Anderson To Swim, Devine To Dive At NCAA Championship

Dalton Anderson (Fr. • Elkhorn) and Phil Devine (So. • Winnebago, Ill.) will represent UW-Oshkosh at this weekend's NCAA Division III Men's Swimming and Diving Championship in Minneapolis, Minn. The four-day meet begins Wednesday (March 17) and concludes on Saturday (March 20) at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

Anderson qualified for the national meet as one of 43 competitors in the 100-yard butterfly, 25 participants in the 200-yard butterfly and 45 contestants in the 200-yard individual medley. He swims Wednesday in the 200-yard individual medley, Thursday in the 100-yard butterfly and Friday in the 200-yard butterfly.

At the WIAC Championship held Feb. 11-13, Anderson established school records with his second-place times of 50.29 in the 100-yard butterfly and 1:54.79 in the 200-yard butterfly. He added another school mark with his ninth-place performance of 1:57.19 in the 200-yard individual medley.

Devine qualified for the national meet as a participant in both the one and three-meter diving events. Each category features 22 participants, with the three-meter diving scheduled for Wednesday and the one-meter diving for Saturday.

Devine makes his second straight appearance at the NCAA Division III Championship. Last year, he collected a pair of All-America awards by finishing fifth in the one-meter diving with 469.85 points and seventh in the three-meter diving with 466.25.

Earlier this season, Devine was named the Diver of the Meet at the WIAC Championship. He captured a pair of league titles after recording first-place scores of 493.10 points in the one-meter diving and 521.85 in the three-meter diving.

Expected to splash for the team title this weekend are Denison University (Ohio), Emory University (Ga.), Kalamazoo College (Mich.), 30-time defending champion Kenyon College (Ohio) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. UW-Oshkosh finished 20th at last year's meet with 48 points.