Drury Males’s Swimming Locations Fourth, Girls Fifth at SMU Invite

DALLAS — Drury males’s and girls’s swimming and diving wrapped up a profitable weekend on the SMU Invitational Saturday at Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center. The Drury males wrapped up a fourth-place end, whereas the ladies positioned fifth within the crew standings. 

Ranked No. 1 on this month’s College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Division II Top 25 twin meet ballot, the Drury males earned a complete of 429.5 factors to position fourth amongst seven groups. Stanford gained the occasion with 972 factors, whereas SMU was second with 833.5 factors and Utah positioned third with 717 factors. The Panthers completed forward of fifth-place Air Force (366.5), adopted by Hawaii (334.5) and Notre Dame (90).

 

The DU ladies’s squad, ranked third within the November CSCAA D-II ballot, recorded 354 factors to complete fifth amongst seven groups. Arkansas gained the meet with 1,072 factors, whereas Hawaii was second with 690.5 factors, whereas Utah was third with 629.5 factors and SMU (618) edged Drury for fourth. The Panthers completed forward of sixth-place North Texas (294) and Notre Dame (63).

 

Drury was the one Division II crew on each the lads’s and girls’s aspect of the competitors.

Highlighting the fourth day of competitors in Dallas had been large performances by each the DU women and men within the 200 IM and 100 free. Both Gwen Bergum (2:01.22) and Nikol Maniko (2:02.57) turned in top-five nationwide instances for the ladies within the 200 IM. On the lads’s aspect, Alvaro Zornoza clocked the highest mark within the nation this season (1:44.87), whereas Joao Nogueira additionally turned in an NCAA-qualifying time along with his swim of 1:47.29.

In the 100 free, Belen Morales posted a personal-best of 49.92 to take eighth, adopted intently by Ashlyn Moore with a provisional-qualifying swim of fifty.58 for the ladies. Lucas Mineur (43.30), Marwane Sebbata (43.54) and Yuri Cabral (44.13) every posted prime 10 nationwide instances for the DU males.

Drury additionally loved sturdy performances by its males’s and girls’s 400 free relay squads, which posted fourth and fifth-place finishes, respectively. The DU males’s crew, consisting of Sebbata, Zornoza, Matteo Vissotto and Mineur, delivered a time of two:51.78. The ladies’s squad, comprised of Morales, Whitney Stortz, Maniko and Moore, completed in 3:21.54.

Individually, Belhassen Ben miled logged the highest end for the Panthers, inserting fifth within the 200 fly (1:46.75). On the ladies’s ledger, Rianne Rose (2:02.88) earned a sixth-place end within the 200 fly.

In the lads’s 1650 free, Colby Hughes (15:24.38) and Matheus Siniscalchi (15:24.44) every registered top-five nationwide marks, inserting tenth and eleventh, respectively.

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Following an off week, the Panthers return to Breech Pool to host SBU and William Jewell in a double twin on Friday, Dec. 5.

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