Men's Swimming 2/10/2013 9:00:00 PM Tyler Madsen, Truman Athletics

Women Take Second, Men Finish Third at NSIC

ROCHESTER, Minn. - - The Truman women's swimming team earned a second-place finish, while the Bulldog men took home third place in the 2013 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship/Invitational - held Thursday through Sunday.

Team Standings:

Women
Rk	Team	Total	Swim-Only
1.	St. Cloud (Minn.) State	1724.5	1563.5
2.	Truman	1514.5	1514.5
3.	Minnesota-Moorhead	1307	1159
4.	Minnesota-Mankato	1250.5	1165.5
5.	Lindenwood	1108	1014
6.	Northern (S.D.) State	693	693
7.	William Jewell	622	622
8.	Nebraska-Kearney	498.5	498.5

Men
Rk	Team	Total	Swim-Only
1.	St. Cloud State	1012	960
2.	Lindenwood	1006	963
3.	Truman	717	717
4.	William Jewell	621	621

Sunday Recap (Prelim Results || Finals Results):

The Truman women's swimming team earned a second-place finish, while the Bulldog men took home third place in the 2013 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship/Invitational - held Thursday through Sunday.

Truman totaled 1,514.5 points overall in the women's swimming & diving championship, trailing St. Cloud (Minn.) State's first-place mark of 1,724.5. The Huskies only topped the Bulldogs by 49 points in the swimming events, as SCSU totaled 161 diving points in events Truman does not compete. On the men's side, the Bulldogs sat comfortably in third, trailing both SCSU and Lindenwood but easily holding off William Jewell by nearly 100 points.

While the Bulldog women were not atop the podium after the final event, the squad was able to keep alive a 24-year streak of placing either first or second in a conference meet.

Brynn Guardado got the night out to a fast start for the women's squad, taking home the No. 1 spot in the 1650 Free with a new NCAA B-cut time of 17:23.02. Jerod Simek and Nick Barabolak then took home second and fifth-place finishes in the men's version of the 1650 Free to add 31 combined points to the Bulldog men's score.

A quintet of Bulldog women's swimmers dominated the women's 200 Back finals in the night's third event, as Kristi Van Oost (2nd), Taylor Voelker (3rd), Ashley Shanel (5th), Beth Eyanson (6th) and Melanie Wilkes added 127 points to the Bulldog tally. Then, two events later, Casey Jepsen cruised to an individual title in the 100 Free - her third title of the weekend - by setting a new B-cut time of 51.70.

Abby Hempen later added a second-place, B-cut finish in the 200 Breast with a mark of 2:19.74, edging out teammate Margaux Kent who finished third at 2:21.65.

The Bulldogs then closed the night with a pair of B-cut times in the 400 Free Relay events, as the women's foursome of Jepsen, Bailey Peterson, Meghan Senne and Van Oost garnered a third-place finish at 3:30.72 before the men's squad of Tony Hernandez, Levi Hanks, George Dowdy and Etienne Thro matched the third-place finish with a 3:08.02 time.

Following the meet, junior Casey Jepsen was named the NSIC Swimmer of the Year, while Guardado earned NSIC Freshman of the Year honors.

Both teams will now await the NCAA announcement on Wednesday, February 20 regarding selection to the NCAA Div. II Swimming & Diving Championships, to be held March 6-9 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Saturday Recap (Prelim Results || Finals Results):

Casey Jepsen took home first place in the Women's 200 Free, Levi Hanks broke the school record in the Men's 200 Free, and the Bulldog swim teams captured seven B-cut times on night three of the 2013 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship/Invitational.

The Bulldog women sit second in the overall team standings, while the Bulldog men are third overall entering the final day of competition.

In the morning prelim session, Hanks hit the wall in 1:41.04, finishing second in the men's 200 Free prelim and snapping a four-year school record in the process. Then, in the evening final, he bested that time by another .80, finishing second once again at 1:40.24 and improving both the new school-best as well as his B-cut time.

Jepsen, meanwhile, recorded big wins both in the prelims and finals of the 200 Free, eventually capturing first place and a new B-cut with a 1:51.68 time in the finals. She held off teammate Kristi Van Oost, who finished third with a B-cut time of 1:55.17.

Other big individual performances for the 'Dogs on day three came in the Women's 100 Breast, where Margaux Kent (1:05.04) and Abby Hempen (1:05.48) finished second and fourth respectively to pick up 54 team points and a pair of B-cuts.

In the Women's 400 IM, Taylor Birsa, Ashley Shanel and Allison Harding took home third, fourth and fifth places, while Jerod Simek picked up a second place B-cut time of 4:05.59. Adrian Rudd added a B-cut mark of 57.11 by finishing second in the Women's 100 Fly Finals, with Tony Hernandez and Etienne Thro finishing 2-3 in the Men's 100 Fly. Lars Winklemolen finished second in the 100 Breast after leading the field through the preliminary round.

The Bulldogs also earned third and fourth place finishes in the men's and women's 200 Medley Relay.

Sunday marks the final day of the NSIC Championship/Invite, with prelims starting at 10:00 am and the finals at 6:00 pm. Full team results are available via the links above in PDF form.

Friday Recap (Prelim Results || Finals Results):

A 1-2 finish in the Women's 200 IM and a second school record falling highlighted night two of the NSIC Championship/Invitational on Friday evening.

Abby Hempen and Adrian Rudd were part of two B-cut times on the day, as Hempen set a season-best time of 2:07.95 in the morning prelims of the 200 IM, then held off Rudd in the finals with a time of 2:08.17 to pick up an individual title. Rudd, meanwhile, notched a B-cut time of 2:08.54 in the finals and joined Hempen, Beth Eyanson and Casey Jepsen in the 400 Medley Relay finals with a B-cut mark of 3:52.66. That quartet finished second, picking up 56 team points.

Also on the women's side, Brynn Guardado (5:03.27) and Allison Harding (5:05.44) logged B-cut times in the 500 Free finals, as they were two of six Bulldogs to score in the event. Ashley Shanel (5:11.68) and Meghan Senne (5:10.95) also logged top-10 finishes. Jepsen locked up a B-cut time of her own in the 50 Free, touching the wall in fourth place with a time of 21.12.

Meanwhile, after breaking his own school record in the 1000 Free on Thursday night, Jerod Simek did the same in the 500 Free on Friday, topping his previous-best of 4:32.05 with a time of 4:31.29. In addition, Levi Hanks secured a B-cut time in the event, also beating Simek's previous-best with a 4:31.99 mark. Tony Hernandez also used his finals appearance in the 50 Free to sneak past the B-cut line, beating the cutoff by .02 with a time of 21.12 to finish fourth on the night.

Full standings are listed above, with Saturday's preliminary action set to begin at 10:00 am.

Thursday Recap (Day 1 Results):

Five combined B-Cut times in four events highlighted night one of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship/Invitational for the Truman men's and women's swimming teams on Thursday evening.

In the opening event of the night, freshman Brynn Guardado stamped a B-cut time in the 1000 Free, capturing first-place by more than seven seconds with a time of 10:18.89. Allison Harding also notched a B-cut time in the race, touching the wall in fifth at 10:29.78.

Then, in the men's version of the 1000 Free, Jerod Simek added his own B-cut time with a mark of 9:18.10, good for second-place in the event. In the process, he broke his own school record in the event, previously set in last season's NCAA Div. II championships - a time of 9:19.75.

Finally, in the 800 Free Relay competitions to close the abbreviated night, the Bulldog women took home first place in both the A (7:40.41; B-cut) and B (7:51.57) finals, while the men logged a fourth-place, B-cut time of 6:51.59.

Although the Bulldogs matched or out-performed each of the other schools in the swim portions, the women sit fifth with 172 points and the men third with 85 points due to results from the 3-meter diving competition. Truman does not compete in diving, and, taking out the 3-meter results, the Bulldog women would be tied for first in the swim-only standings.

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