By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
2025 Mizzou Invitational
November 20-22, 2025
Mizzou Aquatic Heart, Columbia, MO
SCY (25 yards)
Prelims: 9:30/ Finals: 5:30
Groups: Missouri, TCU, FIU, Wyoming, Southern Illinois, McKendree, Missouri S&T
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Seven groups gathered for the opening evening of the Mizzou Invite in Columbia. Host staff Missouri got here away with seven of a possible 12 wins within the water on evening one.
Opening up the session, Missouri’s girls’s 200 freestyle relay bought off to a sizzling begin, topping the ultimate occasions in 1:29.16. Over a second and a half forward of runners-up Florida Worldwide in 1:30.84. FIU was challenged for that Third-place spot by the Wyoming girls, who completed simply three hundredths behind in 1:30.87.
The tiger males adopted swimsuit, profitable the 200 free relay by over two full seconds. Luke Nebrich swam his quickest ever 50 free to open up for Missouri, clocking 18.75, bettering his 19.02 from SECs final season.
The ladies’s 100 butterfly high 3 have been separated by lower than four-tenths of a second. Missouri’s Paige Striley (52.47), FIU’s Pauline Zeller (52.65), and Missouri’s Kylee Sullivan (52.84) separated themselves from the pack, ending as the one three girls beneath 54 seconds. For Striley, her time is lower than two-tenths off her finest from SECs final 12 months at 52.29. Zeller demolished her finest time from just below three weeks in the past in 53.87.
Carter Ruthven notched the win within the males’s 100 fly for Southern Illinois. Ruthven narrowly edged out Jan Zubik of Missouri by .16, clocking 46.37 for the person win. Missouri completed with 5 within the high 8 within the occasion. Ruthven destroyed his finest time from only a week in the past on the SIU A3 Invite, the place he swam 47.12.
Missouri’s Zoe Schneider got here away with the win within the 400 IM, decreasing her lifetime finest from SECs final season in 4:14.22, ending simply .77 over Nicole Frank of FIU.
Missouri continued to impress within the males’s 400 IM, Matthew Mortenson logged one other Tiger win, and in his quickest time of his profession, clocking the 1.3-second win in 3:43.01, over three seconds sooner than his earlier finest from the Mizzou Qualifier in March.
Tara Joyce of Wyoming ran away with the ladies’s 200 free, turning within the quickest time of the night in 1:45.35, practically two seconds sooner than the subsequent closest competitor in Avery Dillon of TCU in 1:47.24.
McKendree entered the win column with Vova Gavrysh’s dominating swim within the males’s 200 free, clocking 1:32.73, giving him over a second of a buffer between him and the sphere. The swim bested his quickest ever efficiency by nine-tenths of a second from final season’s NCAA Division II Championships.
Southern Illinois’ Olivia Herron took the tight win over Frida Loebersli’s 59.60 (FIU) within the girls’s 100 breast, outsplitting Loebersli by practically eight tenths coming residence to snag the win in 59.42.
Missouri bought again to the highest within the males’s 100 breast, main a 1-2-3 sweep with Brady Johnson (52.37), Logan Ottke (52.47), and Darden Tate (53.59) rounding out the highest three spots. These swims stand as Johnson’s and Ottke’s quickest ever performances.
Within the remaining girls’s occasion of the night, Missouri as soon as once more touched first, this time within the 400 medley relay, clocking 3:33.94 to take the close to three-second win. Zara Zallen closed out the relay along with her 47.98 anchor leg.
The Tiger males replicated the success, overwhelming the sphere by three and a half seconds. The staff of Quinlan Gould (45.97), Brady Johnson (51.48), Jan Zubik (45.80), and Luke Nebrich (41.34) put a 3:04.59 stamp on day certainly one of motion in Columbia.
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