KU sophomore Joy Bunting swims the butterfly stroke in the second heat of the 400 individual medley. Bunting won the event Friday night at home in a dual meet with Drury.

In a perfect world, Maria Mayrovich sleeps in until 9:30 this morning, saunters over to greet her team for breakfast 15 minutes later and relaxes until her early afternoon swim meet.

But hey, rules are rules. And life is full of imperfections.

During Kansas University’s 140-88 women’s swimming and diving victory against Drury University, the Jayhawks broke 24 in-season team and individual records.

KU coach Clark Campbell established a goal of 25 before the meet began.

As a result, Mayrovich and the rest of her teammates must set their alarms for around 7:30 this morning. Team practice at Robinson Natatorium – which would have been called off if Kansas bettered one more season mark – starts at 8 a.m.

“I wasn’t that upset, but it would have been nice to get the morning off because we’re working hard and we’re all tired,” Mayrovich said.

Not to worry, though. Twenty-four season-best records should be cause for celebration.

“We still had a really good overall meet,” Campbell said. “I think we swam better because we had incentive (rather) than if we didn’t have incentive, so I’m really pleased with them. We’ll still be here tomorrow morning, but that’s the way it goes.”

Friday night, the No. 23-ranked Jayhawks dominated the Panthers, an NCAA Div. II school from Springfield Mo., that finished last year’s regular season as the No. 1 team in Div. II. Drury also placed second at the NCAA championships.

The victory improved Kansas to 3-2 in duals this season.

“Looking at this score reflects how far along our team is this season and makes us really excited for the rest of the season,” said KU senior Danielle Herrmann, who, along with Mayrovich, had quite an evening in the pool.

Herrmann captured two individual victories and one relay event, winning the 200 freestyle and 100 breaststroke, as well as the 200 medley relay.

Mayrovich also claimed three victories. She raced on the same 200 medley team as Herrmann, placed first in the 100 freestyle in a season-best 50.32 seconds and capped the dual off with a team victory in the 200 freestyle relay.

Other first-place individual KU finishers included: Iuliia Kuzhil (100 backstroke), Emily Lanteigne (500 freestyle), Megan Proehl (1-meter diving), Amanda Maez (50 freestyle), Joy Bunting (400 IM) and Erin Mertz (3-meter diving).

Kansas remains at home to take on Evansville at 2 p.m. today.

As for collecting those extra couple hours of sleep?

“It’s OK,” Mayrovich said. “We can just get it on Sunday.”