Swim and Dive hosts Southern Illinois for Senior Day Saturday

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri swimming and diving will host Southern Illinois for his or her last twin meet of the season on Saturday (Jan. 31) at Mizzou Aquatic Center.

The Tigers will have a good time their 2026 graduating class consisting of eight seniors. The senior day ceremony will begin at 9:45 a.m. earlier than competitors begins at 10 a.m.

The squads are coming off a street journey to Kentucky (Jan. 10) the place the ladies got here away with a win over the Wildcats 180-120. The MU males fell in a carefully contested twin, 168.5-131.5.

Admission is free and open to the general public. With stay outcomes obtainable by way of Meet Mobile and DiveMeets. Additionally, the meet might be streamed by way of SEC Network+.

AGAINST SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

• The MU males path the Salukis 23-21 all time, whereas the Missouri ladies carry a 24-12 sequence lead into Saturday’s meet.
• The Tigers final confronted the Salukis on Nov. 3, 2023, on the St. Peters Rec-Plex.
• Mizzou’s males received 171.5-107.5 whereas the ladies got here away with a 188-108 win.

LAST TIME OUT: KENTUCKY

• The ladies’s 50 free podium was swept by Francesca Smith in first at 22.79 adopted by Katie Kuehn in second (23.25) and Haiden Schoessel in third (23.30).
• Zara Zallen secured gold in each the ladies’s 200 and 100 free races. She completed in 1:47.03 within the 200 and 48.90 within the 100.
• Oliver Millán de Miguel picked up his first win as a Tiger within the males’s 200 free. The Spain native, took first with a time of 1:37.15.
• Maeve DeYoung and Kylee Sullivan took the highest two finishes within the ladies’s 200 fly with DeYoung in first at 1:59.75 and Sullivan in second with 2:00.30.
• Jan Zubik earned a first-place end within the males’s 200 fly with a 1:43.11 swim and was adopted by Matthew Judkins in second at 1:44.65.
• The Tiger ladies swept the rostrum within the 100 fly ending with Paige Striley in first (53.92), Sullivan in second (54.06) and Annabelle Wentzel in third (55.10). Zubik and Judkins repeated their finishes within the males’s 100 fly with occasions of 47.04 and 47.30, respectively.
• Tommaso Zannella secured first in males’s 3-meter diving with a 353.03 efficiency whereas Tanner Braunton received males’s 1-meter diving placing up 348.38.
• Gabriela San Juan Carmona topped the ladies’s 3-meter podium with a rating of 343.65.
• Mizzou received each 100 again occasions in opposition to Kentucky. Libby Bakker secured gold on the ladies’s facet with a time of 53.67 whereas Quinlan Gould received in 46.41 for the boys.
• Karolina Bank picked up a pair of wins in each ladies’s breaststroke occasions. The senior received the 100 breast in 1:00.14 and the 200 breast in 2:11.86.
• Matthew Mortenson secured a win within the males’s 200 breast with a time of 1:58.61.

UP NEXT

The Tigers head to Knoxville, Tennessee to compete within the 2026 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships, February 16-21. Prelims will start at 9:30 a.m., adopted by finals at 5:30 p.m., every day.

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