Screaming Eagles boast a record-breaking meet on the House of Champions

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.- University of Southern Indiana Men’s Swimming and Diving completed eighth out of 12 groups within the House of Champions meet hosted by Indiana University Indianapolis in a three-day meet that ended Saturday night time. The Screaming Eagles broke a dozen program information, with seven high 10 finishes.
 
Each occasion featured prelims within the morning to qualify for the championship finals, comfort finals, C finals, or D finals within the night slate, the place factors have been awarded to the groups. The athletes may earn factors for his or her universities in every closing, starting from 45 factors on the high of the championship finals to 2 factors on the backside of D finals.
 
The workforce completed with 939 factors on the finish of the three days, 426 factors behind the seventh-place University of Illinois Chicago, and 83 factors forward of ninth-place Lewis University.
 
The Screaming Eagles opened the primary day with 267 factors, led by six damaged information. Sophomore Jude Winnington kicked issues off by swimming a 1:51.21 within the 200 particular person medley, positioned 17^th, and broke the college document. Next up was junior Joey Smith, who broke the primary of many information in his meet within the 50 free occasion, with a time of 20.53, a document that was lately set by teammate Stokes Knight within the meet in October on the University of Evansville.
 
Later on within the first day in Indianapolis, senior Lane Pollock added to the record-breaking within the one-meter dive, scoring 264.15, getting him 10^th place for 28 factors added for the workforce.
 
In the primary of the relay information set was the 200 free, when the workforce positioned eighth with a time of 1:22.02, smashing the earlier faculty document by almost two seconds. On the relay have been juniors Smith and Sam Smith, and sophomores Knight and Winnington. The 400 medley workforce additionally set a document of their sixth-place race, swimming 3:19.08, grabbing 72 factors for the workforce.
 
In the primary session on day two, the lads tallied two extra information. First, J. Smith took house a high 20 end within the 200 free, setting the document with a time of 1:40.47. Then freshman Jerrin Dale swam for 11^th place (55.45) within the 100 breaststroke.  
 
The second half of day two introduced two extra record-breaking occasions for the Eagles. The 200 medley relay workforce tabbed a seventh-place end, for 70 factors added to the board with a time of 1:30.82, swam by freshman Jarrett Watkins, Dale, S. Smith, and J. Smith. Watkins added 9 factors to the first-day totals with a program document within the 100 backstroke occasion, swimming 50.60.
 
The third and closing day was marked with 4 extra damaged information for the Eagles. In the 100 free occasion, J. Smith took a Fifteenth-place end with a program document time of 45.18, inching out the earlier document by .38 seconds. Dale added one other high 20 end to his meet by putting 16^th within the 200 breaststroke, with a faculty document of two:03.15. Winnington got here in 13^th within the 100 particular person medley with a program document time of 51.99.
 
To spherical out the relay information, the 400 free relay workforce added their names to the document ebook with a Tenth-place end, swimming 3:04.90. Senior Jack Hannon and freshman Garrett Gabhart swam the occasion with juniors J. Smith and S. Smith.
 
The Eagles are again in motion starting on December 3 on the Toyota U.S. Open in Austin, Texas, hosted by the University of Texas. The competitors will happen over three days, ending on December 6.