Long Weekend Yields Career-Best Efforts

11/9/2024 9:24:00 PM

Kearney, Neb. – Junior Maggie Waddington won two individual and two relay events to lead Nebraska Kearney on day two of the UNK Invite at Kearney High School.

The two-day meet featured distance events on Friday and sprint events on Saturday.

On Saturday, there were prelims in the morning followed by "A" and "B" finals in the afternoon. Colorado State-Pueblo, Western Colorado and Barton (Kan.) County C.C. were also in attendance. In the team race, like Friday, UNK (568 points) came in behind WCU (829).

Waddington (Norfolk) won both the 50-free (24.70; career-best 24.56 in prelims) and 100-free (53.10). She moves up one spot to second on the UNK all-time top 10 list in the 100 and remains third in the 50. Next, Waddington led the Aqualopers in the 200-free (3rd/2:01.10) and was anchor for the winning 200-medley (1:50.68) and 200-free (1:41.88) relay teams.

Kansas true freshman Kayla Milligan swam on both of those squads and was runner up in the 100-individual medley with the second-best time (1:02.51/prelims) in school history. She also was third in the 100-fly with a prelim time (1:01.17) that moves up to eighth in Aqualoper lore. Next, Kansas junior Gabby Grace was runner up in the 50-free with the second sub-minute time (59.96) in school history. That came in prelims and is just off Waddington's record of 59.69. She also joined Milligan on the 100-I.M. top 10 list and was lead for the 200-medley team.

Finally, Springfield freshman Elizabeth Welsh was fourth on the 3-meter board (291.95), Colorado senior Karley Bennett fifth in the 100-breaststroke (1:09.90) with Wyoming freshman Jaesa Whitesell adding her name to the 100-breaststroke list thanks to a 1:11.10 in prelims.

UNK heads to Fremont for the Midland Invite Dec. 5-7.

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