SPRINGFIELD – The Missouri State swimming and diving team begins its 2019-20 schedule at the Missouri Show-Me Showdown on Friday, Oct. 4 in Columbia, Mo. at 1 p.m.
 

Missouri Show-Me Showdown
Date & Time	Friday, October 5 | 2 p.m.
Location	Columbia, Mo.
Site	Mizzou Aquatic Center
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Bear Bites

• After claiming the 2019 Missouri Valley Conference championship title in February, the MSU women's swimming and diving team was unanimously selected as MVC favorites in the preseason poll, collecting all eight first-place votes.
• On the men's side, the Bears earned the top spot in the Mid-American Conference preseason poll, tallying three first-place votes and edging out Miami (Ohio) by two points.
• Head coach Dave Collins returns several key members to both squads including freshman swimmers of the year Alex Thorson and Pawel Krawczyk.
• This is the 15^th annual Missouri Show-Me Showdown. Last year, MSU turned in 19 individual and five relay top-five finishes.

 
Missouri Show-Me Showdown

• The Missouri Show-Me Showdown's field is comprised of Division I, II, and III universities in Missouri. Attending teams include: William Jewell, Lindenwood, Saint Louis, Washington University, Drury, Missouri S&T, Truman State, Maryville, and UMSL.

 
Order of Events
 
200 Medley Relay
200 Freestyle
200 IM
50 Free
100 Fly
100 Freestyle
1&3 Meter Diving
500 Freestyle
200 Free Relay
100 Backstroke
100 Breaststroke
400 Freestyle Relay
3&1 Meter Diving
 
Scoring Format

• Individual Events: Each team can score only their top three swims in each event
  Top 16 places score:  20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
• Relay Events: Each team can score only their top two relays in each event.
  Top 16 places score:  40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22   18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
• 1-Meter Diving: Each team will do a diving scramble to try and score the largest point total. Each member on the team will do six dives covering all five groups with true degree of difficulty. The points from each diving group's highest scorer will count toward the team total score. The best score per diving group will count towards the total.
• 3-Meter Diving: Each diver will be required to do six dives from all five groups. No matter what first three dives the diver chooses the degree of difficulty will be set at 2.0. The remaining three dives will be true degree of difficulty.

Keep Up to Date

• For all the latest information on the Missouri State swimming and diving team, visit missouristatebears.com or follow @MoStateSwim on Twitter.