9 Program-Record Swims for Valpo Thursday

The Valpo women and men’s swimming groups mixed for 9 program-record swims Thursday, ending the day with new information in 5 occasions because the Beacons continued competitors on the Miami Invitational in Oxford, Ohio.
 
The Record Swims

• The males’s staff began the day with a splash, recording two file swims within the morning prelims of the five hundred free within the day’s first occasion. Swimming within the third warmth, Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden) touched the wall in 4:34.35 — over three seconds quicker than the earlier program file.
• Two heats later, Gabe Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills) — who had set the file within the 500 free earlier this season — took the file again with a swim of 4:33.97.
• In the finals of the five hundred free Thursday evening, Curran reclaimed the file with a time of 4:33.40, ending in 14^th place.
• The 200 IM file dropped twice on Thursday. Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) sliced .53 off his personal program file within the occasion with a prelim time of 1:51.93, after which completed 20^th within the occasion finals with a time of 1:51.31.
• During the prelims, Garrett Hoppman (Midland, Texas/Midland) swam a 50 fly time of twenty-two.95, decreasing his personal program file by .09.
• The Beacon males set two information in time trial swims noon as effectively. Oostman took .21 off his personal file within the 100 IM with a time of 51.24, whereas Ben Mettler (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) lowered the 50 breast file by .42 as he got here residence in 25.67.
• Valpo’s girls had 4 swimmers staff as much as shatter this system file within the 200 free relay. Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park), Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton), Faith Bargwell (Grand Rapids, Mich./Rockford) and Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) lined the 200 in 1:35.33, over a full second quicker than this system’s earlier file quartet.

 
The Rest of the Action

• The 9 program-record swims have been solely the tip of the iceberg Thursday for the Beacons, as all eight aggressive occasions and eight of the ten time trial occasions featured motion on this system’s top-10 charts, together with 4 occasions that are the second-fastest in program historical past of their respective occasions.
• In the record-setting girls’s 200 free relay, Dizdarevic swam a 50 leadoff leg of 24.07, transferring into second in program historical past after having beforehand improved her PR — which had ranked fourth all-time at Valpo — earlier within the day within the prelims of the 50 free.
• A time trial swim of two:08.25 by Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) moved the junior into second place in program historical past in that occasion.
• Both of the relays on the lads’s aspect noticed the Beacons have squads submit a time second-fastest in program historical past. The 200 free relay of Isaac Dinari (Houston, Texas/Memorial), Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley), Mettler and Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) posted a time of 1:23.44, simply five-hundredths of a second off this system file.
• Dinari’s leadoff leg of 20.97 improved upon his fifth-fastest time in program historical past within the 50 free, which he had moved into earlier within the day within the prelims of that occasion. Dinari ended up inserting 16^th within the 50 free occasion remaining.
• The quartet of Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit), Mettler, Hoppman and Curran lined the 400 medley relay in 3:22.05 to maneuver into second place in program historical past within the occasion.
• In all, three of the Valpo males’s 400 medley relay squads cracked this system’s top-six. Dinari, Parker, Asa Sadowsky (Green Bay, Wis./Bay Port [Milwaukee]) and Corkran are fourth-fastest in program historical past with a time of three:23.45, whereas Oostman, Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School), Timothy Mai (St. Johns, Fla./Creekside) and Martin moved into sixth with a time of three:23.69.
• Dinari’s leadoff 100 again leg of 51.01 ranks fourth in that occasion in this system file e-book, whereas Dustyn Starkey (New Carlisle, Ind./New Prairie) moved into fifth within the 100 again along with his leadoff leg of 51.67.
• Elsewhere on the lads’s aspect, Gabe Vasquez (Houston, Texas/Memorial) moved into third in program historical past in a pair of occasions — within the prelims of the 200 IM (1:53.42) and in a time trial swim within the 50 breast (26.16). Parker additionally swam the 50 breast time trial, transferring right into a tie for fifth all-time at Valpo with a time of 26.42.
• Two different Beacon males moved into third in program historical past of their respective time trial swims — Sadowsky with a time of 23.09 within the 50 fly and Martin with a time of 46.05 within the 100 free.
• Corkran and Bolinger joined Curran within the finals of the five hundred free Thursday night, inserting 16^th and 23^rd, respectively.
• The Valpo girls closed the day with the third-fastest time in program historical past within the 400 medley relay, as Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina), Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks), Benoit and Morgan lined the gap in 3:55.10.
• In Thursday’s prelims, Morgan moved up into fourth all-time within the 500 free with a time of 5:06.03, whereas Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) cracked the chart in eighth place with a time of 5:10.05.
• Majo Suarez de la Fuente (Mexico City, Mexico/ITESM Preparatoria Tec Campus Santa Fe [Bethel]) paced the Beacons within the 200 IM prelims with a time of two:13.76, ninth-fastest all-time at Valpo.
• Dizdarevic was joined by two different Beacon girls who posted occasions among the many top-10 all-time at Valpo within the 50 free prelims. Keese moved up the chart to fifth place together with her time of 24.19, whereas Bargwell is tied for 10^th in program historical past with a time of 24.48.
• In time trial swims, Eaton moved as much as fifth within the 50 breast (31.00), Keese moved as much as sixth within the 100 IM (1:02.09) and Bargwell cracked Valpo’s all-time finest together with her 50 fly time of 26.89, seventh-fastest.
• The Valpo males are in fifth place after two days of competitors, whereas the ladies sit in seventh place.

 
Next Up
The third of 4 days of competitors on the Miami Invitational awaits the Beacons on Friday, with morning prelims and night finals.