Swimming Completes Day One Of Competition At SCAC Championships
The Centenary swimming teams completed day one of competition in the annual Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships on Wednesday as the Ladies are tied for fourth place after earning 56 points and the Gents are sixth with 66 points at the Garland ISD Natatorium.
Garland, Texas – The Centenary swimming teams completed day one of competition in the annual Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships on Wednesday as the Ladies are tied for fourth place after earning 56 points and the Gents are sixth with 66 points at the Garland ISD Natatorium.
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The Ladies and Gents are joined this week by Austin College, Colorado College, Hendrix College, McMurry University, University of the Ozarks, the University of St. Thomas and Asbury University for the four-day event. The Gents finished fourth at the event last season and earned 292 points as they recorded their best finish in the event since also finishing fourth in 2021 while the Ladies placed sixth and tallied 265 points.
The Ladies finished fifth in the Championship Final of the 200 Medley Relay as sophomore Bailey Allemeier (Altus, Okla.), junior Reece Esser (Huntsville, Texas), junior Cicely Jackson (Lafayette, La.) and sophomore Isabela Vasquez (Lafayette, La.) swam a time of 1:59.27.
The men finished seventh in the 200 championship final as sophomore Hunter Hedges (Murphy, Texas), senior Daniel Lewis (Alexandria, La.), sophomore Adam Stelly (Opelousas, La.), and freshman Jack Williams (Lafayette, La.) finished in a time of 1:41.70.
Allemeier, Esser, and Jackson teamed with freshman Anna Hicks (Lafayette, La.) to finish fifth in the championship final of the 800 free relay (8:34.02) and the men's foursome of Hedges, Stelly, and William along with sophomore Parker Randolph (Shreveport, La.) finished sixth in the championship final in a time of 7:23.43.
Competition begins at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday with the prelims of the 500 Freestyle followed by the 200 IM, then the 50 free and finishes with the 400 Medley Relay. The finals of those events will be held starting at 6 p.m.
Friday's schedule begins with the 100 Butterfly at 10:30 a.m. followed by the 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 Breaststroke, 100 backstroke, women's 3-Meter Diving, and Men's 1-Meter Diving – both at 12:30 p.m.
A special recognition of all the senior student-athletes is set for 5:45 p.m. on Friday followed by evening finals. Saturday's action begins at 10:30 a.m. and is followed by the finals at 6 p.m.
See the Ladies and Gents' complete season schedule here: https://gocentenary.com/sports/mswim/2025-26/schedule
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