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September 24, 2022: The Oklahoma Christian University swim team competes in the Sam Freas Invitational at the Edmond YMCA Recreation and Aquatic Center in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Steven Christy

Men's Swimming Kregg Matthews

Swimming breaks thirteen meet records at the Sam Freas Invite

Edmond, Okla. - Oklahoma Christian hosted their annual event, the Sam Freas Invite, yesterday at Mitch Park in Edmond, and they broke thirteen meet records in the twenty-six event meet.

The meet is a special invite and they do not keep official scores, but the Eagles would have won the men's and women's meet. The meet featured D1 North Texas and fellow DII teams in the University of Texas Permian Basin and Nebraska Kearney, and DII/NAIA teams in the University of St. Mary, University of the Ozarks, and Williams Baptist.

The Eagles' first record of the night came in the men's 200-yard medley relay, with the relay team of Noah Rabb, JT Amrein, Victor Rosado, and Dereck Montgomery, with a time of 1:30.99. Montgomery also set a new meet record in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 20.61.

In the women's 200-yard freestyle, Laura Byars set the meet record with a time of 1:56.01. And Reese McIlroy broke the men's 100-yard backstroke record with a time of 51.27.

JT Amrein did was does best, breaking records and winning events, by setting a new record in the men's 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 54:90. And fellow sophomore Victor Rosado broke the record in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:50.07. Rosado also set a new record in the meet wih a time 49.37 in the men's 100-yard butterfly.

Amrein also broke the meet record in the men's 100-yard IM with a time of 50.38.

Freshman, Kara Boemio broke the record in the women's 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:08.14. And another freshman in the earlier mentioned Noah Rabb, broke another record in the men's 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:52.66.

Caleb Musser set a new meet record in the men's 100-yard freestyle with a time of 46.43.

And the OC men's and women's 200-yard freestyle team's broke the meet record in the final event of the Sam Freas Invite, with times of 1:22.92 and 1:36.98 respectively.

Oklahoma Christian's next meet is at 4 p.m. at Ouachita Baptist, on October 7th.

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Players Mentioned

Laura Byars

Laura Byars

Freestyle
5' 6"
Freshman
Reese McIlroy

Reese McIlroy

Backstroke
6' 2"
Sophomore
Caleb Musser

Caleb Musser

Freestyle
Freshman
Dereck Montgomery

Dereck Montgomery

Freestyle
6' 4"
Freshman
Victor Rosado

Victor Rosado

Butterfly-Freestyle
6' 0"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Laura Byars

Laura Byars

5' 6"
Freshman
Freestyle
Reese McIlroy

Reese McIlroy

6' 2"
Sophomore
Backstroke
Caleb Musser

Caleb Musser

Freshman
Freestyle
Dereck Montgomery

Dereck Montgomery

6' 4"
Freshman
Freestyle
Victor Rosado

Victor Rosado

6' 0"
Freshman
Butterfly-Freestyle