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Thursday Finals
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. – Missouri S&T has secured the lead in the men’s race, while Drury University maintained its lead in the women’s race at the halfway point of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, which is being held at the Crawfordsville Aquatic Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Day two of the third annual league championship saw seven GLVC records fall in the evening’s 10 events, including the first four events – the men’s and women’s 200-yard Freestyle Relay and 400-yard Individual Medley.
Missouri S&T, which only fields a men’s program, entered the day three points shy of two-time defending champion Drury and now heads into Friday with a 26-point lead. The Miners sit atop the men’s standings with 400 points, followed by Drury in second with 374 points and Indianapolis in third with 333.
Lewis (217) and Truman State (214) make up fourth and fifth, respectively, while William Jewell (182), Missouri-St. Louis (109), Bellarmine (76) and Maryville (17) round out the nine-team field.
Drury owns the lead with 497 points on the women’s side, followed by Truman State (419) and Indianapolis (276) in second and third, respectively. William Jewell (215) and Lewis (174) are fourth and fifth, leaving Bellarmine (106), Maryville (92), Quincy (72) and Missouri-St. Louis (64) to close out the pack.
Truman State opened the night with a new GLVC record in the women’s 200 Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:32.82, which beat Drury’s mark of 1:33.65 from a year ago. Drury then responded by besting its own mark on the men’s side with a 200 Free Relay time of 1:20.58, just faster than the 1:20.74 the Panthers posted last year.
Drury senior Gretchen Stein improved on her own GLVC record in the 400 IM by eclipsing her 4:24.18 from the 2014 event with a 4:22.75 on Thursday. Truman’s Will Shannel did the same on the men’s side by taking down his own GLVC record of 3:51.16 with a 3:48.56, which met the NCAA Division II “A” Cut standard by nearly four seconds.
In the women’s 200 Free, Drury junior Wen Xu beat her GLVC record of 1:49.17 with a time of 1:48.72, and would then go on to anchor the Panthers’ winning 400 Medley Relay squad that finished in 3:42.59.
Drury would also take the nightcap in the men’s 400 Medley relay, doing so in record fashion as the Panthers touched the wall in 3:15.02, which beat the league record of 3:15.21 that the team set a year ago.
Earlier in the evening, Missouri S&T senior Keith Sponsler followed suit by breaking his own league record with a time of 1:36.54 in the 200 Free. He set the GLVC record last season in 1:36.57.
In the 100 Butterfly, Drury sophomore Vera Johansson (54.80) and senior Stanislav Kuzmin (48.96) finished first in the women’s and men’s races, respectively.
This afternoon, Drury senior Rebekah Laupp earned her third straight GLVC diving title on the 3-meter board with 431.70 points, while UIndy’s Dalton Cline set a new GLVC standard on the men’s 1-meter with a score of 476.95.
All first- and second-place finishers are awarded first- and second-team All-GLVC honors, respectively.
Day three of the GLVC Championships begins Friday with preliminaries of the 500 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, 100 Breaststroke and 200 Butterfly at 10:30 a.m. ET. Non-produced bonus coverage of the preliminaries will begin at 10:15 a.m. on the GLVC Sports Network, while full coverage begins at 1:15 p.m. for women's 1-meter and men's 3-meter diving, followed by swimming finals at 5:30 p.m.
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Women - Team Rankings - Through Event 30
1. Drury University 497
2. Truman State University 419
3. University of Indianapolis 276
4. William Jewell College 215
5. Lewis University 174
6. Bellarmine University 106
7. Maryville University 92
8. Quincy University 72
9. University of Missouri-St. Louis 64
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 30
1. Missouri S&T 400
2. Drury University 374
3. University of Indianapolis 333
4. Lewis University 217
5. Truman State University 214
6. William Jewell College 182
7. University of Missouri-St. Louis 109
8. Bellarmine University 76
9. Maryville University 17