Conference Central - Day One

Records weren't just breaking - they were being detonated.  A national Division II record highlighted the first full day of conference competition.  A dozen meets are underway with another six beginning today.  Here's the crazy part - of eighty events contested on Thursday, fifty-three conference marks were set.  You read that right - more than TWO-THIRDS of conference records evaporated in the span of just a few hours.

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In the NCAC and Bluegrass Mountain conferences, swimmers lowered eight of ten meet marks.  The Missouri Valley equaled the pace with four of five, followed by the SCAC (seven of ten), and the GLIAC (six of ten, and just 0.01 off of a seventh).  Top marks go to the Metro Atlantic swimmers who broke every single meet record in the first night of competition.  The Northeast Conference was the lone buzzkill - NEC swimmers didn't break any.

Teams didn't just edge the meet records - the Denison men and women subtracted over five seconds from the NCAC record in the 400 Medleys with the Big Red women knocking over two seconds off the 200 Free mark.  The Modrov siblings accounted for four MAAC records.  It would have been five, but Loyola held off Drew Madlov's 43.19 split in the 4Med. 

In the Bluegrass Mountain Conference, Craig Jordens led off with a 19.91 (which paled compared to the 19.64 he'd post in the open 50), then watched as Matt Parsonage, Anders Melin, and Goran Majlat lowered the NCAA Division II mark to 1:19.71.

Fernando Costa (Wayne State) followed up yesterday's win in the 1000 with the biggest cleave to a record - eight seconds in the 500, down to 4:26 and change.

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