Record-Setting Evening Session Highlights Day Two of GT Invite

ATLANTA, Ga.—  The Gamecocks had over a third of their swimmers qualify for second swims during the evening session while the South Carolina divers continued to perform well on day two of the Georgia Tech Invite on Friday at the McAuley Aquatic Center.

Anton Down-Jenkins fell just shy of topping leaderboard in the 3-meter dive, finishing runner-up with a 395.30.

Christina Lappin broke her own school record in the women’s 100  fly , finishing third in the A-final at 52.98.  Emma Barksdale went 4:08.97 in her second 400 IM of the season to finish third in the A-final.
 
Lionel Khoo dropped his best time of the season in the 100  breast , swimming a 53.41 to finish third in the men’s A-final.

Cody Bekemeyer qualified for the 400 IM A-final with a 3:51.89 during prelims while Albury Higgs swam a 1:01.71 to make it into the women’s 100 breast A-final.  

Fynn Minuth went 1:36.34 during the morning session to qualify for the men’s 200 free A-final and on the women’s side, Melinda Novoszath had a time of 1:48.19 during prelims to qualify for the women’s A-final.

TOP GAMECOCK FINISHES:

 
QUOTABLE: HEAD COACH MCGEE MOODY
“We had another good night tonight— I was really happy with where we are. Christina Lappin broke a school record, the same one that she broke last year. I thought, as a team, we were better tonight than we were yesterday. With these kinds of meets, we like to try and build ourselves into the meet. This was a good sign for tomorrow and we’re excited to finishing up strong.”
 
UP NEXT FOR THE GAMECOCKS
Day three, the final day of competition at the GT Invite, will continue with preliminary heats scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., back at the McAuley  Acuatic

Day Three Events
– 1650 free
– 200 back
– 100 free
– 200 breast
– 200 fly
– Platform  diving
– 400 free relay

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