Photo Credit: Kyle Staggs<\/p>\n
FORT LAUDERDALE – Florida Southern’s Alli Crenshaw and Juan Tolosa posted NCAA Division II ‘A’ cuts and six more meet records went down Saturday night during the third night of finals at the NSU Shark Invitational. Both the Tampa men and women lead the team standings heading into the final day of racing tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The Nova Southeastern University swimming and diving teams closed day three of the Shark Invitational, swimming nine NCAA provisional times and breaking two Shark Invitational records.<\/p>\n
The highlight of the night came from Anton Lobanov (Fr., Novosibirisk, Russia), who swam the top time in NCAA Division II in the men’s 100-yard butterfly A-final. Not only does his NCAA provisional time of 53.64 rank atop the country, but it also crushed the previous Shark Invitational record by over a second.<\/p>\n
In the women’s 500-yard freestyle, Courtney DeVeny (Fr., Estero, Fla.) was the top finisher for the Sharks, swimming a NCAA provisional time of 5:00.92. Her fourth-place finish was trailed by her teammate, Madison Yelle (Fr., Mansfield, Texas), who swam a NCAA provisional time of 5:06.63. Shane Kleinbeck (Sr., San Antonio, Texas) followed with a NCAA provisional time of 4:36.91 in the men’s 500-yard freestyle A-final, good enough for a fourth-place finish.<\/p>\n
In the women’s 100-yard backstroke A-final, Emma Wahlstrom (So., Stockholm, Sweden) was the Sharks’ top finisher with a time of 59.37. She was followed by Marco Aldabe (So., Alicante, Spain), who swam a time of 50.47 in the men’s 100-yard backstroke A-final. Malin Westman (Fr., Harryda, Sweden) and Bryndis Hansen (So., Akureyri, Iceland) would then swim two NCAA provisional times of their own in the women’s 100-yard breaststroke A-final. Their times of 1:03.52 and 1:04.83, respectively, were good enough for two top-5 finishes.<\/p>\n
DeVeny would follow with a first-place finish and NCAA provisional time of 2:06.51 in the women’s 200-butterfly A-final. Her teammate Emma Lawrenz (Sr., Mennetonka, Minn.) trailed her with a time of 2:08.37, good enough for a second-place finish. Thiago Sickert (So., Vila Velha, Brazil) would then swim a NCAA provisional time of 1:49.33 in the men’s 200-yard butterfly A-final, good enough for a third-place finish.<\/p>\n
The Sharks closed the night with the men’s and women’s 800-yard freestyle relays. In the women’s A-final, Hansen, Wahlstrom, Lawrenz and Westman swam a Shark Invitational record and NCAA provisional time of 7:28.61. In the men’s A-final, Kleinbeck, Sickert, Magnus Lundgren (Sr., Stockholm, Sweden) and Aldabe swam a NCAA provisional time of 6:38.25, good enough for a third-place finish.<\/p>\n
NSU’s men currently sit in second place with 1176.5 points, while the women sit in third place with 988.5 points. The University of Tampa<\/p>\n
The meet will resume Sunday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n