Swim and Dive Continues Invite Circuit at Mizzou Invite

CARBONDALE, Ill. – Just every week after internet hosting and sweeping the A3 Performance Invite, Southern Illinois is again on the invite scene after they take part within the Mizzou Invite from Thursday via Saturday.

Details
-What: Swim and Dive at Mizzou Invite
-Date: November 20-22
-Time: 9:30 a.m. (Prelims) | 5:30 p.m. (Finals)
-Location: Mizzou Aquatic Center, Columbia, Missouri
-Opponents: University of Missouri Tigers | Texas Christian University Horned Frogs | University of Wyoming Cowboys | Florida International Golden Panthers (Women) | Missouri University of Science & Technology Miners (Men) | McKendree University Bearcats
-Live Results: MeetMobile | Dive Results
-Watch: Friday Prelims | Friday Finals | Saturday Prelims | Saturday Finals

Last Time Out
SIU hosted the A3 Performance Invite final week from Thursday via Saturday. In the five-team subject, Southern got here out in first place on each the boys’s and ladies’s facet of the occasion, with the boys grabbing 825 factors and the ladies scoring 943. After the meet, Olivia Herron was named the Women’s Swimmer of the Meet whereas Benedek Andor was named the Men’s Swimmer of the Meet. In addition to her award, Herron additionally set new pool data and met NCAA “B” requirements within the 100- and 200-breaststroke occasions.


Weekly Award Winners
Thanks to their performances on the A3 Performance Invite, 5 Salukis had been named weekly award winners by the Missouri Valley Conference. Herron earned the title of Women’s Swimmer of the Week for a 3rd time this season, whereas Lívia Munkácsi-Nagy was named the Women’s Freshman of the Week for the second time this 12 months.

On the boys’s facet, Kentucky switch Carter Ruthven earned Men’s Swimmer of the Week for his first award as a Saluki. Maddax Thompson was named the Men’s Freshman of the Week, whereas Oliver Mebs was the Men’s Diver of the Week.

The Matchup

SIU can be dealing with Missouri, Wyoming, FIU, TCU, Missouri S&T, and McKendree on the Mizzou Invite.

Missouri, the host of the invite, is available in with a 2-1 document on the ladies’s facet and a 1-1 mark for the boys’s workforce. They had been final in motion on the Georgia Tech Diving Invitational from November 13-15. At the diving occasion, the Tigers gabbed 5 podiums in six occasions whereas choosing up a pair of wins.

TCU is coming off the Texas Diving Invitational, the place their finest efficiency got here on the ultimate day when a Horned Frog nabbed fourth on the platform. 

 

As for Wyoming, the Cowboys enter the Invite with a 4-3 document for the ladies’s workforce and a 1-4 document for the boys’s workforce. Both squads had been final at it versus the Colorado School of Mines on November 1, with each groups popping out victorious. 

 

FIU at the moment holds a 1-2 document. Their women-only squad final competed in a Tri-Meet at NSU on November 7 and eight, with the Golden Panthers beating Lynn, 252-139, and shedding to NSU, 202-189.

 

Missouri S&T and their men-only workforce, who’re ranked #24 in Division II within the newest CSCAA Poll, at the moment sit with a 2-2 document. This can be their second straight invitational, as they competed on the Drury Invite from November 7-8 the place they got here in second out of the six groups competing. 

 

S&T’s fellow Division II college, McKendree, rounds out the lineup on the Mizzou Invite. The Bearcats sit with a 2-1 document, and most not too long ago fell at Missouri 737-637.1 on November 1. 

 

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