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DALLAS (SMU) – Freshman Lucrezia Napoletano won gold in the 50-yard freestyle and the 200-yard freestyle relay took the top spot to lead the SMU Women's Swimming and Diving team on night four of the American Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. The six-day event is being held at the Robson & Lindley Aquatics Center and Barr-McMillion Natatorium.

Napoletano clocked a season-best, NCAA B cut 22.70 for the victory. The 2022 champion in the event, Johanna Gudmundsdottir posted a career-best 22.73 to earn runner-up honors. The championship is the fourth overall in The American for the Mustangs.

Luana Alonso also scored out of the Championship Final, finishing eighth in a career-best 23.12. Three swimmers scored out of the Consolation Final with, Tiffanie Ruan (23.26) touching second and finishing 10th overall in a career-best time. Valentina Becerra (23.44) was 13th overall and Indra Vandenbussche (23.50) 14th.

SMU became the back-to-back champions in the 200-yard freestyle relay as Napoletano, Alonso, Ruan and Gudmundsdottir combined for a season-best 1:30.84. The championship was SMU's fifth AAC title in the event, having won three straight from 2014-16.

Frederica Kizek opened the evening with a fifth-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle Championship Final. The senior clocked a season-best 4:50.06 to move up two spots from her No. 7 seed coming out of prelims.

The Mustangs were represented by four swimmers in the 200-yard individual medley. Jenna Watson and Maxine Parkinson finished sixth and seventh, respectively, in the Championship Final, with Watson finishing at 2:01.38 just off her career-best mark of 2:01.32. Parkinson finished in 2:01.97, but had a career-best performance of 2:01.46 in prelims.

Carlotta Scarpitti led SMU in the Consolation Final, finishing 12th overall in a season-best 2:02.57, while Jimena Leguizamon Leal finished 23rd out of the Bonus Final in 2:06.17.

The top-three finishes in each event will be awarded All-American Athletic Conference honors.

Team Standings
1. Houston 653
2. FIU 581
3. SMU 473
4. Rice 405
5. ECU 366
6. Florida Atlantic 300
7. Cincinnati 285
8. UNT 241
9. Tulane 168

Action resumes Friday with the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back and 400 medley relay.