Quincy Swimming Posts Robust Performances at Drury Invitational

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The Quincy University males’s and girls’s swimming packages wrapped up a aggressive two-day exhibiting on the Drury Invitational in Springfield, Missouri, taking fourth place on either side in a meet that featured a number of of the area’s high packages. The ladies completed fourth out of 5 groups with 483 factors, whereas the lads secured fourth out of six with 558 factors. The weekend showcased depth throughout a number of occasion teams, highlighted by a number of podium finishes and robust relay performances.

On the ladies’s facet, one of many strongest early outcomes got here within the 200 freestyle relay, the place the Hawks’ A relay of Megan Schill, Lise Puissant, Olga Pucarevic, and Vanja Vrbanec clocked a time of 1:39.45 to complete fifth. Pucarevic later recorded one of many high particular person ladies’s performances of the meet, putting third total within the 100 butterfly with a time of 57.26. Puissant additionally turned in a notable effort within the 500 freestyle, taking ninth in 5:19.36, whereas teammate Chantal Tiesinga positioned eleventh in the identical occasion. Quincy continued to indicate relay depth with a fifth-place end within the 400 medley relay (Puissant, Faith Cummings, Pucarevic, Schill) in 4:02.96.

The Quincy males picked up a number of standout finishes, together with a win within the 200 freestyle relay because the staff of Denislav Koykov, Santiago Leiva, Kyle Scritchfield, and Martiniano Montero touched first in 1:23.70. Koykov adopted that with a powerful weekend individually, putting second within the 500 freestyle (4:34.91) and second once more within the 400 IM (3:59.77). Wyatt Walsh added a third-place end within the 500 freestyle (4:33.22) and one other podium within the 400 IM (4:00.97), giving Quincy its strongest distance scoring efforts of the meet. In the sprints, Leiva led the best way with an occasion win within the 50 freestyle in 20.60, whereas Montero positioned contained in the top-10 of the identical occasion. In breaststroke, Haniel Kudwoli completed second within the 100 breaststroke with a 56.25, and Juri Bauer scored as properly with a seventh-place end.

Relay power continued for the lads, as Quincy claimed third place within the 400 medley relay behind a lineup of Juri Bauer, Kudwoli, Marcelo Rojas, and Lucca Arantes, ending in 3:22.94. Arantes, Montero, and Caballero additionally contributed invaluable particular person factors throughout freestyle, stroke, and relay occasions all through the weekend.

Quincy will now flip its consideration to the ultimate meet of November, as each groups journey to Michigan for the Don Kimble Invitational hosted by Davenport University. The three-day meet will start Friday, November twenty first, on the Kentwood Aquatic Center in Kentwood, Michigan.

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