COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A day after crowning an SEC individual champion, Arkansas saw just two athletes advance to Thursday’s finals, as freshman Peyton Palsha and sophomore Ayumi Macias qualified for the A-final and B-final, respectively, in the 500 freestyle.

Palsha swam a personal-best 4:43.05, the sixth-fastest time in prelims, to qualify for the A-final. In her SEC Championship debut, Palsha touched eighth in the A-final in a time of 4:43.69.

Macias clocked the 10th-fastest prelim time with a then-season-best time of 4:43.86, to claim her place in the B-final.

After finishing seventh overall in the event as a freshman, Macias turned in a 12th-place showing this season, touching fourth in the B-final in a season-best 4:43.32.

Freshman Alyssa Lemon also competed in the 500 free prelims, finishing sixth in her heat, 47th overall, in a personal-best time of 4:55.00.

In the 200 individual medley, senior Chelsea Tatlow led the way for the Razorbacks with a 36th-place overall finish, eighth in her heat, in a time of 2:00.34.

Senior Chloe Hannam finished 41st overall, seventh in her respective heat, in a time of 2:00.59. Senior Jessie Garrison touched in 2:01.00, finishing 42nd overall and seventh in her heat.

Swimming in the same heat at Garrison, senior Sydney Angell touched eighth in a time of 2:01.77 to finish 46th overall.

Junior Madison Strathman finished seventh in her heat of the 200 IM, touching in 2:05.09 for a 61st-place overall finish.

In the 50 freestyle prelims, the Razorback had six athletes compete, as junior Annah Carney paced Arkansas with a personal-best 23.08 to finish fifth in her heat, 34th overall.

Senior Olivia Weekley turned in the 37th-best time in prelims, swimming a 23.15 for an eighth-place finish in her heat. Juniors Kiera Michailoff-Russell and Erin Kelly, along with freshman Kenedy Thaman all swam in the fourth 50 free prelim heat, finishing fourth, fifth and eighth, respectively.

Michailoff-Russell finished 43rd overall with a personal-best time of 23.31, while Kelly touched in a season-best 23.32 for a 44th-place effort. Thaman finished 53rd overall with a time of 23.65.

Senior Maddie Edwards swam the 50 free for the first time this season, touching second in her three-person heat in a time of 24.12.

In the final race of the evening, Arkansas’ relay of Weekley, Carney, Michailoff-Russell and Kelly touched third in the first heat of the 200 free relay in 1:31.39 to finish 10th overall in the event.

Day three of the 2018 Swimming and Diving Championships begin at 10 a.m. on Friday morning with the 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle prelims.

Standings – Day Two
1. Texas A&M – 469
2. Georgia – 361
3. Tennessee – 337.5
4. Auburn – 250.5
5. Kentucky – 250
6. Alabama – 241
7. Missouri – 236
8. Florida – 219.5
9. South Carolina – 218.5
10. Arkansas – 188
11. LSU – 161
12. Vanderbilt – 106

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — After staging a monumental comeback in the preliminary round of the one-meter springboard Wednesday afternoon, freshman Brooke Schultz edged into the finals, where the Fayetteville native coasted to an SEC one-meter springboard title with a Texas A&M pool record of 363.45.

Schultz was the third Razorback to qualify for the afternoon finals, but it took an incredible comeback in prelims to clinch her berth.

After scoring a 22.10 in her first dive of the prelims, Schultz found herself in last to begin the event.

Schultz would average 52.68 points on her final five dives to turn in a prelim score of 285.50, placing seventh.

In the finals, Schultz paced the field the entire six dives, but her second and fourth dive of 72.00 and 70.50, created separation from the pack, allowing her to become the first SEC diving champion in school history.

It is Arkansas’ fifth individual SEC title in school history, as Yi-Ting Siow took home the 200-yard breaststroke title in 2010 and 2011, while Nicola Atkinson won the 1500-meter freestyle and the 200-meter butterfly in 1992.

Of the eight divers who qualified for finals, Arkansas was the only school to claim multiple spots, as three of its five athletes clinched their place, including two freshmen.

Freshmen Maha Amer led the way in the prelims for Arkansas, scoring a then-career-best 308.40 to qualify third.

Amer would top her career best that she set earlier in the day, scoring a 322.35 to finish fourth overall in her championship debut. Senior Nicole Gillis scored a 286.05 to place sixth in prelims.

Gillis and Amer went back and forth in the finals, but Gillis would pull ahead on the final dive with a score of 323.85 to earn a third-place showing, becoming the second Razorback to earn a podium finish in the event.

In the first swimming event of the championships, senior Sydney Angell, junior Madison Strathman, senior Olivia Weekley and junior Kiera Michailoff-Russell combined to finish 11th in the 200 medley relay in a season-best 1:40.05.

The time ranks fifth on Arkansas’ all-time performer’s list.

In the final event of day one, the quartet of freshman Ayumi Macias and seniors Chelsea Tatlow, Jessie Garrison and Chloe Hannam was disqualified in the 800 free relay.

Action from College Station will start back on Thursday at 10 a.m. with the 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley and the 50 freestyle prelims.

Standings – Day One
1. Texas A&M – 160
2. South Carolina – 142
3. Tennessee – 136
4. Georgia – 124
5. Auburn – 121
6. Arkansas – 117
7. LSU – 116
8. Kentucky – 113
9. Florida – 105
10. Missouri – 100
11. Alabama – 92
12. Vanderbilt – 76