Swimming and Diving Victorious in Mizzou Invitational

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri swimming and diving completed the ultimate day of the Mizzou Invite to position first on each the lads’s and ladies’s sides. The males completed with 1,633 factors whereas the ladies gathered 1,726 factors to defeat their opponents.

The Tigers received seven occasions with 5 athletes hitting NCAA qualifying commonplace instances.

Freshman Libby Bakker added her third win of the invite, taking first within the 200 again with a 1:55.45 efficiency. Bakker beforehand received the 100 again (53.07) and 400 medley relay (3:33.94).

Diving accomplished their three-day podium sweep with wins in platform diving. Tanner Braunton took first with a rating of 401.90 in males’s platform diving. The junior was adopted by Tommaso Zannella in second with a 351.15 rating, and by Derek Colbert in third with a 327.85 efficiency.

The girls’s platform diving podium was led by freshman Jazzelle Eikermann Gregorchuk who hit a 254.85 mark. Olivia Liddle put up her highest rating of the season to complete in second with 241.00, and was adopted by Gabriela San Juan Carmona in third (230.65). Mia Henninger completed fourth (213.80) whereas Megan Jolly positioned sixth (210.65).

Maeve DeYoung picked up her first win of the season within the girls’s 200 fly. The West Linn, Ore. native, touched the wall in 1:58.49 to take gold. Kylee Sullivan completed proper behind in second with a 1:59.35 time.

Standout sprinter, Luke Nebrich received his fifth and sixth occasions throughout the third day of competitors. The sophomore received the lads’s 100 free with a NCAA qualifying commonplace time of 41.77 whereas additionally main the lads’s 400 free relay to gold. Nebrich, Ethan Vance, Darden Tate and Francois Malherbe put up a 2:50.25 efficiency. Malherbe additionally completed second within the 100 free with a time of 42.88.

The girls’s 400 free relay squad of Sullivan, Katie Kuehn, Haiden Schoessel and Karolina Bank put up a time of three:18.49 to complete with silver.

Zara Zallen took gold within the 100 free on the ladies’s aspect. The junior swam a NCAA qualifying commonplace time of 48.59. Francesca Smith earned bronze within the occasion with a time of 48.87.

This morning’s session was highlighted by the mile competitors. The Tiger girls had been led by Zoe Schneider who swam 16:20.34 within the 1650 free to move the NCAA qualifying commonplace and place second. Following her was Peyton Drexler in third with a 16:36.55 swim. Danielle Gleason and Katie Gresik rounded out the Tigers’ performances ending fifth (16:51.37) and sixth (16:52.72).

In the lads’s 1650 free, Matthew Mortenson led the Tigers with a second-place end and time of 15:17.76. Conner Boatright adopted in fourth (15:18.66) whereas Sebastian Gonzalez Barboza completed eighth (15:49.58).

Two Tigers picked up NCAA qualifying requirements within the males’s 200 fly. Jan Zubik swam a 1:41.54 in prelims and 1:42.42 in finals to complete second. Matthew Judkins completed proper behind the senior in third with a time of 1:42.84.

FULL STANDINGS

Women’s Team Rankings:

1. Missouri – 1,726
2. Florida International – 1,446
3. Texas Christian – 1,248
4. Wyoming – 1,112
5. Southern Illinois – 740
6. McKendree – 456

Men’s Team Rankings:

1. Missouri – 1,633
2. Texas Christian – 1,379.5
3. Wyoming – 1,241
4. McKendree – 983.4
5. Southern Illinois – 750
6. Missouri S&T – 675

NOTABLE RESULTS

• Avery Stein completed seventh within the girls’s 200 IM with a time of two:04.09 whereas Eleanor Hughes got here in 19^th after posting a 2:08.15 time.
• Kuehn completed eighth within the girls’s 100 free with a. 50.12 efficiency. She was adopted by Schoessel in ninth (50.26) and Zuzanna Krasnicki in 17^th (50.71).
• Darden Tate completed fifth within the males’s 100 free with a time of 43.63. He was trailed by Vance in sixth (43.65), Brady Johnson in seventh (43.73) and Jaden Pospishil in eighth (45.00). Ian Everett got here in 13^th (44.38), and Logan Ottke completed 24^th (46.39).
• Annabelle Wentzel completed the ladies’s 200 fly in 2:07.67 to take 11^th.
• Freshman Drew Ploof earned a fifth place end within the males’s 200 fly with a time of 1:45.61. Griffin Craig got here in eighth with a time of 1:47.77.
• Sydney Bales accomplished the ladies’s 200 again in 1:59.77 to complete seventh. Piper McNeil adopted proper behind in eighth with a time of 1:59.79.
• Quinlan Gould took fifth within the males’s 200 again with a 1:45.03 efficiency.

UP NEXT

Select athletes from Mizzou’s diving squad will journey to Midland, Texas to compete within the USA Diving Winter National Championships, Dec. 10-16.

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