Men's Swimming 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM

Four Truman Student-Athletes To Compete For National Titles

KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – Four Truman student-athletes have qualified to compete in their respective sports at the NCAA Division II Winter Sports Festival, held March 6-9 in Birmingham, Alabama. Representing the Bulldogs are Rachel McCarroll in Women's Indoor Track & Field, Jerod Simek in Men's Swimming and Ryan Maus and Colton Schmitz in Wrestling.

Complete Schedule of Events

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NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships
Venue:                 Birmingham CrossPlex Complex
Dates:                   March 7-9
Event:                   Weight Throw – 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 7

Rachel McCarroll will be making her first appearance at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship meet as she qualified seventh in the weight throw with a school and conference record mark of 61-10-25 (18.85M).

Defending champion Sam Lockhart of Grand Valley (Mich.) State University won the indoor weight throw last year with a meet record of 67-06.00 (20.57M) and is the top seeded thrower as a senior in the event this year. She comes into the meet after a 70-06.50 toss at the GLIAC championships.

NCAA Division II Men's Swimming & Diving Championships
Venue:                 Birmingham CrossPlex Complex
Dates:                   March 6-9
Events:                  1000 Freestyle – Wednesday, March 6 (Prelims/Finals)
                                500 Freestyle – Friday, March 8 (Prelims/Finals)
                                1650 Freestyle – Saturday, March 9 (Prelims/Finals)

Jerod Simek will be making his fourth and final trip to the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships and enters the meet as a seven-time All-America honoree. Simek qualified sixth in the 1000 free with a time of 9:18.10, 12th in the 1650 free at 15:44.69 and 20th in the 500 free at 4:31.29.

He competed in all three events last year placing 10th in both the 1000 free (9:19.75) and 1650 free (15:40.66) and 20th in the 500 free (4:34.82).

The defending champion of all three events from last year was Iaroslav Denyenko of Wingate (N.C.) University. Denyenko set a new NCAA record in the 500 free last year swimming in 4:21.48. He is not in the field this year. The top time this season in the 1000 was by Oskar Nordstrand of Nova Southeastern (Fla.) in 9:10.59, in the 500 by Mark Rubin of Incarnate Word (Texas) in 4:22.61 and in the 1650 by Alex Menke of Queens (N.Y.) in 15:18.68.

NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships
Venue:                 Birmingham CrossPlex Complex
Dates:                  March 8-9
Events:                149-Pound Weight Class (Ryan Maus)
                              157-Pound Weight Class (Colton Schmitz)
Brackets:            2013 NCAA Division II Wrestling Brackets
Live Results:      TrackWrestling
Live Video:         NCAA.com

Two junior Truman Wrestlers will be making the trip to nationals as Ryan Maus and Colton Schmitz will represent the Bulldogs in Birmingham. This will be Maus' third trip to the national meet and he will compete in the 149-pound weight class where he finished second in the NCAA Super Regional. Maus will face Kutztown (Pa.) University's Mitch Voelker in the opening round. Maus is 22-10 on the season while Voekler is 15-11.

The top three placers in the 149-pound bracket are back this season led by defending national champion Raufeon Stots of Nebraska-Kearney.

Schmitz will be making his first trip to nationals and will square off against junior Daniel Kelly of Adams (Colo.) State University. Schmitz is 30-10 on the season after spending most of the year wrestling at 165 before dipping down to 157. Kelly is 23-7 on the year.

The 157-pound bracket appears wide open with just two of the top eight placers from last year's meet returning. Dillon Bera of Wisconsin-Parkside is the highest finisher in the bracket after his third place performance last season.

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