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Minnesota State Women, St. Cloud State Men Claim Wins At JoAnn Andregg Invitational

2022 JoAnn Andregg Invitational

  • November 11-12, 2022S
  • St. Paul, Minn.
  • SCY (25 yards)
  • Results

Team Scores

Women

  1. Minnesota State, 721
  2. St. Cloud State, 689
  3. St. Thomas, 645

Men

  1. St. Cloud State, 961
  2. St. Thomas, 687

Courtesy: Minnesota State Athletics

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota State women’s swimming and diving team won four events as it finished first at the Joann Andregg Invitational.

The Mavericks recorded 721 points, while St. Cloud State finished second with 689 points. St. Thomas finished third with 645 points.

Sophomore Abby Gronholz took first place in the 100 backstroke with a time of 58.51, with junior Ella DeFever following in second with a time of 59.76.

Junior Olivia Hudoba won the 200 freestyle event with a time of 1:59.30, while freshman Alexandra Gorecki won the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:09.99. Senior Mari Doherty took second in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:10.09 as well.

Senior Ayla Taylor took third place in the 3-meter diving event with a score of 410.90, while junior Aspen Warnygora finished second in the 3-meter diving event with a score of 245.05.

The team of Gronholz, freshman Megan Schultz, senior Nicole Beckman and sophomore Maija Carriveau won the 200 medley relay event with a time of 1:49.77.

Minnesota State continues its season on Thursday as it takes part in the three day Augustana Invitational in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Courtesy: St. Thomas Athletics

St. Paul, Minn. — Tommie Men’s and Women’s Swim & Dive saw five top 10 program marks set to go along with 12 total wins as the JoAnn Andregg Invitational wrapped up Saturday at Anderson Pool in St. Paul, Minn.

The men faced off against St. Cloud State while the women took on Minnesota State and St. Cloud State. The men finished second to the Huskies, 961-687, while the women took third with 645 points.

Sophomore Joe Rudd led the men with two event wins, both of which rank among St. Thomas’ top 10 times all-time. He won the 200 breaststroke in 2:05.95, which ranks sixth at St. Thomas, and the 400 IM in 4:09.78, which ranks ninth all-time in program history.

Junior Blake Baertlein won the 100 IM with a time of 53.53, just 0.60 seconds shy of his program record.

Junior Grace Urkiel grabbed two of the women’s five event wins on the day, swimming the 100 IM in 1:00.40 to rank fifth all-time at St. Thomas. Junior Megan West finished just behind Urkiel in the 100 IM with a time of 1:01.97, which is sixth at St. Thomas. Urkiel also won the 50 freestyle in 24.42.

Freshman Dakotah Parker swept the diving events, scoring 423.55 in the 1-meter and 267.60 in the 3m. Freshman Ben Linde took second in the 1m dive with a score of 410.45 and third in the 3m with a score of 234.50.

The Tommies take a nearly three-week break before their next action Dec. 2-4 at the SCSU Rochester Invitational held in Rochester, Minn.

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Former Big10
2 years ago

Good for Mankato, beating Cloud. Kato has come a long way the last 15 years.

Didn’t expect St. Thomas to be this far behind- on the men’s side. Will be interesting to see where the program is in 5 years. Hopefully they don’t turn into a UWM/UWGB.

Former Big10
Reply to  Former Big10
2 years ago

A fast old boy for Cloud on their roster. Abe should have a decent shot at winning the 50 this year at NCAA.

Mankato has a person who is named: Roelle Op De Haar. Has a nice ring to it.

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