CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina swimming and diving program will play host to the annual Janis Hape Dowd Swimming & Diving Championships this Thursday through Saturday at the Maurice J. Koury Natatorium.
This marks the 25th time since 1986 (the first year of competition at Koury Natatorium) that the Tar Heel aquatics program has hosted the invitational, normally on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving. The meet is run in conjunction with a generous gift from Janis Hape Dowd, 1976 U.S. Olympian who swam at Carolina from 1976-80.
Preliminaries each day begin at 9:30 a.m. Finals each night will commence at 5:30 p.m.
In addition to the host Tar Heels, other competing teams including NC State (men and women), Navy (men’s swimmers & divers, women’s divers), Duke (men and women), East Carolina (men and women), Old Dominion (men and women), Yale (men and women), Marshall (women) and James Madison (divers only).
There will be four finals heats each evening – a Championship A final (places 1-8), a Consolation B final (places 9-16), a Bonus C final (places 17-24) and a non-scoring D final. All event’s will be held at Koury Natatorium with the exception of 10-meter platform diving which will be held at Duke University.
Real time results will be available on GoHeels.com with the link going live on Thursday morning.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, November 19, 2015
WOMEN’S EVENT # EVENT MEN’S EVENT #
1 200 Freestyle Relay 2
3 500 Freestyle 4
5 200 Individual Medley 6
7 50 Freestyle 8
9 Diving 10
Women 3 Meter
Men 1 Meter
11 400 Medley Relay 12
Friday, November 20, 2015
WOMEN’S EVENT # EVENT MEN’S EVENT#
13 200 Medley Relay 14
15 400 Individual Medley 16
17 100 Butterfly 18
19 200 Freestyle 20
21 100 Breaststroke 22
23 100 Backstroke 24
25 Diving 26
Women 1 Meter
Men 3 Meter
27 800 Freestyle Relay 28
Saturday, November 21, 2015
WOMEN’S EVENT # EVENT MEN’S EVENT#
29 1650 Freestyle 30
31 200 Backstroke 32
33 100 Freestyle 34
35 200 Breaststroke 36
37 200 Butterfly 38
39 10 Meter Diving 40
41 400 Freestyle Relay 42
10 Meter Tower competed at Duke
Swimming news courtesy of UNC Swimming & Diving.
