CARBONDALE, Ill. – From Thursday by Saturday, Southern Illinois swim and dive hosted the A3 Performance Invite. Welcoming Bellarmine, Eastern Illinois, Evansville, and Nebraska-Omaha to Carbondale, SIU gained each the lads’s and girls’s aspect of the meet, with the lads totaling 825 factors and the ladies scoring 943.
How it Happened Thursday Finals The first finals session began with a win for SIU’s 200-yard freestyle relay in each the ladies’s and males’s occasions. Moving to particular person occasions,
Lívia Munkácsi-Nagy began issues off with a win within the ladies’s 500-freestyle earlier than
Tomáš Peciar went and gained the occasion on the lads’s aspect.
Another SIU win got here within the ladies’s 200-yard IM courtesy of
Olivia Herron, who was adopted by
Benedek Andor successful the lads’s 200-yard IM. In the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle,
Zaria Terry was lower than half-a-second off from braking SIU’s document within the occasion, and
Willem Huggins put in a formidable time as effectively to win the lads’s occasion. Moving again to relays, each SIU squads stood atop the rostrum for the 400-yard medley relay.
Friday Finals Friday kicked off with Southern’s ladies’s workforce claiming the gold medal within the 200-yard medley relay. Munkacsi-Nagy as soon as once more one the primary particular person occasion of the night, this time taking first within the ladies’s 400-yard IM.
Juraj Barcot then stood on high of the rostrum for the primary time within the invite within the males’s 400-yard IM.
Terry added one other gold to her whole within the ladies’s 100-yard butterfly, and
Carter Ruthven snagged his first win of the weekend within the males’s 100-yard butterfly. Then,
Susy Hernandez added her identify to the listing of winners after taking the crown within the 200-yard freestyle.
Herron put in a formidable effort within the 100-yard breaststroke, together with her time of 1:00.60 being adequate for first place, a NCAA “B” ranking, and a pool document.
Maddax Thompson additionally gained the 100-yard breaststroke on the lads’s aspect of the meet.
Liseska Gallegos Gutierrez continued her spectacular sophomore marketing campaign by successful the ladies’s 100-yard backstroke earlier than Huggins closed out day two finals by successful the lads’s 100-yard backstroke.
Saturday Finals The closing day of the occasion started with the 800-yard freestyle relay, wherein each SIU groups have been victorious. Then got here the 1650-yard freestyle, which was gained by Munkacsi-Nagy and Peciar. Gallegos take residence gold within the 200-yard backstroke earlier than Barcot gained the occasion on the lads’s aspect.
In the 100-yard freestyle, Hernandez and Andor occupied the first-place spot on their podiums. This all led as much as Herron breaking one other pool document whereas setting a NCAA “B” time within the 200-yard breaststroke together with her swim of two:09.09. Thompson additionally gained the occasion for the lads’s workforce.
Tamara De la Torre earned her first win of the Invite within the 200-yard butterfly proper earlier than Ruthven added one other first-place to his Invite whole within the males’s occasion for SIU’s closing win of the weekend.
Swimmers of the Meet After the conclusion of the Invite, Herron and Andor have been named the Women’s and Men’s Swimmer of the Meet.
Up Next SIU will not be accomplished with the invite circuit simply but, as they compete within the Mizzou Invite subsequent week from Thursday, Nov. 20, by Saturday, Nov. 22.
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