Drury Swimming and Diving Completes Day One at SMU Classic

DALLAS — Led by a trio of third-place finishes, Drury males’s and girls’s swimming and diving wrapped up the primary day of competitors Friday night on the SMU Classic at Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center.

Belhassen Ben miled and Joao Nogueira positioned third for the Drury males within the 400 IM and 100 breast, respectively, whereas Maria Fe Munoz picked up a bronze within the ladies’s 400 IM to spotlight the Panthers’ opening day in Dallas.

Additionally, Drury competed on the Don Leas Invitational within the first of two consecutive days of diving in Clarion, Pa., highlighted by Anamarie Lewis’s third-place end within the ladies’s 3-meter (203.05).

Men’s Highlights

• The DU males completed fourth within the 400 medley relay, as Ivan Adamchuk, Nogueira, Alvaro Zornoza and Lucas Mineur posting a time of three:11.18.
• Drury’s 800 free relay squad of Mineur, Matteo Vissotto, Yuri Cabral and Zornoza positioned fifth (6:31.87).
• Carter Austin competed within the males’s 1-meter dive, putting fifth with a tally of 203.30.
• Ben miled locked down a bronze within the 400 IM on the boys’s aspect with a swim of three:53.90.
• Vissotto positioned fifth within the 200 free, ending in 1:36.82.
• Mineur was the highest ending Panther on the boys’s aspect, recording a 50 free swim of 20.02 for fifth place.
• Cabral positioned fourth (49.10) as DU’s high finisher within the males’s 100 fly.
• Adamchuk additionally logged a fifth-place end for the boys within the 100 again with a time of 47.83.
• Nogueira picked up a third-place end within the males’s 100 breast with a swim of 53.51.

Women’s Highlights

• Drury positioned fourth within the ladies’s 400 medley relay with Nikol Maniko, Gwen Bergum, Rianne Rose and Ashlyn Moore combining for a for a time of three:46.71. 
• The Panthers’ 800 free relay group completed fourth as properly, with Belen Morales, Rose, Munoz and Moore handing over a time of seven:31.58.
• Munoz picked up a third-place end within the ladies’s 400 IM, clocking in at 4:22.25 for the Panthers; the senior additionally completed fifth within the 100 fly (55.37).
• Morales secured a fifth-place end within the ladies’s 200 free with a run of 1:48.15.
• Moore positioned fifth for the Panthers within the ladies’s 50 free, clocking a 23.58.
• Maniko delivered a fifth-place swim of 58.21 within the ladies’s 100 again.
• Bergum positioned fourth for the Panthers within the ladies’s 100 breast, ending in 1:02.37.
• Piera Rufino competed within the 3-meter diving competitors for Drury, putting fifth with a rating of 202.35. 
• At the Don Leas Invitational, Claire Garrelts (165.00) and Sophia Sechler (145.55) positioned fourth and sixth within the 3-meter (six-dive format), respectively; moreover, Garrelts completed seventh within the 1-meter (335.80) and Lewis positioned tenth (318.95).

UP NEXT
The second day of the SMU Classic will get underway at 10 a.m. Saturday, whereas the DU divers will conclude their keep in Pennsylvania on the Clarion Classic (11 a.m. CDT).

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