FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2014 An individual victory and a double-figure number of student-athletes with their best times of the campaign highlighted Vanderbilt swimming\u2019s final competition of the 2025-26 regular season on Friday.<\/p>\n
Melissa Cowen posted a first-place finish to lead the Commodores at Arkansas, while Bailey Ratzburg and Abigail Hite had multiple season-low marks although Vandy would end up falling 145-108 to the Razorbacks at the Arkansas Natatorium.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe felt like we had a\u00a0really great team performance today as seen by the number of season-best times,\u201d head coach Jeremy Organ said. \u201cAs we look forward to the championship season we need to just keep working on the little details for great performances.\u201d<\/p>\n
Postseason action for the Dores will get underway when the SEC Championships begin on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n
Meet Highlights
-Cowen won the 200 breast to claim Vandy\u2019s only individual victory of the day.
-Aubrey Hull touched the wall second in the 100 back.
-In the following race, Emily Constable and Cowen posted a two-three finish in the 100 breast.
-Kate Heintz placed third to lead the Commodores in the 200 fly.
-Hull would go on to add another second-place finish in the 200 back.
-In the 500 free, Elayne Chen and Kendall Hall touched the wall second and third, respectively, to pace Vandy while Ratzburg and Liv Gooding added another two-three result in the final individual event of the afternoon, the 400 IM.<\/p>\n
Notes
-Cowen\u2019s victory in the 200 breast was her first of the season.
-With a career-best time of 4:22.31 in the 400 IM, Ratzburg moved up a spot into fifth place on Vanderbilt\u2019s all-time performer list in the event.
-Quinlan Hinerfeld made the CSCAA National Invitational Championship B cut in the 200 back after touching the wall in a season-low 2:01.44.
-This was the second straight competition that Hite has finished with a career-best performance in the 50 free, leading Vandy with a 23.77 time in the event.
-Ratzburg posted a career-low 1:51.28 mark in the 200 free as well.
-Gooding\u2019s 4:26.49 time in the 400 IM was the fastest of her career.
-After touching the wall in 2:05.40, freshman Ava Allingham finished with a career-low mark in the 200 fly for the second time this semester.
-It was the second time in three weeks that Constable has recorded a season-low mark in the 100 breast after finishing in 1:02.62, less than two-tenths of a second behind the race winner.
-Amelia Harper posted her fastest time of the season in the event as well after finishing in 1:03.46.
-With a 23.97 mark in the 50 free, Jenna Ravarino had her best time of the campaign while both Hite (52.20) and Ryen Bosuro (52.54) added season-best marks in the 100 free and Ellie Butler touched the wall in the 200 free in a season-low 1:52.46.
-Chen (5:05.24) and Hall (5:05.56) gave the Dores another pair who recorded their fastest times of the season in the same event with the duo accomplishing the feat in the 500 free.
-The Commodores ended the meet with a season-best performance in the 400 free relay after Hull, Hite, Bosuro and Cowen combined to post a time of 3:25.71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2014 An individual victory and a double-figure number of student-athletes with their best times of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[77500,593,77499,7,217,12339,22507,22506,22505,22508,51510,77498,231,772,77497,1544,8651,22513,20705,22514,22515,22509,8652,22503,51509,22504,22512,22511,22510],"class_list":["post-571483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-abigail-hite","tag-arkansas","tag-bailey-ratzburg","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-commodores","tag-commodores-baseball","tag-commodores-basketball","tag-commodores-football","tag-commodores-soccer","tag-dores","tag-melissa-cowen","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-women-s-swimming","tag-ncaab","tag-vanderbilt","tag-vanderbilt-athletics","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-baseball-roster","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-football-roster","tag-vanderbilt-stadium","tag-vanderbilt-university","tag-vanderbilt-university-athletics","tag-vandy","tag-vuc","tag-vuc-baseball","tag-vuc-basketball","tag-vuc-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}