Nikola Tadic
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- Hometown:
- Croatia
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- Year:
- Sophomore
Bio
2017-18: The men's side of Jon Lancaster, Nikola Tadic, Caleb Howell & Marcelo Figueiredo broke a school record by a whole three seconds with a time of 6:36.82 at the NCAA Championships. Nikola Tadic turned in a time of 45.34 seconds setting a new lifetime best in the 100 yard freestyle and the best time of any Eagle in the event this season, recording a national 'B' time at the NCAA Championships. The same day, the800 freestyle relay team of Lancaster, Tadic, Howell and Figueiredo broke a school record by 1.5 seconds in the event, and earned an automatic qualifying time to nationals putting together a time of 6:39.06. Nikola Tadic (1:39.43), Marcelo Figueiredo (1:38.74) and Chad Andoljsek (1:40.91) took home first, second and third-place in the 'C' final as they all recorded lifetime best swims. Tadic, a freshman native of Croatia, missed the school record by .5 seconds at the Univ. of Tennessee Invitational. On the same day,aa time of 6:40.77 in the 800-yard freestyle relay, Lancaster, Tadic, Howell and Figueiredo set a school record beating the previous time by a whole two seconds.
News mentions
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Five individuals and two relay teams competed in the prelims Friday morning resulting in one ‘A’ finalists and two ‘B’ finalists to close out the morning.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The second day of competition is underway for Carson-Newman swimming at the National Championships and after the prelims, a handful of Eagles made it to the finals this evening while adding more school records to their resume.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Carson-Newman swimming had another successful night at the pool adding to the Honorable Mention All-American list and producing a top-five women's 200 Free relay team for the third year in a row.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – For the second straight season, Carson-Newman swimming impressed Division I talent following the University of Tennessee Invitational at the Jones Aquatic Center.
ATLANTA – Day one of the Emory Fall Invitational concluded as both Carson-Newman sides sit in third place after 18 events at the Woodruff Physical Education Center.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – No. 20 Carson-Newman men’s swimming continued its unbeaten streak at home that dates back to the 2013 season after upsetting No. 10 Wingate following Saturday’s dual meet with the Bulldogs by a final of 170.5 to 144.50.
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