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ELKHART, Ind. – After trailing heading into day two of the 2021 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Swimming and Diving Championships, Drury University snatched the lead on both the men’s and women’s side at the midway point of the meet.
The Drury men currently have 826 points after two days, holding a 50.5-point advantage over yesterday’s leader University of Indianapolis. Lindenwood University is just behind UIndy with 743.5 points, while Missouri S&T (545), McKendree University (526.5), and Lewis University (342) following. The remaining men’s programs rank as follows: William Jewell College (269.5), University of Missouri-St. Louis (193), Truman State University (189), and Maryville University (100).
Although the Drury women officially took hold of the top spot on Thursday with 894 points, Lindenwood follows just behind the Panthers with 884.5 tallies. UIndy stands in third with 834 points, with McKendree (451) and Lewis (361) rounding out the top five. Truman (352), Missouri-St. Louis (318), William Jewell (191), and Maryville (168.5) close out Thursday’s standings.
McKendree claimed three of the four men’s races on Thursday afternoon, while Drury chipped in to help set new league standards in each event.
Gregg Lichinsky was at it again, besting his own Conference record in the 100 butterfly with a time of 46.62, before teammate
Fabio Dalu snapped the GLVC 400 IM mark (3:47.37) that was held for five years.
Karol Ostrowski was the first Panther to break an individual record this week, touching the wall in 1:34.93 in the 200 free. The
McKendree 400 medley relay then completed the perfect afternoon with a record-setting performance of 3:10.74 to down its own standard set in 2020.
In the first men’s diving event of the 2021 Championships, UIndy’s Ben Rader (515.9) and Jason Lenzo (433.25) earned the top two medals in the 3m, with McKendree’s Ethan Larson placing third (426.25).
The Drury women won the first two individual events of the evening session, with Kasia Rogowska edging Lindenwood’s Lexie Winnett by .98 seconds in the 100 butterfly. Fellow
Panther Bec Cross then followed up with a new GLVC record in the 400 IM, earning the gold with an NCAA A-cut performance of 4:14.53.
Lindenwood joined the top spot on the medal stand for the first time, as Beata Maruszczyk finished the 200 free in 1:48.81. After a short break, Maruszczyk and her 400 medley relay teammates placed third in the event, as UIndy won by the narrowest of margins (.07) to earn gold over runner-up Drury.
Day three of the GLVC Championships from the Elkhart Health and Aquatics Center begins Friday with the women’s 3m diving starting at 9:30 a.m. Sessions at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. will follow with the schedule of events
here.
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