Morgan Smashes Program File as Beacons Compete at Indiana Intercollegiates

The Valpo males’s and ladies’s swimming groups mixed for 18 placements among the many applications’ top-10 charts Saturday, highlighted by freshman Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) smashing this system document within the 200 free, because the Beacons continued early-season competitors on the Dan Ross Indiana Intercollegiates, hosted by Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind.
 
How It Happened

• In her second collegiate meet, Morgan demolished this system document within the 200 free as she got here house in eighth place, touching the wall in 1:52.89. That time was 1.25 seconds sooner than Paige Wright’s earlier program normal, set again in 2020. The freshman earned an eighth-place end within the occasion, the Beacons’ prime particular person end on the ladies’s facet Saturday.
• In all, Morgan cracked Valpo’s top-10 charts in three occasions Saturday. Her team-best time of 59.18 within the 100 again ranks eighth in program historical past, whereas her leadoff leg within the 200 medley relay of 27.89 ranks eighth on the 50 again chart.
• Both of the ladies’s relays posted top-10 instances in program historical past. Morgan mixed with Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks), Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) and Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park) to cowl the 200 medley relay in 1:48.77, seventh-fastest in program historical past, whereas the 200 free relay of Dizdarevic, Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton), Faith Bargwell (Grand Rapids, Mich./Rockford) and Morgan coated the space in 1:38.21, eighth-fastest in program historical past. Dizdarevic swam a 50 free leadoff leg of 24.25 in that occasion, tied for fourth-fastest all-time at Valpo.
• Eaton paced the Valpo ladies in a pair of occasions Saturday, touching the wall in 26.09 within the 50 free and 1:07.80 within the 100 breast. Other prime performers included Keese within the 100 IM (1:04.03), Benoit within the 100 fly (1:00.18) and Caroline Gorski (Melrose Park, Ill./Leyden) within the 100 free (55.82).
• While there have been no new information set on the lads’s facet, three swims have been good for second-fastest in program historical past, two of which got here from Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit). Smesko had a leadoff leg of 23.50 within the 200 medley relay, which ranks second on the Beacons’ 50 again record. Later within the day, the freshman coated the 100 again in 50.30 to maneuver into second in that occasion.
• Fellow rookie Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden) moved into second in program historical past within the 200 free as he touched the wall in sixth place within the 200 free, coming house in 1:40.76. That was one in every of two top-10 performances in program historical past for Curran Saturday, who additionally moved into ninth all-time at Valpo within the 100 free with a time of 46.70, good for a Fifteenth-place end.
• Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) scored for the Beacons in a pair of occasions Saturday, inserting 10^th within the 100 IM (52.67) and 16^th within the 100 again (51.96).
• Oostman led a trio of scorers for the Valpo males within the 100 IM. Gabe Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills) positioned 14^th with a time of 53.25, tied for fifth-fastest in program historical past, whereas Isaac Dinari (Houston, Texas/Memorial) now ranks eighth in program historical past after ending in 16^th place with a time of 53.40.
• Led by Smesko’s effort, the Beacons had a trio of latest instances on their top-10 chart within the 100 again as effectively. Dinari touched the wall in 52.50, eighth-fastest in program historical past, whereas Dustyn Starkey (New Carlisle, Ind./New Prairie) now ranks tenth all-time with a time of 52.59.
• Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley) earned factors for Valpo with a 12^th-place displaying within the 100 breast, masking the course in 57.26. His 50 cut up of 26.94 improved upon his ninth-fastest time in program historical past in that occasion. Parker additionally led the Valpo contingent within the 50 free with a time of 21.76.
• Timothy Mai (St. Johns, Fla./Creeksode) scored for the Beacons as effectively with a time of 51.37 within the 100 fly. Asa Sadowsky (Green Bay, Wis./Bay Port [Milwaukee]) swam a 50 cut up of 23.60 in that occasion, shifting him right into a tie for sixth in program historical past.
• Two of Valpo’s 200 medley relays cracked this system’s top-10 charts to open the meet. Oostman, Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School), Mai and Dinari rank eighth in program historical past with a time of 1:33.59, good for fifth place, whereas the quartet of Smesko, Parker, Sadoswky and Curran got here in simply behind them in sixth place in 1:33.88, tenth-fastest in program historical past.
• While it did not influence this system’s all-time chart, the Beacons’ 200 free relay of Curran, Snider, Dinari and Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) posted a fifth-place end with a time of 1:25.16 for key factors within the crew scoring.
• The Valpo males completed the meet in fifth place out of the ten competing groups with 130 factors, whereas the ladies positioned eighth of 10 with 93 factors.

 
Next Up
Valpo jumps again within the pool subsequent Saturday in a quad-meet at IU Indy, with Evansville and Southern Indiana competing there as effectively.