TOWSON, Md. – Brian Benzing is set to represent the Towson University swimming & diving program at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Indianapolis starting this Saturday, June 15.
All sessions will be available to stream on Peacock and each evening's finals session will air on NBC. Live results will be available at
https://www.usaswimming.org/ and
https://www.omegatiming.com/.
Preliminary heats start at 11 a.m. each day. Finals sessions are slated to begin at 8 p.m. nightly.
Benzing enters Saturday's 100-meter breaststroke preliminary heats as the 19
th seed with a qualifying mark of 1:01.10 from his first-place finish at the USA Swimming Futures Championships in Richmond, Va., last July.
He becomes the tenth Towson swimmer in program history to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, joining Aaron Krause (2004), Melanie Rowland (2012), Jenna Van Camp (2016), Hannah Snyder (2016), Dominic Breschi (2016), Jack Saunderson (2016, 2020), Jacki Schoening (2020), Matthew Essing (2020) and
Michael Fazio (2020).
The top 16 finishers in preliminary heats will advance to the evening's finals session. Of that group, the top eight finishers will advance to Sunday evening's 100-meter breaststroke finals.
If Benzing were to advance past preliminary heats, he would be the first Towson swimmer to do so in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in program history.
Benzing capped an illustrious career at Towson this season as the national runner-up in the 100-yard breaststroke (SCY) at the NCAA Championships, a four-time CAA Men's Swimmer of the Year, three-time CAA Championships Men's Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet and four-time individual Coast Athletic Association (CAA) record holder.
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