Mizzou vs Missouri State vs McKendree
- January 17-18, 2025
- Columbia, Mo.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Mizzou Athletics
COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri swimming and diving earned a pair of victories Saturday, sweeping a double dual with McKendree and Missouri State on Senior Day at Mizzou Aquatic Center. The Tigers won 26 events and earned their highest team scores of the season.
The Mizzou women scored 246.50 against McKendree and 232.00 against Missouri State. The MU men claimed 189.00 against McKendree and 228.00 against Missouri State to complete the sweep. The 2025 graduating class brought home three individual event wins and contributed to Mizzou’s relay sweep.
“Yesterday was a very non-traditional lineup and it’s really fun to make an athlete get up and race as hard as they can, then do it again four minutes later, so it was really fun and entertaining swimming,” Mizzou head coach Andrew Grevers said. “All three teams enjoyed it, the spectators got a great show and we had some great racing from our athletes. We utilized the opportunities to approach our races in slightly different ways, with a slightly different mindset and that set us up for today. We had athletes being more aggressive, we had athletes believing in themselves a little bit more knowing that they were able to repeat their efforts in yesterday’s races, whereas today was just one time. All in all, it was a great educational opportunity. We’re right where we need to be as we hone in on the SEC Championships.”
Senior Grant Bochenski won the men’s 100 back with a 46.67 swim and contributed to both of Mizzou’s men’s relay wins. Bochenski, Logan Ottke, Jan Zubik and Luke Nebrich put up a time of 1:25.47 in the men’s 200 medley relay, and Bochenski, Darden Tate, Francois Malherbe and Jaden Pospishil swam 2:55.56 in the men’s 400 free relay.
Graduate student Sierra Smith took gold in the women’s 50 free with a 22.91 swim and brought home the women’s 400 free relay win in 3:19.29 along with Katie Kuehn, Zara Zallen and Francesca Smith.
Senior Colleen Duffy picked up her first individual win of the season with a time of 1:58.94 in the women’s 200 back.
Nebrich won two other events with his men’s 200 medley relay win. The freshman standout swam the men’s 50 free in 19.60 and men’s 100 free in 43.36 for gold.
Zallen also won a pair of events with her women’s 400 free relay win. The Boulder, Colo., native won the women’s 100 breast with a time of 1:00.62 and the women’s 100 free with a 48.77 time.
The diving squad swept all events with wins in women’s 1-meter and 3-meter diving and men’s 1-meter and 3-meter diving. Collier Dyer won men’s 1-meter diving with a score of 380.10 and men’s 3-meter diving with a score of 404.48. On the women’s side, Mia Henninger won 3-meter diving with a 380.10 score, and Megan Jolly won 1-meter diving with a score of 295.05.
NOTABLE RESULTS
- Freshman, Katie Gresik took home the women’s 1650 free with a 16:44.58 time.
- Sydney Bales touched the wall in 54.80 in the women’s 100 back for gold.
- Taking a pair of wins, Alex Ochsenbein swam 53.63 in the men’s 100 breast and 1:58.13 in the men’s 200 breast.
- Sophomore Emily Roden continued her win streak in the women’s 200 fly with a 2:00.06 performance.
- Zubik continued to dominate with wins in the men’s 200 back (1:43.80) and men’s 100 fly (46.72).
- Transfer Zoe Schneider took gold in the women’s 500 free (4:47.80).
- Paige Striley touched the wall in 52.81 to win the women’s 100 fly.
- Mizzou swept the 200 IM with Piper McNeil touching the wall in 2:01.07 and John Watson touching in 1:48.86.
UP NEXT
Diving will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., to compete in the Air Force Diving Invitational January 30–February 1. The swimming and diving squads will both compete at SEC Championships February 18-22 in Athens, Ga.
Courtesy: Missouri State Athletics
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri State women’s swimming & diving split its tri-dual meet against Missouri and McKendree to open the 2025 portion of the season. The women’s team defeated McKendree, 204-87, while dropping its contest with Mizzou, 232-67. The men’s team dropped both its head-to-head battles with a loss to last year’s Division II fourth-place finishing Bearcats, 191-102, and last year’s Division I 27th-place Tigers, 228-66.
The women’s team opened the day with a podium performance in the 200-yard medley relay. Caitlyn Friebe, Cabrini Johnson, Samantha Roemer and Lana Janson finished third in the event with a time of 1:40.57.
Janson was a main highlight for the Bears, picking up a win in the 200-yard freestyle (1:48.59). Her time was just one-tenth of a second off her season best she set on the first day of the meet against Omaha on Nov. 1. The win marked Janson’s fifth individual victory of the season, all of which have come in freestyle events.
Johnson picked up Missouri State’s other win of the meet. She touched the wall first in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:13.10. The defending Missouri Valley Conference silver medalist in the event beat out Missouri’s Karolina Bank by less than a tenth of a second (2:13.10). Johnson also put up the team’s season-best time in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:01.31), surpassing her previous team best of 1:01.60 she set in Missouri State’s last meet at the 2024 House of Champions Invitational.
A handful of Bears earned personal best times to open the 2025 portion of the season. Sarah Culberson led the way for the Bears with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly with her best MSU time of 2:02.82, good for the sixth-fastest top individual Valley time. Freshman Lillie Freulon also secured a personal best time in the 100-yard butterfly (54.49) to place her eighth in the conference.
The women closed the day with another bronze showing in the 400-yard medley relay. Cameryn Johnson, Roemer, Freulon and Makenzie Kurre combined for a time of 3:24.44.
In diving, Maggie Arceneaux led the Bears in the 1-meter dive with a score of 224.40. Courtney Stanbury topped the charts for the Bears in the 3-meter dive (323.65). Each finished sixth in the respective dives.
The men’s team began the day by finishing fourth in the 200 medley relay (1:28.83) with Gonzalo Ruiz, Luigi Maciel da Silva, Simeon Sabev and Matvei Chesakov. Ruiz, who won the 150-yard backstroke in yesterday’s exhibition, led the Bears on Saturday in the 100-yard backstroke (49.45), 200-yard backstroke (1:47.69) and 200-yard individual medley (1:55.03).
Brunno Suzuki-Tomiyama, last season’s Missouri Valley Conference 500-yard freestyle champion, finished third in the event with a time of 4:32.25.
Logan Schelfaut led the Bears in both diving events. He finished fourth in the 1-meter dive (279.10) and fifth in the 3-meter dive (286.73).
Missouri State swimming & diving will compete in Springfield for the last time this season when it hosts conference opponent UIC for a two-day meet starting Friday at 3:00 p.m. Missouri State’s Senior Day meet will be the following day starting at 10:00 a.m.
Courtesy: McKendree Athletics
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mckendree University women’s swimming competed against the University of Missouri Tigers and Missouri State Bears over a two-day meet.
Friday
The 200-yard freestyle relay saw freshman Tumi Macdonell, senior Aurora Abbruscato, junior Jocelyn Zgola, and fifth-year senior Alexis Kachkin take fourth place with a time of 1:33.52.
Graduate student Sophia Burwtiz placed fifth in the 150-fly with a time of 1:30.69.
Freshman Bianka Bukovics placed third in the 150-yard backstroke with a time of 1:30.06.
Senior Presley Heitzman and junior Rylee sitton placed fifth and sixth in the 150-yard breaststroke with times of 1:45.45 and 1:46.72 respectively. They also placed eighth and sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke with marks of 1:05.91 and 1:06.47.
Zgola also took fifth place in the 150-yard freestyle in 1:21.38.
Saturday
Kachkin, seniors Sarah Gormley, Karley Sonnenberg, and Macdonell took fifth in the 200-yard medley relay.
Junior Natalia Kralova placed fifth in the 1650-yard freestyle with a mark of 17:43.35.
In the 200-yard freestyle Luiza Dias placed fifth and Zgola placed sixth with times of 1:50.02 and 1:52.03 respectively.
Bukovics took sixth in the 100-yard backstroke, and sophomore Helena Kurtz took eighth with times of 57.30 and 59.36.
The 50-yard freestyle saw Sonnenberg place third in 23.19, Macdonell place fourth in 23.80, and Kachkin place 10th in 24.10.
The Sitton and Heitzman duo went fifth and seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke with times of 2:22.07 and 2:27.60.
Dias and Zgola had marks of 5:00.92 and 5:01.23 in the 500-yard freestyle.
Burwitz saw a time of 56.46 in the 100-yard fly which placed her in seventh.
The 400-yard free relay saw Zgola, Macdonell, Sonnenberg, and Kachin take fourth with a time of 3:26.76.
The Bearcats are back in the pool next Sat. Jan. 25 for Senior Day against GLVC foes Lewis University and University of Missouri Saint Louis.
