Courtesy: Missouri State Athletics
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – After competing in the CSCAA Open Water Championships in September, Missouri State’s swimming and diving team will partake in its first indoor meet of the season at the Missouri Show-Me Showdown in Columbia, Mo., Friday (Oct. 5) at 2 p.m.
Bear Bites
- Missouri State earned a pair of top-10 finishes at the CSCAA Open Water Championships on Sept. 22. The men garnered the runner-up spot while the women placed sixth. Minki Kang was the top male finisher in fourth place with a time of 59:34.61, and Letica Rodrigues led the women with a 24th place finish.
- The women’s team collected eight first-plce votes in the Missouri Valley Conference preseason poll, earning a perfect score of 64 points. Southern Illinois and Northern Iowa rounded out the top three with 53 and 45 points, respectively.
- This is the 14th annual Missouri Show-Me Showdown. Last year, Missouri State came away with four individual victories and a men’s relay win.
Missouri Show-Me Showdown
The Missouri Show-Me Showdown’s field is comprised of Division I, II, and III universities in Missouri. Attending teams include: William Jewell, Lindenwood, Saint Louis, Washington University, Drury, Missouri S&T, Truman State, Maryville, and UMSL.
Order of Events
200 Medley Relay
200 Freestyle
200 IM
50 Free
100 Fly
100 Freestyle
1&3 Meter Diving
500 Freestyle
200 Free Relay
100 Backstroke
100 Breaststroke
400 Freestyle Relay
3&1 Meter Diving
Scoring Format
Individual Events: Each team can score only their top three swims in each event
Top 16 places score: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6- 5-4-3-2-1
Relay Events: Each team can score only their top two relays in each event.
Top 16 places score: 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22 18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
1-Meter Diving: Each team will do a diving scramble to try and score the largest point total. Each member on the team will do six dives covering all five groups with true degree of difficulty. The points from each diving group’s highest scorer will count toward the team total score. The best score per diving group will count towards the total.
3-Meter Diving: Each diver will be required to do six dives from all five groups. No matter what first three dives the diver chooses the degree of difficulty will be set at 2.0. The remaining three dives will be true degree of difficulty.