Christine Runkle and Chris Salgado Crowned In Diving Events

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – (Complete Results) Records continued to fall on Friday night at the NAIA Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving National Championships. A total of eight new meet records were set on a day that saw the Fresno Pacific (Calif.) women and the Oklahoma Baptist men remain on top in the team standings. The Sunbird women have a team total of 561 points heading into the final day of competition, well ahead of the Bison in second place with 428 points. The men's side is much closer, with the Bison in the lead with 517 points followed by the Sunbirds with 498.  CUI's men currently sit in third place and the women are fourth headed into the last day of events on Saturday.

Christine Runkle from Concordia (Calif.) won her second diving championship of the meet, taking the top score of 287.05 in women's three-meter diving. Runkle also won the event in 2010. Oklahoma Baptist's Victoria Svetgoff came in second with a score of 248.90. This event wraps up the diving portion of the 2012 meet.

CUI Claims Two Individual National Championships At Swim Nationals (2/29)

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. –The 2012 Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving National Championships began with a pair of Concordia (Calif.) divers taking home the first national titles awarded. Christine Runkle won the women's one-meter championship and Christopher Salgado captured the men's three-meter championship on the first day of the event.

Runkle won her third consecutive one-meter title with a final score of 274.50. She barely edged out Fresno Pacific's (Calif.) Amanda Carter who had a score of 270.40. Runkle became just the second diver in the history of the NAIA to win the women's one-meter diving championship three years in a row. Belinda Eddy of Simon Fraser (B.C.), who won the event four years in a row from 1990-1993, last accomplished the feat.

Salgado ran away with the men's three-meter title, posting a final score of 332.75. The runner-up in the event was Illinois Tech's Ian Mcnair with a score of 281.00. Salgado had the second best preliminary round, behind Mcnair, but scored 39.15 points higher than his preliminary score in the final round of competition.

Thursday marks the first full day of competition at the Oklahoma City Community College Aquatic Center. The swimming preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. CST with the finals to follow at 6 p.m. CST. Diving continues tomorrow with the men's one-meter championship taking place following the swimming preliminaries.