Swim and Dive Concludes Run at Mizzou Invite

CARBONDALE, Ill. – The three-day Mizzou Invite got here to an finish on Saturday, wrapping up Southern Illinois swim and dive’s keep in Columbia, Missouri. During the Invite, SIU matched up in opposition to the highest expertise from Missouri, FIU, TCU, Wyoming’s ladies’s group, McKendree, and Missouri S&T’s males’s group. 

“This was a phenomenal showing by the 10 women and 11 men swimmers we brought to the Mizzou Invite,” says head coach Geoff Hanson. “Nearly every single person achieved lifetime bests and the group as a whole showed what kind of potential this team has. During the Thanksgiving break we will enjoy the successes of both of our mid-season meets the past two weeks, and come back ready to push towards the second half of the season. Go Dawgs.”

 

How it Happened

 

Thursday

Before finals even started on day one, Olivia Herron already made some noise for the Salukis, setting a program file within the 400-IM along with her time of 4:12.82. 

 

SIU grabbed their first finals podium and win of the Invite within the 100-yard butterfly when Carter Ruthven gained the occasion in 46.37 seconds. The Salukis’ subsequent podium didn’t come till the ladies’s 200-yard freestyle when Susy Hernandez took third within the 200-yard freestyle. 

 

Herron was subsequent up on the rostrum when she took house gold within the 100-yard breaststroke. Day one finals ended with Southern’s 400-yard medley relay males’s group coming in third place. 

 

Friday

Friday started with not yet another damaged file however two. Herron stamped her identify within the file ebook once more, resetting this system finest within the 200-breaststroke along with her swim of two:08.34. Additionally, Hernandez took over first place within the file ebook for the 50-freestyle along with her time of twenty-two.82. 

 

Once finals started, Southern instantly discovered themselves on the rostrum, taking second within the 1:40.01 within the ladies’s 200-yard medley relay. The males’s 200-yard medley relay additionally reached the rostrum, inserting third. 

 

Moving to particular person occasions, Liseska Gallegos Gutierrez grabbed her first podium of the meet, taking third place within the 100-yard backstroke. And on the lads’s facet of the occasion, Willem Huggins completed because the runner-up. 

 

Herron broke yet one more file within the ladies’s 200-yard breaststroke, ending her swim with a program finest 2:08.08 to take gold. In the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle, Hernandez broke one other faculty file as properly because of her time of twenty-two.81. 

 

Saturday

The closing day of finals started with a Saluki win as Herron took first place within the 200-yard IM. Right behind Herron was her teammate, Brooklyn Anderson. In the lads’s 200-yard IM, not solely did Benedek Andor end in second, however he additionally broke this system file for the occasion because of his 1:45.20 time. 

 

Gallegos grabbed SIU’s closing particular person podium along with her second-place end within the 200-yard backstroke. And SIU’s closing podium generally got here within the males’s 400-yard freestyle relay, the place their “A” group completed in second place. 

 

Up Next

Swim and dive now hits the winter break portion of their schedule. The squad won’t be again in motion till January 9 when the lads’s group visits Purdue. 

 

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