EDMOND, Okla. (Nov. 12, 2021) – Three school records fell and
Cheyenne Parks recorded two individual and one relay win on Friday on the second day of Oklahoma Christian's Eagle Invitational swimming meet at the Mitch Park YMCA pool.
Parks, a sophomore from Guthrie, set school records in the 100-yard butterfly and as part of the 800 freestyle relay team, while freshman
Vivian Pitsch of Koblenz, Germany, did so in the 100 backstroke.
Parks had a busy Friday. She began the evening finals session swimming a leg on OC's 200 medley relay team that finished second behind Ouachita Baptist (Ark.) with a time of 1:48.39.
She then immediately jumped into the grueling 400 individual medley and won by more than 19 seconds with a time of 4:29.50, which met the NCAA Division II B national qualifying standard. Then it was straight into the 100 butterfly, in which she swam a school-record time of 56.88 seconds. That broke
Jamie McGarrigle's former mark of 57.27 seconds, which had stood since the 2019 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships.
Parks capped her night by swimming the leadoff leg for OC in the 800 freestyle relay. She teamed with sophomore
Mallory Mead of Timonium, Md., freshman
Laura Byars of Lubbock, Texas, and sophomore
Kayci McKinnon of Trophy Club, Texas, to win in 7:44.78 and break the former OC mark of 7:46.66, set by McKinnon, Parks,
Savanna Barth and
Hope Hill in the 2020 RMAC Championships.
Pitsch and
Hope Hill, a sophomore from Santa Clarita, Calif., finished 1-2 in the 100 backstroke. Pitsch's winning time of 57.32 seconds snapped Parks' former mark of 57.60 seconds, set in the 2019 Tiger Invitational in San Antonio. Hill finished in 58.66 seconds.
OC dominated in the 200 freestyle, with Eagles finishing in the first five positions. McKinnon led the way, winning in 1:54.85, followed by Byars (1:56.05), Mead (1:56.44), freshman
Shayle Woods of Burton, Texas (1:57.27) and second-year freshman
Jaiden Branstrom of Lenexa, Kan. (1:58.64).
The final day of the meet will be Saturday, with preliminary races at 10 a.m. and the finals at 6:30 p.m. OC is competing with Texas-Permian Basin, Ouachita Baptist and Barton (Kan.) Community College in the meet.
Meet video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj66dWylJcM
