University of Northern Iowa
MVC Championships
UNI swim & dive finishes fourth at 2023 MVC Championships
2/18/2023 9:50:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
Panthers secure their best finish since 2019.
IOWA CITY, Iowa --- UNI swimming & diving secured its best finish at the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Championships since 2019 on Saturday night, taking fourth place overall after securing a pair of top-three individual finishes.
Seven Panthers earned all-conference recognition with Amber Finke and Faith Larsen earning First Team All-MVC honors. Hallory Domnick, Helena Heuberger, Payton Hall, Olivia Chambers and Hannah Taylor all received All-MVC Honorable Mention recognition.
Chambers dropped 11 seconds from her all-time best time to record UNI's third fastest 1650-meter freestyle time of 17:10.48, sneaking onto the podium in seventh place. Sarah Walpole also notched a season-best time of 17:35.87 and finished in 20th place.
Finke clocked a career-best time of 1:57.34 to take second place in the 200-yard backstroke A-Final after securing the top-seed in the following preliminary heats. Finke previously won the event at the 2021 MVC Championships and took third last season.
After winning the 50-yard freestyle on Thursday night, Larsen captured her second individual medal of the meet by taking third in the 100-yard freestyle. Her championship time of 50.26 in the finals and 50.31 in the prelims were both career-bests, and rank third fastest in school history.
Sydney Aird led the Panthers with a 14th place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke with after clocking a career-best of 2:20.34. Mia Savicevic swam a season-best time of 2:21.47 in the prelims and finished in 16th place in the final meet of her collegiate career.
In the 200-yard butterfly, Scout Bergwall paced UNI to a 13th place finish with a time of 2:05.98, while Domnick swam a season-best time in the B-Final to finish in 18th. Hannah Nedder recorded a career-best in the prelims of 2:09.65 and finished in 22nd place, swimming in the C-Final.
Taylor competed in her first conference championship round on Saturday, taking eighth place in the three-meter diving finals, scoring a 204.57.
The Panthers closed the meet out as Finke, Morgan Meyer, Abby Lear and Larsen took fourth place in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:24.07.
UNI RESULTS
200-Yard Backstroke
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2nd - Amber Finke (1:57.34)
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14th - Abby McCorkle (2:03.94)
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18th - Payton Hall (2:02.91)
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19th - Helena Heuberger (2:03.04)
100-Yard Freestyle
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3rd - Faith Larsen (50.26)
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11th - Morgan Meyer (51.28)
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21st - Clare Christensen (52.02)
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22nd - Abby Lear (52.26)
200-Yard Breastroke
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14th - Sydney Aird (2:20.34)
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16th - Mia Savicevic (2:24.28)
200-Yard Butterfly
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13th - Scout Bergwall (2:05.98)
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18th - Hallory Domnick (2:07.54)
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22nd - Hannah Nedder (2:11.08)
1650-Yard Freestyle
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7th - Olivia Chambers (17:10.48)
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20th - Sarah Walpole (17:35.87)
Three-Meter Diving (Finals)
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8th - Hannah Taylor (204.57)
400-Yard Freestyle Relay
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4th - Finke, Meyer, Lear, Larsen (3:24.07)
FINAL TEAM SCORES
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1st - Missouri State (1,326)
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2nd - Indiana State (1,200.5)
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3rd - Illinois State (997)
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4th - UNI (881)
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5th - Southern Illinois (854)
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6th - Marshall (791)
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7th - UIC (718.5)
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8th - Evansville (390)
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9th - Little Rock (351)
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10th - Valparaiso (187)
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