SPRINGFIELD – Numerous individual and relay victories highlighted the Missouri State women's swimming and diving team's efforts in Saturday's 155-70 win over Little Rock at Hammons Student Center.  

"This was probably the best meet our women have ever had at home," head coach Dave Collins said. "The fact that we have fewer dates of competition than we normally do shows that they are going to put everything they got into any time we are going to race. For us to break pool records, postseason and lifetime bests was very impressive. It was just a great meet across the board today." 

Overall, the Bears swept six events and recorded 11 individual wins while setting four Hammons Student Center pool records. 

The Bears got off to a hot start as the 200 medley relay squad of Kellie Fischer, Yuliya Zubina, Sami Roemer and Anna Miller won the event in dominant fashion posting a pool record time of 1:42.11. MSU also took second and third to sweep the event. 

MSU then swept the 1000 freestyle, as Libby Howell swam a 10:00.42 to break her own pool record and take first, edging out Sam Hietpass by 15 one hundredths of a second. Heitpass' time of 10:00.67 was a personal best. Vera Margula finished third while clocking in at 10:14.97. 
 
MSU went 1-2-3 in the 200 freestyle as Grace Beahan posting a career best 1:52.01 to win the event. Following Beahan was Anna Lucas (1:52.65) in second and Sami Roemer (1:55.92) in third. 
 
Madison Brown made the most out of her last meet inside the Hammons Student Center as the senior won the 100 backstroke with a time of 56.60. Fischer followed Brown in second with a time of 56.95 while Kelly Sego (57.64) finished third to complete the MSU sweep. 
 
"It was exciting to have everyone racing here together for my last time," Brown said. "We were racing in our tech suits and posted some good times even though we were kind of tired, we still swam really fast." 
 
Yuliya Zubina broke the pool record in the 100 breaststroke, winning the event in 1:02.43. MSU secured the sweep as Alessia Puleo (1:04.58) and Cabrini Johnson (1:05.73) finished second and third respectively. 

Miller won the 50 freestyle while breaking a pool record in the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.85. Howell followed in third with a personal-best time of 23.78. 
 
In the 100 freestyle it was Miller again with the victory and the pool record as the St. Louis, Mo., product posted swam a 49.68. Jordan Wenner followed in second with a time of 52.06. 
 
Sydney Radloff was victorious in the 200 backstroke as the sophomore bested the field by an impressive 12 seconds with a time of 2:01.49. 
 
"We have been training hard these past two weeks," Radloff acknowledged. "We upped the yardage the past two weeks and everyone swam very well for being fatigued. It felt excellent to put on our racing suits and I felt like we all did very well."  
 
In the 200 breaststroke, it was Puleo who joined the victory parade as the Cambiago, Italy, native posted a 2:17.30 to win the event. 
  
Ulyana Zubina swam a 56.88 to win the 100 butterfly as she defeated Little Rock's Fer Pichardo Moussier by a mere two seconds. 
  
MSU recorded its sixth and final sweep in the 200 IM with Radloff (2:03.41) in first, Roemer (2:08.17) in second and Sego (2:10.22) in third. 
  
In diving action, the Bears competed in an intrasquad setting as Little Rock did not bring any divers to compete. 
  
Seniors Ashley Yarbrough and Dayana Popa went 1-2 on both boards. In 1-meter diving Yarbrough posted a 281.63 while Popa posted a 267.30. On 3-meter boards Yarbrough had an impressive 299.48 mark and Popa earned a zone cut after scoring a 282.30 
 
"I was very pleased with our performances today," head diving coach Jim Huelskamp said. "We always get great performances from Ashley (Yarbrough) but to see Dayana get her zone cut on the 1-meter board at her last home meet was very exciting. It was a great finish at the last home meet for our seniors." 
 
 Both teams will be back in action Feb. 27-28, when they travel to Columbia, Mo., to compete in the Missouri Last Chance meet.