Drury Swimming and Diving Posts Robust Opening Night time at SMU Invite

DALLAS. — It was a optimistic opening night time on the SMU Invitational for Drury males’s and girls’s swimming and diving Wednesday, as each squads registered robust finishes within the 200 medley and 800 free relays at Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center.

Both Drury swimming and diving squads discover themselves in fourth place within the workforce standings after Wednesday’s competitors. The DU (92) ladies path host SMU (92) by six factors, with Arkansas (126) and Utah (102) holding the highest two spots within the standings. On the lads’s ledger, the Panthers (102) sit simply 4 factors behind Stanford (106) and eight factors behind second-place Utah (110), with SMU (126) holding the highest place.

The Drury males recorded fourth-place finishes in each relay occasions as the one NCAA Division II program in a discipline of six packages. The quartet of Ivan Adamchuk, Joao Nogueira, Yuri Cabral and Lucas Mineur positioned fourth amongst 16 complete groups within the 200 medley discipline, clocking a time of 1:25.60. Drury’s B-relay workforce consisting of Alvaro Zornoza, Elliot Weber, Bill Beckman and Matteo Vissotto additionally positioned among the many prime eight with a time of 1:26.64, which was good for seventh place.

The Panthers additionally completed fourth within the 800 free relay, with Mineur, Zornoza, Nogueira and Vissotto handing over a time of 6:21.25.

On the ladies’s aspect, Drury completed fourth in a discipline of 11 groups within the 800 free relay, with Belen Morales, Rianne Rose, Ashlyn Moore and Nikol Maniko posting a time of seven:20.53. That adopted an eighth-place end (1:41.70) for the Panthers’ squad of Maniko, Gwen Bergum, Maria Fe Munoz and Morales within the 200 medley relay.

In particular person time trials, Belhassen Ben miled turned within the prime time within the mens’ 100 fly, clocking in a personal-best of 48.37. Additionally, Munoz recorded a season-best 2:02.66 within the 200 IM.

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Drury swimming and diving continues its keep in Dallas with the primary full day of competitors on the SMU Invitational Friday, starting at 10 a.m. at Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center.

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