ST. LOUIS—The Truman Swimming teams competed in a dual meet against Missouri-St. Louis Saturday with the women's team winning 127-84 and the men's team falling 152-58. AJ Kohler and Brooke Beahan were voted Bulldogs of the Meet by their teammates—Kohler finished first in the 100 and 200 yard freestyle races and Beahan bounced back from an illness earlier in the week to finish fifth in the 500 freestyle and part of the third place team in the 400 yard freestyle relay.
The women's team had a strong showing in the 200 freestyle as Lexi Poe, Kylie Strobl and Abby Bomball finished 1-2-3, with Bomball beating her seed time by over two seconds. In the 400 IM Meg Herevoh won the event, and beat her seed time by over two and a half seconds with a finals time of 4:40.24. Other first place finishers included Sarah Nelson in the 50 free, Holly Olson in the 100 butterfly, Emily Traube in the 100 freestyle, Emma Brabham in the 100 backstroke, and in relays the 400 freestyle team of Lexi Krogman, Herevoh, Poe and Brabham finished first while the 400 medley relay team of Natalie Nguyen, Brabham, Olson and Herevoh took first place. Sidney Durbin also finished second in the 1000 freestyle, but beat her seed time by four and a half seconds with a finals time of 11:07.65.
The men had other strong results—Gavin Bergmann beat his seed time in the 100 butterfly by nearly two seconds with a finals time of 55.05, Jacob Pocivasek was third in the 50 freestyle with a finals time of 21.64, Noah May took fourth in the 500 freestyle and just missed his seed time by 18 one hundredths of a second.
Following the dual, coach Jerod Simek said, "The dogs really stepped up and raced well today on both sides! We had a lot of close battles in the lanes today that made the meet pretty exciting! A lot of the details we've been hitting in practice are starting to show up more consistently so we are very excited for a rematch in another two weeks with some rest behind us to post some competitive times for the GLVC and NCAA Championships!"
Complete results can be found here.
