The men's and women's swim teams had another big day at the LaVerne Invitational at ELAC.
Jayden Hernandez recorded his second runner-up finish, the men's 200 medley and 800 free relays secured top-5 finishes and CUI put 26 swimmers into the finals this evening. The teams are looking to finish out the first half of their season with a big final day tomorrow.
Jayden rocked a 49.14 in the finals of the 100 butterfly, good for second place (matching his 50 free finish from Friday), a new personal best and the 2nd fastest time in school history. He also inched closer to another NCAA "B" qualifying time and is now only 4/10th of a second away. This was a huge event for CUI as a trio of freshman scored points for the Golden Eagles:
Julian Hernandez (50.18p, 6th),
Owen Neitzel (50.67p, 6th), and
Jacob VanRensburg (52.03p, 21st) each give the team a lot to be thankful for! Julian's swim is the 8th fastest in school history and Owen's is 11th.
The women were also impressive in the same event:
Georgia Caraway was 10th, birthday girl
Hailey Garcia recorded a PR in prelims (7th fastest in school history), freshman
Naomi Nakaya also rescored a PR in prelims with the 8th fastest time in school history and to wrap it up, school recordholder,
Ryan Burke also scored for CUI in a season best time!
Senior
Jon Sutherlin continues the best meet of his CUI career with a 7th place finish in the 200 freestyle. He chopped 3/4 of a second off of his prelims swim posting a 1:42.65 to earn personal best time. He teamed with
Landon McIntire,
Joey Molettieri, and
Lanis Webb to earn a 5th place finish in the 800 free relay.
Aidan Keane (400 IM, 4:10.50, 15th, PR),
Aubrie Carver (100 back, 57.65, 6th, PR),
Carissa Ward (400 IM, 4:40.64, season best, 100 back, 58.23 PR),
Alice Stainer (200 free, 1:54.06, season best),
Rachel Maki (200 free, 1:55.29, season best),
Landon McIntire (200 free, 1:44.44, season best),
Hannah Chabin (400 IM, 4:44.57, season best),
Trevor Dixon (100 breast, 57.75p PR, 7th),
Jack Harris (100 breast, 57.96p, season best), Nate Snyder (100 breast, 59.80p, season best), Julian (100 back, 52.42p, season best),
Lanis Webb (100 back, 52.48p season best),
Nash Baker (100 back 54.38p, PR) and Jacob (100 back, 53.97, PR) all scored in finals on Saturday.
The 4th place men's 200 medley relay (Jayden, Jack, Julian, Owen) recorded a 1:33.24, now the 6th fastest in school history.
The final day of competition gets underway at 9:00am with the prelims of the 200 backstroke, 100 free, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, 1650 free and the 400 free relay. Finals start at 5:00pm.
Meet results can be found at Meet Mobile or
HERE, and the live stream is on the University of LaVerne athletics website
HERE.
