NEED TO KNOW:
Top 5 Men's Score:

1. St. Thomas - 798
2. Rollins - 735
3. Emmanuel - 431
4. Life U - 397
5. William Carey - 392

Top 5 Women's Score:

1. St. Thomas - 868
2. Rollins  - 679.50
3. Emmanuel - 474.50
4. William Carey - 346
5. Life U - 315

COLUMBUS, Ga. – The Life University men's and women's swim program competed at the Small College Championships this past weekend, earning Top 5 finishes on both sides. The three-day meet saw multiple men have standout performances as a handful of program individual and relay records were broken. Both sides of the program posted NAIA A and B cut times as well.

The Life U A Relay team shattered the school record in men's 200 medley relay to start the meet. Bence Meresz, Xavier Trovesi, Carl Bonnemark and Leo Guleryuz combined for a 1:29.85, which is also an NAIA A cut. In the 400 yard medley relay, Rasmus Petersen stepped in for Bonnemark as the relay team once again broke a school record, posting an A cut time of 3.20.89. 

Individually, Trovesi went on to break two school record. First, he claimed the 400 yard IM record with an A cut, second-place finish (3:56.63). Then, later in the meet, Trovesi also broke the school record in the 200 yard breaststroke with a sub two minute time of 1:59.92, placing second. Additionally, he placed third in the men's 200 yard IM with a time of 1:49.82.

In the men's 200 yard free relay, Rasmus Petersen, Arthur Silva, Meresz and Guleryuz set the new school record with a time of 1:24.05. The time marked the second A cut of the meet for the men's relay. Raffaele Urtiola Rojas stepped in for Petersen in the 400 yard free relay as the group once again broke a school record with an A cut time of 3:03.47. 

Meresz broke a record of his own, setting the new men's record in the 50 yard back stroke. In the 100 yard back, he earned a fourth place finish (50.15, B cut) and in the 50 yard free, he placed fifth (20.89, B cut).

Guleryuz won the men's 50 yard free with a blazing time of 20.72 (B cut). He also placed seventh in the 100 yard freestyle with a B cut time (45.80).

Kyleigh Shonk, Petra Béky, Elisa Gross and Terangimarie Moanaroa earned a Top 5 finishes in the women's 200 medley relay, placing fifth (1:49.48). 

Individually, Béky earned a seventh place finish in the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:07.49. She also cracked the top eight with a B cut time of 2:25.64 in the 200 yard backstroke.

Moanaroa placed eighth in the women's 50 yard free, swimming a 24.69 B-cut. The entire heat placed within a second of each other.

Zara Kleinhans, Kendall Ashburn, Malfrid Seteklev and Beky placed eighth in the women's 800 yard free relay with a combined time of 8:16.25. On the men's side, Mate Dort, Rasmus Petersen, Arthur Silva and Raffaele Urtiola Rojas placed seventh with a time of 7:03.83.

In the women's 200 yard relay, Carla Rodriguez Jara, Nikita Snoeren, Ashburn, and Moanaroa placed fourth (1:39.57). Rodriguez Jara also earned a pair of top individual finishes in the 100 yard butterfly (58.72, seventh) and the 200 yard butterfly (2:15.05, eighth, B cut).

Snoeren and Gross placed back-to-back in the women's 100 yard backstroke with Snoeren placing sixth (1:00.49) while Gross placed seventh (1:01.44).

Max Oppermann swam a B cut time of 57.37 in the men's 100 yard breaststroke, finishing seventh. 

In the longest event of the meet, Urtiola Rojas (16:16.34) and Dort (16:18.91) placed fourth and fifth in the men's 1650 yard free with B cut times. 

Ashburn, Moanaroa, Snoeren and Kleinhans combined for a fourth place finish in the women's 400 yard freestyle (3:37.35).

UP NEXT:
-- Both programs await the turn of the New Year before getting back into action on January 9th with an away dual against St. Thomas.