National Championship
2023 NCAA Men's Swimming – 200-yard IM (1:45.65)
March 15, 2023
GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the second-straight year, University of Chicago's Garrett Clasen captured the national championship in the men's 200-yard IM to kick off day one of the 2023 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships on Wednesday.
Clasen's victory marked the 27th NCAA individual championship in the school's Division III era. The Maroon junior became UChicago's first repeat champion since Kendra Higgins and Chrissy Hu won the women's tennis doubles titles in 2009 and 2010.
Clasen started strong in the 200 IM morning prelims and was the top seed going into the evening finals. He proved to be unbeatable in the final, as his school-record time of 1:45.65 was the third-fastest 200 IM time in NCAA Division III history. Clasen also bettered his 2022 NCAA title mark (1:46.19).
