Iowa State Swimming and Diving (0-1, 0-0 Big 12) will travel to Tallahassee this week to compete in the Florida State Invite, the Cyclones’ first invitational of the season.<\/p>\n
THE OPPONENTS \u2013 Florida State Invite<\/p>\n
The invite will take place on October 9th and 10th at the Morcom Aquatics Center. In addition to the Seminoles hosting, the Cyclones will also face Georgia Tech and Purdue.<\/p>\n
LAST TIME OUT \u2013 Nebraska<\/p>\n
Iowa State comes into this week after a loss on the road against Nebraska on October 2nd, but the Cyclones showed grit and growth throughout the entire meet.<\/p>\n
Junior Grace Swoboda<\/a> continued her dominance in Breaststroke by winning both the 100 & 200 Breast. Emma Kuhn<\/a> also swam well, earning two runner-up finishes in the 100 Free & 200 IM.<\/p>\n In diving, sophomore Iona Moffat<\/a> got her first collegiate win in the 3-meter, while second place was a Cyclone sweep from freshman Katie Malm<\/a> in the 1-meter and junior Maggie Bendell<\/a> in the 3-meter.<\/p>\n WHAT TO WATCH FOR \u2013 Breaststroke, Freestyle, and Diving<\/p>\n In addition to Swoboda’s top finishes in both breaststroke events, junior Anja Peck<\/a> was also on the podium, earning two of her three third place finishes in the 100 & 200 Breast.<\/p>\n In every freestyle event against Nebraska, there was at least one Cyclone with a top three finish. Emma Kuhn<\/a> had her runner-up finish in the 100, Kendall Schindler<\/a> got third in the 50, Piper Hagen<\/a> was also third in the 200, and Carlotta Gazzola<\/a> did the same in the 500 & 1000. So, each swimmer will be looking to improve and go up the podium to a first-place finish.<\/p>\n On the boards, Iona Moffat<\/a>, Katie Malm<\/a>, and Maggie Bendell<\/a> will also look to continue their recent success, with all three achieving NCAA Zone-qualifying scores in their first meet.<\/p>\n ON DECK \u2013 Illinois<\/p>\n Iowa State Swimming and Diving will take their talents to Urbana-Champaign in a dual meet against Illinois. This will be a two-day event taking place on October 16-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iowa State Swimming and Diving (0-1, 0-0 Big 12) will travel to Tallahassee this week to compete in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-422389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}