UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Penn State will be represented by four swimmers and divers at the NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships hosted by The University of Texas at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. The event will take place from Wednesday-Saturday.
Senior divers Hector Garcia Boissier (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) and Jack Crow (Bethesda, Md.) and underclassman swimmers Gabe Castano (Allentown, Pa.), a sophomore, and Michael Daly (Pearl River, N.Y.), a freshman, will be representing the Nittany Lions in the championship competition.
Coverage
All preliminary events will begin at 11 a.m. ET with finals following at 7 p.m. ET. All final events will be streamed live on ESPN3 and preliminaries will be streamed for free on TexasSports.com.
The Meet
Making his fourth appearance at the NCAAs, Garcia Boissier enters as a five-time honorable mention All-America on the 1-meter (2016, 2017, 18) and 3-meter (2017, 2018) boards. He earned career-best finishes at the 2018 Championships, placing ninth in the 3-meter (406.85) and 12th in the 1-meter (343.55). He earned fourth-place finishes in both events at the 2019 Big Ten Championships and continued his dominance at Zones, winning the 3-meter and placing second in the 1-meter.
Garcia is the first Penn State diver to qualify for the NCAA Championships in four consecutive years since Drew Jackson did so from 1995-1998.
Crow qualified for the NCAAs after a fifth-place finish in the 3-meter (721.55) at the Zone A Regional. This is Crow's second appearance in the NCAA Championships and first since his freshman year.
Both of Penn State's swimmers are making their first NCAA appearances. They are the Nittany Lions first swimming representatives since Shane Ryan in 2017.
Castano ranks 12th in the nation in the 50 free with a season-best time of 19.20, to win bronze at the Big Ten Championships, and he owns a B-Cut time in the 100 free (43.07) too.
Daly set a school record in the 400 IM after swimming in a time of 3:42.48, and ranks 20th nationally entering the NCAA Championships. He also holds B-cut times in the 1650 free (15:03.81) and the 200 back (1:43.55). Daly is the first Penn State freshman men's swimmer to qualify for the NCAA Championships since Nate Savoy in 2012.
Schedule
Thursday, Mar. 28
50 Freestyle
1 meter
Friday, Mar. 29
400 IM
3 meter
Saturday, Mar. 30
1650 Freestyle
200 Backstroke
100 Freestyle
A total of 270 participants (235 swimmers and 35 divers) will compete in the championships. Swimmers qualified for the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events in which they entered. Divers qualified for the championships at Zone Diving meets around the country.
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