LEWISVILLE, Texas (Feb. 16, 2019) – A trio of Oklahoma Christian swimmers set individual school records and the Lady Eagles' 400-yard freestyle relay team established another mark on the final day of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday at the Lewisville Westside Aquatic Center.
OC finished seventh among nine teams in the meet with 267 points. The Lady Eagles finished ahead of Adams State (Colo.) with 175 points and Nebraska-Kearney with 142 points and weren't far behind sixth-place finisher Colorado State-Pueblo with 324 points. Colorado Mesa won the title with 1,019.5 points.
In the 1,650-yard freestyle – collegiate swimming's longest event – OC freshman
Maggie Farley of Humble, Texas, shattered the school record with a time of 18:22.63 that placed her ninth. The old mark was 18:39.74, set by
Gabrealla Badillo at the Tiger Invitational in San Antonio earlier this season.
Badillo, a freshman from Coppell, Texas, finished 11th at the RMAC meet in 18:25.56, while freshman
Shyanna Kuehn of Bartlesville was 23rd in 19:35.45.
Jamie McGarrigle, a sophomore from Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. – who made two A finals earlier in the meet – added a B final to that list, placing 10th in the 100 freestyle in 52.64 seconds. That broke her own OC mark of 53.12 seconds, set at last year's RMAC Championships.
Andrea Rogers, a freshman from St. Charles, Mo., made the C final and was 19th in 54.26 seconds.
McGarrigle was OC's top individual in the meet, finishing 31st in the meet with 30 points.
Another sophomore,
Riley Powelson of Edmond, made the B final in the 200 backstroke, placing 15th in a school-record time of 2:10.72. That snapped the mark of 2:11.06, set at the 2017 Edmond Turkey Meet by
Ashley Harmon.
Allison DeWeirdt, a sophomore from Keller, Texas, was OC's other individual finalist Saturday, qualifying for the C final in the 200 breaststroke and finishing 20th in 2:31.93.
The Lady Eagles set a final record in the meet's final event, the 400 freestyle relay. The quartet of McGarrigle, Rogers, Badillo and
Hailey Webster finished in 3:35.62. That was better than the mark of 3:36.47 set at last year's RMAC meet by McGarrigle,
Heidi Fritscher, Webster and
Hanna Forbat.
During the four-day meet, the Lady Eagles set nine individual and four relay school records.
The meet was the last of the second season of competition for OC's program.
