INDIANAPOLIS – For the third consecutive day, the IUPUI men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams combined to break four school records as both teams wrapped up the 2011 Summit League Swimming and Diving Championships in sixth place.

The men’s team finished in sixth place with 258 points, while the women finished a half of a point behind Eastern Illinois for fifth place with 281.5 points. The Oakland University men’s team won the meet with 998 points, while the women’s team took home the team title with 1,060 points.

Right off the bat a school record was broken when Katelyn Cato stamped her name atop the 200 backstroke chart with a time of 2:05.86, the second best time in the preliminaries. Cato’s time surpassed the previous school-record time of 2:08.38 set by Ariane Mongeau, which stood for more than 12 years.

It didn’t take long for Cato’s record to fall as she bested her time from earlier in the day in the ‘A’ final with a 2:05.80 mark, which was good enough to finish fifth.

In the 200 butterfly, Elizabeth Bourgeois narrowly missed out on a school record by .33 in the preliminaries, but in the ‘A’ final, Bourgeois left no doubt and topped Sara Smith’s 2007 previous school-record mark of 2:08.25 by almost two seconds, clocking in with a fourth-place time of 2:06.44.

The other individual school record came from Tyler McGowan in his final appearance at the IU Natatorium. McGowan improved another one of his school records, this time in the 200 butterfly, where he bettered his previous record of 1:54.94 to 1:54.08 and entered the final as the fourth seed. In the finals, his newly improved record went down again, this time with a fourth-place mark of 1:52.59.

The final school record was broken in the final women’s event, the 400 freestyle relay. Lindsey Hurst, who placed 10th in the 100 freestyle with 53.75, bettered her time in the opening leg of the relay clocking in at 53.13. Bourgeois, Tori Taylor, and Cato followed up Hurst and combined to set a new record at 3:32.86.

In other events, Hunter Chiasson and Michael Steurer advanced to the consolation final in the 200 backstroke with Chiasson posting the second-fastest time in school history at 1:54.04, and Steurer recording the sixth best time in program history at 1:55.01.

In the final, Chiasson fell just shy of his PR set earlier in the day with a mark of 1:54.12 to place 11th overall, while Steurer placed 16th.

Both Katlyn Huhn and Taylor competed in the ‘B’ final of the 200 breaststroke and placed 13th and 15th, respectively, while Andrew Heideman and Kyle Whitaker placed 10th and 12th in the 200 breaststroke. Heideman’s finals time of 2:10.60 moved him into third in the school record books.

Steven Bretscher and Carrie Ford notched the top finishes in the 1650 freestyle with 10th and 11th place showings and each moved into the Top 10 in school history in the event.

Finally, Chen Ni finished second in the 3-meter dive scoring 278.90 points, while Mitchell Gauger finished fourth with 245.90 points in the 1-meter dive.

IUPUI combined to set 15 new school records on both the men’s and women’s sides and McGowan, who placed second in the 400 IM with a school-record mark, became IUPUI’s single-season leader in podiums with 28.