Aces and Panthers meet in Charleston, Ill.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – A busy stretch for the University of Evansville swimming and diving teams continues Saturday with a meet at Eastern Illinois. Action begins at 1 p.m. in Charleston, Ill.
Evansville competed at home against UIC last weekend before traveling to Carbondale, Ill. to face Southern Illinois and Indiana State. Reigning Missouri Valley Conference Diver of the Week Levi McKinney broke the Purple Aces 3-meter diving record on Friday before setting the UE mark in the 1-meter dive on Saturday
McKinney’s score of 335.80 in the 1-meter event set the Purple Aces record and gave him another NCAA Zones qualifying score. He was second in the event. In the 3-meter dive, McKinney took top honors with a score of 329.05. Gabe Lett set PR’s in the 1M (169.70) and 3M (177.70) dives. Eden McRoberts set a personal best in the 1-meter dive. She earned a score of 202.15 for her top performance.
Logan Tenison took the top spot in the 200-backstroe race. He swam a 1:52.43. Tenison earned a runner-up finish in the 100-backstroke. His time of 50.64 was just over a second off the winning time. Trevor O’Sullivan completed the podium in the 100-breaststroke with his effort of 1:01.84 while Adam Pawlak took third in the 200-fly (1:58.77). Michael Pruett followed with a 3rd-place in the 50-free, completing the race in 21.59.
Highlighting the women’s efforts were a pair of top eight efforts by Hannah Krings. The senior was 6th in the 1000-free (11:34.03) and 8th in the 500-free event (5:39.45). Jadyn Dauphinais had her personal best in the 100-fly with a time of 59.16 to take 9th place. Evelyn Chin was 8th in the race, swimming a 58.44. Claire Mewbourne finished the 100-breaststroke race in 8th place (1:09.55) before coming in 9th in the 200-breaststroke with a time of 2:30.87.
