Razorbacks Continue Good Showing at SEC’s
Fayetteville, Ark.- The 20th ranked Arkansas Swim & Dive team continued their good performance at the SEC Championships on Thursday by finishing the day in seventh with 459 total points.
The swimmers competed in the 400-individual medley, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back and 400 medley relay in Athens, Ga. The day started out strong in the 400 IM prelims, with Peyton Palsha taking third place in the prelims with a time of 4:08.02. Vanessa Herrmann and Kobie Melton followed with good showings in the prelims, as both finished sixth, Herrmann in the 100 breast and Melton in the 100 back. Herrmann also finished sixth in the 100 breast finals with a time of 59.95. The swimmers finished the day strong in the 400-medley relay, as Sansores, Herrmann, Vavrinova and Melton finished with a time of 3:35.21.
The divers competed in the platform dive in Columbia, Mo. In the prelims, Maha Amer was the top performer for the Hogs, finishing sixth with a score of 268.05. Grace Walker (185.75), Mayson Richards (182.30) and Josie Matalone (123.65) also produced good showings at the prelims. In the platform dive finals, Amer closed the day out by finishing eighth, scoring 182.75.
Action will pick back up tomorrow starting at 9 a.m. CT with the prelims for the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, and 200 fly and 1,650 free. All action will be streamed on SEC Network+.
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Head Coach Neil Harper: “Today was a great day for the Razorbacks! This morning’s prelims produced four championship finalists in Peyton, Vanessa, Kobie and Maha. We also had several other personal bests from our freshmen and Andrea, Grace, Mayson and Esti all scored in their events too. It was a great team effort today. We have a big final day tomorrow to battle for more best times, finals swims and the overall team score and placing.”
