March 15, 2024- The second day of the 2024 CSCAA National Invitational Championship (NIC) has concluded at the Florida Aquatics Swimming and Training (FAST) facility in Ocala, Florida.

The Akron women moved into first place, accumulating 400 points throughout the evening session. TCU and Kentucky retained their podium positions with 365.5 and 341.5 points, respectively.

TCU maintained its position at the top of the men’s standings with 495 points. Queens kept the team title race close heading into the last day with 472 points, while Oakland is firmly in third with 382.5 points.

Five National Invitational records were broken during an exciting day of competition.

The Horned Frogs swept the 200 Medley Relay. The TCU women set a new NIC mark of 1:37.94 and the men clocked a 1:25.01.

Individual golds were claimed by athletes from eight different schools during the Friday finals sessions.

The individual events started with the 400 Individual Medley. Asia Kozan of UC-San Diego and Frantisek Jablcnik of Queens (NC) touched first with a 4:11.85 ad 3:47.22, respectively.

Notable performances in the 100 Fly included Akron’s Aislinn Holder with a time of 52.99, and TCU’s Piotr Sadlowski setting a new meet record at 46.75.

Greta Marlene Kolbeck of Miami (OH) touched in 1:46.51, while Andrija Petkovic secured UC-San Diego’s second individual gold of the night with a time of 1:35.05.

In the 100 Breast, Emma Becker of FIU and Christian Bart of Oakland claimed the podium with times of 1:00.12 and 52.31, respectively, with Bart setting a new NIC record.

Miami (OH) celebrated its second individual win of the night as Madeline Padavic clocked 52.44 in the 100 Back. Grand Canyon’s Alex Volkov impressed with a time of 45.67 in the same event, both setting new meet records.

The night concluded with Kentucky (7:15.22) and Grand Canyon (6:26.81) standing atop the podium with wins in the 800 Freestyle relay.

Competition will resume on Saturday with Preliminaries kicking off at 9:30 AM. Finals will take place at 6:00 PM. The order of events for Day Three includes: 100 IM, 200 Back, 100 Free, 200 Breast, 200 Fly, 400 Free Relay. The 1650 free will be run as a timed final event with the ten fastest seeded swimmers competing in Saturday's finals session. All others will swim in a distance session that will conclude at approximately 5 p.m., swimming slowest to fastest, alternating heats of women and men.