COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Mizzou men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened their 2017-18 seasons with team titles at the 12th annual Show-Me Showdown Friday afternoon at the Mizzou Aquatic Center. The teams combined to win 20 events during the meet.
The Tiger women scored 700 points to take the title, ahead of Missouri State (541), SLU (385), Washington University (369), Lindenwood (329), Maryville (76), and UMSL (60). The Mizzou men took first with 676 points to defeat Missouri State (553.5), Lindenwood (391), Washington University (268), SLU (232), Missouri S&T (229.5), UMSL (67) and Maryville (20).
KEY PERFORMERS
Three Tigers claimed two individual event wins on the day, senior Hannah Stevens (Lexington, Ohio), junior Kyle Goodwin (Aurora, Colorado) and sophomore Giovanny Lima (Sao Paulo, Brazil). In the pool, Lima won both the 200 free and 500 free races, with times of 1:38.18 and 4:32.51, respectively, and Stevens touched first in the 100 free (51.66) and 100 back (55.12).
In the diving well, Goodwin won 3-meter (327.75 points) and led the Tigers to the 1-meter team scramble victory. Mizzou tallied 373.35 as a team on 1-meter, while Goodwin notched a meet-high individual tally of 367.35 points.
QUOTABLES
Mizzou Head Coach Greg Rhodenbaugh
"We looked OK, we didn't look great, we had some very solid swims. This is the earliest we've ever had this meet. We needed to get going (early) because we have some SEC teams coming in in a few weeks. In some regards, a lot of the guys and ladies on our team were faster than they were last year at this meet."
MIZZOU WINNERS
- Women's 200 Medley Relay: Haley Hynes, Emily Snyder, Annie Ochitwa, Rachel Hayden (1:43.51)
- Women's 200 Free: Erin Metzger-Seymour (1:52.07)
- Men's 200 Free: Giovanny Lima (1:38.18)
- Women's 200 IM: Sharli Brady (2:02.75)
- Men's 200 IM: Nick Alexander (1:50.57)
- Women's 50 Free: Sarah Thompson (23.90)
- Men's 50 Free: Luke Mankus (20.65)
- Women's 100 Free: Hannah Stevens (51.66)
- Men's 100 Free: Mikel Schreuders (46.00)
- Men's 3-Meter: Kyle Goodwin (327.75)
- Women's 500 Free: Courtney Evensen (5:00.38)
- Men's 500 Free: Giovanny Lima (4:32.51)
- Women's 200 Free Relay: Sarah Thompson, Hannah Stevens, Maddie Gehrke, Annie Ochitwa (1:35.09)
- Men's 200 Free Relay: Luke Mankus, Sam Coffman, Mikel Schreuders, Daniel Hein (1:22.95)
- Women's 100 Back: Hannah Stevens (55.12)
- Men's 100 Back: Daniel Hein (50.09)
- Women's 3-Meter: Madeline McKernan (276.4)
- Men's 1-Meter Scramble: Mizzou (373.35); Individual high scorer: Kyle Goodwin (367.35)
- Women's 1-Meter Scramble: Mizzou (326.3); Individual high scorer: Alexa Beckwith (311.45)
- Women's 400 Free Relay: Erin Metzger-Seymour, Sharli Brady, Haley Hynes, Aurore Jacolin (3:28.89)
- Men's 400 Free Relay: Mikel Schreuders, Micah Slaton, Giovanny Lima, Nick Alexander (3:04.02)
UP NEXT
The Tigers host Southeastern Conference foes South Carolina and Arkansas (women only) on Saturday, Oct. 14 at Noon at the Mizzou Aquatic Center.