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@MizzouSwimDive Tie For Second at SMU Classic
10/17/2015 9:45:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving
The Tigers score 303 points over the two-day meet to tie for second in the team standings
LEWISVILLE, Texas. – After two days of competition, the Mizzou women's swimming and diving team tied for second place with 303 points at the 22nd annual SMU Women's Classic Saturday night in Lewisville, Texas. Louisville won the team title with 363 points, while UCLA also tallied 303 points to tie the Tigers for second. Florida State (264), SMU (244) and TCU (197) rounded out the standings. The Classic follows a unique format, where each team is limited to eight total swimmers and one diver, Teams send one swimmer to each event's championship and consolation finals.
Sophomore Sharli Brady claimed Mizzou's first championship final title of the meet with a first-place showing in the 200 fly. She touched the wall in 1:57.23, half a second ahead of the next finisher. Fellow sophomore Kira Zubar took third in the 200 fly consolation final in a time of 2:03.31.
In the 200 breast, redshirt senior Abby Duncan took second with a stellar time of 2:09.02, only a quarter of a second off her personal best in the event. Junior Katharine Ross won the consolation final in a near personal best time of 2:10.97.
Duncan then claimed first in the 200 IM consolation final with a swim of 2:01.26, while Ross placed third in the championship final in 2:01.34.
Brady placed second in the 500 free consolation final after a swim of 4:49.38, while Zubar was fifth in the championship final after touching in 4:51.76.
Sophomore Hannah Stevens swam a 1:57.28 in the 200 back championship final to finish third in the event. Junior Nadine Laemmler won her third consolation final of the meet in the consolation final after touching the wall in 1:57.45, over three seconds faster than the next finisher.
In the diving well, sophomore Kendra Kieser placed fourth on 1-meter after tallying a score of 251.90 points.
Senior Anna Patterson and Stevens clocked times of 50.70 and 50.71, respectively, in their 100 free races. Stevens took fourth in the championship final and Patterson was fourth in the consolation final.
Mizzou opened Saturday action with a fourth-place finish in the 200 medley relay after Laemmler, Duncan, Patterson and sophomore Rachel Hayden clocked a time of 1:40.60.
In the final event of the meet, Mizzou's 200 free relay team of Patterson, Stevens, Hayden and Laemmler finished third after combining for a time of 1:32.67.
The Tigers are idle until they host Kentucky, Northwestern and Southern Illinois Friday, Nov. 6 – Saturday, Nov. 7 at the Mizzou Aquatic Center.
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