Kansas vs. Iowa State
- February 7, 2025
- Robinson Natatorium, College of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
- Brief Course Yards (25 yards), School Twin Meet
- Full Meet Outcomes (PDF)
In a battle between the underside two groups from final 12 months’s Huge 12 Championships, the College of Kansas thumped convention rivals Iowa State 181-117 on Friday night in Lawrence.
“It was a extremely good meet, we competed properly,” mentioned Kansas head coach Clark Campbell. “I used to be telling our staff in our post-race wrap up that the final meet of the 12 months is likely one of the most bipolar meets of the whole season as a result of you’ve gotten folks which are feeling actually good and a few folks which are simply not feeling it but. However that’s okay as a result of the purpose is to peak on the finish of the month and everybody has completely different responses to their coaching.”
For the Jayhawks, Lydia Lafferty and Eleni Kotzamanis received a pair of particular person occasions every.
The junior Lafferty posted a brand new lifetime greatest within the 100 again of 54.73. An A-Finalist within the 100 fly finally 12 months’s Huge 12 Championships, Lafferty has made vital progress within the backstroke races this 12 months – an occasion she scratched finally 12 months’s Huge 12 Championships.
Her greatest time within the 100 again coming into the season was 56.82, and he or she has cleared that swim thrice this season – together with on the final two twin meets: she swam 55.29 two weeks earlier in opposition to Arkansas.
Lafferty additionally received the 100 fly on Friday in 54.38. That’s simply six-tenths wanting her greatest time from prelims finally 12 months’s Huge 12 Championships.
Kotzamanis received the 100 free in 50.84 and the 200 free in 1:49.14. Each had been near her lifetime bests of fifty.74 and 1:48.90, respectively, finished on the mid-season Hawkeye Invitational.
Different highlights for Kansas embody a 4:53.27 from freshman Gabi Dyer within the 500 free that knocked virtually a second off her greatest time from highschool and greater than two-and-a-half off her collegiate greatest finished in opposition to Arkansas.
The Jayhawks additionally received each relays, going 1-2 within the 200 medley in 1:41.13 and 1:42.64, respectively; and successful the 400 free relay in 3:24.92, led by a 50.36 break up from Kotzamanis.
Whereas the ultimate rating was lopsided, Iowa State did get in just a few good pictures. That included a sweep of the breaststroke occasions.
Freshman Grace Swoboda received the 100 breast in 1:01.57 and was 2nd within the 200 in 2:15.93. These had been each lifetime bests: the previous by 8-tenths and the latter by virtually 7 seconds.
That 200 was received by her freshman teammate Anja Peck in 2:14.70, which was a lifetime greatest for her as properly by 2.2 seconds.
Iowa State scored solely 4 factors within the breaststroke races finally 12 months’s Huge 12 Championships, all from swimmers who’re now not on the staff. The freshman duo of Swoboda and Peck are projected to out-perform that end result many-times over at this 12 months’s championship.
Of observe, Kansas sophomore diver Shiyun Lai set a Robinson Natatorium report on 1-meter with a rating of 336.30. She is the one Kansas diver who has surpassed that rating at any meet on six dives.
Kansas will ship largely its non-conference staff to the Jayhawk First Probability meet subsequent weekend at residence, whereas Iowa State will subsequent compete on the Huge 12 Championships in Federal Means, Washington from February 25-March 1.
