The Mizzou men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving teams swept the 2018 Mizzou Invite team titles on Saturday after winning a combined 30 events during the three-day meet at the Mizzou Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n
The Tiger women scored 1,171 points to win the women\u2019s title ahead of 12 other programs. Arkansas placed second (714), San Diego State took third (636), Florida International was fourth (510) and BYU rounded out the top five (321).<\/p>\n
On the men\u2019s side, the Tigers totaled 1,410 points to take first among 11 total teams. BYU finished second (667), California Baptist was third (576), Drury fourth (467) and McKendree placed fifth (278).<\/p>\n
KEY PERFORMANCES<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the three-day meet, the Tigers notched one school record (junior Nick Alexander in the 100 back), four NCAA automatic qualifying times (women\u2019s 200 free relay, men\u2019s 200 free relay, men\u2019s 400 free relay and men\u2019s 400 medley relay) and posted numerous personal bests.<\/p>\n The Tigers opened Saturday finals with a sweep in the 1650 free races. Senior Courtney Evensen<\/strong> (Golden Valley, Minn.) won the women\u2019s side with a personal best time of 16:09.08, two seconds faster than her old mark. She also set a new career best in the 1000 free, as she clocked a 9:44.45 in that portion of the race. On the men\u2019s side, senior Jacob Wielinski <\/strong>(Mounds View, Minn.) swam a 14:55.84 to take the victory.<\/p>\n Junior Nick Alexander<\/strong> (St. Louis, Mo.) claimed his third win of the meet as he won the men\u2019s 200 back on Saturday. Alexander, who clocked a career best time of 1:39.98 in prelims, clocked a 1:40.31 in the evening session for first-place honors.<\/p>\n Junior Jennifer King<\/strong> (Glasgow, Scotland) took home the 200 back win on the women\u2019s side, with a time of 1:53.67, just off her career best.<\/p>\n It was another event sweep in the 200 breast, this time by a freshman and a senior. Freshman Kayla Jones<\/strong> (St. Charles, Ill.) had a big finals swim of 2:10.36, over two and a half seconds faster than her prelims time, and a personal best. Also with a career best swim was senior Jordan O\u2019Brien (Naperville, Ill.), who won the men\u2019s 200 breast in 1:54.55.<\/p>\n In the men\u2019s 100 free, senior Mikel Schreuders<\/strong> (Oranjestad, Aruba) dropped a personal best time of 42.76 in finals for the win. He later lowered that again with a 42.30 in the leadoff leg of the 400 free relay.<\/p>\n Juniors Azra Avdic<\/strong> (Skokie, Ill.) and Micah Slaton<\/strong> (Austin, Texas) both claimed top honors in the 200 fly races as well. Avdic held on for the win in the women\u2019s event with a 1:59.27, while Slaton posted a 1:43.30 to earn a victory on the men\u2019s side.<\/p>\n Mizzou closed out the meet with an NCAA A cut in the men\u2019s 400 free relay, were Schreuders, junior Giovanny Lima<\/strong> (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and freshman Kyle Leach<\/strong> (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Danny Kovac<\/strong> (Fort Collins, Colo.) touched in 2:50.05.<\/p>\n QUOTABLES<\/strong><\/p>\n Mizzou Interim Head Coach Andrew Grevers<\/u> UP NEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n The Mizzou divers next compete at the International CAMO Invitational, Nov. 29-Dec. 2, in Montreal, Canada, while the swimmers are idle until January.<\/p>\n MIZZOU EVENT WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n Women\u2019s 1650 Free \u2013 Courtney Evensen (16:09.08) \u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Missouri<\/i>. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i> Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mizzou men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving teams swept the 2018 Mizzou Invite team titles on Saturday after winning a combined 30 events during the three-day meet at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":334967,"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":[3,6],"tags":[57749,43488,42355,72354,63779],"class_list":["post-338448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-andrew-grevers","tag-courtney-evensen","tag-jacob-wielinski","tag-missouri-swiming","tag-missouri-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n
\n\u201cOverall, I\u2019m very proud. The team has been going through a lot and they came together and certainly performed very well as an entire team. We had awesome relays (this week). We had a lot of great individual efforts but still had some ups and downs for the team as a whole. We\u2019re going to get back to hard work now. We\u2019ll do a bigger taper into SECs for a lot of individuals. We did get a few people into NCAAs but we\u2019ll know more as we see times come in through early December.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMen\u2019s 1650 Free \u2013 Jacob Wielinski (14:55.84)
\nWomen\u2019s 200 Back \u2013 Jennifer King (1:53.67 finals; 1:53.74 prelims)
\nMen\u2019s 200 Back \u2013 Nick Alexander (1:40.31 finals; 1:39.98 prelims)
\nWomen\u2019s 200 Breast \u2013 Kayla Jones (2:10.36 finals, 2:12.92)
\nMen\u2019s 200 Breast \u2013 Jordan O\u2019Brien (1:54.55 finals, 1:55.27 prelims)
\nWomen\u2019s 200 Fly \u2013 Azra Avdic (1:59.27 finals, 2:01.14 prelims)
\nMen\u2019s 200 Fly \u2013 Micah Slaton (1:43.30 finals, 1:43.47 prelims)
\nMen\u2019s 400 Free Relay \u2013 Mikel Schreuders, Giovanny Lima, Kyle Leach, Danny Kovac (2:50.05)<\/p>\n