Huskers Host Double Dual at Devaney

The Husker swimming and diving team will participate in its only double dual of the season following an off week as it hosts Missouri State and South Dakota State on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 3 p.m. at the Devaney Center Pool.

Nebraska will also welcome the South Dakota State and Missouri State men who will compete head-to-head. The men's events will be followed by the women's events.

Nebraska is 3-0 on the young season in dual competition, improving its impressive run to 18-3 over the past three seasons. Following this weekend the Huskers will take a break from dual competition as they travel to three team invitationals before a dual meet at Kansas on Jan. 14.

Two of the Huskers’ three victories this year have come at home as they defeated Northern Iowa (160-95) and Nebraska-Omaha (195-98) on Oct. 21 and 22. Nebraska also downed Arkansas on the road, 184-115, to open the dual season on Oct. 15 after finishing fifth at the Big 12 Relays the day before.

With two opponents coming to the Devaney Center Pool this weekend, the Huskers have a chance to start 4-0 at home for the second time in the last three years. Nebraska is 8-1 at home since the start of the 2003-04 season.

"It feels great to stay at home with this weekend’s meet," Head Coach Pablo Morales said. "Missouri State has an excellent program that always puts it together at the end of the year. They had a wonderful conference meet last year, and I expect them and South Dakota State to be very competitive coming in here this weekend."

The Husker swimmers will take a week off after this weekend, but the divers will travel to Los Angeles, Calif., for the USC Invitational on Nov. 11-12. The entire Nebraska team returns to action at the Minnesota Invitational Nov. 18-20.

Scouting the Bears and Jackrabbits

Formerly Southwest Missouri State, the Bears are the defending Missouri Valley Conference champions, compiling an 8-7 dual record last year that included invitational wins at Delta State and Arkansas-Little Rock.

The Bears are 2-0 this year after starting the season with an impressive runner-up finish at the Missouri Invitational where they defeated in-state opponents Drury, Truman State, Saint Louis and Washington.

Missouri State will have a busy two days as it faces Kansas and Iowa in a double dual on Friday, Nov. 4 before traveling to Lincoln for Saturday’s meet.

The Huskers lead the all-time series versus the Bears, 2-0, after defeating MSU 77-35 last year in Springfield.

Nebraska holds a 1-0 all-time record versus South Dakota State.

The Jackrabbits opened their season with a tough test by taking on Big 12 opponent Iowa State, and fell to the Cyclones 197-72 despite setting two school records. On Friday night, they will take on North Carolina A&T in Moorhead, Minn., before heading to Lincoln.

The Jackrabbits are not affiliated with a conference, and finished last season 5-8 in dual action after starting the year 5-4.

Freshman Mallory Onisk leads the Jackrabbits into this weekend as she looks for another big meet after setting the school record in the 200-yard butterfly (2:11.01) versus Iowa State.

Recap: Huskers Open Season 3-0

Lincoln, Neb. ?The Nebraska swimming and diving team wrapped up Parent’s Weekend with its third straight win of the season, as the Huskers cruised to a 160-95 win over Northern Iowa on Oct. 22. at the Devaney Center Pool.

The win marked the third straight season that Nebraska Head Coach Pablo Morales has led his squad to a 3-0 mark to start the season.

Nine Huskers won individual events, led by a trio of victories from junior Lauren Bailey in the 200-yard freestyle (1:54.65), the 200-yard backstroke (2:09.88) and 500-yard freestyle (5:00.37). The Huskers also received a pair of wins from senior Amie Buoy, as she won the one- and three-meter once again with scores of 262.02 and 337.50.

Senior Rachel Schlatter and junior co-captain Kate Wheeler each won their third races in the past two meets, as Schlatter finished first in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:06.84, and Wheeler won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:28.30.

The freshman class continued to impress early in the season, as Christina Yemm and Jenny Toler each tallied victories. Yemm captured the 100-yard backstroke (1:00.96), while Toler took the 100-yard freestyle (53.72), just head of Nebraska’s other freshman, Jenna Stroud (54.04).

Senior Esmie Holderman won the longest race of the day, the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:42.47). Junior Bailey Ingles (200-yard butterfly, 2:10.21) and senior Alex King (50-yard freestyle, 24.91) wrapped up the second-straight 13 win day for Nebraska.

Recap: New Huskers Make Splash in Win Over UNO

Lincoln, Neb. ? In its first of two home meets on the weekend, the Nebraska swimming and diving team won 13 of 16 events to defeat in-state foe Nebraska-Omaha at the Devaney Center Pool Oct. 21.

Junior Lauren Bailey dominated in her first 1,650-yard freestyle race of the season by setting an NCAA-provisional qualifying mark of 16:43.03 to take first, and two freshmen, Jenny Toler and Christina Yemm, took two victories in the meet in lifetime best performances, as Toler won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:54.99 and Yemm won the 100-yard butterfly in 58.70. Each also took a runner-up finish, with Yemm finishing second in the 200-yard butterfly behind Bailey (2:11.53), and Toler claiming second in the 50-yard freestyle behind sophomore Lynn Siemert (25.00) while edging out freshman Jenna Stroud and senior Kate Dulgar.

Senior Amie Buoy controlled the diving boards by sweeping the competitions for the second straight weekend with scores of 292.45 on the three-meter and 253.70 on the one-meter.

Junior co-captain Kate Wheeler and senior Rachel Schlatter combined for four victories, as Wheeler took first in the 100- (53.62) and 500-yard freestyles (5:06.03), and Schlatter captured both the 100- (1:06.94) and 200-yard (2:24.87) breaststroke events.

Junior Bailey Ingles picked up the Huskers’ remaining individual victory in the 100-yard backstroke

(1:00.57), and NU wrapped up its win total in the 400-yard medley relay (junior co-captain Emilee Crawford, sophomore Adrienne Goodman, senior Alex King and freshman Jenna Stroud).

The win improved Nebraska’s all-time record against UNO to 10-0.