Drury Ladies’s Swimming and Diving Drops Season-Opening Twin to Arkansas

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Drury ladies’s swimming and diving opened its 2025-26 season with a Friday afternoon twin in opposition to Arkansas, which turned in a powerful all-around efficiency to earn a 185.5 to 56.5 choice over the Panthers at Breech Pool.

“Swimming against an NCAA Division I, SEC school, so my assessment is based more on the work we’ve put in the first few weeks of school,” head coach Brian Reynolds acknowledged. “Not necessarily the outcome. We had a number of close finishes for second and third place, but this is a young squad, and the results aren’t necessarily indicative of the talent we have or where we’ll end up in March, so we have to press the process and continue to work.”

“Ma Fe (Maria Fe Munoz) stood out today, without a doubt,” Reynolds added. “She’s a senior leader here. We graduated so much power last year and we have so many younger competitors who are just now learning the effort levels and the things you have to do to compete at a high level, and that’s going to take some time. The stars that we graduated last year were very similar to some of these younger swimmers we have now, and they went from non-scoring Division II athletes to being at the top of the podium. I expect a number of these girls to be in that same category, but it just doesn’t happen early on like today.”

HIGHLIGHTS

• Drury freshman Petra Baumane (23.88) and senior Ashlyn Moore (24.26) completed second and third, respectively within the 50 free, whereas junior Anastasiia Yermishyna (24.36) positioned fourth.
• Moore additionally logged a fourth-place end within the 100 free and anchored the Panthers’ 200 medley relay group (1:45.66) that positioned second.
• Munoz (2:05.45) took second as DU’s highest finisher within the 200 IM, along with a third-place end within the 200 fly (2:05.22) and becoming a member of Moore on the Panthers’ second-place run within the 200 medley relay.
• Freshman Araceli Rose completed fourth within the 200 fly, logging a swim of two:06.34.
• Sophomore Belen Morales took second in each the 200 free (1:51.45) and 500 free (5:20.63), whereas additionally becoming a member of the Panthers’ efforts within the 200 medley relay.
• Sophomore Nikol Maniko positioned fourth within the 200 again, clocking in at 2:05.26, and helped DU to a second-place end within the 200 medley relay as effectively.
• Senior Gwen Bergum got here by way of with a second-place end within the 200 breast with a time of two:23.21, whereas additionally contributing to the Panthers’ second-place relay effort within the 200 medley.

UP NEXT

Drury swimming will compete within the SMU Classic subsequent weekend (Oct. 10-11) in Dallas, whereas the Panthers divers will journey to Clarion, Pa., for the Don Leas Invitational (Oct. 10) and Clarion Fall Classic (Oct. 11).

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