The Valpo men and women's swimming teams combined for nine program-record swims Thursday, ending the day with new records in five events as the Beacons continued competition at the Miami Invitational in Oxford, Ohio.
 
The Record Swims

• The men's team started the day with a splash, recording two record swims in the morning prelims of the 500 free in the day's first event. Swimming in the third heat, Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden) touched the wall in 4:34.35 — over three seconds faster than the previous program record.
• Two heats later, Gabe Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills) — who had set the record in the 500 free earlier this season — took the record back with a swim of 4:33.97.
• In the finals of the 500 free Thursday night, Curran reclaimed the record with a time of 4:33.40, finishing in 14^th place.
• The 200 IM record dropped twice on Thursday. Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) sliced .53 off his own program record in the event with a prelim time of 1:51.93, and then finished 20^th in the event finals with a time of 1:51.31.
• During the prelims, Garrett Hoppman (Midland, Texas/Midland) swam a 50 fly time of 22.95, lowering his own program record by .09.
• The Beacon men set two records in time trial swims midday as well. Oostman took .21 off his own record in the 100 IM with a time of 51.24, while Ben Mettler (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) lowered the 50 breast record by .42 as he came home in 25.67.
• Valpo's women had four swimmers team up to shatter the program record in the 200 free relay. Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park), Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton), Faith Bargwell (Grand Rapids, Mich./Rockford) and Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) covered the 200 in 1:35.33, over a full second faster than the program's previous record quartet.

 
The Rest of the Action

• The nine program-record swims were only the tip of the iceberg Thursday for the Beacons, as all eight competitive events and eight of the 10 time trial events featured movement on the program's top-10 charts, including four times which are the second-fastest in program history in their respective events.
• In the record-setting women's 200 free relay, Dizdarevic swam a 50 leadoff leg of 24.07, moving into second in program history after having previously improved her PR — which had ranked fourth all-time at Valpo — earlier in the day in the prelims of the 50 free.
• A time trial swim of 2:08.25 by Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) moved the junior into second place in program history in that event.
• Both of the relays on the men's side saw the Beacons have squads post a time second-fastest in program history. The 200 free relay of Isaac Dinari (Houston, Texas/Memorial), Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley), Mettler and Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) posted a time of 1:23.44, just five-hundredths of a second off the program record.
• Dinari's leadoff leg of 20.97 improved upon his fifth-fastest time in program history in the 50 free, which he had moved into earlier in the day in the prelims of that event. Dinari ended up placing 16^th in the 50 free event final.
• The quartet of Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit), Mettler, Hoppman and Curran covered the 400 medley relay in 3:22.05 to move into second place in program history in the event.
• In all, three of the Valpo men's 400 medley relay squads cracked the program's top-six. Dinari, Parker, Asa Sadowsky (Green Bay, Wis./Bay Port [Milwaukee]) and Corkran are fourth-fastest in program history with a time of 3:23.45, while Oostman, Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School), Timothy Mai (St. Johns, Fla./Creekside) and Martin moved into sixth with a time of 3:23.69.
• Dinari's leadoff 100 back leg of 51.01 ranks fourth in that event in the program record book, while Dustyn Starkey (New Carlisle, Ind./New Prairie) moved into fifth in the 100 back with his leadoff leg of 51.67. Dinari also cracked the 50 back chart with a first 50 of 24.49, sixth-fastest in that event.
• Elsewhere on the men's side, Gabe Vasquez (Houston, Texas/Memorial) moved into third in program history in a pair of events — in the prelims of the 200 IM (1:53.42) and in a time trial swim in the 50 breast (26.16). Parker also swam the 50 breast time trial, moving into a tie for fifth all-time at Valpo with a time of 26.42.
• Two other Beacon men moved into third in program history in their respective time trial swims — Sadowsky with a time of 23.09 in the 50 fly and Martin with a time of 46.05 in the 100 free.
• Corkran and Bolinger joined Curran in the finals of the 500 free Thursday evening, placing 16^th and 23^rd, respectively.
• The Valpo women closed the day with the third-fastest time in program history in the 400 medley relay, as Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina), Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks), Benoit and Morgan covered the distance in 3:55.10. Schoch's leadoff leg of 58.43 moved her up to fourth in program history in the 100 back.
• In Thursday's prelims, Morgan moved up into fourth all-time in the 500 free with a time of 5:06.03, while Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) cracked the chart in eighth place with a time of 5:10.05.
• Majo Suarez de la Fuente (Mexico City, Mexico/ITESM Preparatoria Tec Campus Santa Fe [Bethel]) paced the Beacons in the 200 IM prelims with a time of 2:13.76, ninth-fastest all-time at Valpo.
• Dizdarevic was joined by two other Beacon women who posted times among the top-10 all-time at Valpo in the 50 free prelims. Keese moved up the chart to fifth position with her time of 24.19, while Bargwell is tied for 10^th in program history with a time of 24.48.
• In time trial swims, Eaton moved up to fifth in the 50 breast (31.00), Keese moved up to sixth in the 100 IM (1:02.09) and Bargwell cracked Valpo's all-time best with her 50 fly time of 26.89, seventh-fastest.
• The Valpo men are in fifth place after two days of competition, while the women sit in seventh place.

 
Next Up
The third of four days of competition at the Miami Invitational awaits the Beacons on Friday, with morning prelims and evening finals.