Chambana Sun

The Illinois swim and dive team concluded the second day of the CSCAA National Invitational Championships in Ocala, Florida, on March 14. Sydney Stoll emerged victorious in the A finals of the 200 freestyle, clocking a time of 1:46.96. She secured first place by nearly half a second after qualifying with a morning preliminary time of 1:48.53.

The team's performance extended to other events as well. The 200 medley relay team, consisting of Suvana Baskar, Kayla Duran, Logan Kuehne, and Isabella Wilhelm, finished fourth with a time of 1:38.97. Kayla Duran also competed in the 100 breaststroke A finals, securing sixth place with a time of 1:00.94.

Adelaide Reaser improved her program's tenth-fastest 400 IM time to 4:20.38 during the night's finals session, finishing in 19th place. The 800 freestyle relay team composed of Sophia Yousuf, Chloe Diner, Liv Dorshorst, and Reaser placed 13th with a time of 7:25.96.

In diving events on the one-meter boards, Bethany Mercer achieved a score of 242.80 points for a 14th-place finish while Matilda Garcia scored 227.35 points for a placement at 22nd position. Mercer also ranked twelfth on the platform with a score of 207.15 and placed twenty-fifth in the three-meter dive with a score of 239.45; Garcia finished thirty-third on three-meter boards scoring at196.70.

As it stands currently:

- Akron leads with a total score of442.

- Kentucky follows closely behind at435.

- Rice holds third position accumulating408 points.

- Ohio State is positioned fourth tallying up349.

- Queens comes fifth amassing348 .5

- Illinois stands sixth garnering296 points.

- FIU trails slightly seventh scoring295 .5

Arkansas takes eighth spot recording238,

Utah secures ninth totaling216 .5,

Grand Canyon rounds out top ten reaching216.

Tomorrow marks final competition day for CSCAA Championships starting preliminaries from8 :30 am CT followed by final matches scheduled at5 pm CT according schedule announced earlier this week .