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Women’s relay team automatically qualifies for NCAA Championship

The women’s 400-yard freestyle relay team came in at the NCAA A standard time in its final day at the Phil Hansel Invitational.

The team timed at 3:16.51 and automatically qualified for the NCAA Championship.

Sophomores Isabella Arcila, Nathalie Lindborg and juniors Monika Babok and Nina Rangelova make up the 400-free relay team.

SMU’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams both finished in third place at the invitational.

The women’s team also posted five more NCAA B times.

Arcila came in second in the 200-yard backstroke at 1:54.66 – a NCAA B time to go with the relay qualifying time.

Lindborg qualified in the 100-yard freestyle with a second-place time of 49.30.

Rangelova also qualified in the 100-free at a NCAA B time and fifth place at 49.90.

Freshman Danielle Villars finished fourth in the 200-yard butterfly with a NCAA B time of 1:59.36.

Sophomore Rachel Nicol also came in fourth in the 2000-yard breaststroke at 2:12.22, a NCAA B time. The women’s weekend total of NCAA qualifying times was 14.

Senior Mindaugas Sadauskas swam a NCAA B time of 43.98 in the 100-yard freestyle for the men’s team.

He also swam with the first place men’s 400-yard freestyle relay team. The relay team finished at 2:57.75.

Sophomore Matas Andriekus finished second and teammate Eduardo Santana finished seventh in the 200-yard backstroke.

Men’s sophomore diver Devin Burnett took fourth place in the platform dive.

Junior Nicolai Hansen finished fourth in the 200- yard backstroke.

Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams hit the road to Austin Nov. 29 for the USA swimming National Championships.

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