INDIANAPOLIS – After a solid start to the House of Champions Invite yesterday, the IU Indianapolis men's and women's swim and dive teams finished day two of the three-day event Friday evening (Nov. 22). Heading into the final day of competition, the men sit in fourth of 11 teams with 508.5 points while the women's 253 points is good for eighth place of 13 sides.
Following the 200 yard medley relays that began Friday's final session,
Luca McGee and
Morgen Frausto each earned points in the consolation final of the 50 breaststroke.
In the next event,
Lillian Brandt's sixth-place finish in the 100 yard butterfly earned 24 points while
Dani Stemper's placement also racked up tallies for the women's team. On the men's side, three swimmer's finishing positions gained points, headlined by Hugo Artega in fifth.
Luke Dibley was the sole Jaguar swimmer to earn points in the difficult 400 individual medley, finishing inside the top eight with a time of 4:00.31.
Emmaleigh Zietlow continued her stellar swimming in the 200 free, setting a new meet record of 1:47.39 while winning her second individual title of the weekend. For the men, three athletes earned tallies, with
Nathan Rariden gaining 25 for his fifth-place finish.
Three men—
Jack Gallob,
Keiran Rahmaan and
Grayson Tidwell—put points on the board in the 100 back to close out the individual races.
In the 800 freestyle relay, the women's team comprised of
Tori Barnet,
Addy Hirsbrunner,
Madelyn Weber and Zietlow placed seventh.
Ben Kimmel,
William Gorman,
Youssef Magdy and Rariden each swam solid legs of the men's portion of the relay, placing fourth and earning 30 tallies.
The final day of the invite begins tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. with the prelims and will conclude with the finals starting at 5:30 p.m.