Miami's Paul Ricard Headed to NCAA Swimming Championships
3/14/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
March 14, 2007
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OXFORD, Ohio - Coming off a season in which he won his second straight Mid-American Conference Swimmer of the Year award, Miami University junior Paul Ricard will be competing in the 2007 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, which runs March 15-17 and is hosted by the University of Minnesota. Ricard is making his first career appearance at the national meet and is scheduled to compete in the 500-yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle.
Ricard turned in NCAA "B" cut times in the 500 and 1,650 freestyle at the conference meet and will compete in both events at the national meet. Ricard enters the meet seeded 19th in the 1,650 freestyle (15:11.56) and 26th in the 500 freestyle (4:21.84). The 500 freestyle preliminaries are slated for noon on Friday March 15, with the finals going off at 7 p.m. that evening. The 1,650 freestyle is scheduled to get underway at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 17.
In a banner junior season, Ricard won three MAC titles in the 200, 500 and 1650 freestyle and set school records in both the 500 and 1,650 freestyle. Also an academic all-MAC selection who holds a 3.30 GPA in political science, Ricard was the first swimmer since Andrew Keefe in 2004 to win three MAC swimming titles at the same meet. He has been named to the all-MAC first team in each of his first three seasons in the Red and White.
Live results from all session of the NCAA Championships are available at www.gophersports.com. In addition, ESPN2 will air a 90-minute NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships show on March 20 at 2 p.m. EST, and ESPN360 will air Friday and Saturday's finals sessions live on espn360.com complete with video and audio play-by-play.
Schedule of Events:
Thursday, March 15
Preliminaries (noon)
200 freestyle relay
500 freestyle
200 individual medley
50 freestyle
400 medley relay
1:30 p.m.
1-meter diving
Finals (7 p.m.)
200 freestyle relay
500 freestyle
200 individual medley
50 freestyle
1-meter diving (finals)
400 medley relay
Friday, March 16
Preliminaries (noon)
200 medley relay
400 individual medley
100 butterfly
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
1:30 p.m
3-meter diving
Finals (7 p.m.)
200 medley relay
400 individual medley
100 butterfly
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
3-meter diving (finals)
800 freestyle relay
Saturday, March 17
Preliminaries (noon)
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
400 freestyle relay
1:30 p.m.
platform diving
4:30 p.m.
1650 freestyle (all but last heat of timed finals)
Finals (7 p.m.)
1650 freestyle (last heat of timed finals)
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
platform diving (finals)
400 freestyle relay
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