INDIANAPOLIS – The Ouachita swim & dive teams are prepped and ready for the 2025 NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving National Championships.
The 2025 DII National Championships start tomorrow, Tuesday, March 11 run through Saturday, March 15. The championships are being held at the IU Natatorium on the campus of Indiana University-Indianapolis as part of the NCAA DII Winter Festival. For Wednesday-Saturday, preliminary races will start at 9 a.m. CST and the finals, for those that make them, will start at 4:30 p.m. each day.
A total of 12 Tigersharks qualified for nationals this year and will be looking to bring some hardware back home to Arkadelphia after five days of competition.
Anna Phelps made the cut on the women's side and will be competing in four different events.
On the men's side,
Zsombor Bujdoso,
Daniel Meszaros, and
Miles Schulze each individually made the cut for nationals. This is Schulze's third and Bujdoso's second trip to nationals for Ouachita.
The Tigershark men's 800 Freestyle and 400 Freestyle Relays qualified for nationals.
Tyler Andruss,
Michael Higgens,
Vince Pal,
Sam Ragsdell, and Ian Redman will be making their first trips to the championships as part of the two relay squads.
Three Tigersharks divers,
Elijah Donaldson,
Gabriel Palomino, and
Carson Powers have been invited to compete in the NCAA DII diving qualifier event on Tuesday, March 11, which will determine if the divers make the cut to compete at nationals.
Last year, the men placed 25th at the 2024 National Championships.
The schedule for the Tigersharks and their events is listed below in order of event.
Tuesday, 3/11
- 800 Freestyle Relay Finals - Noon
- Diving Qualifier
Wednesday 3/12 – Trials 9 a.m. / Finals 4:30 p.m.
- Phelps – 1000 Freestyle
- Bujdoso – 200 IM
Thursday 3/13 – Trials 9 a.m. / Finals 4:30 p.m.
- Phelps – 400 IM
- Bujdoso – 400 IM
- Meszaros – 200 Freestyle
- 3-Meter Dive
Friday 3/14 – Trials 9 a.m. / Finals 4:30 p.m.
- Meszaros – 500 Freestyle
- Bujdoso – 500 Freestyle
- Schulze – 100 Breaststroke
- Phelps – 200 Butterfly
Saturday 3/15 – Trials 9 a.m. / Finals 4:30 p.m.
- Phelps – 1650 Freestyle
- Meszaros – 100 Freestyle
- Schulze – 200 Breaststroke
- Bujdoso – 200 Breaststroke
- 1-Meter Dive
- 400 Freestyle Relay
All times Central.
The full schedule for the national championships can be found at NCAA.com. Coverage links to the Championships can be found at OBUtigers.com/coverage.
