University of Missouri
Mizzou Invite
@MizzouSwimDive Sweeps Mizzou Invite Team Titles
11/18/2017 9:15:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Mizzou swimming and diving teams closed out the Mizzou Invite Saturday with five more team records as both the men's and women's Tiger teams took home team titles. The Missouri men accumulated 1,411 points to nab the win, while the women scored 1,391.5 points.
Senior Sharli Brady (Burlington, Kentucky) and juniors Annie Ochitwa (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) and Jacob Wielinski (Mounds View, Minnesota) all broke Mizzou school records during Saturday action. Brady's was her third in as many days, as she also set marks on Thursday and Friday.
In the team competition, the men bested five other teams, including Drury (683.5), Wyoming (671.50), Oklahoma Baptist (419), South Dakota State (352) and Cincinnati (67). The women's finished ahead of Nebraska (774.5), Wyoming (486), Drury (378), Illinois (339), UC Davis (276), Oklahoma Baptist (107), South Dakota State (100), Iowa State (45), Cincinnati (40) and Nebraska-Omaha (2).
KEY PERFORMERS
Brady concluded her record-breaking meet with a school mark in the 200 fly Saturday evening. She clocked a 1:54.56 in finals to take down her old record of 1:54.60 set a year ago. Brady also claimed Mizzou records in the 200 IM (1:55.55) and 400 IM (4:04.37) during the three-day Mizzou Invite.
Ochitwa, who claimed three event titles in the Invite, nabbed her first Mizzou record in Saturday prelims. The junior went 47.58 in the 100 free to take down the old Tiger mark of 47.76 set by Shara Stafford in 2012. She won the 100 free in finals with a time of 48.05 to go along with wins in the 50 free and 100 fly.
The men's 1650 free also went down on Saturday, as Wielinski shattered Mizzou's old record. The junior notched a 14:59.10, just off his personal best 14:59.09, to break Missouri's previous mark by over seven seconds. During the race, he also took down the Tigers' 1000 free record with a 9:03.43.
The Tiger women closed the night with Mizzou's 10th school record of the meet in the 400 free relay. Senior Erin Metzger-Seymour (Westminster, Colorado), freshman Sammie Jo Porter (Flower Mound, Texas), senior Hannah Stevens (Lexington, Ohio) and Ochitwa clocked a 3:15.53 in the race for the new record.
QUOTABLES
Mizzou Head Coach Greg Rhodenbaugh
"Today we were kind of up and down, great morning, up and down finals. We're asking them to perform at such a high level that it comes down to hundredths and tenths of seconds. I'm really proud of how they rallied and stayed after it the whole meet."
SCHOOL RECORDS
- Annie Ochitwa – 100 Free (47.58)
- Jacob Wielinski – 1650 Free (14:59.10)
- Jacob Wielinski - 1000 Free (9:03.43)
- Sharli Brady – 200 Fly (1:54.56)
- Women's 400 Free Relay – Sammie Jo Porter, Erin Metzger-Seymour, Hannah Stevens, Annie Ochitwa (3:15.53)
MIZZOU WINNERS
- Women's 1650 Free – Kira Zubar (16:09.51)
- Men's 1650 Free – Jacob Wielinski (14:59.10)
- Women's 200 Back – Hannah Stevens (1:52.31)
- Men's 200 Back – Daniel Hein (1:42.37)
- Women's 100 Free – Annie Ochitwa (48.05)
- Men's 100 Free – Mikel Schreuders (42.86)
- Women's 200 Breast – Lauren Savoy (2:11.35)
- Women's 200 Fly – Sharli Brady (1:54.56)
- Men's 200 Fly – Micah Slaton (1:43.08)
- Women's 400 Free Relay – Sammie Jo Porter, Erin Metzger-Seymour, Hannah Stevens, Annie Ochitwa (3:15.53)
- Men's 400 Free Relay – Luke Mankus, Mikel Schreuders, Sam Coffman, Giovanny Lima (2:51.86)
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