Mia Schachter Selected To Participate In NCAA Championship
Mar 4, 2015 | Women's Swimming and Diving
NEW ORLEANS - Two weeks after helping the Green Wave post a fourth-place finish in their inaugural trip to the American Athletic Conference Championship, Tulane University swimming standout Mia Schachter will make a return trip to the Greensboro (North Carolina) Aquatic Center as the junior from Arroyo Grande, California, was selected to participate in the 2015 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
Schachter earned the invitation to the NCAA Championship after posting a provisional-cut time of 1:00.24 in the 100 breaststroke at the Pearland Invitational back on Nov. 22. In addition to the 100 breast, Schachter will also compete in the 50 and 100 freestyle events after posting top times of 22.90 and 49.68 during the 2013-14 campaign, respectively.
She is now just the second Green Wave swimmer to participate in the NCAA Championship since the program was originally reinstated for the 2003-04 season. Schachter joins Tulane Hall of Famer Linda McEachrane, who competed in the 50- and 100-meter freestyles at the 2004 NCAA Championship following her freshman season.
"We are thrilled that Mia made the NCAA Championship meet," Tulane head coach Katie Robinson said. "She has been gunning for this meet for as long as I've been coaching her, and perhaps even before. Earlier this year, she came in and set up a meeting to ask, `What do I need to do to make it to the NCAAs?' A student-athlete with that gumption, that attitude that `I'm going to do what it takes to make it there,' and believes in what we're doing to help her make it there is a rarity.
"She's an incredible athlete to train and to watch compete. A lot can be learned from looking at the way she attacks practices and competitions."
Schachter participated in all 10 meets for the Green Wave during the 2014-15 season, setting school records in each of the events she will participate in during the NCAA Championship along the way. She has 10 individual wins, five runner-up showings and a third-place finish in the 100 free at the American Championship.
She was named American Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Week on Nov. 25 after helping the Green Wave post a runner-up performance at the Pearland Invitational and was invited to participate in the 2014 Phillips 66 National Championships in Irvine, California, back in August.
"We are very proud and very happy as coaches for her," Robinson added. "A lot of it has to do with the way assistant coach Sarah Woodbury has trained her and the relationship that they have built. Sarah deserves a lot of credit for Mia making this meet and I'm very happy to be able to go and represent Tulane at the highest championship meet available to collegiate swimmers."
The NCAA Championship is slated to run from March 19-21 in Greensboro, North Carolina. ESPN3.com will stream finals sessions live over the final two days of the meet, and Thursday's session - along with Friday and Saturday's morning sessions - will be streamed live at www.NCAA.com.
Additionally, ESPNU will air a two-hour broadcast via tape delay at 5 p.m. (CDT) on Tuesday, March 31, while live results for the Championship will be available on www.NCAA.com.
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