AUBURN, Ala. – The Arkansas swimming and diving team sets its sights on the 2020 SEC Championships from Feb. 18-22 at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center. The five-day event will start up on Tuesday at 10 a.m. beginning with time trials and followed by preliminary rounds for the women’s 1-meter at 10:30 a.m. Finals that night will include 1-meter diving along with the 200 medley and 800 free relays with action beginning at 4:20 p.m.
For the remainder of the week, prelims will start at 9:30 a.m. with finals competition beginning at 5:30 p.m.
HOGS TO LOOK OUT FOR
Senior Anna Hopkin holds the program’s top times in the 50 (21.19), 100 (46.56) and 200 free (1:44.40) and the 100 fly (52.31). Her time of 21.19 in the 50 free is tied for the fastest time in the SEC this season. The Preston, England native’s 100 and 200 free times are second among conference swimmers this season.
Distance swimmer Peyton Palsha leads the team in the 500 (4:38.86) and 1000 (9:42.17) free while sophomores Vanessa Herrmann (100, 200 breast) and Kobie Melton (50, 100 free; 100 fly; 100 back) stepped up this season with times that rank in the program’s top five all time.
The Hogs have also set the top time in program history in the 200 medley relay (1:37.34) and their times in the 400 medley relay (3:35.34), 200 free relay (1:28.39) and 400 free relay (3:14.90) rank second in school history.
Arkansas has earned an NCAA ‘A’ cut from Hopkin and 11 NCAA ‘B’ cuts with both Herrmann and Palsha contributing three.
QUOTING HEAD COACH NEIL HARPER
“We have 22 Razorbacks who are excited to compete for the Cardinal and White. It will be a great atmosphere and all of our ladies are pumped to have opportunities to compete for personal bests.”
MEET INFO
Morning and evening sessions for all five days of competition will be streamed on SEC Network+ and live stats will be available on meetmobile.com. You can also follow @RazorbackSD on Twitter and Facebook for all scoring updates.
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