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2025 Mizzou Invitational
November 20-22, 2025 Mizzou Aquatic Center, Columbia, MO SCY (25 yards) Prelims: 9:30/ Finals: 5:30 Teams: Missouri, TCU, FIU, Wyoming, Southern Illinois, McKendree, Missouri S&T “2025 Mizzou Invitational” on Meet Mobile Day 1 Results | Day 1 Recap Day 2 ResultsAfter a triumphant day 1 at their home invite, it was an inauspicious start to the second day of racing for the Missouri women on Friday, though freshman Libby Bakker ultimately helped right the ship in the middle of the session on a day dominated by youth.
Missouri’s “A” medley relay touched first by more than a second, but were ultimately disqualified, leaving FIU to win in 1:36.47. They were supported by a 26.27 breaststroke split from Frida Lobersli, who previously tied for 2nd in the 100 breaststroke in 59.60.
In the next race of the day, Wyoming sophomore Macey Hansen, the defending Mountain West Champion in the 500 free, won her best event in 4:44.06. She was slightly faster, 4:44.04, in prelims.
She was pushed the whole race by TCU freshman Avery Dillon, who finished 2nd in 4:44.57. That’s a new best time for Dillon by 2.5 seconds.
Missouri made its first mark in the win column on Friday when freshman Libby Bakker won the women’s 100 backstroke in 53.07, leading a 1-2 finish for the Tigers with Sydney Bales (53.87).
That time for Bakker is a new personal best by over a second – bettering the 54.21 she did at the team’s tri meet with Vanderbilt and McKendree three weeks ago. Prior to that, she was stuck on a personal best of 54.48 for more than 20 months. The improvements came via both better front-end speed, and better closing speed, finishing nine-tenths better than she did as a junior in high school and seven-tenths better than she did three weeks ago.
Bakker will swim the 200 backstroke on Saturday, where she is undefeated in her college career.
The rest of the meet saw the wins spread out among several teams. Olivia Herron from Southern Illinois won the 200 breast in a best time of 2:08.08. That is easily under the NCAA qualifying time and should earn her a repeat invite to the national championship meet this year without needing to rely on the new ‘conference champion’ qualifying pathway.
The same is true for TCU’s Nina Vadovicova, who finished 2nd in 2:08.60.
Herron also won the 100 breaststroke on Thursday in 59.42.
The Missouri women got another win in a nail-biter in the 50 free when Francesca Smith touched in 22.49. She beat-out Wyoming’s Tara Joyce (22.53), Missouri’s Katie Kuehn (22.57), and a field of seven other sub-23 swimmers in the A-Final (plus another in the B-Final). Smith’s time shaved .08 seconds off her previous best from this same Mizzou Invitational in 2023.
Wyoming then pipped Missouri at the end in the women’s 800 free relay with a time of 7:15.31. Their anchor Joyce hit the water more than four seconds behind Missouri’s anchor Bakker, but split a monstrous 1:44.17 to lift her team to the win.
Joyce won the 200 free in 1:45.35 on Thursday, which is under the NCAA qualifying standard – though she would need to repeat it, and win the conference title, in February to secure a spot at NCAAs.
Missouri took the top three spots, and five of the top seven, in the women’s 1-meter diving event, led by Gaby Carmona.
Women’s Team Scores After Day 2
Missouri – 1,137 FIU – 986 TCU – 810 Wyoming – 755 Southern Illinois – 488 McKendree – 350On the men’s side, the Missouri Tigers won four out of six events on the day. That included a 1-2 opening punch from Quinlan Gould.
First he had the best split of the field on the backstroke leg of the 200 medley relay. He swam 21.36 and was joined by Brady Johnson (23.59 – breaststroke), Luke Nebrich (19.30 – fly), and Francois Malherbe (18.99 – free) to finish in 1:23.24.
That dips the Tigers under the NCAA Qualifying Standard in that relay and assures them of at least a third NCAA qualifying relay, along with the 200 free and 400 medleys.
The time was seven-tenths better than the Tigers went for 19th place at last year’s NCAA Championship meet in spite of graduating half the relay. A big piece of that came from Nebrich, whose split was 1.3 seconds faster than their butterfly leg Jan Zubik swam at NCAAs last year.
Not long after, in the day’s third event, Gould also won the 100 back in 46.24, beating out Willem Huggins (46.61), the latest product out of the Southern Illinois backstroke factory.
Also for the Tigers, Matthew Mortenson won the 200 breaststroke in 1:54.98, smashing his lifetime best of 1:57.87 (from three weeks ago). This is a massive progression for him: his previous best was 1:58.88 from last year’s mid-season meet, with that four-second improvement being pretty evenly divided among the front and back halfs of the race.
His opening 100 yard split of 55.10 is almost two seconds faster than his flat-start 100 breast best time of 56.98. He’s primarily an IM’er and didn’t swim the 100 breast on Thursday, though Missouri is stacked in that event (they finished 1-2-3). He did win the 400 IM on Thursday, though.
The last win of the day for the Missouri men came in the 50 free where Luke Nebrich again impressed, dipping under 19 seconds for the first time in his career to win in 18.82 – which should earn him a first trip to the NCAA Championships. His previous best was a 19.03 – from three weeks ago.
The Wyoming Cowboys took the other individual swimming win of the day. Isaac Lee won the men’s 500 free in 4:22.40, taking about two seconds off his personal best.
TCU’s men picked up their first win of the meet in the 800 free relay, touching in 6:24.34. That put them four seconds ahead of D2 McKendree for the win.
Luka Cavic led the way for the Horned Frogs, splitting 1:35.02 on the second leg of the relay. It was McKendree’s Vova Gavrysh, though, who had the fastest split of the field, leading them off in 1:33.20. He was the runner-up at last year’s NCAA Division II Championship meet, and this time would have won the title.
He previously won the individual 200 free on Thursday in an even faster time of 1:32.73, and is approaching the NCAA Division II Record.
Missouri took the top four spots in the 3-meter diving, while Wyoming took the next four. Collier Dyer won the event with a score of 425.65, almost 30 points clear of the field.
Men’s Team Scores After Day 2:
Missouri – 1,110 TCU – 920.5 Wyoming – 853 McKendree – 664.5 Southern Illinois – 508 Missouri S&T – 461Read the full story on SwimSwam: Matthew Mortenson Breaks Trough in Mizzou with Huge 200 Breast Time Drop
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