CARBONDALE, Ill. – Southern Illinois swim and dive is again at Shea Natatorium this weekend with a pair of meets to wrap up their slate of dwelling meets this season. On Friday, the workforce welcomes McKendree to Carbondale earlier than the ladies’s workforce faces off in opposition to Vanderbilt on Saturday, which may even be Southern’s Special Olympics meet.
Details -What: Swim and Dive vs McKendree | vs Vanderbilt (Women’s)
-Date: January 16 | January 17
-Time: 2 p.m. | 1 p.m.
-Location: Shea Natatorium, Carbondale, Illinois
-Opponent: McKendree University Bearcats | Vanderbilt University Commodores
-Live Results: Meet Mobile
-Watch: SIU Student Recreation Center Last Time Out The Salukis are coming off a pair of meets final weekend as properly. On Friday, the lads’s workforce visited and misplaced to Purdue, 207-103.
Carter Ruthven and
Juraj Barcot each walked away with an occasion win, whereas
Alex Cimera gained two occasions: the 200-freestyle and 100-freestyle.
SIU then turned their consideration to Saturday’s Senior Day meet in opposition to Evansville and Indiana State’s girls’s squad. The Saluki males beat Evansville 221-78, as did the ladies’s workforce, 225-59. However, Indiana State took down Southern’s girls’s workforce 156-140. Event winners for Southern included
Joshua Aceves,
Susy Hernandez,
Willem Huggins,
Liseska Gallegos Gutierrez,
Olivia Herron,
Maddax Thompson,
Nate Worsham, Bendek Andor,
Oliver Mebs, Barcot, and Cimera.
Weekly Honors On Wednesday of this week, Cimera and Hernandez had been honored by the Missouri Valley Conference because the Men’s and Women’s Swimmers of the Week. Cimera ended up accumulating 4 particular person wins between the 2 meets in addition to one relay win. As for Hernandez, she gained two particular person occasions on Saturday whereas additionally being part of one relay-winning workforce.
The Matchup McKendree is available in with a 3-1 report on the lads’s aspect whereas their girls’s workforce is 1-2. Most not too long ago, the Bearcats hosted Washington (St. Louis), the place the lads gained 157-123 whereas the ladies fell 179-109. Southern and McKendree have crossed path earlier than this season. Both groups participated within the Mizzou Invitational in late November. There, the McKendree males claimed fourth place out of the six workforce competing whereas the ladies’s squad got here in sixth.
As for Vanderbilt, their girls’s workforce is at the moment 2-5. Most not too long ago, they fell 165-128 at San Diego and haven’t gained a standard meet since they defeated McKendree on November 1. However, earlier than the Commodores go to Carbondale, on Friday, Jan. 16, they play host Kentucky and Texas A&M.
Special Olympics Meet Saturday’s meet versus Vanderbilt can be SIU’s Special Olympics meet, that includes The Big Muddy Crew, a regional workforce of Special Olympics – Illinois. Athletes from The Big Muddy Crew might be highlighted on the meet and can partake in a 25-yard exhibition in the course of the first break within the meet. Additionally, a Chuck-a-Duck fundraiser will run all meet lengthy, and the Chuck-a-Duck competitors might be held in the course of the meet’s second break. All fundraised cash will go in the direction of Special Olympics – Illinois.
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