Milligan Swimming Claims 4 Extra College Data, Two Nationwide Runners-Up

ELKHART, Ind. – Milligan University’s swimming applications continued their battle for supremacy on the NAIA Swimming and Diving Championships in Elkhart, Ind., because the penultimate day noticed 4 new faculty data set, in addition to a pair of nationwide runner-up finishes, plus way more.

To start the day, Abigail Maniace posted a season-best swim within the prelims of the 100 Butterfly, through which she certified seventh for the ultimate with a time of 57.29. Madison Akbari and Mary Grace Bitting additionally posted finals {qualifications}, as Akbari’s PB mark of 57.66 positioned her 10^th in prelims. Bitting got here in 12^th with a season-best time of 57.78 to qualify for the finals.

The males’s 100 Butterfly preliminaries noticed a trio of qualifiers for the finals, as effectively, as Christoph Haenel posted a school-record mark of 47.77 to achieve the ultimate. Sergio Tudor certified eighth by swimming a 48.59 to set a brand new personal-best. RJ Brumit got here in 12^th with a 49.36 PB throughout prelims, incomes a spot within the ‘B’ last later within the night.

Katelyn Williams swam a 4:56.59 within the ladies’s 400 Individual Medley, putting 29^th.

Nathaniel Halloran was capable of qualify for the ultimate within the males’s 400 IM, clocking in at 4:05.40, which was a personal-best time to put him 12^th within the preliminaries.

Two swimmers for Milligan took half within the ladies’s 200 Freestyle prelims, as Emily Newman certified 11^th for the ultimate spherical on a swim of 1:55.17 to set a private finest. Riley Renaud additionally swam the occasion, reaching a time of 1:58.54 to put 23^rd.

Michael Rinaldi and Gellert Szedlak swam within the males’s 200 Free, as the previous certified 13^th for the ultimate with a PB time of 1:39.80. Szedlak got here in 21^st and set a season-best time of 1:40.97.

Milligan’s males noticed three rivals attain the finals with sturdy performances within the preliminaries, in addition to one different efficiency in prelims. Caleb Fry’s 53.76 put him in second as his teammate Elijah Holliman earn a seventh-place qualification for the ultimate on a personal-best 55.13 clip. Robert Adam additionally swam into the ultimate with a 13^th-place displaying of 55.59. Andrew Dawson got here in 23^rd with a time of 57.25 within the occasion.

Mia Windham (14^th, 58.55) and Emily Dubes (15^th, 58.75, PB) each certified for the finals within the ladies’s 100 Backstroke, whereas Abbie Christensen (20^th, 59.15) and Emily Haas (25^th, 1:00.05, SB) additionally competed.

Paxton Smith would then qualify for the ultimate within the males’s 100 Back, as he had the fifth-fastest time within the prelims at 49.26, a personal-best. Brumit would come away with a 22^nd-place end on a career-best clip of 51.38.

Then, within the finals, the ladies’s 100 Fly noticed Maniace place sixth to develop into an All-American for the primary time in her collegiate profession with a time of 57.07, which was additionally a Milligan file time. Akbari and Bitting positioned 12^th and 15^th, respectively, with instances of 57.59 (PB) and 57.86.

The males’s 100 Fly noticed Haenel shatter his faculty file for the second time on the day, as he touched the wall in 47.49 to conclude the occasion because the NAIA runner-up within the occasion. Tudor’s time of 48.70 was adequate for 10^th, whereas Brumit set a personal-best of 49.08 to finish up in 12^th place.

Halloran’s 400 IM swim within the last spherical equaled a time of 4:03.77, which was a personal-best mark and earned him 14^th place.

Newman ended up 12^th for the ladies within the 200 Free, clocking a personal-best 1:54.83 within the ‘B’ last.

Rinaldi closed out the boys’s 200 Free with a time of 1:40.11 to set a brand new private file, as he positioned 13^th within the last.

The males’s 100 Breaststroke noticed Fry unleash a stellar 53.43 to finish up because the runner-up within the nation and set a brand new Milligan file. It additionally sealed his program-record 10^th all-time NAIA All-American honor. Holliman additionally earned All-America standing, swimming a personal-best 55.10 to put eighth total. In the ‘B’ last, Adam ended up in 11^th with a time of 55.38, which was additionally his personal-best clip.

Both Windham and Dubes ended up as ‘B’ last finishers within the ladies’s 100 Back for the Buffaloes in 12^th and 16^th, respectively. A 58.56 and a 59.18 earned them these slots.

Smith clocked in at 49.09 to set a private finest within the males’s 100 Back. He grew to become an All-American within the occasion with that effort.

The last occasion of the day for each genders was the 400 Medley Relay, as Milligan’s ladies included Windham, Teagan Jose, Maniace and Akbari. They ended up 11^th with a time of three:56.93.

Capping off the day with a bang have been the boys, because the 400 Medley Relay group included Smith, Fry, Haenel and Rinaldi. They teamed as much as place fifth, incomes All-American standing as a squad and setting a brand new Milligan file mark of three:15.66.

The last day of the competitors takes place on Saturday, as the boys stay within the No. 3 spot within the standings with 254 factors, simply three factors again of Cumberlands (Ky.) for second. The ladies are nonetheless in eighth place, totaling 113 factors. Saturday’s occasions embody the 1650 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 100 Freestyle, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Butterfly and the 400 Freestyle Relay.

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