NCAA Swimming & Diving: Friday Preliminary Session Report

EVANSVILLE, Ind.— The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks certified three ladies for the championship finals and may have eight swimmers within the comfort finals after faring effectively through the Friday morning session on the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships right here within the Deaconess Aquatics Center.
 
Additionally, the Mavericks certified all 4 of their males’s divers for the 3-meter championship ultimate and will likely be represented in all 11 of the occasion finals that will likely be contested on Friday night, beginning at 5:30 p.m. CDT (4:30 p.m. Mountain), together with the lads’s and girls’s 200 free relays.
 
Here’s an event-by-event breakdown of the Mavericks’ efforts from the preliminary rounds.
 
500 Free
 
Olivia Hansson and Hanna Sasivarevic each snagged spots within the ladies’s championship ultimate.  Hansson gained her warmth and certified third in 4:52.84 whereas Sasivarevic completed eighth in 4:54.83.
 
On the lads’s aspect, Jonas Friess registered a career-best of 4:24.98 to take 13^th within the preliminaries and snag a lane within the comfort ultimate.  His time additionally allowed him to maneuver up two spots to seventh in CMU historical past.  He was seeded 22^nd on the pre-meet psych sheet.

Gavyn Tatge completed 27^th in 4:30.56 whereas Ben Vester was 29^th in 4:31.62.
 
Meanwhile, Maya Clise completed 35^th within the ladies’s preliminaries with a time of 5:10.77.
 
100 Backstroke
 
Taylar Hooton additionally claimed a championship ultimate spot, qualifying fifth in 54.75 seconds.

Freshman Abby Uhl completed 29^th in 56.59 seconds.
 
Meanwhile, each Maverick males certified for the comfort ultimate.  Luka Samsonov completed the preliminaries in 12^th place with a time of 47.71 seconds whereas Richard Schmiedefeld continued his robust week with a 15^th place time of 47.79, which strikes him up a spot to sixth in program historical past. The German was seeded 23^rd earlier than the meet whereas Samsnov was seeded 11^th.
 
100 Breaststroke
 
Melina Giraudeau completed tenth within the preliminary heats with a time of 1:02.16, simply off her career-best of 1:02.10 and can swim within the comfort finals for a 3rd straight evening after doing so in each of the person medleys on Wednesday and Thursday.
 
Antonia Leese was the Mavs’ different entrant within the ladies’s half of the occasion and completed 29^th in 1:04.18.

Meanwhile, Aron Jonsson and Marcos Otero each snagged spots within the comfort ultimate as each improved on their pre-meet seeds.  Jonsson completed the preliminaries in 12^th with a time of 54.05.  Otero additionally moved up two spots from his pre-meet No. 18 seed to take 16^th and seize the final scoring spot.  He was timed in 54.38 seconds.
 
Brodie Khajuria additionally competed, ending 24^th in 55.23 seconds.
 
200 Butterfly
 
Freshman Eva Lehmkuhler snagged the ultimate spot within the comfort ultimate, putting 16^th within the preliminary heats with a time of two:04.30.  She additionally edged senior teammate Kiara Borchardt, who would be the first alternate after ending 17^th in 2:04.38.
 
Sydnee O’Neil and Tori Bartusiak additionally completed in consecutive locations as O’Neil took 22^nd in 2:04.76 whereas Bartusiak was twenty third after touching in 2:05.43.
 
On the lads’s aspect, Micah Moore took 15^th within the preliminaries with a time of 1:46.21, simply off his season-best of 1:45.83.  He would be the Mavs’ lone consultant within the finals.
 
Fellow NCAA Championship newcomers Nathan Knobelspiesse and Ethan Gluck completed 28^th and 30^th, respectively.  Knobelspiesse was timed in 1:48.88 whereas Gluck touched in 1:49.43.
 
Men’s 3-Meter Diving
 
The Mavericks had an excellent efficiency as all 4 of the lads completed amongst the highest eight of the 18-man area within the 3-meter diving preliminaries.
 
Ryan Campbell, who took second in Wednesday’s evening’s 1-meter ultimate, led the best way, scoring 529.55 factors on 11 dives.  Freshman Giani Benoit additionally completed effectively, putting with 498.60 factors.
 
David Roethlisberger (497.55) and Jax Juarros (494.05) had been proper behind in sixth and seventh, respectively.