WAUKEE, Iowa – Indiana State broke three school records over the first two events of the Missouri Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships as the Sycamores opened up the conference's competition on Wednesday evening at the Waukee CSD Natatorium.
 
The Sycamores (112) sit 16 points back of Southern Illinois (128) for the team lead through the first two events as Indiana State finished second in both the 200-yard Medley Relay and 800-yard Freestyle Relay behind the Salukis. It marked the best relay finishes by Indiana State on the opening day of the conference championship meet.
 
Indiana State started off the evening with Sahara Visscher breaking the school mark in the 50-yard Backstroke to open the 200-yard Medley Relay. The freshman went out in 25.46 to break the previous mark of 25.90 set by Carmen Alard Vegas back on Dec. 4, 2021.
 
Ali Pearson, Raine Boles, and Kaleigh Kelley took care of the rest touching the wall in 1:39.49 to place second overall in the field and breaking the school mark set by the quartet in their previous meet against Butler and Ball State on February 7.
 
The Sycamores' B team of Alexandria Cotter, Alexa Szadorski, Sophia Diaz, and Kalli Agapios finished in 1:42.19, while the final group of Trista Bullock, Dorotea Bukvic, Raz Harel, and Allie Barasch finished in 1:44.78.
 
Indiana State and SIU went back and forth in the 800-yard Freestyle Relay with the Salukis holding off the Sycamores to take the event win. The Sycamores group of Erin Cummins, Visscher, Chloe Farro, and Claire Parsons went out in a school-record 7:14.74, with Parsons posting the fastest 200-yard relay split in program history in 1:47.77 on their way to claiming Indiana State's second second-place result of the night.
 
The second group of Maria Saldana Riebeling, Gemma Dilks, Rose Parsons, and Haley Halsall wrapped up the night posting a 7:27.27 for the 12th fastest time in school history.
 
Top Indiana State Finishers in Each Event
200-Yard Medley Relay: 2nd – Sahara Visscher, Alexa Szadorski, Raine Boles, Kaleigh Kelley (1:39.49, School Record)
800-Yard Freestyle Relay: 2nd – Erin Cummins, Sahara Visscher, Chloe Farro, Claire Parsons (7:14.74, School Record)
 
Up Next
Thursday, February 27 Event Schedule
Morning Prelims (11:30 a.m. ET): 500-yard Freestyle, 200-yard IM, 50-yard Freestyle, 1M Diving Prelims, 1M Diving (9-16)
Evening Finals (7 p.m. ET): 500-yard Freestyle, 200-yard IM, 50-yard Freestyle, 1M Diving, 400-yard Medley Relay
 
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