Swimming Heads to Missouri Invitational

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist swimming and diving faces their toughest test of the season this weekend at the Missouri Invitational in Columbia, Missouri.
 
The Bison and Lady Bison will compete against a number of NCAA Division I teams at the Mizzou Aquatic Center from Thursday through Saturday. Swimming preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. each morning with the finals set for a 6 p.m. start. Women's three-meter diving will take place on Thursday and the one-meter competition is set for Friday. The men will compete on the one-meter board Thursday with three-meter diving set for Friday.
 
OBU men own NCAA Division II top-10 times several events. David Lambert owns the fastest 50-yard freestyle this season in 20.15. Fernando Morillas Ramos is 10^th in the 200-yard breaststroke at 2:05.02.
 
Bison men also own the fifth-fastest times in both the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay. Diver Otto Lehtonen is eighth in the one-meter event with a score of 325.90 and is 10^th in the three-meter competition at 306.05.
 
Lady Bison freshman Victoria Fonville is second in the 50-yard freestyle in 20.33 and ranks third in the 100-yard freestyle at 51.46. Celina Marquez owns the third-fastest 200-yard backstroke in 2:03.26 and is eighth in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.55. Juliana Cifuentes has posted the ninth-best 200-yard individual medley time in 2:07.58.
 
OBU women also have the ninth-best time in the 400-yard freestyle relay this season in 3:31.64.
 
Oklahoma Baptist men are ranked 14^th in the latest CollegeSwimming.com poll and the women are ranked 16^th.
 
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