March 22, 2017
| NCAA WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS | |
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| Thursday, Mar. 23-Saturday, Mar. 25 Prelims: 10 a.m. - Finals 6 p.m. | |
| IU Natatorium | Indianapolis, Ind. | |
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State senior Shane Ryan (Havertown, Pa.) and sophomore Hector Garcia Boissier (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) will look to vie for top spots at the 2017 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, which will be co-hosted by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Indiana Sports Corp at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thursday to Saturday.
The pair are a part of a group 46 individual competitors. Preliminary swimming races will start at 10 a.m. and diving trials will begin at 12:15 p.m. with consolation finals starting 15 minutes after. Swimming and diving finals will start at 6 p.m.
COVERAGE
Both Thursday sessions and the morning preliminaries Friday and Saturday will be streamed live on NCAA.com and indianasportscorp.org/ncaasd, while ESPN3 will stream the championship finals sessions live on Friday and Saturday. ESPNU will air a two-hour, tape-delayed broadcast Wednesday, Apr. 5 at 5 p.m.
THE MEET
Ryan will be making his third NCAA Championships appearance, while Garcia will be making his second. Ryan will compete in the 50 and 100 freestyles and the 100 backstroke, while Garcia will compete in the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards. Ryan is making his third trip to the NCAA Championships, while Garcia is making his second.
Ryan enters the NCAAs ranking in the top six in all three events. He ranks highest in the 100 back with a seed time of 44.65 seconds, just four-hundredths of a second shy of the season-best swim by Cal's Ryan Murphy, the reigning three-time NCAA gold medalist in the event and the 2016 Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the 100-meter backstroke. Ryan is a two-time NCAA medalist in the 100 back, earning silver in 2014 and bronze in 2015 before taking last season off to train in Ireland for the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was a semifinalist in the 100m back in Rio.
Ryan also ranks sixth in the 50 free (19.03) and fifth in the 100 free (41.86). All three of his times are Penn State records and NCAA A-cuts.
At the NCAA Championships last season as a freshman, Garcia Boissier became the first Nittany Lion diver to earn honorable mention All-America honors since Adam Pierce in 2006. He is also coming off his best Big Ten Championships performance, setting a school record in the 3-meter dive with a finals total of 465.00 to place fourth.
Garcia punched his NCAA ticket at the NCAA Zone A Regionals. He posted a 12-dive score of 729.10 in the 3-meter to place second Tuesday, and he qualified in the 1-meter Monday, winning the event with a score of 739.30.
Thursday, Mar. 23
50 Freestyle -- Ryan
1-meter Diving - Garcia
Friday, Mar. 24
100 Backstroke -- Ryan
3-meter Diving - Garcia
Saturday, Mar. 25
100 Freestyle - Ryan