• Day One Preliminary Results
• Day One Final Results/Standings
CARBONDALE, Ill. – The University of Evansville women’s swimming and diving team posted three school records and several personal-best times in the first day of the 2011-12 State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Championships.
Both of the Aces’ relay teams that swam in today’s heats broke UE school records. Senior
Alex Howard, junior
Jill Enge and freshmen
Michelle Tipton and
Samantha Montgomery opened the meet with a second place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay, touching in at 1:35.18 to beat the previous record of 1:36.53, which was set in 2009-10.
Howard, Tipton and Montgomery were later joined by freshman
Caroline Lee to make up the 400-medley relay team that broke another school relay record, posting a time of 3:49.75 to claim third place.
Individually, Tipton scored the Aces’ highest finish of the night, placing third and touching in at a season-best 4:54.59 in the final heat of the 500-yard freestyle, breaking the school record for the second time this year.
Freshman Samantha Montgomery also made it to an A-Final, finishing in seventh place in the 50-free with a final time of 24.46. After barely missing the cut for the A-Final in the 200-yard individual medley, Lee came back to win the B-Final, placing ninth overall with a time of 2:06.49.
On the boards, junior
Sadie Wells led the Aces with a fifth place finish on the 1-meter, with a final score of 241.10.
“All around we just had a great solid effort by everyone,” said head coach
Rickey Perkins. “We had a lot of season and lifetime bests, and I am happy with our performance. We know that tomorrow is another big day and we just have to keep focused on racing and competing.”
After the strong showing, the Purple Aces ended the day ranked fourth with 130 points, standing above Northern Iowa (87) and below Southern Illinois, who holds on to third place with 213 points.
The Aces will return to the pool tomorrow for the second day of preliminary and final heats beginning at 11:00 a.m.
