Results

ATLANTA (SMU) – Four Mustangs represented the SMU women's swimming and diving program at the 2016 AT&T Winter National Championships held at the McAuley Aquatic on the campus of Georgia Tech Dec. 1-3. All four Ponies posted season-best times in each of their respective events, while four NCAA B Standards were also reached.

Vicky Cunningham led the way with a pair of Championship Final performances in the 100- and 200-yard freestyles. She placed sixth in the 100 with a Finals time of 49.39, just shy of her season-best 48.37 posted in preliminary action. In the 200 distance, Cunningham jumped one spot from prelims to finish seventh in the A Final with her season-best, NCAA B cut 1:46.71.

Cunningham also posted a season-best and team-leading 23.01 to win the 50-yard freestyle C Final.

Both Tara-Lynn Nicholas and Anna Cheesbrough competed in Consolation Finals, doing so in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard butterfly, respectively. Nicholas continued to drop her NCAA provisional cut time, clocking a 1:00.98 for a runner-up performance, while Cheesbrough posted a 1:58.93 for fourth in the 200-yard butterfly consols.

Cheesbrough also competed in the 100 distance, garnering a season-best time of 55.00 to place third in the C Final.

Also representing the Mustangs was Hannah Rogers, who dropped her time in the 50-yard freestyle to 23.07 for second in the C Final.

Mustang alum Isabella Arcila competed for Canyons Aquatic Club at the event qualifying for multiple A Finals ahead of World Short Course Championships, Dec. 6-11. Arcila chose to compete in only the 50-yard freestyle individual event, posting a third-place finish at 22.40.

In relay events, the Colombian helped her team to three top-five performances, including a podium finish in the 4x50-yard freestyle (3rd, 1:31.22). The squad placed fifth in both the 4x50-yard medley relay (1:40.60) and 4x100 medley relay (3:40.81). Arcila swam backstroke on both medleys.