COLUMBIA, Mo. — Emma Marusakova led BYU women’s swimming with 21 points on Wednesday as the Cougars fought to a third-place standing on their opening day of competition at the Mizzou Invitational.
| Mizzou Invitational Women's Team Scores (Nov. 15) | |
| Team | Score |
| Missouri | 435 |
| TCU | 272.5 |
| BYU | 169.5 |
| FIU | 168 |
| Kansas | 132 |
| San Jose State | 106 |
| Lindenwood | 55 |
“It was a phenomenal day,” said BYU head swimming coach Shari Skabelund. “Emma [Marusakova] fought back through some adversity to post a lifetime best in the 200 individual medley and Halli [Williams] added another in the 50 free. We’re having a lot of fun and swimming fast.”
Marusakova put up 16 of her 21 points as she finished third in the 200 IM. At 2:01.03, the sophomore from Zilina, Slovakia cut 2.61 seconds off her preliminary time and notched a personal best to surpass Sarah McKeever (1997) for No. 4 all-time at BYU. Marusakova also finished 12th in the 100 fly final at 55.24.
Despite falling to fourth in the 50 free final (14.5 points), Williams recorded a personal best of 22.62 to win the preliminary over host Missouri’s Sierra Smith. Williams came up just shy of Gwen Gustafson’s school record and now ranks second all-time having overtaken Aleesha Miller (2009). The junior from Houston, Texas also ranks 23rd nationally in the event after Wednesday's performance.
Freshman Kara Martinson added 14 points to the Cougars’ tally with a fifth-place spot in the 500 free final at 4:53.12. Martinson began the day with a personal-best 4:51.61 in the 500 free preliminary race, good for fifth all-time at BYU.
Victoria Schreiber scored 12 points for the Cougars on Wednesday as she clocked 4:54.55 to take seventh in the 500 free. Schreiber recorded a personal-best 4:53.14 in the preliminary and passed Amy Xu (2012) to rank 10th in program history.
Thursday’s action begins at 9:30 a.m. CST with live coverage on SEC Network+.