Swimming & Diving Starts 2026 with Home-and-Home In opposition to Drury

SPRINGFIELD – The Missouri State males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving groups open the 2026 portion of the season at Drury on Friday, January 16 at 5:00 p.m. This meet is adopted by senior day celebrations, with one other meet in opposition to Drury on Saturday, January 17 at 10:00 a.m. at H&Okay Swimming Pool.

Bear Splashes (Women)

• The girls’s newest competitors was within the House of Champions Invitational on the IU Natatorium, the place they completed second total.

Standout performances on the House of Champions Invitational included:

·        Senior Sophia Coleta was the primary Bear to complete on the rostrum, ending third within the 500-yard freestyle (4:54.50).

·        Senior Lana Janson got here in second place within the 200-yard particular person medley (2:02.80).

·        Senior Olivia Sala, Janson, sophomore Lillie Freulon, and junior Makenzie Kurre earned a third-place end within the 400-yard medley relay (3:40.82).

·        In the 200-yard medley relay, the tandem of Sala, Janson, Freulon, and Kurre as soon as once more completed in third place (1:41.53).

·        Freulon was the primary Bear to win an occasion, taking the gold within the 100-yard butterfly (53.89).

·        Kurre earned a second place-finish within the 200-yard freestyle (1:49.24).

·        The Bears’ first workforce win was within the 800-yard freestyle relay. Kurre, Janson, Coleta and senior Ainsley Jenkins secured victory with a time of seven:21.24.

·        Coleta collected a second-place end within the 1650-yard freestyle (16:52.44) with Jenkins proper behind her in third (16:55.51).

·        Kurre earned a second-place end within the 100-yard freestyle (49.57).

·        Janson adopted go well with, coming second within the 100-yard particular person medley (56.68).

·        The girls collected a last third-place end with Kurre, Janson, junior Cameryn Johnson and Jenkins ending with a time of three:21.61 within the 400-yard freestyle relay.

• Missouri State girls’s swimming & diving has gained 20 of the final 23 Missouri Valley Conference championships and appears to return to the highest spot this season after a third-place end in 2025.

Bear Splashes (Men)

• The males’s newest competitors was within the House of Champions Invitational on the IU Natatorium, the place in addition they completed second total.  

Standout performances the House of Champions Invitational included:

·        Freshman Zach Mendez earned a second-place end (4:22.74) within the 500-yard freestyle, whereas sophomore Ilias El Fallaki completed proper behind him in third place (4:25.11).

·        Senior Lucas Chadwell completed third within the 50-yard freestyle (20.14).

·        Senior Gonzalo Ruiz, freshman Kiefer Roemer, sophomore Jack Ailshire and senior Lucas Chadwell earned a third-place end within the 200-yard medley relay (1:27.79).

·        Roemer additionally took out the silver within the 50-yard breaststroke (24.23), and bronze within the 100-yard breaststroke (53.28).

·        Senior Luigi Da Silva completed third within the 50-yard breaststroke, simply behind Roemer (24.60).

·        The first males’s victory went to sophomore Máté Miszlai within the 400-yard particular person medley with a time of three:53.09.

·        Mendez earned a second-place end within the 200-yard freestyle (1:36.44).

·        The Bears’ first workforce victory was within the 800-yard freestyle relay. Mendez, El Fallaki, senior Jack Grandy and Miszlai teamed as much as take gold with a time of (6:34.37).

·        Mendez was victorious within the 1650-yard freestyle (15:29.83). El Fallaki additionally ended up on the rostrum, coming in third (15:38.24).

·        Ailshire completed third within the 50-yard butterfly (21.48).

·        Miszlai completed in second place within the 200-yard backstroke (1:45.79), with Ruiz proper behind him in third (1:46.67).

·        Junior Anderson Brown got here second within the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:47.54.

·        Roemer rounded out the meet with a third-place end within the 100-yard particular person medley (50.14).

• Missouri State males’s swimming & diving can also be seeking to enhance on a third-place end on the MVC Championship in February. The workforce has gained 21 convention championships in its historical past, together with 5 MVC championships.

Series History vs. Drury    

·        Missouri State males’s swimming & diving holds a 23-23 twin file in opposition to the Panthers.

·        Missouri State girls’s swimming & diving holds a 17-20 twin file in opposition to the Panthers.

Head Coach Dave Collins

• Missouri State swimming & diving head coach Dave Collins enters his fifteenth season and can search for his thirteenth girls’s convention championship and fourth males’s league title. He has been named MVC Swimming Coach of the Year eight occasions. He was additionally a five-time Mid-American Conference Swimming Coach of the Year.

List of Events
Friday January 16^th @ Drury
3:00 PM Diving Competition Starts
Women’s 3-Meter
Men’s 1-Meter
5:00 PM – Swimming Competition Starts
400 Medley Relay
400 IM
-10 Min Break-
100 Fly 
200 Free
50 Free
-10 Min Break-
100 Breast
100 Back
500 Free
200 Free Relay 

Saturday January 17^th @ MSU [SENIOR DAY]

9:40 – Senior Recognition 

10:00 AM  Swimming Competition Starts

200 Medley Relay

1000 FR 

-10 Min Break-

200 Back

200 Breast

200 Fly

-10 Min Break-

200 IM

400 Free Relay

-45 Min Diving Warmup-

Women’s 1-Meter

Men’s 3-Meter

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