(WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 22) – The McKendree University swimming and diving team continued competition at the Purdue Invite on Friday. The Bearcats put up 11 more NCAA qualifying times/scores on day two.
 
After two days of competition, the men sit in fifth place with 266 points and the women are in seventh place with 124 points.
 
In the 400 IM, sophomore Hallie Dixon (Jeffersonville, IN/Jeffersonville High School) placed eighth in the B final with a time of 4:31.66. Sophomore Dawson Lutes (Beavercreek, OH/Beavercreek High School) and freshman Barrett Troup (Little Rock, AR/Homeschool) took sixth and seventh in the C final with times of 4:11.13 and 4:12.26, respectively. Freshman Fabio Dalu (Cagliari, Italy/Liceo L.B. Alberti Cagliari) competed in the A final, turning in a time of 3:55.36, meeting NCAA standards.
 
Senior Matija Pucarevic (Belgrade, Serbia/Sixth Belgrade Grammar School) and sophomore Gregg Lichinsky (West Des Moines, IA/West Des Moines Valley High School) competed in the A final of the 100 butterfly. Lichinsky placed second with a time of 47.43 and Pucarevic took sixth with a time of 47.84, both meeting NCAA standards.
 
For the 200 freestyle, senior Luca Simonetti (Sassari, Italy/Liceo Scientifico Gulielmo Marconi Sassari) placed sixth in the A final with a time of 1:38.05 and junior Alexander Skinner (Namibia, Africa/Windhoek Afrikaans Private School) took third in the B final with a time of 1:38.30. Both times met NCAA standards.
 
Freshman Grace Credit (La Grange Highlands, IL/Lyons Township High School) took fourth place in the C final of the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:05.27. Freshman John Heaphy (Eagle River, AK/Eagle River High School) turned in a NCAA qualifying time, taking first place in the B final with a time of 54.68.
 
In the 100 backstroke, senior Sydney Rey (Columbia, IL/Columbia High School) took third place in the B final with a time of 55.37, meeting NCAA standards. Junior Meredith Geyer (Germantown, TN/Germantown High School) competed in the C final, turning in a time of 57.05, taking eighth place. Freshman Davante Carey (Nassau, Bahamas/Queens College) took first place in the C final with a NCAA qualifying time of 48.95.
 
Women's 200 Medley Relay: S. Rey, Credit, Geyer, senior Milica Sostarec (Subotica, Serbia/Medical High School) (5^th, 1:43.32)
 
Men's 200 Medley Relay: Carey, Heaphy, Lichinsky, Skinner (3^rd, 1:28.16, NCAA Qualifying)
 
Women's 800 Freestyle Relay: Geyer, junior Victoria Sananikone (Cedar Park, TX/Cedar Park High School), sophomore Abigail Rumpp (Knoxville, TN/L&N STEM Academy), Dixon (5^th, 7:41.68)
 
Men's 800 Freestyle Relay: Pucarevic, Simonetti, Dalu, Skinner (3^rd, 6:34.47, NCAA Qualifying)
 
Sophomore divers Ethan Larson (Anchorage, AK/Paideia High School) and Xavier Flores (Fresno, CA/Clovis West High School) took fifth and sixth in three meter diving. Larson scored 296.20 points, meeting NCAA qualifying standards and Flores scored 165.55 points.