NCAA Invited Entries List

INDIANAPOLIS – The West Florida women's swimming & diving team will send 14 student-athletes to next month's NCAA Division II Championships, as released by the NCAA and USA Swimming on Wednesday.
 
UWF has at least one entrant in 13 of the 14 individual races and three of the five relays.
 
The nine swimmers to participate include Danica Burnett, Peggy de Villiers, Rebecca Halfast, Pia Hulley, Theresa Michalak, Sophia Oliva, Madeline Pitt, Gabrielle Spangenberg and Paulina Szydlo. All five UWF divers – Monica Amaral, Mariah Constantakos, Marissa Constantakos, Josie McKee and Meghan Zets – achieved qualifying scores to participate in the NCAA Diving Qualifier.
 
Amaral, de Villiers, McKee, Pitt, Szydlo and Zets participated in the meet last year for the Argos, while Michalak swam in last year's Division I meet when she was at Florida.
 
UWF has nine times among the top 17 qualifiers in a number of events, including Michalak with the top seed time nationally in the 200 Individual Medley and the third-fastest time in the 100 Butterfly, while Szydlo has posted the fourth-fastest time in the 200 Breaststroke.
 
A total of 138 swimmers and 45 divers from 38 teams will participate in the championships.
 
The NCAA will conduct a diving qualifier in both the 1- and 3-meter springboard events on Tuesday, March 8. A total of 22 divers will advance from each qualifier to the national meet, which begins a day later and runs through Saturday, March 12 at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis.
 
The UWF swimming & diving program is in its third year of existence and has finished 23rd and 11th at the last two NCAA Championships.
 
NCAA Division II Women's Swimming & Diving Entries
Teams with the most swimmers & divers competing
1. UCSD                              16
2. WEST FLORIDA              14
    Drury                                14
    Lindenwood                     14
5. Queens                           13
6. Wingate                           11
7. Cal Baptist                       10