Podmanikova Leads Mustangs At SMU Classic

Friday, October 12

Dallas, Texas

6:30 p.m.

SMU

SMU Classic

Podmanikova Leads Mustangs At SMU Classic

Oct 13 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Complete Results

DALLAS (SMU) – Sophomore Andrea Podmanikova clocked the second fastest 200-yard breaststroke in the country this season to lead the Mustangs on day two of the SMU Classic at the Robson & Lindley Aquatics and Barr-McMillion Natatorium. SMU finished the two-day event in sixth place.

No. 8 Louisville took home the team championship, finishing with 358 points, while No. 11 USC (312) finished second and No. 10 Virginia (299) placed third. Iowa was fourth (236.5), Miami fifth (227.5) and SMU sixth (226).

The event featured eight swimmers and one diver from each competing school. Swimmers may swim three events per day, one of which must be a relay. Each team entered one swimmer per heat (Consolation & Championship), while relays only had a Championship heat. Diving events consisted of six optional dives on 1 meter and 3 meter boards.

Podmanikova's 2:09.57 in the 200 breast was just off her personal best and meets the NCAA B standard for the 2019 NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships. Junior Erin Trahan also posted a personal best time of 2:18.71 in the event, good for third in the Consolation Final, and was also fourth in the 200-yard butterfly with an NCAA B standard of 1:59.29.

Podmanikova finished the event with 44 individual points, placing her third in the running for the swimming high-point award.

Also competing for the Mustangs at the event were El Yellin, Felicity Passon, Gabi Grobler, Olivia Grossklaus, Keiko Derikoletis, Annabelle Corcoran and Taylor Ohlhauser.

The Mustangs are back in action Saturday, Oct. 20 when they host Houston and North Texas.
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Day One Results (PDF)
DALLAS (SMU) – The SMU women's swimming and diving team sits in fourth place after the first session of the SMU Classic on Friday evening. The 25th edition of the two-day event is being held for the first time at the Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center and Barr-McMillion Natatorium.

No. 8 Louisville (180) leads the six-team event with No. 11 USC (152) and No. 10 Virginia (149) rounding out the top three. The Mustangs (121) sit one point ahead of Iowa (120), and Miami (113) rounds out the team scoring.

Sophomore Andrea Podmanikova turned in the most impressive performance of the night for the Ponies, clocking the second fastest time in the country this season in the 100-yard breaststroke. Podmanikova, who is SMU's third fastest all-time performer in the event, covered the distance in 59.68 for an NCAA B cut and personal best.

Gabi Grobler also registered a personal best in the event's Consolation Final, finishing in 1:05.10 after coming off a third place Consolation Final finish in the 100-yard backstroke the race prior. Grobler (55.54) and Felicity Passon, who was fourth overall in the 100 back (55.45) have times that pace the American Athletic Conference in the event.

SMU picked up a second runner-up finish on the night as Erin Trahan turned in an NCAA B cut 53.33 in the 100-yard butterfly. The time is good for seventh in the NCAA this season and leads The American.

Perhaps the best pairing of the evening for SMU came in the 50-yard freestyle as Trahan (23.11) and Podmanikova (23.12) posted times that pace The American this season. In the 200-yard distance, newcomer Olivia Grossklaus also topped AAC times this season with a 1:51.02.

The Mustangs earned their highest relay finish of the night when Passon, Podmanikova, Trahan and Grobler finished fourth in the 400-yard medley relay.

In diving action, Taylor Ohlhauser represented the Mustangs with a personal best 252.30 on 1 meter.