COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Mizzou men's and women's swimming and diving teams set two school records Tuesday (Feb. 16) during day one action of the 2016 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships at the Mizzou Aquatics Center. The men sit second 151 points, while the women are seventh with 122 points.
The Auburn men (170) lead the field, followed by Mizzou, Florida (145), Tennessee (141), Alabama (140), Texas A&M (136), Georgia (122), Kentucky (114), South Carolina (114) and LSU (105). On the women's side, Kentucky is in first with 154 points, while Tennessee is second (154), Georgia third (149), LSU fourth (133), Texas A&M fifth (132) and Florida sixth (127). After Mizzou in seventh are South Carolina (112) and Arkansas (112) in eighth, Auburn in 10th, Alabama in 11th and Vanderbilt in 12th.
Mizzou opened the meet with a good day in the diving well, as three Tigers advanced to Tuesday night finals. On men's 3-meter, senior Clark Thomas placed sixth and freshman Kyle Goodwin finished eighth, with finals scores of 386.95 and 364.25, respectively. In prelims, Thomas notched a season-high 418.75 points, his highest total on the board since last year's SEC Championships.
The Tiger women earned points from sophomore Madeline McKernan in the women's 1-meter final, as she took eighth with a score of 293.10, which bettered her prelims tally of 280.15.
In the first swimming race of the event, the women's 200 medley relay team of junior Nadine Laemmler, redshirt senior Abby Duncan, freshman Maddie Gehrke and sophomore Hannah Stevens clocked a school record time of 1:36.42 to place fourth overall.
Mizzou's men's 200 medley relay team of senior Dillon Love, juniors Fabian Schwingenschlogl and Andrew Sansoucie and redshirt senior Matthew Margritier finished fifth after a swim of 1:24.88.
The Tiger men clocked their first school record of the meet in the 800 free relay, where junior Michael Chadwick, freshman Mikel Schreuders and juniors Nick Davis and Carter Griffin recorded a time of 6:19.17, more than three and a half seconds faster than the old mark.
In the women's 800 free relay, the squad of senior Anna Patterson and sophomores Sharli Brady, Rachel Hayden and Kira Zubar placed ninth overall in an NCAA 'B' time of 7:08.65.
Mizzou continues day two action at the SEC Championships Wednesday with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m.
2016 SEC Championships Day One Results
Women's 200 Medley Relay
4. Laemmler, Duncan, Gehrke, Stevens (1:36.42)
Men's 200 Medley Relay
5. Love, Schwingenschlogl, Sansoucie, Margritier (1:24.88)
Women's 1-Meter
8. Madeline McKernan (293.10 finals; 280.15 prelims)
19. Alexa Beckwith (247.10 prelims)
23. Payton Conrad (237.95 prelims)
38. Kendra Kieser (213.20 prelims)
Men's 3-Meter
6. Clark Thomas (386.95 finals; 418.75 prelims)
8. Kyle Goodwin (364.25 finals; 367.35 prelims)
23. Elliot Cecil (282.60)
24. Hunter Fritter (275.10)
Women's 800 Free Relay
9. Laemmler, Duncan, Gehrke, Stevens (7:08.65)
Men's 800 Free Relay
4. Chadwick, Schreuders, Davis, Griffin (6:19.17)
