INDIANAPOLIS – Junior Katherine Brown (Glenside, Pa./Abington) kicked off her time at the NCAA Division III Championships on Wednesday, March 16, by competing in the 50-yard freestyle at the IU Natatorium.
 
Brown posted a 25.04 in the race to finish 69^th in the field in the preliminaries. The time is the third-best of her career after posting a 24.73 in preliminaries and a 24.56 in the finals of the MAC Championships.
 
Brown will now turn her attention to the 100-yard breaststroke, which will take place on Friday, March 18, where she is seeded 19th with a time of 1:03.88. She will be part of one of the three seeded races in the preliminaries of the event, with the session beginning at 10 a.m. Finals for the top 16 swimmers from the preliminaries will race during the finals session at 6 p.m.
 
Brown caps her time at the NCAA Championships on Saturday when she competes in the 100-yard freestyle.
 
The Glenside, Pa., native is the first Warrior woman to compete at the NCAA Championships since Denise Zimmerman in 1984.