A Good Case Of "Recorditis"

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (2/21/25)---The Cobbers have a good case of "recorditis" at the MIAC Championship Meet and it's very contagious. 

 

Concordia started the conference meet by breaking one school record on Wednesday. They followed that with three more records on Thursday and decided to go full epidemic by breaking three more program records on Friday. 

 

Add to the three records, a trio of finals appearances and numerous career bests and you have a very successful day in the pool for Concordia. A day that saw them score 47 team points and jump into seventh place in the team standings. The Cobbers have 129 points after Friday's night session and lead Hamline by eight points. The 129 points are 11 more than CC had after Day 3 at last year's conference meet. 

 

Sophomore Callie Metsala was once again in the middle of the "recorditis" breakout. She broke her own school record in the 100-yard butterfly during the morning's prelim heats and then knocked it down another time during the finals. 

 

Metsala became the first Concordia swimmer to post a time under 1:00.00 in the 100-yard fly when she touched the wall in 59.41 in the prelims. That time was the sixth fastest in the prelims and earned her a trip to the "A" finals. 

 

Metsala proceeded to drop even more time off her own record in the finals. She came through with a mark of 58.99 which placed her fourth in the final event standings and earned the team 16 points. 

 

Hailey Jaeger and first-year athlete Leah Enedy were the other Cobber individuals to swim on Friday night. 

 

Jaeger, who broke the school record in the 100-yard backstroke at the start of the 400-yard medley relay last night, just missed that mark in the individual 100-yard back and qualified for the "B" final with a time of 1:01.26. 

 

Jaeger became the model of consistency in the finals when she swam an identical time to her  prelim mark and was able to finish 12th in the event. 

 

Enedy qualified for her first-ever finals race when she touched the wall in 1:09.84 in the 100-yard breaststroke. She fell off that pace in the finals but still posted a Top 16 finish in her first collegiate conference meet.    

 

In addition to the finals swims, the Cobbers also had several career-best marks during the prelims. Rachel Bringle posted personal-best times in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, while Maddi Barlage recorded a PR in the 200 free and Estella Zwietelhofer came through with her best time in the 100 back.                      

 

Concordia capped Friday night with another case of "recorditis". The quartet of Jaeger, Metsala, Tinsley Porter and Leah Enedy raced to a time of 1:41.30 in the 200-yard freestyle relay which broke the old school record of 1:42.49 set back in 2010 by Katie Coleman, Aleina Weisz, Sarah Ament and Amanda Suchanek. 

 

The Cobbers' finishing time on Friday was good for sixth place in the event as they out touched St. Catherine by .01 of a second.      

 

Concordia will finish off the MIAC Championship Meet when they compete in the last prelims of the event on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 10:30 a.m.