Swimming Posts Season Greatest Occasions in 800-Free Relay on First Evening of GLVC Championships – University of Missouri

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Missouri-St. Louis males’s and ladies’s swimming groups opened competitors on the Great Lakes Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships on Tuesday night on the Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind.

The ladies completed fourth within the 800-free relay whereas the lads have been eighth.

The quartet of Justice Beard, Kelsey Roth, Ella Lantz and Libby Smith swam a season finest time of seven:35.83 taking almost two seconds off their seed time. Beard swam the opening leg in a time of 1:49.00, Roth adopted with a break up of 1:56.81, Lantz posted a time of 1:53.77 and Smith swam the anchor leg in a time of 1:56.81. UMSL’s second crew within the occasion of Kayla Rompala, Madison Bottorff, Aeri La and Uxue Ortiz de Pinedo completed third within the second warmth of the occasion and thirteenth total with a time of seven:55.89 which was 4.77 seconds higher than its seed time.

The Tritons are fourth total within the standings with 80 factors as Beard, Roth, Lantz and Smith scored 52 factors whereas the crew of Rompala, Bottorff, La and Ortiz de Pinedo picked up 28 factors..

For the lads, the quartet of Mattia Nardi, Aaron Wicklund, Donald Saunders and Mikael Larsson completed eighth within the occasion with a time of 6:43.57 dropping almost eight seconds from its seed time and scored 44 crew factors. The second foursome of Gentry Comstock, Joan Cortadellas Llubera, Owen Frick and Carson Ring completed fifteenth total in a time of 6:53:13 knocking off over eight seconds off its seed time and scored a further 24 factors.

The Tritons are tied for fifth place with Rockhurst at 68 factors and path Missouri S&T for fourth by six factors.

Drury holds the lead on the ladies’s aspect after the primary day with 96 factors whereas McKendree leads on the lads’s aspect with 94 factors.

Wednesday’s competitors on the Deaconess Aquatic Center options the 200-yard particular person medley, 50-yard freestyle, 1,000-yard freestyle and 200-yard medley relay. There shall be two preliminary rounds within the morning for the 200-IM and 50-free, whereas the opposite two occasions shall be straight finals. Prelim motion begins at 10 a.m. with the finals session scheduled to get underway at 5:30 p.m.