4 Extra Record Swims for Valpo to Shut Miami Invitational

The Miami Invitational got here to a most applicable ending for the Valpo males’s and girls’s swimming groups, as after having quite a few program-record swims over the four-day meet, the Beacons posted one remaining file within the males’s 400 free relay within the remaining occasion of the meet — one among 4 file swims for Valpo on Saturday.
 
The Record Swims

• The day was bookended by file swims, as Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Woodstock) opened the day by smashing the earlier program file within the 200 again. Morgan touched the wall in 2:04.27 in her prelim swim, breaking the prior ladies’s file by 1.65 seconds.
• The males’s 200 breast file went down twice on Saturday. In the prelims, Gabe Vasquez (Houston, Texas/Memorial) sliced .51 off the earlier file as he lined the gap in 2:02.99.
• In the occasion remaining, it was Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley) with the file swim, because the sophomore took one other .55 off the file, decreasing it to 2:02.44 as he completed the occasion in 10^th place.
• Parker’s night session acquired even higher when he led off the record-setting 400 free relay quartet to shut the meet. He joined with Gabe Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills), Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden) and Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) to put up a time of three:05.30, edging the earlier program file by three-hundredths of a second.

 
The Rest of the Action

• On the ladies’s aspect, Morgan had a hand in each the primary and final occasion Saturday, as she anchored Valpo’s 400 free relay which got here house in 3:32.38, third-fastest in program historical past. She was joined by Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park), Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton) and Caroline Gorski (Melrose Park, Ill./Leyden) in that effort.
• Dizdarevic was the quickest Beacon within the 100 free and swam a time of 52.38 within the occasion remaining, bettering her second-best time in program historical past in that occasion.
• Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) PRed within the 1650 with a time of 17:37.79, bettering upon her second-best time in Valpo historical past in that occasion.
• Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks) paced the Beacons within the 200 breast, swimming 2:27.00 within the occasion remaining, whereas Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) was quickest for Valpo within the 200 fly — her prime time of two:09.84 coming within the prelims.
• On the boys’s aspect, Vasquez had Valpo’s prime particular person end as he certified for the ‘A’ remaining within the 200 breast by advantage of his file swim within the prelims — the freshman got here house in sixth place with a time of two:03.49 within the finals.
• Curran moved right into a tie for third in program historical past along with his prelim swim of 46.05 within the 100 free, after which narrowly missed decreasing that point with an effort of 46.06 within the night remaining.
• Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) edged Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit) by eight-hundredths of a second within the prelim swims of the 200 again, however Smesko ended up the highest Beacon within the finals with a time of 1:51.47, bettering upon his third-best time in program historical past.
• Martin led the Beacons in each the prelims and the finals of the 200 fly, ending in seventh place with a finals time of 1:53.07. Nate Bolinger (Plainfield, Ind./Plainfield) moved as much as sixth in program historical past within the occasion with a prelim time of 1:53.84 and ultimately positioned eighth within the finals. Corkran lowered his PR within the occasion twice, ending the evening in a tie with Bolinger for sixth all-time at Valpo with a finals swim of 1:53.84, whereas Garrett Hoppman (Midland, Texas/Midland) moved as much as ninth in program historical past along with his finals time of 1:54.25.
• In the 1650, Will Schenk (Tulsa, Okla./Holland Hall) cracked Valpo’s all-time chart in seventh place with a time of 16:35.87, whereas Logan Walliker (Washington, Ill./Washington) was proper behind him with a time of 16:36.81, transferring as much as ninth place.

 
Next Up
Valpo is off from competitors for the vacations and can return to motion Jan. 9 when it hosts Rose-Hulman in a twin meet on the Valparaiso Aquatic Center at 5 p.m.