By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) – Men and Women
Dates: Wednesday, February 25–Saturday, February 28 Location: Deaconess Aquatic Center, Evansville, IN Defending Champions: Indiana State women (1x); Miami-OH (1x) Live Video Championship Central SwimSwam Fan Guide Teams: Ball State, Evansville, Illinois-Chicago*, Illinois State (women), Indiana State (women), Little Rock (women), Miami-OH (men), Missouri State, Northern Iowa (women), Southern Illinois, UIC, UMass (men)*, ValparaisoAn eagle-eyed reader noticed last week that the Southern Illinois women’s 200 medley relay was disqualified well after the event concluded. In fact, the official Championship Central page still lists them as the runners-up in the event in 1:40.02.
While they did touch the wall 2nd, an unusual disqualification cost the team a whopping 56 points: the wrong swimmer raced on the butterfly leg.
This situation is addressed under Rule 5 of the NCAA Swimming & Diving Rules Book.
Names of relay competitors must be submitted to the appropriate official at a designated time before the start of the race. Changes in names of participants are permitted up until the start of the event in that specific session (the start is considered to be when the referee calls the first heat of the event in that specific session to the starting blocks). When the actual contestants in a relay are different from those listed on the official relay entry form, the competing relay shall be disqualified and all athletes involved (competing and listed) shall be charged with participation in an event. No further penalty will be assessed.
Order change for swimmers two, three and four are permitted at any time without penalty. The meet administration shall be informed of said changes for the accuracy of results.
While the NCAA Rules Book is very flexible on how long coaches have to change their relay orders, it draws a hard line at actually swimming the quartet who is on the relay card.
The official results list team star Olivia Herron as the butterfly leg. She swam the breaststroke leg on the team’s winning 200 medley at last year’s Missouri Valley Conference meet, though she is a very good butterflier as well. Herron is an NCAA Championship Automatic Qualifier based on her her 2:11.01 in the 200 breaststroke, swum en route to winning in the final.
The recorded butterfly split of 24.52 was the fifth-best in the field.
A swimmer for a different team at the meet told SwimSwam that Zaria Terry swam the butterfly leg when Masha Zhukova was listed on Meet Mobile. A spokesperson for Southern Illinois confirmed that it was the butterfly leg that had the wrong swimmer.
While the points lost ultimately didn’t effect the final meet outcome, it would have changed the order of teams after that relay, where Southern Illinois was 2.5 points ahead of Missouri State for 2nd place. SIU ultimately finished 75 points behind the champions Indiana State and 44 points ahead of Missouri State.
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