Milligan College’s swim team is headed to the Columbus Aquatic Center in Columbus, Ga., to compete in the Nationals swimming meet March 1-4.
Milligan has 10 swimmers going to nationals this year: Sara Farmer, Isabel Siegel, Anna Hathcock, Alyssa Boyer, Emily Mark, Casey Knapp, Sterling Burnett, Matt McFalls, Grant Callahan and Brian Sackett Jr.
“We had a really good season, lots of time drops and personal bests,” junior swimmer Maeve Lee said.
This will be the end to a successful season for the swimmers. They finished the conference meet with 17 best times, 23 top-eight podium finishes and three school records. The records were broken by Sara Farmer, Grant Callahan and Sterling Burnett.
“The season is coming to an end, but I am really excited to see how my teammates and I do at nationals” sophomore Alyssa Boyer said. Boyer took the podium in all three of her races at the conference meet to qualify for the relays for nationals.
The swimmers will be racing all week in two races a day. They will race once in the morning preliminaries to see who makes it to the top 16 swimmers. The top 16 will swim in the finals that night.
The meets will be available to watch on the cell phone apps MeetMobile and USASwimming. Updates can also be found on fastswimmerresults.com or naia.org.