Abdalla Nasr and Ethan Swart helped the Auburn Tigers men’s swimming and diving team move into 15th place with 30 points at the NCAA Championships on March 27, as reported from Atlanta, Georgia.
The event matters for Auburn as it highlights emerging talent and competitive standings at a national level. The team’s progress demonstrates both individual achievement and collective effort during a high-profile collegiate competition.
Freshman Abdalla Nasr set the second-fastest time in program history for the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 44.65 seconds, finishing 12th overall and earning his second All-American Honorable Mention of the week. Daniel Krichevsky followed by posting a time of 1:32.06 in the 200-yard freestyle, which was good for fourth-fastest in Auburn history and placed him twentieth overall.
Uros Zivanovic achieved his best career finish in the 100-yard breaststroke by placing twentieth with a time of 51.70 seconds, while Maston Ballew finished thirty-eighth. In relay events, Kalle Makinen, Sohib Khaled, Warner Russ, and Luke Bedsole combined to finish nineteenth in the 200-yard freestyle relay.
Ethan Swart delivered two dives worth over sixty points each to secure fourteenth place overall on one-meter springboard diving with a score of 328.30, also earning All-American Honorable Mention status.
Looking ahead to Friday’s schedule are events including the one-hundred backstroke, two-hundred breaststroke, five-hundred freestyle, fifty freestyle, four-hundred medley relay (MR), and three-meter diving. Competition will begin at nine o’clock Central Time with live streaming available on ESPN Plus.
