At the 2016 US National Synchronized Swimming Championships, the Lindenwood University team was crowned as the Senior National Champions for the second straight year.<\/p>\n
Lindenwood tallied a total of 162.2956 points with 79.3956 technical points and 86.9 free points. Lindenwood also took second with 150.5189 points. The Pirouettes of Texas placed third with 131.2487 total points.<\/p>\n
Mary Killman\u00a0<\/strong>led Lindenwood University. She compiled 165.53 points to earn the solo championship on her 25th birthday. This win was Killman’s fifth straight national title and tied the record for most solo titles in United States history. Killman has been undefeated in the past six seasons.<\/p>\n In the senior duet, Killman combined with\u00a0Vasilisa Mironova\u00a0<\/strong>to score 164.055 points and secure the national title. Ohio State’s\u00a0Emma Baranski\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Monica Velazazqez-Stiak\u00a0<\/strong>were runner ups with 157.0976 points. Lindenwood rounded out the top three with the duet of\u00a0Irene Beaus\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Laia Pons\u00a0<\/strong>earning 154.4390 points.<\/p>\n This was Lindenwood’s first clean sweep of the solo and duet titles, as the team earned six of the eight possible medals. After today, Killman is retiring from synchronized swimming.<\/p>\n Coach\u00a0Lori Eaton\u00a0<\/strong>was named the Coach of the Year, the second straight honor for the Lindenwood University\u00a0coach.<\/p>\n The Santa Clara Aquamaids won the Junior (15-18) title with 77.1667 points. The team swept the Solo performances as\u00a0Nicole Dzurko\u00a0<\/strong>scored 78.5333 points,\u00a0Jacklyn Luu\u00a0<\/strong>totaled 77.5 points, and\u00a0Rachel Lau\u00a0<\/strong>earned 76.3333.<\/p>\n In the duets, the Aquamaids’\u00a0Hyowon\u00a0<\/strong>and Luu won the national title with 78.6 points and their teammates Dzurko and\u00a0Natalia Vega\u00a0<\/strong>placed second with 77.4333 points. Optima Synchro’s\u00a0Caitlin Klauer\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Lindi Schroeder\u00a0<\/strong>finished third (75.1667).<\/p>\n Overall, the Walnut Creek Aquanuts were second in juniors with 75.3667 points, ahead of third place Arizona Desert Dolphins with 72.9333 points.<\/p>\n In the youngest age division, the Santa Clara Aquamaids were again victorious, this time with 74.2667 points. The team also finished third with 71.05 points. Walnut Creek was also runner up in this division with 72.35 points.<\/p>\n Optima’s Schroeder was the solo champion with a score of 73.7667. Santa Clara’s\u00a0Hailee Heinrich\u00a0<\/strong>was second with 73.5667 points and Walnut Creek’s\u00a0Yara Elian\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three with a score of 73.0333.<\/p>\n Santa Clara took the top two spots in duets. Heinrich and\u00a0Audrey Nguyen\u00a0<\/strong>finished with a score of 73.9667, ahead of teammates\u00a0Chesnie Cheung\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Kaitlyn Hoang\u00a0<\/strong>with 72.6 points. Third went to\u00a0Abigail Kartzinel\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Avian Nguyen\u00a0<\/strong>of La Mirada Aquabelles with a final tally of 72.5.<\/p>\n USA Synchro contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the 2016 US National Synchronized Swimming Championships, the Lindenwood University team was crowned as the Senior National Champions for the second straight year. Lindenwood tallied a total of 162.2956<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":142814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-synchronized-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nJuniors<\/h2>\n
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