Fifth-year WashU student Kyle Wolford won the national title in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:44.15 March 22 in Greensboro, N.C. He is the 27th student-athlete to win an individual national title. WashU Athletes now has had 49 individual NCAA champions.
This is the second-straight 200-yard backstroke national title for the men’s swimming and diving program, as Alex McCormick won the title a season ago with Wolford coming in third.
Wolford is in a joint bachelor’s and master’s degree program in computer science at the McKelvey School of Engineering.
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