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UNLV Swept by UC Santa Barbara

The UNLV men's and women's swimming and diving teams completed their training trip in California on Saturday with a dual meet at UC Santa Barbara. Both Rebel teams would drop their contests, with the men falling by a 153-109 score while the UNLV women lost by a 168-93 margin.

"While it was disappointing ending up on the wrong end of the team score we some some great racing today," said UNLV interim head coach Bobby Folan. "I was especially impressed with some of our swims after an intense week of training. Now we head into the business end of the season and the countdown to our conference championships begin."

The women began their meet with a second place finish in the 200 medley relay. That was followed by the 1650 free where Kelsey Wuoti placed second in a time of 17:48.15. The first win for UNLV was in the third event of the meet, the 200 free, where Michelle Troup posted a first place time of 1:51.86.

After Jessica Wong posted a second place time of 58.40 in the 100 back, Lina Rathsack followed with another win for UNLV, this time in the 100 breast with a time of 1:05.22. The next two events saw UNLV claim second in both, with Goezde Tekin posting a time of 2:08.05 in the 200 fly and Troup a 23.94 in the 50 free.

Troup followed that by swimming a time of 51.36 to place second i nthe 100 free, while Rathsack was second in the 200 breast in 2:21.22. UNLV would win one more event, with Kristian Hendrick posting the top time in the 400 IM in 4:29.69. The Rebels' 200 free relay squad would place second.

On the men's side, UNLV swept both relay events, beginning with the 200 medley where Caio Dini, Boris Kulizhnikov, Dylan Tarazona and Dillon Virva turned in a time of 1:33.50. 

Samuel Lameynardie led off the individual swims for UNLV by placing second in the 200 free in 1:41.96. The next top-two finish was in the 100 breast, as Francios Van Wynsberghe turned in a time of 58.35. Virva won an event as well for the Rebels, the 50 free in 20.57.

The next sprint free event, the 100 free, saw Kasey Foley finish second in 45.98, while Dannon Daigler was second in the 200 back in 1:51.94. UNLV went 1-2 in the 200 breast, as Kulizhnikov finished in 2:06.00 and Van Wynesberghe was second in 2:06.89.

The Rebels would win two of the final three events, with Tarazona claiming the 100 fly in 49.04 while the 200 free relay was first in 1:23.37. Making up that relay squad was Virva, Foley, Tarazona and Forrest Beesley.

UNLV's next action will be its first home meet of the 2015-16 season, a Saturday, Jan. 23 contest against Air Force and the Harvard men's squad at 12 pm in the Buchanan Natatorium. 

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