Swim and Dive Falls at Missouri in Ultimate Meet Earlier than Conference Championships

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Saturday afternoon was Southern Illinois swim and dive’s ultimate meet earlier than the 2026 Missouri Valley Conference Championships because the Salukis visited Missouri. Both Southern groups fell to the Tigers, with the ladies’s squad dropping 198-91 whereas the boys fell 195-97. 

How it Happened

Southern began the meet with each the boys’s and ladies’s 400-medley relay workforce inserting third. Individual occasions began with the 1000-freestyle, the place Lívia Munkácsi-Nagy was the runner-up on the ladies’s facet and two Saluki podiumed within the males’s occasion. 

 

After Susy Hernandez, Alex Cimera, and Rodrigo Ramos Chávez all completed top-three within the girls’s and males’s 200-freestyle, Liseska Gallegos Gutierrez introduced SIU its first win of the day within the 100-backstroke. Willem Huggins adopted go well with by successful the boys’s facet of the occasion.

 

Olivia Herron positioned second within the girls’s 100-breaststroke, and Tiago Faleiros got here in third within the males’s model of the occasion. Brooklyn Anderson was the lone Saluki within the top-three of the ladies’s 200-butterfly, taking second. The Salukis wouldn’t see one other medalist till the ladies’s 100-freestyle when Hernandez positioned second.

 

Gallegos added one other win to her complete within the girls’s 200-backstroke whereas Huggins rounded out the occasion’s males’s podium. Herron and Madalyn Booker bookended the ladies’s 200-breaststroke whereas two male swimmers claimed spots on the rostrum within the males’s occasion. Joshua Aceves then stood on the rostrum for the primary time this afternoon after snagging third place within the males’s 500-freestyle. 

 

In diving occasions, Oliver Mebs, Lucas Lauzon, and Ron Latwis stuffed the highest three for the three-meter dive. Back to swimming occasions, Herron received as soon as extra within the 200-IM, and Juraj Barcot and Nate Worsham got here in second and third on the boys’s facet of the occasion. The day concluded with the 400-freestyle relay, wherein the ladies’s “A” squad positioned second and the boys’s high workforce rounded out their podium. 

 

Up Next

The Salukis now have almost a month to organize for the MVC Championships, which occur from February 25-28 in Evansville, Indiana. 

 

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