Columbia News

The University of Missouri's swimming and diving teams are scheduled to compete at the Georgia Invitational in Athens, Georgia, from November 20 to 22. The event will take place at Gabrielsen Natatorium and includes competition against Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Southern, LSU, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.

The meet spans three days. Each day begins with swimming preliminaries at 8:30 a.m. Central Time. Diving events start at 10:30 a.m., followed by finals sessions in the afternoon—4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, and 4:00 p.m. on Friday.

Live results for the meet will be available through the Meet Mobile and DiveMeets applications. The SEC Network+ will provide live streaming coverage of all sessions.

The schedule features a range of events each day. On Wednesday, swimmers will compete in the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free races; women's 3-meter and men's 1-meter diving; as well as finals for the 200 free relay and 400 medley relay. Thursday’s program includes the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breaststroke, and other events along with women’s one-meter and men’s three-meter diving competitions. Friday concludes with longer distance swims such as the mile (1,650 free), additional stroke events including backstroke and butterfly finals, platform diving for both men and women, and the final relays.

In their previous outing against Texas A&M, several Missouri athletes delivered strong performances. Karolina Bank achieved her third consecutive multi-win performance by posting times of 59.81 seconds in the women’s 100 breaststroke and 2:12.17 in the women’s 200 breaststroke.

Grant Bochenski continued his own winning streak with victories in both the men's 100 backstroke (46.46) and men's 100 freestyle (43.68). Freshman Philipp Peschke secured his first individual win in the men's 200 freestyle with a personal-best time of 1:36.55; Calvin Windle finished second in that race with a time of 1:37.27.

Alex Ochsenbein earned his first career individual win after redshirting last season by taking first place in the men’s 200 breaststroke (1:57.06). Gabriela San Juan Carmona won her first event as a Tiger with a score of 306.15 in women's three-meter diving.

Jan Zubik won the men's 100 butterfly (46.94) and took silver in the men's 200 backstroke (1:43.32). Abbey Taute claimed her third straight victory to open this season by winning the women's 200 backstroke (1:56.40).

Logan Ottke was victorious in the men's 100 breaststroke (53.27), while Ochsenbein placed second (53.59).

After this week’s invitational meet at Georgia concludes on Friday evening, Missouri swimmers are set to participate next at the Toyota U.S. Open in Greensboro from December 4–7; divers will travel to Bloomington for USA Diving Winter Nationals from December 7–15.