSwimDive
NCAA SCHEDULE
Thursday (10 a.m. / 6 p.m.)
500- yard freestyle
200-yard individual medley
400-yard medley relay
Friday (10 a.m. / 6 p.m.)
400-yard individual medley
100-yard butterfly
100-yard breaststroke
100-yard backstroke
800-yard freestyle relay
Saturday (10 a.m. / 6 p.m.)
200-yard backstroke
200-yard breaststroke
200-yard butterfly
Badgers ready to make
splash on national stage
Michael Weiss leads UW into NCAA championships
A
month ago at the Big
Ten championships, the
Wisconsin men���s swimming
and diving team broke nine
school records. This weekend, the Badgers hit the pool
in Indianapolis at the 2013
NCAA Championships with
their eyes set on smashing
more records.
Wisconsin will send six
swimmers to compete in 11
events over three days.
Seniors Michael Weiss
and Dan Lester and sophomore Drew TeDuits will all
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compete in three individual and two relay events.
Sophomore Nick Schafer
will compete in three total
events, while senior Garrett
Mulchrone and junior Tyler
Hines will each swim in one
event.
Weiss enters the competition with the Badgers��� best
hopes for an NCAA title.
The Reno, Nev., native currently holds the top time in
the country in the 400-yard
individual medley. Weiss
will also compete in the 500-
yard freestyle, the 200-yard breaststroke and the 400 medley and 800
freestyle relays.
Lester will compete in both relay
events, as well, while also taking to
the pool for the 100- and 200 butterfly and the 200 indidivual medley.
TeDuits will join Lester in the 200
individual medley, along with the
100 and 200 backstroke and both relay events.
Schafer will participate in the 400
medley relay as well as both the 100
and 200 breaststroke.
Mulchrone and Hines will race in
the 800-yard freestyle relay.
The Badgers��� best-ever team finish
at the NCAA championships was a
ninth-place performance in 1960.
The championships run this
Thursday-Saturday, with preliminary rounds beginning at 10 a.m.
(CT) and final rounds commencing at 6 p.m. (CT) each day. Friday
and Saturday���s competition will be
broadcast live on ESPN3.
