The Houston University women’s team\u00a0put together a superb first session of the 2018 American Athletic Conference Championships while the men from East Carolina University posted strong marks as well.<\/p>\n
The session started out with the women’s 800 free relay with Houston’s quartet of\u00a0Mykenzie Leehy<\/strong>, Ksenia Yuskova<\/strong>, Samantha<\/strong> Medlin<\/strong> and Zarena Brown<\/strong> nabbing the win in a quick time of 7:06.86, which was good enough to\u00a0set a new\u00a0meet and pool record. Connecticut and East Carolina tied for second in a time of 7:16.06.<\/p>\n Cincinnati took the men’s 800 free relay with their assembly of\u00a0Justin Crew<\/strong>, Johannes Kabelka<\/strong>, Din Selmanovic<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Tobias Van Dyke\u00a0<\/strong>who produced a 6:27.32 for the win. Taking second was Southern Methodist University in a 6:29.71 while Connecticut University took third in a 6:32.16.<\/p>\n Bryce Klein out of SMU took the men’s one-meter diving event with a score of 343.65 while Cincinnati’s Mitchell Godard took second with his score of 296.40.<\/p>\n In the women’s three-meter competition Houston’s Lauren Burrell<\/strong> took the win with an impressive score of 287.45.<\/p>\n The SMU women took the win in the 200 medley relay by putting together a time of 1:38.56 which cracked the old\u00a0pool record of 1:42.47 set\u00a0this year by Missouri.<\/p>\n The ECU men also eclipsed a pool record belonging to Missouri in the 200 medley relay by posting a 1:27.78 in the event ahead of SMU who touched in 1:28.23.<\/p>\n Tomorrow’s action beings with the preliminaries which get underway at 10 a.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Houston University women’s team\u00a0put together a superb first session of the 2018 American Athletic Conference Championships while the men from East Carolina University posted strong marks as well. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4285,"featured_media":241753,"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":[6],"tags":[66010,52639,66366,64761],"class_list":["post-296320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-american-athletic-conference-swimming","tag-ksenia-yuskova","tag-mykenzie-leehy","tag-zarena-brown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n