Medley Relay Team Shines On Day 2 At MIAC Meet

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (2/16/23)---The Cobbers completed the first full day of competition at the MIAC Championship Meet.

Concordia's 400-yard medley relay team was the only team point, award winner for the two sessions on Thursday. The quartet of Kaitlin Cramer, Haley Juetten, Audrey Zeleny and Camille Gunderson swam a season-best time of 4:28.01 and earned 22 points for the Cobbers.

The 400-yard medley relay team's final time was 14.07 seconds faster than the time posted by Concordia's relay crew at last year's conference meet.

The highlight of the relay was the leadoff leg where Cramer swam a 1:02.82 in the 100-yard backstroke leg, which was a career best and only 1.69 seconds off the school record which was set in 2015.

Juetten, Zeleny and Gunderson all posted college best times. Juetten recorded a career-best mark in the 100-yard breaststroke leg, while Zeleny and Gunderson equaled their college top marks in their legs.

Sophomores Hailey Jaeger and Kiernan Darling were the closest individuals to scoring team points on Day 2 as both finished one spot out of the team scoring positions.

Jaeger swam a 25.07 in the prelims of the 50-yard freestyle. She was the first alternate for the B final, and only .11 of a second from qualifying to swim in the night session.          

Darling competed in the first of the two diving events for the meet, and came away with 270.20 points in the 3-meter competition. That point total was only 8.05 points off the mark to gain a team point.

A pair of Cobber first-year swimmers had big time drops in events in their first college conference meet. Tinsley Porter posted a 2-second time season best in the 50-yard freestyle, and Christina Moore went 10-seconds faster than her previous season-best mark in the 200-yard individual medley.

UP NEXT: The MIAC Championship Meet reaches the halfway point on Friday, Feb. 16. The Cobbers will compete in the prelims starting at 10:30 a.m., and then swim in the finals at 6:30 p.m.