CLEVELAND, Miss. - It was a bad day for old records as Henderson State set eight school records, two conference records and one pool record on the second full day of competition at the New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference Championships. The Red Wave men are currently in second place with 453 points while the women are in third with 301 points.
The first school record to fall was in the women's 100 fly as
Isabelle Andrews placed third with a record-breaking time of 55.33, besting the previously held record by 15 hundredths of a second.
Mackenzie Kester placed sixth in the same event, touching the wall at 56.77.
The men followed in the same event, yielding similar record-breaking results.
Jack Armstrong took top honors in the 100 fly with a 46.39 time, setting a new conference, school and pool record. Henderson swept the top-three finishes in the 100 fly, as
Jase Pinckney (46.52) and
Lamar Taylor (47.21) finished second and third, respectively.
The next record to fall was the 400 IM when
Emma Jorgensen, who set the previous school record at last year's Championships, placed fourth with a time of 4:29.34, beating her former-best time of 4:29.70.Â
Kiara Pozvai then claimed a first-place finish in the 200 free with a time of 1:49.70, pacing second place by nearly two whole seconds. Her record-breaking swim would still be to come.
In the men's 200 free,
Tate Sloan broke the previously held school record time of 1:38.06 after topping the podium with a 1:37.97 swim. Teammate
Patryk Dabrowski followed Sloan with a 1:38.41 time to take second, which serves as the third fastest time in school history.
The Red Wave finished the night by qualifying both of their 400 medley relay teams for Nationals. The women's quartet, made up of Pozvai,
Jessica Bongfeldt,
Isabelle Andrews and Kester, dropped nearly three and half seconds from their best time to out-touch West Florida's second-place team by nearly three and half seconds for a time of 3:44.41, smashing the previous school record of 3:46.78, which was set back in 2011. Pozvai's 54.63 in her 100 back as the opening leg of the relay also set a school record.
Taylor,
Mark Eberhard, Pinckney and Armstrong set a new school record with a 3:12.13 time in the men's 400 medley relay, dropping 7.67 seconds from their previous fastest time while out-touching the second-place group by a staggering six whole seconds. Similarly to Pozvai, Taylor's opening 100 back time of 47.16, which is the fourth fastest time in NCAA Division II, set a new school record as the Freeport, Bahamas native now owns the three fastest 100 back times in program history.Â
Henderson State will return to the pool for day three of competition tomorrow morning with two days remaining. The NSISC Championships will conclude Saturday, Feb. 18.
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