Mustangs break five school records
Morningside swimmers broke five school records on Friday at the Liberal Arts Championships.
Morningside College swimmers broke five school records on Friday at the Liberal Arts Championships swimming & diving meet in Elsah, Ill.
Connor Bjellum, a freshman from Fargo, N.D., had the Mustangs’ highest individual finish when he won on the men’s 200-yard freestyle with a school record time of 1:41.68.
Suzanna Gonzalez, a junior from Trabuco Canyon, Calif., was the runner-up in the women’s 200-yard freestyle with a school-record time of 1:54.72 and teammate Evelyn Edge, a senior from Genoa City, Wis., finished seventh in the event with a time of 1:59.50.
Jake Kohorst, a freshman from Elk River, Minn., set a school record in the men’s 100-yard backstroke with a time of 53.60 seconds and Kyler Alme, a freshman from Bismarck, N.D., set a school record in the men’s 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:00.50.
The Mustangs set a school record in the women’s 800-yard freestyle relay, where Gonzalez, Ally Hecht, a freshman from Leavenworth, Kan.; Tracy Gates, a senior from Escondido, Calif., and Edge combined for a fifth place time of 8:10.13.
Morningside had two top 10 finishers in the men’s 100-yard butterfly, where Billy Salber, a freshman from Omaha, Neb., finished fifth with a time of 51.94 seconds, and Timothy Cohoon, a sophomore from Buffalo, Wyo., finished ninth with a time of 54.35.
Alisia Woodward, a sophomore from Waterloo, Iowa, finished eighth in the women’s 400-yard individual medley with a time of 5:15.26.
The Mustangs finished fifth in the men’s 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:36.99 from the quartet of Kohorst, Alme, Salber and John Dieter, a junior from Carroll, Iowa.
Veronica Mullen, a sophomore from Omaha, Neb.; Jessyca Huff, a freshman from Castle Rock, Colo.; Gonzalez and Edge combined for a seventh place time of 1:56.75 in the women’s 200-yard medley relay.
The Liberal Arts Championships will conclude on Saturday.
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