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Posted: Feb 24, 2023

Tartan Women Earn 10 Invites to NCAA Swimming Championships

collage of five women swimmers in the water with the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships logo in the center

(INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.) – Ten Carnegie Mellon University women's swimmers have earned the right to compete at the 2023 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. A team led by freshmen performances all year will have seven first-year athletes competing with three seniors leading with experience. The championships will be hosted at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, on March 15-18.

Five individuals were invited to the championships while three relays made the cut this year.

Seniors Tiffany Tseng and Bonnie Wang participated in last year's championships, earning All-America Honorable Mention in individual events and are once again invited via individual event performances this year. Tseng was invited in the 100-yard backstroke and is seeded 8th. It's the same event she finished 11th in last year. Tseng will also compete in the 200-yard backstroke where she's seeded 34th and the 50-yard freestyle where she's seeded 52nd. Wang was also invited in the 100-yard backstroke and is seeded 21st. Her time in the event last year put her ninth overall. She'll also swim the 200-yard backstroke where she's seeded 24th and the 200-yard IM where she's seeded 45th. Wang was a double All-America Honorable Mention honoree last year as she placed 15th in the 200-yard backstroke.

Senior Mathea Myhrvold will be swimming for the first time at the NCAA Championships and is part of the 400-yard freestyle relay that is seeded 15th. She just missed the opportunity last year but was slated to compete her first year on the squad before the championships were canceled in 2020.

Freshman Savannah Xu earned three individual invites while first-year teammates Audrey Soetanto and Annie Wang each earned one. Xu is seeded ninth in the 200-yard backstroke and 200-yard IM and is 10th in the 400-yard IM. She'll also compete on the 400-yard medley relay seeded 14th and the 800-yard freestyle relay seeded 20th.

Soetanto was invited in the 200-yard butterfly where she's seeded 13th and will also swim in the 100-yard butterfly, seeded 36th, and the 200-yard IM, seeded 43rd, after her performances met the qualifying standards this year. Wang holds a 14th seed in the 1,650-yard freestyle and she'll also hit the water in the 500-yard freestyle where she's seeded 31st and the 200-yard freestyle where she's seeded 46th.

Freshman Eliana Szabo is part of all three of the invited relays previously mentioned and will have the chance to swim individually in the 100-yard freestyle after achieving a B cut time this season. She's seeded 27th in the event.

Freshman Grace Malinger, Audrey Lambert, and Mia Li are all part of the three relays invited with Malinger swimming the 400-yard freestyle relay, Lambert the 400-yard medley relay, and Li the 800-yard freestyle relay.

The Tartans will also compete in the 200-yard medley relay and the 200-yard freestyle relay where they are seeded 27th in both.

Preliminary finishes that score in the top 16 earn the chance to score points for the team and the distinguished honors of All-America or All-America Honorable Mention.