Southern Illinois Earns Overall Team Titles on Final Night of A3 Performance Invite ...Middle East

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SIU A3 Performance Invite

Final Team Scores:

Women

Men

The final day of the SIU A3 Performance Invite followed the same pattern as the first two with the Southern Illinois Salukis dominating the competition to walk home with the team trophies on both the men’s and women’s side of the meet.

Women’s Recap

Liseska Gallegos Gutierrez started the meet off strong for Southern Illinois with a win in the women’s 200 backstroke, touching in 1:57.69 to win by more than a second over teammate Brooklyn Anderson. Her season best stands at 1:57.25 from SIU’s meet with Northwestern and Miami (OH) at the beginning of October. The Salukis also finished 3rd with Andrea Santos Arambula touching in 2:01.11

Susana Gabriela Hernandez Barradas swam a season best 49.66 in the women’s 100 free to take the win by a little more than a tenth over SIU teammate Zaria Terry‘s 49.81. SIU also picked up 3rd in the event with Masha Zhukova‘s 51.17 and 4th with Ava Rines‘s 51.72.

Olivia Herron won the women’s 200 breaststroke in 2:09.09, a new season best time for her, and the 9th fastest time in the country so far this season. Herron’s best stands at the 2:08.39 she swam to qualify 14th for the final at last year’s NCAA Championships.

The women’s 200 fly went to Tamara De La Torre in 2:04.04, another new season best and about three seconds off her lifetime best of 2:01.20 from November of 2023. Omaha’s Julia Thomas finished 2nd in 2:05.75.

The final event of the meet is the only swimming event that the Southern Illinois women did not win over all three days. The Nebraska–Omaha ‘A’ 400 free relay team of Kate Novinski (53.83), Julia Thomas (50.29), Kira Jacobs (51.83), and Leah Spencer (51.02) swam 3:26.97 to win their first gold medal of the meet.

The SIU ‘A’ relay was marked exhibition, but the team of Ava Rines (51.37), Zaria Terry (51.10), Olivia Herron (50.14), and Susana Gabriela Hernandez Barradas (51.05) swam 3:23.66.

The morning session saw Hungarian freshman Livia Mukacsi-Nagy win the women’s mile in 16:58.00 for her first ever time swimming the event.

Men’s Recap

Just like on the women’s side, the men’s final day started with an event win from Southern Illinois. Sophomore Juraj Barcot swam 1:45.94 in the men’s 200 backstroke. This was a new personal best time for him, dropping from the 1:46.94 he swam at last year’s Missouri Valley Championships. SIU swept the event with Willem Huggins swimming 1:46.50 for 2nd and Elliott Dye swimming 1:48.18 in 3rd.

Benedek Andor picked up another win for the Salukis with his 43.37 in the men’s 100 freestyle. This was also a new personal best, taking six tenths off the 43.98 he swam in March of 2024. The top four spots all went to Southern Illinois swimmers with Alex Cimera (44.29), Rodrigo Ramos Chavez (44.84), and Nikolas Kosta (45.11) rounding out the first four spots.

Freshman Maddax Thompson made it three straight for the SIU men with his win in the men’s 200 breast. He touched in 1:58.54, which was a huge personal best time. Before college, his lifetime best was 2:03.92 from March of 2023.

The 200 fly went to Carter Ruthven in 1:47.05, four tenths faster than 2nd place finisher, teammate Hazem Aboustate’s 1:47.44. Nate Worsham finished 3rd for SIU in 1:47.71. Ruthven’s swim was a new season best, but was about two seconds off his lifetime best of 1:45.61 from December of 2022.

The final event of the meet was the 400 freestyle relay, and the SIU ‘A’ team was marked Exhibition again which allowed the Nebraska–Omaha men to win with their 2:59.20. The relay consisted of Grant Schaeffer (45.07), Mason Zadina (45.03), Will McCabe (44.88), Aidin Kolb (44.22).

SIU’s ‘A’ team swam 2:55.92 with Alex Cimera (44.14) Benedek Andor (43.18), Rodrigo Ramos Chavez (44.23), and Willem Huggins (44.37).

In prelims, Tomas Peciar won the men’s 1650 for SIU, swimming 15:41.68, a new personal best time to drop from ihs 15:51.07 at this meet last year.

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