Mizzou Women's Swimming & Diving Opens Season with Show-Me Showdown Title

10/3/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Oct. 3, 2014

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou women's swimming and diving team opened the 2014-15 season with a win in the ninth annual Show-Me Showdown Friday at the Mizzou Aquatic Center in Columbia, Mo. The Tigers took first with 696 points, Drury (429) placed second and Missouri State third (366).

Rounding out the team standings were Lindenwood in fourth (310), Saint Louis in fifth (260), Washington University in sixth (208), Truman State in seventh (199), William Jewell in eighth (44) and Maryville in ninth (24).

Missouri claimed 13 event wins during the meet, including double wins from freshman Rachel Hayden, sophomore Katharine Ross and junior Lauren Reedy.

The Tigers started the meet off with a win in the 200 medley relay. Mizzou's A team of freshman Hannah Stevens, junior Abby Duncan, senior Danielle Barbiea and junior Anna Patterson took the victory with a time of 1:41.64, while Missouri B, C and D teams placed third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

Hayden claimed the first of her two event wins in the 200 free, as the freshman swam a 1:52.19 to lead a one-two-three Tiger sweep. Fellow freshman Erin Metzger-Seymour was second in 1:52.98, while sophomore Brittany Hammond took third in 1:54.33.

In the 100 free, Hayden added her second victory of the day after a swim of 51.23, narrowly ahead of Drury's Wen Xu, who was second in 51.35.

Ross recorded wins in both the 200 IM and 100 breast to start her sophomore season with a bang. In the 200 IM, she touched the wall in 2:04.03, ahead of freshman Sharli Brady, who clocked a 2:05.80 for second. Ross' second win of the day came in the 100 breast, where she swam an NCAA `B' qualifying time of 1:01.74. Duncan placed second in 1:02.55 and junior Lauren Stoeckle took third in 1:04.68.

In the diving well, Reedy took first on 3-meter and helped the Tigers win the 1-meter scramble. The junior tallied a score of 280.50 on 3-meter for the win, while Missouri's divers scored 348.65 points on 1-meter for the scramble victory.

Other individual winners during the meet were Barbiea, Patterson and Brady. Patterson nabbed a win of her own in the 50 free, where the junior touched the wall in 23.45 and Brady took first in the 500 free after a time of 5:01.94. Barbiea placed first in the 100 fly after touching in 55.15, ahead of Metzger-Seymour, who took second in 56.51.

In the 200 free relay, Missouri's A team of Barbiea, Patterson, sophomore Victoria Trost and Ross finished in first after clocking a time of 1:35.98.

The Tigers closed out the swimming portion of the meet with a victory in the 400 free relay. Mizzou's quartet of Stevens, Hayden, Metzger-Seymour and Brady, all freshmen, combined to swim a 3:28.24 to take the win.

Mizzou's women's squad returns to the pool on Friday, Oct. 24 against the Arkansas Razorbacks in Fayetteville, Ark.