HOUSTON -- The University of the Incarnate Word swimming and diving teams earned a pair of second-place finishes at the Rice Fall Splash on Oct. 9-10 in Houston. The women placed second out of five teams with 517 points, while the men finished second out of three teams with 616 points.

• Clark, El Sherif, Yassen and Trota earned the Cardinals their first win of the meet in the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:23.16. 

• Max Likins picked up his first event win of the meet in the 500 freestyle in a time of 4:38.38, with Carson Smith finishing right behind in a time of 4:46.31.

• Yuta Kosaka had his first of his three event wins of the weekend in the 100 IM, touching in a 52.52. He also had wins in the 200 IM (1:53.75) and the 400 IM (4:03.91)

• Tristan Clark picked up the individual event win in the 200 backstroke before the men went 1-2-3 in the 200 butterfly. Noah Juge finished first in 1:49.03, with Hatem Elsayed (1:49.84) and Caleb Rojas (1:54.59) touching second and third, respectively.

• Jada Ashford had the best finishes for the women, placing third in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:05.91 and the 50 freestyle finishing in a 24.10. 

• The men swept the podium again in the 100 breaststroke, with Yassin El Sherif taking the win in a time of 56.22. Luke Philpot finished second with a 59.61, and Ricardo Berrios took third in 59.85. 

• The men did it again in the 100 freestyle after Gabriel Medeiros got his first event win with a 46.06, with Cheston Francis (47.20) taking second and Derek Montoya placing third. 

• The women's 200 freestyle relay team of Ashford, Freelon, Wollny and Nwaeze took third with a 1:37.13. They also picked up a third-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay with the team of Ashford, Schauss, Wollny and Wilson (3:38.44). 

• The team of Likins, Elsayed, Medeiros and Montoya had the win in the 400 freestyle relay in a time of 3:10.10. 

• El Sherif picked up two more event wins on the weekend in the 200 breaststroke (2:05.21) and the 200 IM (1:56.75). 

• Caleb Rojas and Clark took first and second in the 100 butterfly, touching in 50.77 and 51.38, respectively. 

• The men had two more podium sweeps in the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke. Noah Juge led the way in the 200 freestyle in a time of 1:41.26, while Likins finished in 50.70 to take first in the 100 backstroke. 

• Derek Montoya took the win in the 50 freestyle, finishing in 21.66. 

• Smith took the event win in the 1000 freestyle while Okay Yildiz finished in second with a time of 10:08.50. 

• Anthony Perez competed as the only male diver of the meet, scoring 140.00 in the 1-meter and 141.85 in the 3-meter event. 

•  The men's team of Clark, El Sherif, Elsayed and Trota closed out the meet with a win in the 200 medley (1:30.30), while the women took second with the team of Schauss, Garza, Damjanova and Ashford (1:47.66).

The Cardinals will host their annual Alumni Meet on Nov. 13 before returning to competition at the Cardinal Invitational, scheduled for Nov. 20-22.

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