SMU Rolls Over Florida Gulf Coast, BUT Aislyn Barnett’s ASUN Conference Record Steals the Show ...Middle East

By Braden Keith on SwimSwam

SMU Mustangs vs. Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (Women Only)

The SMU Mustangs women’s swimming & diving team trounced Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday in Fort Myers, Florida by a score of 205-109, but the final score was not the story of the day for the Eagles.

Instead, the team left the meet glowing after the performance of senior transfer Aislyn Barnett, a casualty of the Grant House v. NCAA settlement that left her on the wrong side of the roster cap at Auburn and arrived at FGCU last season.

Barnett won three races in the meet, taking the 500 free in 4:47.86; the 200 breaststroke in 2:12.90; and the 1000 free in 9:46.26.

That 1000 free time is a new FGCU Record and ASUN Conference Record, and evidence that not every negative outcome of the House settlement has a sad ending.

Note: the ASUN inherited the records of the previous CCSA Record book

The previous conference and school records were a 9:51.57 that she swam in a dual meet against North Florida in January. Before that, the ASUN mark stood at a 9:53.90 done by Lauren Oglesby of Gardner-Webb in 2015 – and Barnett has now cleared that by more than seven seconds.

One might think that her record-setting was just the lingering quality from her former giant of a program Auburn, which has won five women’s NCAA team titles. And while every step of the journey is part of the story, Barnett’s times have plummeted since arriving at FGCU.

In the 500 free, she left Auburn with a best of 4:59.82, and has now been 4:47.86, a 12-second improvement.

In the 1000 free, she left Auburn with a best of 10:06.37, and has now been 9:46.26, a 20-second improvement.

The FGCU distance group is humming early this season. Olivia Bates finished 2nd in the 1000 free on Saturday in 10:08.10, which now ranks her 5th in school history.

“We made the shift as a team to focus more on the quality of work we are doing in the water,” head coach Dave Rollins explained about the early season results. “We spend 45-60 minutes lifting three times a week and do SwimStrong dryland the other three. That allows us to spend a maximum of 90 minutes in the water for any given session.

“It’s allowed me as a coach to be more creative to find ways to challenge the athletes and maximize our time in the water.”

Barnett is a team captain.

Over the summer, she won a gold medal in the 1500 free at the FISU America Games, where Rollins was the head of the U.S. delegation.

SMU’s Dominance

Barnett’s breakthrough performance shouldn’t overshadow the top-to-bottom dominance of the SMU Mustangs in the meet. They won 11 out of 16 events at the meet, including a win from their own transfer Dori Hathazi in the 200 fly (1:57.41).

That marks a three meet winning streak for her in that event after picking up the event against Arizona and TCU the last two weekends.

Hathazi is one of three transfers on the roster from Washington State.

Joining her in the win column was freshman Tessa Christiansen, who won the 200 back in 1:58.50. That matched, to the hundredth, her time that finished 2nd against TCU last weekend, and is already only a second-and-a-half away from her best time.

Christiansen was a fast in-season swimmer throughout most of her high school career, but her times so far at SMU have amplified that even further. Her times so far this season, compared to a best of 1:56.94 from March:

A number of Mustangs have been racing well early this season. Senior sprinter Maddy Parker won the 50 free individually in 22.65, almost identical to the 22.63 she swam last weekend, and split 21.73 on the anchor of SMU’s runner-up 200 medley relay. Summer Osborne out-touched her in the 100 free in 49.60.

It was a busy meet for the sprinters as the teams took on an unusual dual meet schedule that included four relays.

SMU won the 400 medley relay (3:39.15), 200 free relay (1:30.93), and 400 free relay (3:18.90), with Parker racing on all of them. Besides the aforementioned free relay split, she also split 49.06 on the 400 medley relay anchor to open the meet while still fresh.

Ironically, in the race where Parker had her best split, the 200 medley relay, FGCU won in 1:40.03, a three-tenths margin. For the Eagles, backstroker Izzy Ackley was the difference-maker, splitting 24.60 on the leadoff leg to open a 1.66 seconds margin for her teammates.

Ackley also won the individual 100 backstroke in 54.04. She is a two-time defending ASUN Champion in that event.

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