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1945 NCAA swimming and diving championships

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1945 NCAA swimming and diving championships
Host cityMichigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date(s)March 1945
Venue(s)Intramural Sports Building
University of Michigan
Teams13
Events11
1944
1946

The 1945 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1945 at the Intramural Sports Building at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the ninth annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving among its member programs in the United States.

Ohio State topped hosts, and rivals, Michigan in the team standings, the second team national title for the Buckeyes.[1]

Team standings

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  • (H) = Hosts
  • (DC) = Defending champions
  • Italics = Debut appearance
Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ohio State 56
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Michigan (H) 48
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Cornell 25
4 Michigan State 24
Minnesota
6 Columbia 10
7 Canisius 8
Northwestern
Princeton
10 Indiana 6
11 Purdue 3
12 Iowa 2
RPI

Individual events

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Swimming

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Event Champion Team Time
50-yard freestyle Merton Church Michigan 23.2
100-yard freestyle Merton Church Michigan 52.3
220-yard freestyle Eugene Rogers (DC) Columbia 2:14.6
440-yard freestyle Seymour Schlanger Ohio State 4:55.4
1,500-meter freestyle Seymour Schlanger Ohio State 20:11.4
150-yard backstroke James Shand Princeton 1:41.8
200-yard butterfly Paul Murray Cornell 2:31.2
400-yard freestyle relay Charles Fries
William Breen
Gurdon Pulford
Merton Church
Michigan (DC) 3:39.8
300-yard medley relay Gurdon Pulford
Heini Kessler
Charles Fries
Michigan 3:05.2

Diving

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Event Champion Team Score
One-meter diving Hobart Billingsley Ohio State 121.90
Three-meter diving Hobart Billingsley Ohio State 132.10

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "NCAA Men's Division I Swimming and Diving Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. pp. 7–9. Retrieved August 10, 2016.