Texas A&M vs. Missouri
- November 1, 2024
- Columbia, MO
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Scores:
- Ladies: #15 Texas A&M, 168 – NR Missouri, 132
- Males: #12 Texas A&M, 168 – NR Missouri, 132
- Full Outcomes
Ladies’s Meet
The Texas A&M ladies gained twelve occasions to clinch a win over Missouri of their Nov. 1 twin meet. They gained each relays, the 400 medley and 200 freestyle, however the spotlight of their day was the freestyle occasion sweep.
Chloe Stepanek and Hayden Miller continued their robust begins to the season by contributing two wins every to that sweep. The fifth-year Stepanek set a season-best 48.59 within the 100 freestyle and took the 200 free with a 1:44.23. Missouri’s Zara Zallen, who opened her season with two lifetime bests within the 200 freestyle, took second in each occasions, swimming 48.75/1:47.16.
Miller gained the gap occasions, posting season-best occasions of 4:43.31/9:44.60 to safe her wins for the Aggies.
Whereas the Aggies gained a lot of the occasions on the day and beat Mizzou by 36 factors, the Tigers withstood so many Aggie occasion wins by incomes a number of 2-3 finishes. Zallen led a 2-3 end within the 100 free and so they earned one other behind Olivia Theall’s 100 fly win. As Kaitlyn Owens gained the 50 free in 22.66, Sierra Smith, Zallen, and Francesa Smith completed 2-3-4. When Miller clinched the freestyle sweep along with her 500 free win, Missouri’s Zoe Schneider, Danielle Gleason, and Katie Gresik took second by way of fourth, minimizing the quantity that the purpose hole between the 2 groups might prolong.
Along with the freestyle occasion sweep, Theall and Owens every picked up two occasion wins. Theall swept the butterfly occasions (52.44/1:55.94) and Owens gained the 100 backstroke (53.34) along with the 50 freestyle. Giulia Goerigk led an Aggie podium sweep within the 400 IM, ending in 4:11.88.
Missouri’s greatest occasions have been the breaststrokes, the place Lina Financial institution earned a number of occasion wins for the third consecutive twin meet. Financial institution broke 1:00 for simply the second time in her profession within the 100 breast, hitting a brand new lifetime better of 59.81 as she led a 1-2-3 sweep for the Tigers. She doubled up on lifetime bests within the 200, swimming a 2:12.17 to interrupt her earlier mark of two:12.36 from the 2024 SEC Championships.
Abbey Taute earned Missouri’s different occasion win within the pool, taking the 200 again with a 1:56.40, whereas Gaby Carmona claimed the 3-meter occasion win.
Males’s Meet
On the lads’s aspect, the Aggies’ depth of their main occasions gave them what they wanted to take the win over the Tigers.
Just like the Aggie ladies, they gained each relays, clocking 3:09.60 within the 400 medley relay and 1:18.29 within the 200 freestyle relay. The Aggie males have one of many strongest diving corps within the NCAA and that was on show right here; Leonardo Garcia gained each boards because the Aggie divers went 1-3-4 on the 1-meter and 1-3-4-5 on the 3-meter, with Missouri’s Collier Dyer breaking apart the Aggie stranglehold and ending second on each boards.
Trey Dickey gained the 1000 free for the Aggies and so they earned a 1-2 end within the 400 IM with Baylor Nelson (3:48.66) and Munzy Kabbara (3:51.15).
However, their greatest occasion of the day was the 50 freestyle, the place they swept the highest three spots. Connor Foote led the way in which for them in that occasion with a 19.94; he asserted himself because the Aggies’ go-to sprinter with an enormous breakout final season, highlighted by breaking 19 seconds for the primary time at SECs then once more at NCAAs (18.87). Foote was quicker main off the 200 freestyle relay (19.63) than he was in his particular person swim on Friday evening.
For Missouri, 2024 NCAA qualifiers Grant Bochenski and Jan Zubik every earned two occasion wins. Bochenski, who completed seventeenth within the 100 again at 2024 NCAAs, simply lacking a second swim, gained the occasion on Friday in 46.46, then the 100 freestyle in 43.68, holding off Foote (43.82). Each swims have been season-bests. Zubik, a junior from Poland, swept the fly occasions with season-bests of his personal (46.94/1:42.60), main a Missouri 1-2 in each.
Within the 200 backstroke, Texas A&M’s Tommy Shomper held off a late cost from Zubik, who cut up 25.61 over the past 50 yards however ran out of room to chase down Shomper. The Aggie gained in 1:43.08, with Zubik taking second in 1:43.32.
Missouri swept the breaststroke occasions as properly, with Logan Ottke profitable the 100 breast (53.27) and Alex Ochsenbein profitable the 200 (1:57.06). German freshman Philipp Peschke earned his first collegiate win within the 200 freestyle, swimming a lifetime greatest 1:36.55. Missouri went 1-2 within the occasion, as Calvin Windle ran down Texas A&M’s Nelson on the ultimate 50 and beat him for second place by .01 second in 1:37.27.
Up Subsequent
The Texas A&M divers head to Austin for the Texas Diving Invitational from Nov. 15-17, whereas the swimmers have a break till their residence Artwork Adamson Invitational from Nov. 20-22. On the identical dates, Missouri competes on the Georgia Invitational.
