Action will begin tomorrow at 9 a.m., with finals slated for 5 p.m. All meet information can be accessed by clicking HERE.
_ _ WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
* For the second consecutive season Kondis will compete at the NCAA Championships, becoming the second Cougar swimmer to do so since Maija Airas in 1988-89 and the first Cougar since Taylor Olanski qualified in diving events during back-to-back seasons. * Kondis is one of three swimmers from The American to qualify for the Championships after posting a trio of podium finishes at the 2019 American Athletic Conference Championships. * The junior posted a season-best time of 59.84 in the 100 Breaststroke to qualify for the NCAA Championships and will enter the meet with the 32nd best time in the event this season. * Kondis will also compete in the 200 Individual Medley and the 200 Breaststroke. * The Pittsburgh native has posted some of the fastest times this season in the conference. Her 59.84 in the 100 Breaststroke is the second-fastest this season in The American, her 200 IM (1:59.50) time is the fourth-best this season and her 200 Breaststroke (2:10.62) is the second-fastest this season.
After her selection as a team captain, Kondis said she did not know how to proceed, having not been in the position before.
“When I realized that’s how people saw me, I made it a point to be that kind of person for them,” Kondis said.
On top of the support of her teammates, head coach Ryan Wochomurka has a lot of praise for the way the team captain handled her new position and her development since her arrival at UH.
“She is a very quiet leader,” Wochomurka said, “but she leads in the way she carries herself. This team looks to her to see how to manage being a student athlete and doing it at a high level.
* Kondis opened the meet with the 200 Individual Medley where she posted a time of 2:01.49. The junior closed out the prelims with a 62nd-place fnish. * On the third day of action Kondis competed in her signature event, the 100 Breaststroke. Kondis qualified for the NCAA Championships after posting a season-best time of 59.84 in the event earlier this season at the Phill Hansel Invitational. The Pittsburgh native closed out the race with her highest finish of the weekend, finishing 22nd-overall in the prelims with a season-best time of 59.83. * Earlier today Kondis closed out the 2019 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships with both a lifetime best and program best time in the 200 Breaststroke. Kondis finished 30th-overall in the prelims with a record setting time of 2:10.30, besting her previous lifetime best of 2:10.62. * Kondis will continue to train as she looks forward to the 2020 Olympic Trials after posting an Olympic Trial qualifying time of 1:09.55 in the Long Course Meter 100 Breaststroke.