Two all-conference relays lead approach on opening night time of MIAC Swimming & Diving Championships

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The St. Olaf College males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups received their showings on the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Swimming & Diving Championships underneath approach on Wednesday night on the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatic Center.

St. Olaf’s ladies’s 200-yard medley and 800-yard freestyle relays each turned in All-MIAC performances with their third-place finishes on the opening night time of the four-day meet to place the Oles in a tie for third out of 9 groups with 64 factors. The Ole males completed the night time in sixth of six groups with 58 factors with two top-five relay finishes however had no qualifiers within the three-meter diving.

Sophomore Olivia Small, junior Alana Schmitzer, sophomore McKenna Hultgren, and junior Katie Homme began the night time by holding off two different groups by lower than three-tenths of a second to put third within the 200-yard medley relay (1:46.27). Small and Homme had been each a part of the Oles’ All-MIAC quartet within the occasion for the second 12 months in a row.

Later, sophomore Sawyer Eastman, sophomore McKelvey McDaniel, Schmitzer, and senior Paige Steenblock took third within the 800-yard freestyle relay (7:51.17) to put up St. Olaf’s second All-MIAC end of the night time.

For the lads, senior Aiden Yung, senior Nick Starcevich, junior Jack Homme, and junior Luke Williams claimed Honorable Mention All-MIAC honors with a fourth-place end within the 200-yard medley relay (1:34.34), ending lower than two-tenths of a second out of second place. Sophomore Travis Elling, first 12 months Eoin Porrata, Williams, and Yung had been fifth within the 800-yard freestyle relay (7:11.14) with an eight-second enchancment on their seed time.

Day two of the meet will start with a prelims session at 10:30 a.m. adopted by a finals session at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12.