INDIANAPOLIS - Four Great Midwest Athletic Conference student-athletes qualified for the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving National Championships.
 
Representatives from both Hillsdale and Findlay will continue their season on the national stage in Greensboro, N.C., at the Greensboro Aquatic Center from March 14-17.
 
Findlay will send two members of the women’s team and one men’s swimmer to the event. Sophomore Hanna Cederholm qualified in both the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events .
 
Her 100-yard breaststroke time of 1:03.03 at the Kenyon Fast Chance Meet was qualified as a “B” standard. In the 200-yard breaststroke, her time of 2:17.71 was strong enough to qualify for the championship field.
 
Her senior teammate Emma Barnes also qualified in the 200-yard backstroke with a “B” standard qualifying time of 2:01.79. She earned that time to go alongside a victory at the inaugural Great Midwest/Mountain East Championships in Canton.
 
The other swimmer from Findlay to qualify comes in four-time NCAA All-American Janko Radmanovic. He qualified in both the 100 and 200-yard butterfly races.
 
Radmanovic’s time of 47.95 was good enough for 12th in Division II this season at the Calvin Invitational. He also has the fifth-best time in the 200-yard butterfly at the same meet with a time of 1:46.52.
 
Radmanovic was a five-time Great Midwest Athlete of the Week in 2017-18 alone.
 
Findlay’s Hannah May and Alicia Solis reached the qualification round for the diving portion of the national championship and the Oilers also qualified in three relay events.
 
The women qualified for the 200 and 400-yard medley relays and the men qualified for the 200-yard freestyle relay; UF sophomore Kathryn Samuelson is also an alternate in the 100-yard backstroke.
 
The other representative from the conference going to nationals is junior and repeat NCAA qualifier Anika Ellingson from Hillsdale. She joins Cederholm with qualification in both the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events.  
 
Her 200-yard time of 2:19.57 at the Calvin Invitational was good enough to earn a spot at the national meet. She also boasts the 11th-best time in Division II in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:02.49, also set at the Calvin Invitational.