If there’s such a thing as speeding in swimming, there were plenty of tickets handed out Thursday night at the Division II Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships in the form of meet records.

Drury swimmers were the speediest, setting meet marks in four events and reclaiming the lead in the team standings after Wayne State led the first day.

The Panthers’ 200-yard freestyle relay team of Enuate Garro (who won Wednesday night’s 50 free), Jing Hua, Kelsey Ward and Yuan Qing Li got the evening off to a rocking start in a record swim of 1:32.00, just .16 ahead of UC San Diego’s foursome.

And after anchoring that victory, Qing Li came right back minutes later and smashed the meet record in the grueling 400-yard individual medley, winning in 4:15.76, more than two seconds faster than West Chester’s Tammy Leane posted in 2006. Drury also scored big points with Abbey Musch’s third-place finish in the event.

The Panther-fest didn’t stop there as Janelle Slattery and Li Tao finished 1-2 in the 100-yard butterfly. Slattery bested her defending-champion teammate by just four one-hundredths of a second in a meet-record 53.76.

“I thought we were going to go fast when we came here,” said the senior who placed third last year and second as a sophomore. “But I didn’t expect I could be going that fast.”

But Slattery didn’t attribute her record or others at the meet to the new technical-suits being worn this year for the first time. “I don’t know whether the suits have made me better or worse,” she said. “If you put (the suits) in the water, they’re not going to swim by themselves. (Crediting the suits) takes away from talent. It takes away from the sport.”

The only individual swimming event that a Drury swimmer didn’t win or in which a record wasn’t set was the 200-yard freestyle, in which Cal State Bakersfield swimmer Loni Burton’s 2005 record of 1:47.10 withstood the challenge from Tampa’s Jessie Bardin, who finished in 1:47.75. But even in that event, Drury got a third place out of Hua to pad its team margin.

The Panthers also scored in the one-meter dive with Shealyn Holland (fifth) and Lauren Bader (eighth), but Clarion’s Kayla Kelosky won the event with a point total of 440.60.

Day 2 ended fittingly with a record in the 400-yard medley relay when – who else? – Drury finished more than a second ahead of Ouachita Baptist. Slattery led off the relay and Garro anchored it, leading to a record 3:43.11.

Drury coach Brian Reynolds praised his swimmers and divers for coming back after a key relay disqualification on opening day.

“It really shows the true character of your team – whether they’re going to lay down or get back up,” he said. “I’m so proud of my team because (getting back up) is what we’ve done.

“Two more days. We’re at the halfway point.”

Team standings after Day 2

1. Drury, 285.5; 2. Wayne State (Michigan), 206; 3.UC San Diego, 199; 4.Truman, 163; 5.Clarion, 132.5.

Event winners from Day 2

200-yard freestyle relay: Drury, 1:32.00*

400-yard individual medley: Yuan Qing Li, Drury, 4:15.76*

100-yard butterfly: Janelle Slattery, Drury, 53.76*

200-yard freestyle: Jessie Bardin, Tampa, 1:47.75

One-meter diving: Kayla Kelosky, 440.60

400-yard medley relay: Drury, 3:43.11*

*meet record