Championship Central | Wednesday Results | Thursday Heat Sheets 

INDIANAPOLIS – Missouri S&T and Drury University each lead the respective men’s and women’s races after the first of four days at the 2019 GLVC Swimming and Diving Championships, as three records were set on Wednesday at the Crawfordsville Aquatic Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Feb. 6.

The Miners hold a slim 10.5-point lead on the men’s side while the Panthers have a 37-point advantage in the women’s race, following the first evening’s action.

For the men, S&T tallied 160 points Wednesday to best second-place University of Indianapolis (149.5). Drury University is third in the race with 129 points, followed by McKendree University (111), Lewis University (62), University of Missouri-St. Louis (55.5), Truman State University (36), Bellarmine University (33), William Jewell College (25), and Maryville University (14).

Drury scored 232 points on the women’s side, while Indianapolis (195) and Truman State (84) sit second and third, respectively. Bellarmine (61) and McKendree (54) respectively follow in fourth and fifth, while Lewis (52), Missouri-St. Louis (35), William Jewell (28), and Lewis (10) are sixth through eighth, while Maryville (20) rounds out the results in ninth.

Eight GLVC champions were crowned Wednesday, with two of those race winners setting new league standards while another was set in an evening time trial.

To begin the day, a pair of preliminary races saw records broken before noon, including in the women’s 200 Individual Medley (2:00.33) by Drury’s Tori Sopp and the men’s 50 Freestyle (19.95) by McKendree’s Xander Skinner. In both of the finals heat, those new records were bested, as Skinner topped his morning time by 0.10 seconds for a NCAA Division II B-cut Qualifying Standard and the new GLVC and pool record at 19.85 that had previously held up the past 13 years. In the IM, it wasn’t Sopp who broke her own record but rather junior teammate Bailee Nunn touching in at a sub-2:00 minute time of 1:57.68 for the new Conference and pool standard, which was also good for a NCAA D-II A cut. The other broken record came in an evening time trial for S&T’s Morgan Meyer, who swam the 100 Butterfly in 47.55, besting the previous mark of 48.04 set in 2015 and hitting a D-II B cut.

In the first final of the night, the 1,000-yard Freestyle saw Drury freshman, Allison Weber, take first with a time of 10:02.05 for a B-cut, while UIndy sophomore Adam Rosipal hit a B-cut, as well, in 9:13.22 for the gold. In the men’s 200 IM, S&T freshman Andy Huffman clocked a NCAA B-cut 1:48.57 for the win, while the women’s 50 free gold was taken by Drury freshman Yasmin Pruesse (23.18) for a B-cut.

In the last races of the day, the 200-yard Medley Relay, the Drury women (1:40.96) hit a B-cut for the win, while Bellarmine was a close second for a DIIB+ mark at 1:42.91. The men followed with the closest race of the event so far, as just 0.01 second separated gold and silver, and 0.02 was the difference between second and third. UIndy came away with the win in a DIIB time of 1:28.22, while S&T finished second at 1:28.23 (DIIB+), and Drury touch the wall at 1:28.25 (DIIB+).

All first- and second-place finishers are awarded first- and second-team All-GLVC honors, respectively.
In addition to handing out the 1000 Free and 200 IM medals this evening, the league also recognized 14 GLVC James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award honorees. The student-athletes chosen are individuals who have distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior. These individuals must also be in good academic standing and have demonstrated good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting. The honorees are now eligible to become one of their school’s two Spalding Sportsmanship Award winners, which will be announced at the end of the academic year.

Day two of the GLVC Championships begins Thursday with preliminaries of the 400 IM, 100 Butterfly, and 200 Free, beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Limited bonus coverage of the preliminaries will begin at 9:45 a.m. on the GLVC Sports Network, while full coverage begins at 1 p.m. for women's 3-meter and men's 1-meter diving, followed by swimming finals at 6 p.m.

For complete results and more information, log on to GLVCsports.com/2019swim, and watch complete coverage live and free on all GLVCSN platforms, including GLVCSN.com, GLVCSN iOS/Android mobile apps, and GLVCSN OTT apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Android TV. Fans can also follow the championship coverage on Twitter and Instagram via the hashtag #GLVCswim and #GLVCchamps.

GLVC JAMES R. SPALDING SPORTSMANSHIP HONOREES