OBU Competes in Open Water

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Oklahoma Baptist compete in the CSCAA Open Water Nationals at Lone Star Lake in Kansas, Saturday , placing fourth and ninth in the men's race and sixth and seventh in the women's event.
 
Alex Mundt, Felipe Ramirez and Kristijan Stunkovich combined for a 3:16.28 in the five kilometer race. Mundt placed 11^th at 1:04.30.07, followed by Ramirez in 12^th at 1:05.09.64.
 
Jonathan Stewart was 19^th at 1:07:41.38, Josip Miskovic was 28^th at 1:13:23.74 and Ryan Walker was 33^rd at 1:18:05.06.
 
Cincinnati, Carson-Newman and St. Louis went 1-2-3 and the Bison finished ahead of its new conference rival Colorado School of Mines.
 
"I was encouraged that we finished second for both men and women in Division 2 with Carson-Newman finishing ahead of us in both, but we beat both teams from Colorado School of Mines who is in our new conference, Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference," said Coach Sam Freas.
 
The OBU women finished behind Kansas, Rice, Cincinnati, Carson-Newman and Saint Louis with its team of Juana Mafla, Miriam Avila Martinez and Suzanne Afchain.
 
Mafla finished 22^nd at 1:11:46.01, followed by Avila Martinez at 23^rd in 1:12.33.28 and Afchain in 25^th at 1:12:52.80.
 
Also for OBU, Amanda Buckwalter was 26^th at 1:12:57.99, Faith Moss was 32^nd at 1:16:54.77 and Carleigh Sullivan was 33^rd at 1:19:06.04
 
"I was very proud of all of our participants. We brought many swimmers that are not used to distance swimming and they did great," said Freas.