Bears Swimming & Diving to Host Ouachita Baptist (M)/Indiana State (W)

SPRINGFIELD – The Missouri State males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving groups host Ouachita Baptist (M) and Indiana State (W) on Friday Oct. 17 in a two-day meet. Friday’s competitors begins at 4:00 p.m. and Saturday’s competitors begins at 10 a.m. at Hammons Student Center Pool.

Head Coach Dave Collins is trying ahead to the problem, “We are excited to be back in action at home this weekend against Indiana State and OBU. We have trained well since our meet with Southern Illinois and will hopefully see some improvement in how we attack our races. We are hoping for another really good crowd to come out and support our group.”

 

Bear Splashes (Women)

• The girls’s workforce fell to the Southern Illinois Salukis within the Bears’ house opener, with a 260.5-181.5 scoreline.

Standout performances in opposition to SIU included:

•  Freshman Aleca Howard gained her very first collegiate race within the 200-yard particular person medley (2:06.77).
• Junior Lindsey Hervey took out the 500-yard freestyle (5:07.35).
• Fellow junior Claire Culberson gained the 1000-yard freestyle (10:37.93).
• Classmate Makenzie Kurre took out the 200-yard freestyle (1:55.43).
• On the diving board, freshman switch Delaney Nickles dominated within the three-meter dive with a rating of 247.50. In the one-meter competitors, junior Maggie Arceneaux scored 247.88 factors, edging previous Nickles who scored 240.00.
• Missouri State girls’s swimming & diving has gained 20 of the final 23 Missouri Valley Conference championships and appears to return to the highest spot this season after a third-place end in 2025.

Bear Splashes (Men)

• The males’s workforce beat Southern Illinois Salukis within the Bears’ house opener, with a 275-171 scoreline.

Standout performances in opposition to SIU included:

• Senior Storm Opdahl sweeping all the diving competitions. In the one-meter diving competitors, he gained convincingly with a rating of 303.15 and within the three-meter dive, took the victory with 310.88 factors. This efficiency earned him the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Diver of the Week award on Oct. 8. The award was the primary of Opdahl’s profession and the primary weekly convention honor for a MoState diver since March 2021. 
• Freshman Zach Mendez  gained the 200- (1:39.68), 500- (4:34.66), and 1000- (9:29.76) yard freestyle competitions.
• Sophomore switch Ilias El Fallaki took the 1000-yard freestyle (9:46.79) in his first race as a Bear.
• In the 200-yard medley relay, sophomore Carter Crook, freshman Kiefer Roemer, sophomore Jack Ailshire, and senior Lucas Chadwell gained with a time of 1:30.29. Ailshire additionally took out the 100-yard butterfly (49.81), and Roemer received his first win as a Bear within the 100-yard breaststroke (55.69).
• Missouri State males’s swimming & diving can be seeking to enhance on a third-place end on the MVC Championship in February. The workforce has gained 21 convention championships in its historical past, together with 5 MVC championships.

Series History vs. Ouachita Baptist (M) and Indiana State (W)    

·        Missouri State males’s swimming & diving holds a 5-0 twin document in opposition to the Tigers.

·        Missouri State girls’s swimming & diving holds a 3-0 twin document in opposition to the Sycamores.

Head Coach Dave Collins

• Missouri State swimming & diving head coach Dave Collins enters his fifteenth season and can search for his thirteenth girls’s convention championship and fourth males’s league title. He has been named MVC Swimming Coach of the Year eight instances. He was additionally a five-time Mid-American Conference Swimming Coach of the Year.

List of Events
Friday
    4:00 p.m. Swimming Competition Begins
    400 Medley Relay
    400 IM 
 -10 Min Break-
    100 Butterfly
    200 Freestyle
    50 Freestyle
-10 Min Break-
    100 Breaststroke
    100 Backstroke
    500 Freestyle
    200 Freestyle Relay
-45 Minute Diving Warmup
    Women’s 3M Diving
    Men’s 1M Diving

Saturday

    10:00 a.m. Swimming Competition Begins

    200 Medley Relay

    1000 Freestyle

-10 Min Break-

    200 Backstroke

    100 Freestyle

    200 Breaststroke

    200 Butterfly

-10 Min Break-

    200 IM

    400 Freestyle Relay

-45 Minute Diving Warmup

    Women’s 1M Diving

    Men’s 3M Diving

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