Swimming and Diving Sweeps Vanderbilt and McKendree in Double Twin

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri swimming and diving dominated their double twin competitors at Mizzou Aquatic Center sweeping 16 occasions towards Vanderbilt and McKendree.

Mizzou’s ladies staff beat Vanderbilt 236-57 and McKendree 244-40 and the lads’s staff gained 213.5-85.5 towards McKendree. Both squads enhance to 3-0 towards McKendree, and the ladies’s squad strikes to 3-0 over Vanderbilt.

“I’m very proud of how the athletes put the focus on organizing, implementing and executing their processes from the moment they showed up this morning through the entire meet,” Mizzou Head Coach Andrew Grevers mentioned. “The Tigers focused on the right things and are growing and getting better because of it. We seem to have our heads in the right place as we look forward to the Mizzou Invite in three weeks.”

For the ladies, Zara Zallen recorded two wins within the freestyle column, one within the 200 free (1:47.60) and the opposite within the 100 free (49.22). Karolina Bank additionally scored first in 100 breast (1:00.10) and 200 breast (2:14.10).

Freshman, Libby Bakker dominated within the 100 again (54.21) and 200 again (1:58.12). Zoe Schneider took away her first two wins of the season within the 500 free (4:49.62) and 400 IM (4:15.70).

Transfers continued to indicate out for the Tigers with Quinlan Gould including a pair of wins, scoring gold in 200 again (1:44.16) and 100 again (46.47). Sophomore Brady Johnson earned his first wins as a Tiger within the 100 breast (53.73) and as a part of the 400 free relay (2:53.29).

Woodbury, Minn. native, Matthew Mortenson picked up his first pair of collegiate wins within the 200 breast (1:57.87) and 400 IM (3:50.28).

Collier Dyer tallied two victories on the day, the primary in 1-meter diving (369.83) and the opposite on 3-meter (362.63). For the ladies, Gabriela San Juan Carmona gained 3-meter diving (316.50) and Mia Henninger took gold in 1-meter diving (289.58).

The Tigers additionally swept relays to start and end the meet, with ladies’s 200 medley relay taking the gold with a 1:37.82 time and a 3:20.14 400 free relay end. The males’s staff additionally took each occasions, clocking in at 1:25.20 for the 200 medley relay and a pair of:53.29 for the 400 free.

NOTABLE RESULTS

• Luke Nebrich took victories in 50 free (19.03) and 100 free (42.59).
• Francois Malherbe reached gold in 200 free (1:38.14).
• Peyton Drexler dominated in 1000 free, recording a time of 9:52.65 and profitable the occasion.
• Grace Hanson took a win in 50 free with a time of 23.42.
• Maeve DeYoung capitalized within the 200 fly, hitting a time of 1:59.40 and taking gold within the race.
• Jan Zubik earned gold in 200 fly with a 1:41.99 time.
• Paige Striley reached a time of 53.21 in 100 fly and achieved first.

UP NEXT

The Tigers’ diving staff heads to Atlanta, Georgia, to compete within the Georgia Tech Invitational, November 13-15. Swim will subsequent compete on the Mizzou Invite, hosted in Columbia, November 20-22.

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