Two Extra Data Fall for Valpo Friday at MVC Championships

Not solely did Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) and the Valpo males’s swimming 800 free relay higher program data Friday on the MVC Championships in Evansville, Ind., each swims met the ‘A’ lower for subsequent month’s CSCAA National Invitational Championship, establishing 5 Beacons to make the journey to Ocala, Fla. for postseason competitors subsequent month.
 
How It Happened

• With the 100 IM not being an MVC Championship occasion, Oostman had one shot at a time trial swim to qualify for the NIC and got here via with a time of 51.15, reducing his personal program document by nine-hundredths of a second and hitting the ‘A’ lower for the NIC by four-hundredths of a second.
• In Friday’s last occasion, the Valpo males’s 800 free quartet of Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden), Gabriel Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills), Nate Bolinger (Plainfield, Ind./Plainfield) and Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) made straightforward work of their very own program document from earlier this season, because the staff lined the gap in 6:39.51 to make the ‘A’ lower of the NIC by 27-hundredths of a second.
• The 800 free time bettered that quartet’s personal program document by 2.82 seconds and was over 11 seconds quicker than every other grouping of Valpo swimmers within the occasion all-time.
• Two of the swimmers concerned within the 800 free relay document had swam earlier within the night within the finals of the 200 fly. Martin completed in 20^th place with a last time of 1:52.16, whereas Bolinger PRed in each the prelims and the finals Friday, inserting 21^st within the last with a time of 1:52.69 to maneuver into fifth in program historical past within the occasion.
• Matthew Mantz (Spokane, Wash./Mead) additionally earned a spot within the finals of the 200 fly, ending in 24^th place.
• Four of the highest 5 spots in program historical past within the males’s 100 breast have been set on Friday, led by Gabe Vasquez (Houston, Texas/Memorial), who PRed twice and ended the day second all-time at Valpo with a time of 56.01, good for 14^th place.
• Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley) improved upon his third-fastest time in program historical past with a night swim of 56.05 to complete in 17^th place, whereas Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School) was proper behind Parker in 18^th place with a last time of 56.31 — fourth-fastest in program historical past. Ben Mettler (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) positioned 19^th within the finals following a prelim swim of 56.41, transferring as much as fifth all-time at Valpo within the occasion.
• Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit) matched Vasquez for the Beacons’ prime particular person end Friday as he positioned 14^th within the 100 again, touching the wall in 49.95 within the 100 again. Dustyn Starkey (New Carlisle, Ind./New Prairie) PRed twice in the identical occasion Friday, ending the day in fourth place all-time at Valpo with a time of fifty.67 within the last, good for 18^th place.
• On the ladies’s facet, three Beacons certified for finals within the 100 breast. Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks) and Roxanne Adams (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico/Homeschooled) completed tied for 19^th with matching last occasions of 1:07.80, after Adams had moved as much as ninth in program historical past within the occasion within the prelims with a time of 1:07.50. Brianne Flikkema (Bowling Green, Ky./Greenwood) completed 24^th in the identical occasion as effectively.
• Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) paced the Valpo contingent within the prelims of the 200 fly with a time of two:10.96, whereas Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina) did the identical within the 100 again with a time of 59.07.
• The girls’s 800 free relay staff — consisting of Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook), Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap), Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park) and Majo Suarez de la Fuente (Mexico City, Mexico/ITESM Preparatoria Tec Campus Santa Fe [Bethel]) — moved into fifth in program historical past with their time of seven:48.88 within the day’s last occasion.
• The Valpo males sit in eighth place after the third day of competitors with 290 factors, whereas the ladies are in ninth place with 185 factors.

 
Next Up
Valpo closes out the 2026 MVC Championships on Saturday — prelim swims start at 10:30 a.m. and last swims begin at 5:30 p.m. The girls’s heats of the 1650 free will happen after the prelims, whereas the boys’s 1650 free heats will happen previous to the night finals.