3/4/2020 12:53:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
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Metzler to swim the 200 and 400 IM.
DURHAM, N.H. – University of New Hampshire sophomore swimmer Anna Metzler (Regensburg, Germany) has qualified for the NCAA Championships. She will compete in the 200 and 400 IM. The event will take place at the Ramsey Center at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., on Wednesday-Saturday, March 18-21.
Metzler qualified for the NCAAs at the ECAC Championships when she won the 400 IM by setting an America East, ECAC Championships and school record with a time of 4:07.20. The record was previously set by Mann in 2014 with a time of 4:09.40. The time is the 19th fastest in the nation and she is the only swimmer in the top 20 not from a power five school. Her career-best time in the 200 IM was at this season's Terrier Invitational when she won the event with a time of 1:58.97. That time is the 55th fastest in the nation.
Metzler has had an outstanding season as she was named the ECAC Swimmer of the Meet and the Most Outstanding Swimmer at the America East Championships. She was also named the America East Swimmer of the Week four times this season. Anna Metzler and America East Commissioner Amy Huchthausen
At the America East Championships, Metzler won three individual gold medals and three relay titles, while she set 15 new records. She set the America East and UNH record in the 200 free as the lead-off leg of the 800 Free Relay winning team with a time of 1:47.12, while she set an America East and UNH record in the 500 free with a time of 4:46.95. Metzler also recorded an America East Championships and Pool Record in the 400 IM with a time of 4:11.56, while she posted a time of 1:57.17 in the 200 Back to set new conference, meet and school records.
Metzler will be the first UNH Wildcat to compete at the event in five years when Katie Mann qualified in 2015 concluding her third straight NCAA appearance. This will be the 10th time a UNH swimmer has competed at the Division I NCAA Championships.
ESPN3 will provide digital broadcast coverage for each of the evening sessions Wednesday through Saturday. All sessions not part of ESPN's broadcasts will be streamed live on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships microsite at www.georgiadogs.com. Tape delayed coverage of the women's championships will be broadcast on ESPNU at 10 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, April 1.
UNH won the 2020 America East Championship at WPI with 876 points. The Wildcats dominated the championships winning 15 of the 20 events and capturing the championship by 116.5 points. UMBC was second with 759.5 points. The Wildcats have now won eight championships which are the most in conference history. UNH previously won in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2013 and 2014 and 2018.
