Three Extra Records Fall Friday for Swimming

The third day of competitors introduced three extra program information for the Valpo males’s and girls’s swimming groups Friday on the Miami Invitational, as Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit), Isaac Dinari (Houston, Texas/Memorial) and Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) all set new requirements for the Beacons.
 
The Record Swims

• The first document swim of the day got here from Smesko, because the freshman touched the wall in 49.69 within the prelims of the 100 again, .24 quicker than teammate Jackson Oostman‘s (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) earlier customary within the occasion. He went on to complete eighth within the occasion with a finals time of fifty.17
• Dinari posted his document swim in a time trial within the 50 fly, as his time of twenty-two.91 inched previous the earlier document by .04.
• Morgan lowered her personal document within the 200 free by over a half-second within the night last within the 200 free, overlaying the gap in 1:52.31.

 
The Rest of the Action

• On the boys’s facet, three different swims resulted in occasions that are second-fastest in program historical past. Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden) improved upon his second-best time within the 200 free with a prelim time of 1:40.05.
• Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley) swam a 56.07 within the prelims of the 100 breast to maneuver up the chart in that occasion to second place. Parker simply missed besting that point within the finals, swimming a 56.08.
• Smesko improved his second-best time in program historical past within the 50 again with a 23.24 opening break up within the night-closing 200 medley relay. Smesko mixed with Ben Mettler (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton), Garrett Hoppman (Midland, Texas/Midland) and Curran to cowl that relay in 1:32.19, third-fastest in program historical past.
• Two of Valpo’s males’s 200 medley relay cracked this system’s all-time greatest Friday, because the quartet of Oostman, Parker, Timothy Mai (St. Johns, Fla./Creekside) and Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School) completed in 1:33.09, good for sixth in program historical past.
• In that very same occasion, two different leadoff swimmers posted 50 again occasions among the many greatest in program historical past. Dustyn Starkey (New Carlisle, Ind./New Prairie) swam a 24.24 opening break up to maneuver into sixth within the 50 again, whereas Connor Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) coated his 50 again in 24.63, ninth-fastest in program historical past.
• The 100 fly prelims featured three of the top-10 occasions in program historical past. Hoppman moved up right into a tie for third with a time of fifty.24, Asa Sadowsky (Green Bay, Wis./Bay Port [Milwaukee]) now ranks tied for fifth with a time of fifty.31 and Dinari moved into ninth with a time of 51.13. Hoppman led the Valpo contingent within the last, touching the wall in 50.35.
• Oostman was the Beacons’ high swimmer within the 400 IM, overlaying the gap in 4:02.37 within the occasion last.
• Curran’s prelim swim within the 200 free was adopted carefully by Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett), who improved upon his third-fastest time with a 1:41.19, and Gabe Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills), who moved into fourth with a 1:41.35. Curran posted the group’s high time within the last, coming dwelling in 1:40.25, whereas Martin once more improved his PR with a finals time of 1:41.09.
• Following Parker within the 100 breast prelims was Gabe Vasquez (Houston, Texas/Memorial), who now ranks fifth together with his time of 56.62, and Mettler, who cracked this system’s top-10 with a time of 57.23 earlier than decreasing that to 56.74 within the occasion last to maneuver as much as sixth place.
• Starkey entered the 100 again Friday already fifth-fastest in program historical past, however improved his time within the occasion twice, posting a 51.34 within the prelims and a 51.28 within the finals.
• Benoit touched the wall in 23.76 within the 50 fly time trial, 10^th-fastest in program historical past.
• Benoit’s older sister, Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) lowered her PR within the 100 fly twice on Friday, enhancing upon her fourth-fastest time with a prelim swim of 58.66 and a finals swim of 58.28.
• Three Beacon ladies posted top-10 occasions within the 400 IM prelims — Majo Suarez de la Fuente (Mexico City, Mexico/ITESM Campus Santa Fe [Bethel]) moved as much as fourth together with her time of 4:40.51, whereas Olivia Tressler (Las Vegas, Nev./Desert Oasis) and Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) maintained their spots in sixth and eighth in program historical past, respectively, with occasions of 4:41.45 and 4:42.86. Suarez de la Fuente paced the Valpo swimmers within the last with a time of 4:42.49.
• Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks) led the Beacon ladies within the 100 breast, swimming a finals time of 1:07.38, whereas Brianne Flikkema (Bowling Green, Ky./Greenwood) moved into ninth in Valpo historical past within the occasion together with her prelim time of 1:07.54.
• Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina) paced Valpo within the 100 again with a finals time of 58.42, enhancing upon her fourth-fastest time in occasion historical past. In the prelims, Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton) moved into 10^th in the identical occasion with a time of 59.26.
• Keese additionally moved as much as fourth in program historical past within the 50 free, touching the wall in 24.10 in a time trial swim.
• Valpo’s ladies closed the day with the seventh-fastest 200 medley relay all-time, as Schoch, Eaton, Faith Bargwell (Grand Rapids, Mich./Rockford) and Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park) mixed for a time of 1:48.69.
• The males sit in fifth place after the third of 4 days of competitors, whereas the ladies are in seventh place.

 
Next Up
Valpo closes the Miami Invitational, and with it its fall semester competitors, on Saturday with one other full day of motion from Oxford, Ohio.