Women’s Swimming and Diving Locations Third on the NSIC Championships

FARGO, N.D. – Avery Lommel and Ava Brogren every earned NSIC Championships on the ultimate day of the NSIC Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. The Vikings completed the weekend in third with 618 factors. Maija Kangas earned Elite 18 and Outstanding Senior of the Year honors and Lommel was named NSIC Diver of the Meet for the second consecutive season.

Lommel dominated within the 1m dive, posting 422.25 factors within the prelim and 439.85 factors within the remaining, hitting a D2-mark and pacing the sphere by practically 17 factors. It is the third consecutive season that Lommel has gained the 1m dive. 

It was Brogren’s day within the 100 IM, caring for enterprise from begin to end on her strategy to an occasion championship. She swam the quickest prelim time within the morning, posting a 58.42. In the nightcap, she outdid herself by ending in a time of 58.20, over a half second quicker than second place. 

To finish the evening, Brogren, Margaret Reed, Nathalia Silva and Sofia Hein captured an All-NSIC honor within the 400 Free Relay. The crew zoomed to a second place end with a time of three:29.12. Maria Presuss, Kangas, Tova Bilkre and Jisella Haskamp raced to a Thirteenth-place end within the B-Final after posting a 3:35.12.

Gracin Larson additionally claimed a spot within the A-Final of the 100 IM and had a 1:00.16 to put eighth. Two Vikings earned factors within the B-Final as nicely to assist enhance the Viking whole. Jisella Haskamp and Ella Ward-Zeller have been neck and neck, ending fifteenth and sixteenth with instances of 1:01.34 and 1:01.48, respectively. 

Three Vikings scored factors within the B-Final of the 100 Free as AU continued a monster day. Hein, Silva and Reed every competed Saturday evening and packed to the end. Hein completed in eleventh place with a time of 52.77, Silva took twelfth in 52.89 and Reed had a 53.20 to put Thirteenth. 

In the 200 Back, three extra Vikings tallied factors whereas competing within the B-Final. Tova Blikre had a 2:07.12, the third highest B whole to put eleventh. In twelfth was Larson, whose 2:07.70 put her proper behind. Ward-Zeller ended the evening in fifteenth, putting 2:09.12 to spherical out the occasion. 

Brogren additionally earned an A-Final spot within the 200 Breast after having the third-fastest prelim time. She closed out her particular person performances with a 2:23.09 time to earn a fourth-place end. Preuss had the highest spot within the B-Final with a time of two:26.65 whereas Jisella Haskamp had a 2:27.68 to put twelfth. Abbey Nynas and Ylva Konings completed ninth and tenth, respectively, within the 1650 Free to complete off the person performances. 

The crew will await NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships picks to see who will head to Evansville, Indiana, March 10-14.