INDIANAPOLIS — The 2022 Horizon League Swimming and Diving Championships continued Friday evening at the IU Natatorium (NAT) with Oakland continuing its success from the first two days of competition. The Golden Grizzlies currently lead the standings in the women's competition with 624 points and the men's competition with 479 points.
Getting the evening started was freshman
Jordyn Shipps winning the women's 100-yard butterfly with a time of 54.07, while teammate
Mia Keranen (54.67) placed second. On the men's side
Mack Flowers placed third, touching the wall in 47.65.
Senior
Madelyn Cislo took the women's top podium spot in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:22.53.
Julia Cook took home third, finishing the race in 4:25.83.
On the men's side of the 200-yard freestyle, Oakland had a sweep of the podium with
Rudy Aguilar finishing in first with a NCAA B cut time of 1:36.02,
Jonas Cantrell finishing in second with a NCAA B cut time of 1:36.32, and
Danylo Hrebelnyi finishing in third with a time of 1:36.71.
Oakland took the top two spots in the 100-yard breaststroke led by
Sydney McDowell winning the event with a time of 1:02.69. Teammate
Taylor Bailey battled to a second place finish (1:03.03), touching the wall a tenth of a second faster than the third place finisher. On the men's side,
Christian Bart came in second with a NCAA B cut time of 53.02.
In the final individual swimming events on the evening,
Susan LaGrand of Oakland won the women's 100-yard backstroke finishing with a NCAA B Cut time of 53.88. Capping off the final individual swimming event of the evening was
Marko Khotynetskyi of Oakland winning the men's 100-yard backstroke, finishing with a NCAA B cut time of 46.88.
In the women's 1-meter diving competition
Ellie Chalifoux finished in third scoring a NCAA B cut score of 279.45.
Oakland's women were the first to touch the wall in the 400-yard medley relay with a team of LaGrand, McDowell, Keranen and Shipps with a time of 3:40.76. For the second night in a row, the Oakland men had a disqualification in a relay, costing the Golden Grizzlies 40 points.
The 2022 #HLSD Championships conclude competition on Saturday, February 19. Preliminaries will start at 10 a.m. ET and finals competition will begin at 5:30 p.m. ET with the preliminaries and finals streamed on ESPN+. Visit our
#HLSD Championship Central for more information.
TEAM SCORES
WOMEN
1) Oakland 624
2) Milwaukee 424.5
3) IUPUI 366
4) UIC 341
5) Cleveland State 233.5
6) Youngstown State 209
7) Green Bay 134
MEN
1) Oakland 479
2) Cleveland State 455
3) IUPUI 391
4) Green Bay 254
5) UIC 230.5
6) Youngstown State 214
7) Milwaukee 179.5
