VIDEO | Kate Agger interview
VIDEO | Jonas Soerensen interview
 
Greensboro, N.C.----The Wingate University men's and women's swimming teams begin the 2022 NCAA Division II swimming and diving championships at the Greensboro Aquatic Center Wednesday. The four-day event runs through Saturday. Preliminaries begin each morning at 10 a.m. Finals start each evening at 6 p.m.
 
Looking back at the 2021 NCAA Division II championships
 
Last season, the Wingate women finished sixth and the men placed seventh at the NCAA national championship meet at the Birmingham CrossPlex. Eighteen WU student-athletes qualified for the championships.
 
Six Bulldog All-Americans from the 2021 national championship meet will compete in Greensboro: women's team members Kate Agger, Anna Miram and Anne-Sofie Nissen and men's team members Slava Ohnov, Marcel Snitko and Jonas Soerensen.
 
Nissen and Ohnov had five first team All-American swims each last year. Agger, Miram and Snitko weighed in with four each. Agger and Soerensen had similar NCAA resumes, as both student-athletes made first team All-American in the three distance events (500, 1000 and 1650 Freestyle races).
 
Looking back at the 2022 Bluegrass Mountain Conference meet
 
Both Wingate teams finished second in the Bluegrass Mountain Conference meet in Charlotte. Soerensen defended his BMC 1650 Freestyle title on the meet's final night. Snitko won the men's 200 Freestyle, while newcomers Fedor Sokolov and Miguel Marcos won the men's 100 Breaststroke and the men's 1000 Freestyle, respectively.
 
Wingate's 20 NCAA qualifiers combined for 67 All-Bluegrass Mountain Conference swims. Ohnov led the way with seven All-BMC medals (four relays, three individual). Snitko was next with six All-BMC swims. Marcos and Bozo Puhalovic had five each.
 
On the women's side, newcomer Kelsea Munro had six All-BMC swims (three relays, three individual). Agger was five-for-five, as she collected five BMC medals in five events (four Freestyle individual races plus the 800 Freestyle relay).
 
Wingate women's notes
2022 NCAA psych sheet
 
- Anne-Sofie Nissen is making her fifth trip to the NCAAs
 
- Kate Agger and senior classmate Anna Miram qualify for their fourth NCAA meet  

- Agger will swim in the maximum-allowed four individual events
 
- Agger is seeded in the top five in three of her four events
 
- She is the number two seed in the 1000 Freestyle (9:56.01) and the 1650 Freestyle (16:41.69)
 
- Agger is the number five seed in the 500 Freestyle (4:53.23)
 
- Lily Sanocki is the number nine seed in the 200 Breaststroke (2:16.43)
 
- Sanocki has qualified for three NCAA meets in three tries
 
- Wingate is eligible to compete in five-of-five relay races
  
- Forty-three schools have 183 women's student-athletes competing in the 2022 NCAA Division II national championship meet
 
Wingate men's notes
2022 NCAA psych sheet
 
- Jonas Soerensen and Miguel Marcos will swim in the maximum-allowed four individual events each
 
- Marcos is the number five seed in the 1000 (9:08.41) and the 1650 Freestyle (15:21.52)
 
- Soerensen is the number six seed in the 1000 Freestyle (9:09.43)
 
- The CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree is the number nine seed in the 1650 Freestyle (15:27.15)
 
- Soerensen, Slava Ohnov and Marcel Snitko each qualify for their third NCAA meet
 
- The Bulldogs are eligible to compete in five-of-five relay races
 
- Thirty-two schools have 157 men's student-athletes competing in the 2022 NCAA Division II national championship meet 

Wingate University
 
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a laboratory of difference-making that serves more than 3,400 students in North Carolina. Wingate offers 37 undergraduate majors as well as eight master's and five doctoral degrees. The University is home to the Cannon College of Arts and Sciences; the Levine College of Health Sciences; the Byrum School of Business; and the College of Professional Studies, which includes the Thayer School of Education and the School of Sport Sciences.
 
Wingate is a leader in healthcare education, and nearly one in five Wingate undergraduate students is preparing to be a pharmacist, physician assistant, physical therapist, occupational therapist or nurse. Student-athletes on Wingate's 24 teams compete in NCAA Division II and have brought home the SAC Echols Athletic Excellence Award for 13 years straight. The University's motto is "Faith, Knowledge, Service." View current news and videos at www.wingate.edu.

Wingate men's swimming
NCAA national meet participants (10)

Miguel Marcos
Frederik Oscar Moller (relay)
Slava Ohnov
Michele Orru
Bozo Puhalovic (relay)
Alexander Smyre
Marcel Snitko
Jonas Soerensen
Fedor Sokolov 
Kalle Svensson (relay)

Wingate women's swimming
NCAA national meet participants (10)

Kate Agger
Lucie Andrews
Julia Bjorken
Anna Miram
Kelsea Munro
Anne-Sofie Nissen
Lily Sanocki
Berkley Smith
Amanda Wenhold
Grace Williams (relay)