Dyer and Zannella Earn High Marks on Final Day of SEC Championships
2/22/2025 8:48:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving
ATHENS, Ga. – University of Missouri swimming and diving concluded the 2025 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships with their highest finishes of the competition. The Mizzou men earned 362.5 points while the women brought home 398, with both squads netting 10th place finishes.
Men's diving was well represented in the platform finals with three Tigers scoring points. Collier Dyer and Tommaso Zannella scored career bests and finished fourth and tied for fifth, respectively. Dyer hit 417.90 and moved into the third highest mark in program history. Zanella's 392.20 ranks seventh all time.
Freshman Derek Colbert scored 327.05 in the final coming in 14th place. Deacon Colbert rounded out Mizzou's efforts with a 284.45 score to finish in 24th place.
Zara Zallen completed her preliminary swim in the women's 100 free in 48.14, the fourth quickest time in program history, qualifying her for the A-final. She finished in 6th place with a 48.31 swim. Graduate student Sierra Smith swam 49.19 in the final to land in 24th place.
The women's long-distance squad showed out in the women's 1650 free, with all three Tigers setting top 10 program times. Sophomore Zoe Schneider set the third fastest time in program history touching the wall in 16:13.62 and placing 14th. Peyton Drexler finished in 16:19.19, setting the fourth-fastest swim in Mizzou history and taking 16th place. Not far behind, Danielle Gleason landed in 19th place with a 16:20.06 swim and the sixth-fastest time in program history.
Jibran Himsieh also set a top ten time in the men's 1650 free. Himsieh finished his swim in 15:21.82 to get the seventh-fastest time in program history.
Making his second finals appearance of his first conference championships, Luke Nebrich finished in 22nd in the men's 100 free (42.66). His qualifying time of 42.53 set in prelims is the fifth fastest in Mizzou history. Grant Bochenski followed in 24th place with a 43.09 swim. Bochenski swam 42.73 in prelims to set the program's seventh-fastest time.
The men's and women's 400 free relays both hit season bests and NCAA B-Cut qualifying times. On the women's side, Zallen, Katie Kuehn, Karolina Bank and Smith raced a 3:15.03 and finished eighth. Francois Malherbe, Bochenski, Ethan Vance and Nebrich put up a 2:50.28 in the men's competition and finished ninth.
Holley Dennis closed out her last conference championships with a 2:14.10 swim in the women's 200 breast to come in 16th place.
In his first finals appearance of the meet, John Watson finished 22nd in the men's 200 breast with a time of 1:55.50.
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