Meet Notes / Media Guide
CLEVELAND, Miss. – Delta State Swimming and Diving are preparing to host the New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference meet this week, starting Wednesday evening, as the Lady Statesmen look to repeat last season's championship performance.
This is the final chance for swimmers to earn the cut that qualifies them for the NCAA D-II championship meet to be held in Geneva, Ohio, beginning March 12.
Delta State has several top times this season, including a time that sat for as a D-II record for over half the season until it was eclipsed this past week.
The Lady Statesmen, ranked No. 31, are looking for back-to-back NSISC Championships after setting a dozen school records – including all five relays and seven individual events.
Melanie Tombers, a freshman from Germany, has set four individual records; 500-Freestyle (4:52.06), 200-Breaststroke (2:16.95), 200-Individual Medley (2:04.06), and 400-Individual Medley (4:19.72). Earlier this season, Tombers was awarded National Swimmer of the Week honors after breaking an eight-year-old record in the 400-Individual Medley for the first time this season.
Anastasia Klyarovskaya also received National Swimmer of the Week honors following the DSU Christmas Invitational. Klyarovskaya, a freshman from Russia, set the school mark in both the 100-Backstroke (54.93) and 200-Backstroke (1:56.44) – the later would stand as an NCAA Division II record until this past weekend. Klyarovskaya also swam legs on all five record setting relay teams.
The Statesmen, ranked No. 27, finished runner-up at the conference meet last season. This year started off with
Vlad Zinca claiming the 100-Butterfly against the University of Alabama during a September home meet.
Yvan Nys set a new mark for the Statesmen in the 200-Backstroke (1:46.63) while also swimming the opening leg for the 200-Medley Relay (1:30.74) and 400-Medley Relay (3:18.20) school record teams.
Matthew Swaine qualified for the national meet last season, and has set a new school mark for points (325.45) for the 6 Dive 1-Meter competition. Swaine will also get to compete from 3-Meters at the NCAA meet.
Matteo Fraschi, a freshman from Italy, has set school marks each time he has been in the pool this season after enrolling in January. Fraschi has twice broken the 200-Breaststroke (2:02.77) and also setting a new mark for the 100-Breaststroke (56.87).
Zinca has a pair of top-10 times heading into the meet; 100-Butterfly (48.62 – No. 10) and 200-Butterfly (1:48.69 – No. 6). Tombers is ranked in ## events to this point; 500-Freestyle (No. 3), 200-Breaststroke (No. 11), 200-Individual Medley (No. 13), and 400-Individual Medley (No. 2).
Klyarovskaya is ranked atop the season times in a trio of events; 200-Backstroke (No. 2), 100-Backstroke (No. 5), and 200-Butterfly (No. 10).
Kim Barna (10:14.64 – No. 10) also sits atop the Lady Statesmen record book in her freshman season.
GoStatesmen.com will feature live event results, along with audio and video for the finals each evening from the DSU Aquatics Center.
