UNI Finishes Day Three At The MVC Championships

2/19/2016 9:49:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

By: UNI Athletic Communications

CARBONDALE, Ill.-- The University of Northern Iowa competed in day three of the MVC Championships. The Panthers sit in third place.

Records were shattered and qualifying times were reached.

Veronica Herrmann took home first place in the 100 Breaststroke with a time of 1 minute and one second and 99 hundreths of a second. Herrmann is eligible to be invited to the NCAA Swimming Championships.

The Panther squad of Madison Rinaldi, Veronica Herrmann, Crystal Florman, and Aftin Phyfe broke the 400 Medley Relay school record by six seconds for a second place finishing time of 3:44.83.

Molly Lembezeder shattered her 200 Freestyle record, with a final time of 1:51.42. Lembezeder took fourth place.

Crystal Florman broke the 100 Butterfly with a time of 56.22. Taylor Ostrowski and Kelsey Ostrowski followed with times of 57.69 and 57.74.

Stephanie Jackson nabbed fifth place in the 400 IM, breaking her personal record. Jackson swam a time of 4:28.38. Madison Rinaldi made the Top-10 with a time of 4:30.98.

In the 200 Freestyle, Rachel Siebenaller slipped into the Top-10 with a time of 1:52.82. Shelby Holmes, Maya Appleton and Sierra Sachtjen were all in the Top-15 with times of 1:54.85, 1:56.60 and 1:56.92.

Autumn Roepsch and Olivia Knowles each made the Top-8 in the 100 Breaststroke with times of 1;04.41 and 1:05.58.

Aftin Phyfe and Madison Rinaldi took Top-8 finishes in the 100 Backstroke. Phyfe swam a 56.73 and Rinaldi swam a 1:00.35.

Hannah Brummel won the consolation of the 3-meter diving. Allie Bey, Sarah Kemp and Alyssa Deuso will compete tomorrow in the 3-meter diving finals.

"Today was a perfect storm. Everything that could go right, did go right," said Head Coach Doug Humphrey.

Action resumes tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. with preliminaries and finals at 4 p.m.

Live Action of the Championships can be found on the Valley's YouTube channel.

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