BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Missouri S&T junior Andy Huffman (Lee's Summit, MO/Lee's Summit) captured the consolation final in the 200-yard individual medley Thursday morning, then three Miner relay teams all posted top-10 showings later in the day and evening during the second day of the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships.
 
Those performances have the Miners in 12^th place in the team standings at the halfway point of the meet – the finals scheduled for Wednesday were pushed into Thursday after the meet was delayed on day one due to weather matters in the state of Alabama – as S&T has accumulated 59 points thus far.  The Miners trail Florida Southern by four points for 11^th and Colorado Mesa by four for 10^th in the standings.

Huffman broke the school record in the process of winning the race as he recorded a time of 1:47.47, edging Queens' (N.C.) Jan Delkesamp by 0.11 seconds with a strong freestyle leg to close the race.  Huffman recorded a time of 25.58 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle leg to overtake Delkesamp and his teammate Yannick Plasil, to reach the wall first.

Missouri S&T also had scoring performances in each of the three relays contested on Thursday, headed by the team of Noah Clancy (Alton, IL/Alton), Josh Umrysh, Huffman and Marco Flores (San Pedro Sula, Honduras/SERAN Private Bilingual School) that posted two of the fastest medley relay times in program history.  In the 400-medley relay, that group had the second-mark ever by a team in that event of 3:14.21 that was good for ninth place.

That quartet also finished ninth in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:27.90, the third-fastest time in the event in school history.  S&T also finished 10^th in the 200-yard freestyle relay behind the quartet of Flores, Clancy, Umrysh and Chris Sprenger (Shawnee, KS/Mill Valley) in a time of 1:22.25.

Sprenger also competed in the 400-yard individual medley and posted a time of 3:59.20.

On Friday, Clancy is scheduled to race in the 100-yard backstroke, while Huffman will compete in the 200-yard butterfly and Umrysh and Flores will be in the 100-yard breaststroke – an event in which Umrysh owns the fourth-fastest time in the nation this season.   The Miners will also have an entry in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

The meet runs through Saturday.