NAIA Championships: Women’s 800 Freestyle Record Falls

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, February 28. SIMON Fraser was on fire during the second day of competition at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Championships held at the Palo Alto Natatorium in San Antonio, Texas this week.

The night opened with the Simon Fraser quartet of Addie Kolybaba, Courtenay Mulhern, Vicky Sui and Jessica Verheyden claiming the women's 200 medley relay title in 1:46.92. While nearly a second ahead of second place, the readout fell short of the NAIA standard of 1:45.09 set by SFU way back in 1997.

The Savannah College of Art and Design claimed the men's 200 medley relay crown when Allan Cox, Thomas Gibson, Vitali Puskar-Verbitsky and Danny Recordon touched in 1:32.76, well short of the national record time of 1:31.14 set by Simon Fraser in 2005.

Fresno Pacific freshman Brooke Turner dominated the women's 500 freestyle by three seconds with a winning effort of 5:00.27, while fellow freshman Hans Richard, who represents Simon Fraser, snared the men's middle distance event with a time of 4:33.88 – a three-second triumph.

Mulhern won her second title of the night for SFU with a strong time of 2:06.55 in the women's 200 IM, while teammate Niels Muntzenburger captured the men's 200 IM title in 1:52.79.

SFU's Sui joined Mulhern with a daily double, and came within the slimmest of margins of picking off the NAIA record in the women's 50 free when she hit the wall in 23.45. That performance came up just .01 seconds short of Cassie Dixon's 2007 record of 23.44 set by representing the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Recordon made it another double as the SCAD freshman touched first in the men's 50 free for a title-winning time of 20.41.

The SFU women's 800 free relay team then claimed another title as Sui, Gia Bogetti, Suzanne Wuolle and Mulhern hit the wall in 7:35.65. That performance crushed the previous standard of 7:37.07 set by Simon Fraser in 2003.

In diving action, after suffering a loss to Ben Wahlman of Cal Baptist on the three-meter, Illinois Tech's Branden Toro nipped Wahlman, 488.45 to 485.40, for the men's one-meter title.

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