Swimming & diving opens season putting third at NSU Relays

ABERDEEN, S.D. – The Southwest Minnesota State University girls’s swimming & diving workforce opened the 2025-26 season on Friday night time incomes third place on the four-team Northern State Relay Meet contained in the Aberdeen YMCA.
 
Concordia-St. Paul received the meet with 216 factors adopted by UMary with 204, SMSU with 202 and Northern State with 80.
 
A complete of 11 occasions have been contested on the night time with SMSU incomes 4 first-place finishes.
 
The 300-yard breaststroke relay of Carla Nevi, Shannon Bailey and Maddy Strom earned first place with a time of three:29.73. The 500-yard freestyle of Grace Aesoph, Lexi Weems, Storm and Nevi picked-up a primary place end with a time of 4:50.03.
 
Another first place end for SMSU got here within the 200-yard freestyle relay with Storm, Aesoph, Maggie Johnson and Weems recording a time of 1:40.35. SMSU’s different first place relay got here within the 400-yard freestyle with Nevi, Aesoph, Johnson and Weems closing with a time of three:40.31.
 
The Mustangs had a number of second place finishes together with the 800-yard freestyle of Isabelle Bodart, Sophie Bisek, Savannah Orzech and Johnson closing with a time of 8:32.21. The 3×500 freestyle relay of Kendal Engelker, Orzech and Bodart completed with a time of 17:41.41, whereas the 1-meter dive relay workforce of Emma Knoll, Alana Condezo and Maddie Olafson additionally completed second.
 
SMSU returns to motion on Oct. 4 with a twin at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, Colo.