COLUMBIA, S.C. - North Florida women's swimming continued to show improved times and even record marks on the penultimate day of the Gamecock Invitational by producing six top ten times as well as a school record.
Victoria Torres highlighted the strong day, swimming a program-record time in the 100 breast at 1:03.87, breaking Francesca Vandersluis' mark of 1:03.98, set all the way back Nov. 20, 2016 at the Panther Invitational.
Freshmen
Claire Kerber,
Faith Mutschler and
Aydan Horrigan all added program top-ten times.
By the end of the day's competition, the Ospreys accounted for 33 personal bests among individual and split times.
CLIPBOARD NOTES
- Torres broke the school record for the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:03.87
- Torres now holds the first and third fastest times for the 100 yard breaststroke
- Kerber swam the fifth fastest 100 yard butterfly in program history while tying Ashley Cozad for the seventh fastest 100 yard butterfly in the preliminaries
- Mutschler nabbed her third top ten times in two days notching the eighth fastest 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:51.54
- Horrigan recorded the tenth fastest 400 IM in program history, finishing in 4:30.00
- The Ospreys produced seven top 15 times during the evening's finals
COFFEY TALK
"This was a very good finals session for our program. We recorded times in the top ten in four different events. Victoria Torres broke the school record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:03.87. We also had many personal bests throughout the morning and evening sessions. We're looking forward to the final day tomorrow and will be swimming fast!" - Head Coach Ian Coffey
UP NEXT
The third and final day of the Gamecock Invitational will continue tomorrow with preliminaries at 10:00 a.m. and finals at 4:00 p.m. Events featured in prelims will be the: 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly and 1650 free.
The finals will take place at 4 p.m. and will include the 1650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly and 400 free relay.
Both the preliminaries and finals will be streamed live on YouTube. Live results can be found on the MeetMobile app.
