2018 NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Central

MINNEAPOLIS — Twelve Tennessee Volunteers will compete this week at the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships at Minnesota's Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.

The meet opens Wednesday night with just one event, the 800 freestyle relay, at 6 p.m. The next three days of the championships have a preliminary swimming session at 10 a.m., followed by diving preliminaries with the finals at 6 p.m. (Scroll down for full schedule.)

The Vols have eight individuals competing, six swimmers and two divers, in addition to four relay team members.

All five relay teams qualified for the meet, most notably the 200-yard medley relay team. The team of Braga Verhage, Peter John Stevens, Ryan Coetzee and Kyle DeCoursey have the second-fastest time in the NCAA this year at 1:23.02.

Individual Vols competing include: seniors Liam Stone, Sam McHugh, Stevens and Coetzee; and juniors Kyle DeCoursey, Joey Reilman, Matthew Dunphy and Zhipeng (Colin) Zeng.

Stone and Zeng have both won NCAA titles during their decorated careers. Stone was the 2016 NCAA 1-meter champion, and Zeng won the platform title the same year for Ohio State.

The Vols are coming off a 20th place finish at the championships last season, headlined by fourth-place finishes on both springboards for Stone. Tennessee's last top-10 finish came just two years ago, a seventh-place result at Georgia Tech.

2018 NCAA MEN'S SWIMMING QUALIFIERS
(Qualifying Time and ranking in parenthesis)

RELAYS
200 Freestyle (1:17.00; 11th)
400 Freestyle (2:50.64; 12th)
800 Freestyle (6:18.53; 14th)
200 Medley (1:23.02; 2nd)
400 Medley (3:06.54; 13th)

Ryan Coetzee
100 Butterfly (45.46; 13th)
50 Freestyle (19.73; 50th)
100 Freestyle (44.19; 63rd)

Kyle DeCoursey
50 Freestyle (19.12; 13th)
100 Freestyle (42.30; 16th)

Matthew Dunphy
100 Breaststroke (52.37; 17th)
200 Breaststroke (1:54.66; 30th)
200 IM (1:47.70; 69th)

Sam McHugh
200 IM (1:43.66; 22nd)
200 Butterfly (1:42.52; 28th)
400 IM (3:47.05; 41st)

Joey Reilman
200 Freestyle (1:33.50; 17th)
200 Backstroke (1:41.25; 29th)
100 Backstroke (46.95; 37th)

Peter John Stevens
100 Breaststroke (52.29; 15th)

Liam Stone
1-Meter Springboard
3-Meter Springboard

Zhipeng (Colin) Zeng
1-Meter Springboard
3-Meter Springboard
Platform

2018 NCAA WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE (Eastern Time)
WEDNESDAY
Swimming Finals (6 pm):
800 Freestyle Relay

THURSDAY
Swimming Prelims (10 am):
200 Freestyle Relay
500 Freestyle
200 IM
50 Freestyle
400 Medley Relay

Diving Prelims (12:30 pm):
1-Meter Springboard

Swimming Finals (6 pm):
200 Freestyle Relay
500 Freestyle
200 IM
50 Freestyle
1-Meter Springboard
400 Medley Relay

FRIDAY
Swimming Prelims (10 am):
400 IM
100 Butterfly
200 freestyle
100 Breaststroke
100 Backstroke
200 Medley Relay

Diving Prelims (12:15 pm):
3-Meter Springboard

Swimming Finals (6 pm):
400 IM
100 Butterfly
200 freestyle
100 Breaststroke
100 Backstroke
3-Meter Springboard
200 Medley Relay

SATURDAY
Swimming Prelims (10 am):
200 Backstroke
100 Freestyle
200 Breaststroke
200 Butterfly
400 Freestyle Relay

Diving Prelims (12:15 pm):
3-Meter Springboard

Early Heats of 1650 Freestyle (3:45 pm)

Swimming Finals (6 pm):
200 Backstroke
100 Freestyle
200 Breaststroke
200 Butterfly
Platform Diving
400 Freestyle Relay

University of Tennessee Athletics

Players Mentioned

Ryan Coetzee

Kyle DeCoursey

Matthew Dunphy

Sam McHugh

Joey Reilman

Peter John Stevens

Liam Stone

Braga Verhage

Zhipeng (Colin) Zeng

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