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SEC Championships
Alabama Finishes Strong at 2016 SEC Swimming and DIving Championships
2/20/2016 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Alabama junior Connor Oslin kept up the heat on the last day of the 2016 Southeastern Conference Swimming and Diving Championships held in Columbia, Mo., this week, earning a silver medal while bettering his own school record.
The day after winning his second SEC 100 backstroke title, Oslin led the Crimson Tide on Saturday taking second in the 200 backstroke with a 1:40.42, which improved the school mark he set last year by more than a quarter of a second. Sophomore Christopher Reid also earned a trip to the podium in the 200 backstroke with a third place finish after he posted a 1:40.95.
The Tide ended the meet with yet another top-three finish when the men's 400 freestyle relay of freshman Laurent Bams, Reid, freshman Robert Howard and junior Kristian Gkolomeev posted a 2:51.31 to snag the bronze.
Overall, the Tide men moved up a spot in the team standing from a year ago to finish fourth with 915 points while the Tide women were 10th with 486 points.
In other Saturday action, Gkolomeev was fourth in the 100 freestyle with a 42.67 while Bams, who joined the Tide in January for the spring semester, was sixth with a 42.91. Howard was 12th and senior Brett Walsh was 16th in the 100 freestyle with times of 43.78 and 44.39, respectively. Senior Crews Wellford took 16th in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:44.75.
In the 200 breaststroke, junior Anton McKee was fifth with a 1:54.30 and junior Pavel Romanov was 14th with a 1:57.57. Junior Jack Hadjiconstantino took 16th in the 1650 freestyle with a time of 15:17.16.
On the women's side of the slate, junior Bridget Blood led the way with an eight-place finish in the championship final of 200 breaststroke, touching the wall at 2:10.05. Freshman Marian Yurchishin took 17th with a career-best 2:10.48 while senior Stephanie Klotz and freshman Justin Macfarlane were 22nd and 23rd, with times of 2:13.87 and 2:13.88, respectively.
Sophomore Temarie Tomley was 13th career-best 49.08 in the 100 freestyle. In the 200 backstroke, freshman Katie Coughlin was 19th after posting a career-best 1:56.63 while senior Emma Saunders was 21st with a time of 1:57.18. Sophomore Kara Fredlock was 17th off the platform after totaling 216.95 points.
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