Swim and Dive Sweeps UIC, Loses to Northwestern, Miami (OH) in Weekend Journey

CARBONDALE, Ill. – It was a busy weekend for Southern Illinois swim and dive, who was in motion on each Friday and Saturday. The Salukis began the weekend by sweeping UIC earlier than each the boys’s and ladies’s groups misplaced to Northwestern and Miami (OH) on Saturday. 

“Another good weekend of racing against three very good teams,” says head coach Geoff Hanson. “We were looking for individual and team improvement from last weekend to this weekend, and I believe we saw that overall. Several of our top performers showed their experience throughout the two days and our newcomers continued to learn and grow early in this season.” 

 

Friday @ UIC: Women’s W, 192-102 | Men’s W, 174-124

After the meet opened with the ladies’s three-meter dive and males’s one-meter dive, SIU received its first gold by taking the highest spot within the girls’s 200-yard medley relay. The males’s group then did the identical on their facet of the occasion. 

 

Moving to particular person swimming occasions, Lívia Munkácsi-Nagy continued her excellent begin to her freshman season and received the 1000-yard freestyle by over 16 seconds. Joshua Aceves then received the boys’s 1000-yard freestyle, adopted intently by Kyler Beights. Susana Hernandez then squeaked out a win within the girls’s 200-yard freestyle earlier than Alex Cimera received the boys’s model of the occasion by lower than 0.15 seconds. 

 

Another Saluki gold has achieved within the girls’s 100-yard backstroke, which Liseska Gallegos Gutierrez received; SIU swept the rostrum within the occasion as properly. The males’s group had comparable success, occupying all three spots on the boys’s 100-yard backstroke podium. 

 

In the ladies’s 100-yard breaststroke, Southern went one-two due to Olivia Herron and Madalyn Booker, as did Maddax Thompson and Tiago Faleiros within the males’s 100-yard breaststroke. Carter Ruthven then went and received the 200-yard butterfly earlier than Zaria Terry claimed the highest spot within the girls’s 50-yard freestyle. 

 

Following one other pair of diving occasions, SIU reached the highest of the rostrum once more within the girls’s 100-yard freestyle courtesy of Hernandez. Cimera, Rodrigo Ramos Chávez, and Nikolas Kosta went one-two-three within the males’s 100-yard freestyle. 

 

Both the ladies’s and males’s 200-yard backstroke noticed the Salukis sweep the podiums, and Herron, Booker, and Ellie Shaw carried the development over to the ladies’s 200-yard breaststroke. Ale Hoyos Horvath earned herself a gold medal within the girls’s 500-yard freestyle earlier than Herron added one other win to her resume within the girls’s 100-yard butterfly. Munkacsi-Nagy received as soon as once more within the girls’s 400-yard IM and Juraj Barcot picked up first within the males’s occasion. The meet ended by all 4 of the SIU 400-yard free relay groups selecting up podium finishes. 

 

Saturday @ Northwestern/Miami (OH): Women’s L, 218-76 vs. Northwestern, 174-120 vs. Miami (OH) | Men’s L, 242-58 vs. Northwestern, 200-99 vs. Miami (OH)

Southern’s first win on Saturday didn’t come till occasion 9, the ladies’s 100-yard backstroke, which Gallegos received. Two occasions later, Herron picked up one other win on the weekend within the girls’s 100-yard backstroke. Herron was answerable for Southern’s subsequent win as will, taking the crown within the girls’s 200-yard backstroke. The senior picked up received extra win, and SIU’s final on Saturday, within the girls’s 200-yard IM. 

 

Up Next

SIU get this upcoming weekend off as they now flip their sights in the direction of a girls’s meet versus Illinois and Illinois State on October 24 and 25. 

 

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