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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The conference championship season begins on Wednesday for the University of Evansville women's swimming & diving team, as the Purple Aces will travel west to Iowa City, Iowa to take part in the Missouri Valley Conference Championships, hosted by the University of Northern Iowa.  The four-day meet will begin Wednesday night at 6 p.m. with the 200-Yard Medley Relay and 800-Yard Freestyle Relay events.

Evansville produced one first team all-MVC performer and eight honorable mention all-Valley performers at last year's conference championship meet.  Of those nine all-Valley honorees, six return for this year's Valley championships, led by first-team all-Valley performer Maya Cunningham (Yakima, Wash./Eisenhower), who placed third in the Valley in the 400 IM last year.

Seniors Sage Moore (Lexington, Ohio/Lexington) and Sarah Jahns (Lilburn, Ga./Parkview) have earned three honorable mention all-Valley honors each over the last four years, while junior Iryna Tsesiul (Minsk, Belarus) is a two-time honorable mention all-Valley performer.  Sophomore Sveva Brugnoli (Rome, Italy) captured honorable mention all-Valley honors as a freshman last year, while junior diver Madison Rollett (Evansville, Ind./Reitz) also earned honorable mention all-Valley honors while placing sixth in the conference in the one-meter competition.

"While we are small in numbers this year, we have a lot of quality up and down our lineup," said UE head swimming and diving coach Stuart Wilson.  "The women have been performing very well in training of late, and I would not be surprised at all if some school records fell this weekend.  It should be a fun week!"

The Valley Championships continue on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with preliminary round competition beginning at 10:30 a.m. each day, with event finals scheduled to start at 6 p.m. each evening.  Fans can watch the competition live on Youtube.com/@UNIAthleticsPanthers/Streams and can also follow along results-wise with the Meet Mobile App.