Bears Swimming & Diving To Face Omaha

OMAHA, Neb. – The Missouri State males’s and girls’s swimming & diving groups face Omaha on the street in a two-day meet on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. Friday’s competitors begins at 4:00 p.m. and Saturday’s competitors begins at 9:30 a.m. at H&Okay Swimming Pool.

Bear Splashes (Women)

• The girls’s group fell to the Indiana State Sycamores within the Bears’ newest meet, with a 192.5-160.5 scoreline.

Standout performances towards Indiana State included:

• Freshman Aleca Howard gained the 400-yard particular person medley convincingly (4:27.28), and the 200-yard particular person medley (2:07.24) with senior Lana Janson proper behind her (2:09.83). Her efficiency earned her the Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Freshman of the Week award on Oct. 21. This is her first award as a Bear.
• Junior Olivia Sala, Janson, sophomore Addie Ludbrook, and junior Makenzie Kurre gained the 400-yard medley relay (3:48.37).
• Ludbrook took out the 100-yard butterfly (56.69), edging previous sophomore Lillie Freulon (57.66).
• Janson gained two sensible races in a row, the 50-yard freestyle (24.45) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:03.99).
• In the 100-yard freestyle, Kurre was victorious (52.16).
• The Bears completed the swimming portion of the meet with a win within the 400-yard freestyle relay with Johnson, freshman Paige Corbin, Kurre and senior Ainsley Jenkins claiming victory (3:30.38).
• On the diving board, within the three-meter competitors, freshman switch Delaney Nickles completed second with a rating of 261.10. In the one-meter competitors, Nickels additionally completed second with 256.40 factors. 
• 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 group dominated towards Ouachita Baptist profitable their second straight meet with a 222-122 scoreline.  

Standout performances towards the Tigers included:

• Senior Storm Opdahl as soon as once more swept the entire diving competitions. In the one-meter diving competitors, he gained assuredly with a rating of 332.85. In the three-meter dive, he took the victory with 337.85 factors simply in entrance of senior Logan Schelfaut with 330.05 factors. This efficiency earned him his second Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Diver of the Week award of the season on Oct. 21.
• Sophomore Carter Crook, freshman Kiefer Roemer, sophomore Jack Ailshire and senior Lucas Chadwell (3:18.93) had been victorious within the 400-yard medley relay.
• Junior Anderson Brown took out the 400-yard particular person medley (4:01.64) in entrance of sophomore Mate Miszlai (4:06.25).
• Ailshire gained the 100-yard butterfly (50.54), scraping previous senior Chris Bedsole (50.61).
• Freshman Kayden Hedrick took out the 200-yard freestyle (1:42.18), edging previous sophomore Ilias El Fallaki (1:42.80).
• Senior Lucas Chadwell sprinted to a win within the 50-yard freestyle (20.98).
• Roemer dominated the 100-yard breaststroke (55.12), ending virtually 5 seconds in entrance of Tiger Lucas Cagle (1:00.23).
• In the 100-yard backstroke Crook was victorious (51.18), scraping previous Tiger Mikhail Lymar (51.32).
• Fallaki took out the 500-yard freestyle comfortably, (4:40.91).
• In the 200-yard freestyle relay, junior Matvei Chesakov, Roemer, freshman Zach Mendez and Chadwell teamed as much as take victory, (1:22.78).
• Crook, senior Luigi Maciel da Silva, Ailshire and Chadwell teamed as much as win the 200-yard medley relay (1:30.71).
• Freshman Zach Mendez dominated the 1000-yard freestyle (9:29.96), ending far forward of Tiger Tyler Andruss (9:56.28).
• In the 200-yard backstroke it was sophomore Gonzolo Ruiz Vazquez who completed first (1:50.57).
• Chadwell reigned over the 100-yard freestyle (45.72).
• Da Silva gained the 200-yard breaststroke convincingly (2:04.17).
• In the 200-yard butterfly, Hedrick (1:51.60) scraped previous Bedsole (1:51.76) whereas Ailshire ensured an MSU podium sweep in third (1:55.48).
• Junior Anderson Brown took out the 200-yard particular person medley (1:54.30) in entrance of Ruiz Vazquez (1:56.08) and Roemer (1:56.30).
• The Bears wrapped up the swimming portion of the meet with a victory within the 400-yard freestyle relay by Chesakov, Bedsole, Mendez and Chadwell (3:04.14).
• Missouri State males’s swimming & diving can also be trying to enhance on a third-place end on the MVC Championship in February. The group has gained 21 convention championships in its historical past, together with 5 MVC championships.

Series History vs. Omaha    

·        Missouri State males’s swimming & diving holds a 1-0 twin report towards the Mavericks.
·        Missouri State girls’s swimming & diving holds a 2-0 twin report towards the Mavericks.

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 occasions. He was additionally a five-time Mid-American Conference Swimming Coach of the Year.

List of Events

4:00     Swimming Competition Begins 

    200 Medley Relay

-10 Minute Break-

    100 Butterfly

    400 IM

    200 Freestyle

    100 Breaststroke

    100 Backstroke

    500 Freestyle (EX)

    200 Freestyle Relay

-45 Minute Diving Warmup-

    Women’s 1M

    Men’s 3M

9:30     Diving Competition Begins

   Women’s 3M

    Men’s 1M

-20 Minute Swimming Specialty Warmup-

    1650 Freestyle

    200 Backstroke

    100 Freestyle

    200 Breastroke

    200 Butterfly

-10 Min Break-

    400 Freestyle Relay

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