@MizzouSwimDive Opens 2018-19 Season With 13th Annual Show-Me Showdown
10/3/2018 3:52:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou men's and women's swimming and diving teams officially open their 2018-19 seasons on Friday, Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. CT with the 13th Annual Show-Me Showdown at the Mizzou Aquatic Center. Friday also marks the Swim for the Cure event, where fans can purchase pink swim caps for $10 (cash only), with proceeds going towards the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Heat sheets will be available for purchase.
THE COMPETITION
The Tigers face-off against in-state foes Drury, Lindenwood, Maryville, Missouri State, Missouri S&T, SLU, Truman State, Washington University and William Jewell. All teams besides Missouri S&T (men only) have men's and women's programs.
MEN'S OUTLOOK
The 2018-19 squad returns eight Tigers with All-America honors to their name: seniors Sam Coffman, Kyle Goodwin, Luke Mankus, Mikel Schreuders and Jacob Wielinski, juniors Daniel Hein and Giovanny Lima and sophomore Grant Reed. Additionally, seven individual NCAA participants also return: Goodwin, Schreuders, Wielinski, Hein, Lima, junior Nick Alexander and sophomore Carter Grimes.
WOMEN'S OUTLOOK
Coming off a 15th-place finish at the 20018 NCAA Championships, this year's women's team returns five All-Americans: seniors Maddie Gehrke and Annie Ochitwa, junior Haley Hynes and sophomores Lauren Savoy and Sarah Thompson. Hynes, Ochitwa and Thompson join seniors Kylie Dahlgren and Courtney Evensen as 2018 NCAA Championships qualifiers.
GUTIERREZ-LOZANO, GUYETT CLAIM CSCAA NATIONAL OPEN WATER CHAMPIONSHIPS
Redshirt sophomor Giovanni Gutierrez Lozano and freshman Audrey Guyett claimed individual national titles at the 2018 College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) National Collegiate Open Swim Saturday morning at Lone Star Lake in Lawrence, Kansas, on Sept. 22. Guyett and Gutierrez Lozano also led the men's and women's teams to team titles at the event.
Gutierrez Lozano defended his 2017 title with a swim of 59:17.48, eight seconds faster from his winning time from a year ago. He narrowly out-swam junior Giovanny Lima, who finished second in 59:17.77.
Guyett won the women's race by just shy of a minute, as she finished the race in 1:03:06.31. Fellow freshman Ana Pozder held on for second-place in 1:03:07.28.
ALEXANDER MAKES 2018-19 USA SWIMMING NATIONAL TEAM
Junior Nick Alexander was named to the USA Swimming 2018-19 National Team on Sept. 4. The 2018-19 USA Swimming National Team features the top six athletes in each individual Olympic event based off the combined results of the 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships, 2018 Pan Pacific Championships and 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Championships.
Alexander was the fifth-fastest American in the 200 back in 2018, notching a 1:57.18 in prelims at the 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships in July. He ultimately finished eighth in the event at the Championships with a 1:58.49 in finals, and also posted finishes of 10th in the 100 back, 12th in the 50 back and 15th in the 200 IM at the meet.
KOVAC NABS RELAY GOLD AT JUNIOR PAN PACS
Freshman Danny Kovac earned a gold medal as part of the U.S. 4x100m relay team at the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Aug. Kovac and U.S. teammates Adam Chaney, Destin, Lasco and Drew Kibler combined to post a 3:19.44 in the 4x100 free relay to nab first and the gold, finishing over a second ahead of second-place finisher Australia (3:20.86). Kovac swam the second leg of the relay.
The freshman, who made the Junior Pan Pac team after claiming the 18-and-Under 100 fly national title in July, also competed in five individual events at the meet, posting three top 10 finishes. He took ninth in the 100 fly with a 53.12 finals swim after a 52.70 in prelims. He also placed 10th in both the 100 free (50.58 finals, 50.12 prelims) and 200 IM (2:03.34 finals, 2:05.02 prelims). Additionally, he also took 15th in the 50 free and 20th in the 200 free.
UP NEXT
The Tigers travel to Bloomington, Indiana, to take on Indiana, Kentucky and Notre Dame on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 9 a.m. CT.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
200 Medley Relay
200 Freestyle 200 IM
50 Freestyle
100 Butterfly
Women's 1-Meter and Men's 3-Meter Diving
500 Freestyle
200 Freestyle Relay
100 Backstroke
100 Breaststroke
400 Freestyle Relay
Women's 3-Meter and Men's 1-Meter Diving
SCORING FORMAT
Individual Scoring: Each team may score their top three finishers in each event. Top 16 places score.
Breakdown: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Relay Scoring: Each team can score only their top two relays in each event. Top 16 places score.
Breakdown: 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22 18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
Number of Events: Each swimmer of diver may compete in a maximum of two individual events and two relays.
1-Meter Diving: Each team will do a diving scramble to try and score the largest point total. Each member on the team will do six dives covering all five groups with true degree of difficulty. The points from each diving group's highest scorer will count toward the team total score. The best score per diving group (front, back, reverse, inward, twist, 6th opt.) will count towards the total.
3-Meter Diving: Each diver will be required to do six dives from all five groups. No matter what first three dives the divers choose, the degree of difficulty will be set at 2.0. The remaining three dives will be of true degree of difficulty.
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